RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please

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Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/7/2013 9:29:36 AM)
December 19th 1941 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Clark Field, Cagayan, Digos (auto), Port Blair (airdrop), Samarinda, Tarakan Japanese land at: Tandjoengbalai Philippines A single recon unit at "lba" finds the Philippine division there too tough to handle but takes no loss. Clark Field is taken unopposed, will shift aviation units there to get the double support. Forces move on to take Bataan. Cagayan is easily taken and can move on to clear Mindanao. Bombing Manila keeps fort building suppressed. China Continuing small attacks Malaya 3 Swordfish out of Singapore try a night strike against invasion forces at Tandjoengbalai - all miss. 2 Tank units attack the 28th Gurkha Brigade at Port Swettenham (another unit that failed to make it to Singapore), inflict many losses for none themselves. Allies get a supply(-). Allied fighters stay at Singapore but do not fly against the sweeps. Airfield strikes are grounded by bad weather at Kuantan[:(]. DEI Tarakan taken with 1 oil point damaged, Samarinda without loss. The Dutch bombers based at Batavia have moved and are unseen. Landing at Tandjoengbalai will move to take Medan. Burma Port Blair is unoccupied and taken by an air drop. Pacific Some fleeing DD seen between Wake and Truk. There are 2 BB in the area that will try an intercept. Engineering Fusan port expands to size 5. Johore Bahru airfield expands to size 5. Economy I get about 19000 supply above supply usage per day in the Home Isles. There are 8 currently producing Engine factories that I would like to expand. On average seem to be getting about 7 R&D repairs per day. So that leaves about 2-3 other expansions can do per day. The only aircraft I will expand at the moment is the Ki-43-Ic and can also expand 2 of the R&D engines per day. Engine expansion is likely to continue until about May '42. So it looks like I can't plan on sending any more supply out of the Home Isles until about June '42. There is enough supply in Malaysia and Luzon to take those areas and there is about 200000 supply still spare in Formosa and 150000 in Indochina. Also 160000 at Truk should be enough to take Wake, Rabaul, Port Moresby etc. So about 50000 supply will be sent to Canton but otherwise China will have to survive on what it has.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/7/2013 11:48:08 AM)
December 20th 1941 Air Losses: 67 Japanese, 19 Allied, 48 Pilots Japanese occupy: Catbalogan (air drop), Taiping, Port Swettenham, Tandjoengbalai, Wuchow(auto), Kukong Japanese land at: Singkawang Philippines Strikes against Manila sink 3 of the damage subs there - that makes 7 subs sunk at Manila China Hong Kong mines are cleared. More successful attacks on retreating Chinese. Engineers strategic moving to Hankow are stopped by Chinese just outside Sinyang. Include two with some AV so not too bad. Wuchow is auto captured undamaged but there are no forces nearby, will see what can fly in. Malaya Another fine mess at Singapore[:(]. Sweeps from Johore Bahru go in in the afternoon, after the bombers from Kuantan hit in the morning. Allied fly CAP and heavy losses are taken. Allied B-17 from Java strike at Johore Bahru, flak downs one plane. Good progress on clearing the rail lines, may have one line cleared tomorrow. All elements of 48th Division have reached Johore Bahru and it has been rebuilt so that is one division ready for attack. DEI SS KXIV is attacked at Brunei and takes 9 DC hits including two direct hits[:)]. Reports as Heavy Damage, it may sink. Landing at Singkawang goes well. Will land on Java next turn. Pacific DD Thanet is sunk by the Mutsu, South from Marcus Island. There is another DD reported to the North. Air Losses Two expensive mistakes at Singapore are annoying. However, the aircraft lost are mostly older models. [image]local://upfiles/43194/6784A62FD01F4694A1AA18AA33B3B8C1.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 11:25:22 AM)
December 21st 1941 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 1 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Oroquieta (air drop), Tsiaotso, Cabanatuan, Langkawi(auto) Japanese land at: Kalidjati Philippines Cabanatuan taken against no opposition. China Tsiaotso taken undamaged and with significant Chinese losses. Other minor engagements make progress. Malaya Quiet day in the air. Allied fighters have relocated to Sabang. Attack at Temuloh stalls. DEI Landing at Kalidjati without problems. A sub attacks and misses the Chitose off Balikpapan. Sinkawang attack fails. An AM is sunk by cruisers near Ambon. Pacific An AM is sunk near Wake. A sub gets an xAKL off Pearl. SS I-159 puts 3 torpedoes into the CA Canberra[:)] near Rabaul but one is a dud[:(]. Even so that is heavy damage and the Allied task force has split off an escort group. There are 4 subs in the area to try for the kill.

obvert -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 1:53:28 PM)
Looking at your previous day's air losses, this is a lot of IJN pilots gone. You'll never get any like those again. I make a point of using as few of them as possible in the early war. I try to use only medium quality IJAAF pilots striking big bases like Singers with the potential to have an ambush and save the IJN guys for an anti-shipping role. It's tough to push forward and hold back at the same time, but try to be a bit patient if he's offering tough resistance in a few spots. The other side of losing big numbers of bombers in this way is that you're building a very experienced pilot pool for the Allies early. That will hurt later when they get better planes. Sweep, sweep, sweep.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 4:32:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: obvert Looking at your previous day's air losses, this is a lot of IJN pilots gone. You'll never get any like those again. I make a point of using as few of them as possible in the early war. I try to use only medium quality IJAAF pilots striking big bases like Singers with the potential to have an ambush and save the IJN guys for an anti-shipping role. It's tough to push forward and hold back at the same time, but try to be a bit patient if he's offering tough resistance in a few spots. The other side of losing big numbers of bombers in this way is that you're building a very experienced pilot pool for the Allies early. That will hurt later when they get better planes. Sweep, sweep, sweep. Thank-you obvert. I think I am being just a little impatient. Last game was scenario 2 and the difference between scenario 1 and 2 is catching me out a bit. Anyway, it is all a good learning experience. [8\|] MrKane keeps catching me out just a bit - see the next day's report[:D]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 4:39:10 PM)
December 22nd 1941 Air Losses: 22 Japanese, 62 Allied, 16 Pilots Japanese occupy: Sibuyan (air drop), Kuala Lumpur, Pucheng, Singkawang, Kalidjati Japanese land at: Makassar, Langsa Philippines Quiet China Quiet Malaya Kuala Lumpur taken and armour pursue defenders up the railway. Temuloh attack again fails and will have to suspend. Western rail line may be cleared today. British fighters have vanished. DEI Many Dutch subs in the Java sea, inconclusive attacks. Allies attack the task forces with Dutch air and many American air. The air that hits invasion forces covered by the mini-KB is shredded[:)]. However, some goes after a force near Bandjermasin and sinks 3 xAK, an xAP and an APD[:(]. In the morning attacks reports total 47 SBD-2, 31 SBD-3, 37 F4F-3, 23 F2A-3, 22 F4F-3A. All task forces were out of range for the TBD-1 from Soerabaja. It looks like MrKane has pulled all the aircraft off the American carriers. This suggests some extra freedom to act in the Pacific. The pilots of the mini-KB are tired so will retire that and leave the defense of the invasion to fighters flown into Kalidjati. Pacific Quiet Air Combat This is a typical air combat report and there are points in it that I don't understand: quote: Raid detected at 18 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft F1M2 Pete x 4 Allied aircraft F2A-3 Buffalo x 9 F4F-3 Wildcat x 16 SBD-3 Dauntless x 15 Japanese aircraft losses F1M2 Pete: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 damaged Japanese Ships APD Fuji, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires CA Myoko Japanese ground losses: 51 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 7 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000' Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb 16 x F4F-3 Wildcat sweeping at 15000 feet 4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000' Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb 6 x F2A-3 Buffalo sweeping at 15000 feet 4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000' Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb All the attacks have raid detected at 18000 feet or above and release altitude down low. I thought Dive Bombers only used a dive bombing attack from between 10000 and 15000 feet? Did he come in at 15000 feet and all estimated altitudes were too high? How did he get messages that his fighters were sweeping in a naval attack? Were they left on commander decision? Air Losses for Today [image]local://upfiles/43194/74113AB966074D58B65F5DB435202061.jpg[/image]

obvert -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 4:48:52 PM)
Well, losing that many SBD and their pilots early is very bad for the Allies, but may mean he's not planning to come at you quickly, and wants to cause as much pain as possible to sow down your moves in the DEI. The replacement rate for SBD is very low early, and it'll take a good while to have a decent pilot pool, so you just saved a lot of other Japanese ships right there by taking out 40+ of those. Estimated attack altitudes are most often 2-3k higher than set. So yeah, he's using 15k. It also notes that in the attack message below with the escorts, most usually set at the same altitude as bombers, and in this case sweeping in ahead of them.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 5:01:53 PM)
obvert, I see what you mean about gaining experience, 24 points gained in one day[8D] [image]local://upfiles/43194/875DBBC7A9B24FA4B19C84FD0FB143B9.jpg[/image]

obvert -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/8/2013 6:01:39 PM)
One more thing. If you have any other pilots still at ~35 exp get them out of the CV groups, FAST! [;)] Generally only your very best go into the CV groups, but I'll occasionally have 50/70 pilots in there if I know they're not meeting opposition for a while. It's tight in the beginning, but Id leave the 35 exp guys training up somewhere. If you train sweep at 100ft for about 10-14 days you'll get them over 50exp.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/9/2013 8:51:26 AM)
December 23rd 1941 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 28 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Legaspi (auto), Langsa, Makassar, Malaybalay Japanese land at: None Philippines Just bombing Manila. China One of the cut off Chinese corps is eliminated, otherwise slow progress. This game I have decided to kill cut off Chinese units for the VP rather than having to keep units back. Nanyang has been abandoned by the Chinese. Malaya Allies continue to block the Western railway in one hex[:(]. DEI More sub action. In most cases the Dutch subs are attacked first or just launch at, and miss, escorts. TB Hato manages to score 7 DC hits on the SS KXV, enough to cause it to retreat but not enough to sink. Dutch fighters try to sweep Kalidjati and are shot down in droves. Pacific [>:] India & Burma Allies seem to be abandoning Moulmein, lead units are within 30 miles of it. SS I-164 engages a mismatched convoy of escapees just South of Ceylon, and misses a big xAP[:(]. Progress Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Luzon are ahead of plan. Singapore and Malaya a bit behind. China is about on target but with fewer losses inflicted on the enemy than expected.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/9/2013 8:56:24 PM)
December 24th 1941 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 2 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: lba, Subic Bay, Pakhoi, Balikpapan, Naga (air drop), Mergui (air drop) Japanese land at: Rabaul, Kendari Philippines lba is taken unoccupied and undamaged, Subic bay defenses are eliminated. Attack at Bataan by the 65th brigade reduces forts but inflicts very few casualties. Para fragments are being used to capture bases. China Pakhoi is taken with 50% damage. More general progress forwards. Malaya Western rail line is now unblocked. DEI More sub action, an xAK takes serious but not fatal damage. A Dutch sub is hit 8 times with Type 95 DC. ASW ammunition is becoming in short supply for some ships. Landing at Kendari without problems. Balikpapan taken by two SNLF units crossing the river from Samarinda, just 3 points of damage to oil and refineries[8D]. Pacific Landing at Rabaul without problems. The Canberra is hit by a torpedo from I-159 as it heads around the South end of New Guinea and is confirmed sunk[:)]. India / Burma Another sub attack near Ceylon misses. Mergui is taken by airdrop. Engineering San Fernando airfield expands to size 4, probably not needed now that Clark Field is in use. Allies expand Chengtu airfield to size 2.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/10/2013 6:34:12 PM)
December 25th 1941 Changed to Beta version 1123t. Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 9 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Calapan (air drop), Calayan (auto), Nanyang, Medan, Bandoeng, Cheribon Japanese land at: None Philippines 38th Division and some artillery arrive at San Fernando. Some Construction units will be shipped back to Hokkaido and Sakhalin. China Nanyang taken unopposed. Some cut off Chinese being attacked. Malaya Forces being railed South. DEI More sub action, a DWS is sunk. A Dutch sub takes a direct hit from a Mod 2-DC and is likely needing to return for repairs. Medan is taken undamaged. Attack at Kendari fails. Bandoeng and Cheribon are taken and some float planes are destroyed at Cheribon. A reinforcement convoy heading for Java strays too close to Soerabaja and loses 5 xAKL with troops on board to attacks by Dauntless. Pacific Rabaul is bombarded, by 4 CA, for little damage and the land attack on the base fails. India / Burma / etc. Allies launch an attack by B-17E against Saigon. No significant damage. Problem is that I don't understand where this came from[sm=Christo_pull_hair.gif]. The direction arrow appears to point to Rangoon but Rangoon is size 4 so B-17E should be restricted to normal range (manuals section 9.4) and the range is 18 requiring extended range. Only Tavoy (size 4, range 12) and Singapore (size 6, range 17) should be possible bases but recon does not show bombers at these bases.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/10/2013 9:14:28 PM)
December 26th 1941 Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 3 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Guiuan (auto), Temuloh Japanese land at: None Generally quiet everywhere as forces gather for the attacks on Singapore, Batavia and Manila. In the next week or so a number of big battles will happen. Philippines [>:] China [>:] Malaya Temuloh is taken and all defenders surrender. LCU VP jumps 250 on the day. Forces are detraining at Johore Bharu - will give them time to recover fatigue and wait for the forces from Temuloh. DEI No sub action and all quiet. A few Hudsons are shot down attacking a task force at Kendari. Minesweeping at Balikpapan continues. Pacific Rabaul attack has been reinforced, no assault launched today. India / Burma / etc. First unit enters Moulmein hex.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/11/2013 1:52:34 PM)
December 27th 1941 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 2 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Djambi, Rabaul, Moulmein, Masbate(auto) Japanese land at: None Philippines First reinforcements (from Hong Kong) arrive at Clark Field, they will be sent to help take Bataan. China The main road to Sian does not seem to be well defended. I expected to see a road block on each hex. Advance from Nanyang proceeds unopposed. Otherwise, keep moving forces to the South. First Wenchow attack will be launched tomorrow. Malaya Readying troops for the Singapore attack. DEI More sub action and another Dutch sub damaged by a direct hit with internal explosion near Kalidjati. Claimed as sunk but I don't believe it. Small Dutch force outside Batavia driven back into Batavia - Allies had a supply(-) but I don't think that is significant as it had been driven from Bandoeng and Batavia is so stacked it probably doesn't have spare supply. Djambi taken with 5 damage - may take a while to repair this as supply is hard to keep there. Pacific Rabaul taken, lost 10 squads destroyed in the attack. India / Burma / etc. Moulmein taken with no trouble. Economy Very light damage to oil wells is good: 5 at Djambi, 3 at Balikpapan, 9 at Palembang, 1 at Tarakan. I have been keeping CAP over the oil wells in case of Allied attacks but none have happened so far. Also have AA at all of them except Medan. There is 53000 supply in ships disbanded at Miri waiting to offload and build those oil wells. Palembang wells are repaired and supply will soon arrive at Balikpapan to fix those. Supply in the home isles has stabilised at just under a million. Will be unlikely to increase this for a few months as Engine factories are being expanded. Resource flows from Hokkaido are good but not yet shifting enough from Sakhalin. Fuel and resources are both flowing from Fusan okay but oil is not yet flowing. Some HI being saved and also Vehicle, Armament and Merchant pools are growing nicely. No tankers running out from Palembang yet but the various xAK that have been running invasions are stopping at ports to load fuel. First tankers should be able to leave Palembang in a couple of days.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/11/2013 2:50:02 PM)
Planned Japanese High-Water Mark. Apart from in China this should all be taken in the first half of 42. [image]local://upfiles/43194/8860D5A052224DA59AB15EBE7CAC326A.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/12/2013 7:13:22 AM)
December 28th 1941 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 5 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Tavoy, Kendari, Balabac (air drop), Beaufort Japanese land at: None Philippines The SS Seawolf is sunk in port at Manila. China Attack at Wenchow goes badly. The destroyed unit is a third of one of the RGC Divisions. quote: Japanese adjusted assault: 528 Allied adjusted defense: 862 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), morale(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1188 casualties reported Squads: 15 destroyed, 106 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 453 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 65 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Malaya Readying troops for the Singapore attack. DEI Some sub action and tidying up of forces. Kendari taken. The American aircraft have vanished from Soerabaja - may have re-united with their carriers. Pacific Glens get a possible sighting near Wake Island. A sub screen in the area will try an intercept. India / Burma / etc. [>:]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/12/2013 2:24:24 PM)
December 29th 1941 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 0 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Kudat (auto), Dinagat (air drop) Japanese land at: None A Dutch sub sinks an xAK with some AA guns on board in the harbour at Kalidjati. 4 divisions plus artillery, tanks and engineers, just under 2000 AV are ordered to attack Singapore. 2 Divisions plus ancillary troops ordered to move into Manila, 1.5 more divisions to follow later. Recon of Wake Island suggests it has not reinforced.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/12/2013 4:25:25 PM)
December 30th 1941 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 0 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Batangas (auto), Lubang (air drop) Japanese land at: None Philippines The 31st PA Division moved from lba to Clark Field and has been subject to repeated attacks but refuses to surrender. The latest attack was: quote: Attacking force 22333 troops, 278 guns, 115 vehicles, Assault Value = 909 Defending force 3567 troops, 57 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 66 Japanese adjusted assault: 280 Allied adjusted defense: 10 Japanese assault odds: 28 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 147 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Allied ground losses: 127 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 31 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled DEI A Dutch sub at Kalidjati takes two full hits from Mod 2-DC plus some near misses and may have sunk. Two DD attacking subs run out of ammunition. An AG has been sent to Kalidjati and can be used to rearm DMS, PG, SC etc. but the DD will have to go elsewhere. China An attack near Changsha fails but is not costly. Cut off Chinese around Sinyang are attacked and take more casualties. Pacific SS I-168 uses gun fire to sink an xAKL just outside of Pearl Harbour. Australia 3 CA bombard Port Hedland - I had seen the Dutch MTB heading South and expected to find them there, but no luck.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/12/2013 7:14:48 PM)
December 31st 1941 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Dumaguete (auto), Utan Melintang, Tjilatjap, Watampone Japanese land at: None Most things are quiet at the moment because the Allied air force has retired and Japanese invasions are stopped because most forces are involved in conquering Singapore and Java. Until these forces are released there is little to spare for invasions. Also, until the air bases are secured too many fighters are needed to protect the oil wells to provide adequate CAP for future advances. Philippines The Philippino division at Clark Field resists an attack at 106 to 1 but then surrenders as surrounded. Bataan attack has been reinforced and will try again. Forces enter Manila tomorrow. Malaya A cut off Ghurka Brigade surrenders when attacked. Forces will enter Singapore in 2 days. DEI Subs seem to have retired from the Kalidjati area. Minor actions taking bases and forcing Dutch troops back. China Some cut off forces surrender and others are driven back. Surprisingly, there has been no sight of the AVG or Chinese air force. This may be because I have avoided bombing bases or the main troop concentrations. There are few fighters in China and most of those are Nates. Pacific A small xAKL is sunk by SS I-5 just up coast from San Francisco. Australia An enemy task force is spotted South of Koepang and is reported to contain a CV.

GreyJoy -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 8:22:31 AM)
I see you are planning to land and conquer Assam. How do u suppose to hold those plains and eventually evacuate them in time if the allies reinforce India with some American IDs and tanks?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 10:15:46 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: GreyJoy I see you are planning to land and conquer Assam. How do u suppose to hold those plains and eventually evacuate them in time if the allies reinforce India with some American IDs and tanks? I'm not absolutely certain what I will do and it will depend a bit upon what I see. However, holding Calcutta generates 15000 supply per month and if it delays the loss of Magwe to bombing by a month that is 81000 fuel. It costs 10000 HI and 15000 supply to rebuild a division so a certain amount of losses can be accepted. I originally planned this when I thought HI was key for the long game but I now realise that supply is just as important and whereas the HI trade-off is clear the supply one is less so. Not needing to pay PP to move across borders I am sending some tanks, AT, heavy artillery and AA the long way around overland that may bolster the defenses. My thought is to take it, hold until late 1942, then a controlled withdrawal to Burma leaving a road block at Calcutta. If the Calcutta factories are destroyed by bombing then that hurts the Allies as well. I would also like to hold it long enough to flatten the factories in Delhi, Hyderabad, Cawnpore, Madras etc. to further put a strain on Allied supply.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 10:56:41 AM)
Some summary pages for the end of 1941 The economy: [image]local://upfiles/43194/021BB7710E914AED993C978EAA7992D1.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 10:58:28 AM)
Largest aircraft pools [image]local://upfiles/43194/0F5AC01BF0BA4D4981E513D989D26439.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 11:01:08 AM)
Sunk Japanese ships excluding AK. The loss of the LSD hurts. [image]local://upfiles/43194/2E9DF3252F3C4AA49C15ADD9480BDACC.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 11:08:46 AM)
A summary of some reported Allied losses. Small craft not shown. The CV Saratoga is almost certainly false, the CA Australia may be the Canberra instead, the CLs are probably Danae, Durban and one other. The American sub count is probably correct but the two fleet subs are probably S-class subs instead. Probably only one, maybe two, of the Dutch subs are actual. [image]local://upfiles/43194/EE503C99E0BA45BE8E3C12DD63C79DC5.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 11:09:57 AM)
The intel screen [image]local://upfiles/43194/7A765FB8BE3C4E6FB777D0D4FF0C6D7F.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 1:15:54 PM)
January 1st 1942 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 6 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Mauban (auto), Lucena (air drop), Nanning, Sambas, Praboemoelih, Pingsiang, Buitenzorg Japanese land at: None CL Enterprise is removed from the sunk list[:(]. Philippines Bataan has been reinforced by a PA division and the attack gets 1:1 reduces forts to 0 but makes little progress. 900 AV have entered Manila and will dig in a defense until more arrive. Malaya Big fight at Singapore tomorrow[sm=00000622.gif] DEI Continuing progress against minimal opposition. China Nanning falls, no opposition, 50% damaged. Lots of runway damage - I think this may have been caused by partisan activity. Continuing to try and take space by movement rather than direct attacks but it is now slow motion in the woods. Lots of supply bases have been given up without a struggle. This is nice[:)]. Pacific Bombardment of Wake goes well. SS Tambor is in the hex and takes 3 damaging near misses from DC. Wake landing is in two days. Australia A sub attack against a large miscellaneous convoy near Port Hedland misses[:@]. Pity my cruisers aren't in the vicinity. The sighting South of Koepang is now showing as 3 CV and the Betties that could have attacked (range 13) failed to. The task force has moved 7 hexes West of where they were yesterday. If they continue like this they will be out of range tomorrow so will try a night attack. There is a sub I can put in the path. Why would he be moving is carriers here[&:]? Best guess is that they were at Darwin and moved out to collect their air groups and maybe saw a change to target the cruisers? They could try and move to a position to attack the fleets at Kalidjati from the West side of Java, that would be risky as there is a lot of CAP available. Burma Moved adjacent to Pegu and Pegu looks poorly defended. Odd recon at Lashio, yesterday with 4/9 DL reported 14 units but only 780 troops. Today with 9/10 it shows as empty[8\|].

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 3:59:26 PM)
January 2nd 1942 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Dumanquilas (auto), Tawi Tawi (air drop), Semarang, Manado Japanese land at: None Mystery[&:] Last turn there were 2 ship sinking noises during the turn, this day another two. There are no recently damaged Allied ships to explain this; could be some of the damaged subs, could be that the Dutch MTB ran out of fuel and are sinking. Philippines Regular bombing, still finds targets in Manila docks. Malaya Singapore attack is mixed. Defense was stronger than expected but the crossing is established. Disruption and fatigue is high amongst the infantry so will be a wait of a few days before can attack again. Allied losses suggest they may have lost 50% of AV. quote: Attacking force 69536 troops, 771 guns, 682 vehicles, Assault Value = 2173 Defending force 41895 troops, 453 guns, 312 vehicles, Assault Value = 635 Japanese adjusted assault: 1314 Allied adjusted defense: 1003 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 7545 casualties reported Squads: 176 destroyed, 383 disabled Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 159 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 145 disabled Guns lost 65 (32 destroyed, 33 disabled) Vehicles lost 52 (5 destroyed, 47 disabled) Allied ground losses: 3762 casualties reported Squads: 115 destroyed, 228 disabled Non Combat: 96 destroyed, 104 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 30 disabled Guns lost 88 (11 destroyed, 77 disabled) Vehicles lost 49 (24 destroyed, 25 disabled) Units destroyed 2 DEI Semarang falls, can rail some more division fragments there and continue to Soerabaja. Menado that had been a block falls. This frees some small invasion force to push forward. China Finding some big road blocks now but still pushing forward. Pacific [>:] Burma Pegu is now empty. Rangoon port damage is increasing each day so assume it is empty and suffering from Partisans.

GreyJoy -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 4:18:46 PM)
You'll take Singa very soon after that result. In a week or so if you really push for it. Then, the hard choices arrive: India, Ceylon or Northern Oz?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (11/13/2013 9:31:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: GreyJoy You'll take Singa very soon after that result. In a week or so if you really push for it. Then, the hard choices arrive: India, Ceylon or Northern Oz? Agreed. Also, I should have Rangoon within the week and that will give me a place to get some eyes in to have a look around and see what is happening in Burma and India. I'm not sure I can take Java without sending an extra division there. Likewise, Manila needs another division but that will probably be one bought out with PPs and on its way from Japan. If I go for India I think I need at least two of Java, Singapore and Manila cleared to have enough divisions. Would 3 divisions be enough to take Ceylon? And, is it worthwhile?

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