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

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Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (4/29/2014 8:10:35 PM)
What are some of the cumulative ship losses for both sides? Cut and paste tracker summary top part would be great to see.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (4/29/2014 8:38:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe What are some of the cumulative ship losses for both sides? Cut and paste tracker summary top part would be great to see. Make of this what you will. [image]local://upfiles/43194/C63D9AAC6FF343F7AEDD9B4BD2E2DC53.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (4/29/2014 8:54:47 PM)
I just got to chuckle a little...the losses are so light compared to the bloodbath that is my aar'd game. Did you lose one of the LSDs?[:-] Hopefully not the float plane one.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (4/29/2014 9:07:58 PM)
quote: Did you lose one of the LSDs? Hopefully not the float plane one. December 11th 1941 to a Dutch sub. I just put that down as bad luck. I still have one with float planes on it.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/1/2014 7:05:37 AM)
October 1st 1942 Air Losses: 11 Japanese, 9 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Deboyne Islands(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Allied sub sightings are down. Otherwise quiet. Burma Blenheims night strike at Magwe. Lose 3 in air-air and 5 to flak and score no hits. China A good result in the plains: quote: Ground combat at 76,44 (near Chungking) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 14471 troops, 202 guns, 117 vehicles, Assault Value = 432 Defending force 28564 troops, 110 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 674 Japanese adjusted assault: 172 Allied adjusted defense: 77 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 159 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Allied ground losses: 9238 casualties reported Squads: 294 destroyed, 67 disabled Non Combat: 331 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 18 destroyed, 6 disabled Guns lost 18 (16 destroyed, 2 disabled) Units retreated 4 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 40th Division 8th Armored Car Co 5th Armored Car Co 10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 13th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion Defending units: 68th Chinese Corps 99th Chinese Corps 3rd New Chinese Corps 31st Chinese Corps Two of these corps still looked good but are now trashed. Note the massive Allied AV adjustment. On the road to Tsuyun achieve a 1:1 result. Wellingtons night strike at Chengtu. No losses on either side and no hits. Australia 4E bomb Darwin. Thunderstorms and they score only 1 hit but the night CAP of Tojo and Nick performs poorly losing 8 aircraft for no Allied losses. Oscars seemed to do better. Light bombardment of Wyndham using CL. Engineering Chengtu to 4. Allies expand Rennell Island airfield to 1. R&D Ki-43-IIIa now 4/44

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/2/2014 10:48:15 AM)
October 2nd 1942 Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 6 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Allied losses report 4 C-47 left to Ops. Must be doing a lot of air transport. Pacific S-27 is reported with heavy damage when I-4 takes a shot at it near Milne Bay. I-157 puts a torpedo into an xAK South of Ndeni. No troop losses, probably a task force that dropped stuff off and is returning to Suva. India Launch a night strike at Calcutta port. However, the Nells and Betties from Rangoon fail to fly[:(], due to weather, and only 11 Helens attack. They put a bomb into each of a DD and a CL. No CAP so a bit of a missed opportunity[:(]. Burma Quiet China Wellingtons strike at Chengtu again without result on either side. A surprising result near Chengtu quote: Ground combat at 76,40 (near Chengtu) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 5513 troops, 110 guns, 355 vehicles, Assault Value = 278 Defending force 7003 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 125 Japanese adjusted assault: 52 Allied adjusted defense: 238 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 4 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 132 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Allied ground losses: 231 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st Tank Division 20th Recon Regiment Defending units: 24th Chinese/B Corps 3rd Chinese Base Force 12th Chinese Base Force These are the retreated defenders of Chengtu and I expected them to immediately crumble. Still pushing near Kunming. An attack near Kienko achieves a 25:1 result but the Allies fail to retreat (the tank regiments in this are in reserve pursuit mode). quote: Ground combat at 77,41 (near Kienko) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 12547 troops, 102 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 486 Defending force 8615 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 259 Japanese adjusted assault: 401 Allied adjusted defense: 16 Japanese assault odds: 25 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 260 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: 94 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Assaulting units: 12th Tank Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 32nd Division Defending units: 75th Chinese Corps Australia I have evacuated Darwin of aircraft. The 4E strike again at night, no permanent damage to the airfields. Will need 2 or 3 days before the air group morale is up and can fly back in. Light bombardment of Wyndham using CL. Engineering Allies expand Fenton to 3. Chittagong port to 6. R&D Ki-44-IIc now 1/43 (will be available 11/42).

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/2/2014 12:50:25 PM)
October 3rd 1942 Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific I-29 is damaged near Pearl Harbour (26/41/7). A DD damages the SS Flying Fish near Truk but not sufficiently to sink it. My CL force bombards Rennell Island, damages Catalinas there but none are destroyed. India Bombard Chittagong and destroy 2 fighters on the ground. Burma Quiet China Wellingtons strike at Niekiang and get one supply hit. More attacks that fail to make progress. Australia I-26 and I-23 each sink an xAK in a convoy near Perth[:)], apparently carrying fuel. Engineering Rossel Island port expanded to 1. Allies expand Lunga port to 2. R&D Nakajima Ha-45 advances to 10/42 and enters production. I will need a lot of these so the factories are all ordered to expand.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/3/2014 9:32:37 AM)
October 4th 1942 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 3 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific I-122 is badly damaged by air attack near Lunga[:(], 52/26/6 so will limp back for repair. A BB task force of mine lurking near Eniwetok is detected by aircraft despite being 19 hexes from the nearest Allied base. Could he have carriers in the area and, if so, how did they get past my search?[&:] ASW task forces are hunting my subs near Pearl Harbour. Burma Quiet China Wellingtons strike at Niekiang. Drive one of the defenders on the road to Tsuyung out and the other looks like it will collapse[:)]. Australia Heavy day time raids against Darwin leave the field at 33 runway damage and burn about 500 supplies. ASW task forces are acting out of Perth. Engineering Allies expand Lunga to 6. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/3/2014 5:22:03 PM)
October 5th 1942 Air Losses: 36 Japanese, 26 Allied, 20 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific An AK bringing some AA units to Rabaul is sunk by a Dutch sub. Sweeps over Tulagi do okay. Burma Quiet China Chinese continue to hold outside Tsuyung. A good result near Chungking quote: Ground combat at 75,46 (near Chungking) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 47674 troops, 517 guns, 58 vehicles, Assault Value = 1299 Defending force 35778 troops, 58 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Japanese adjusted assault: 786 Allied adjusted defense: 307 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1132 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 134 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Allied ground losses: 11660 casualties reported Squads: 238 destroyed, 59 disabled Non Combat: 430 destroyed, 15 disabled Engineers: 16 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 14 (14 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 15 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 59th Division 9th Ind.Mixed Brigade 110th Division 116th Division 4th Ind.Mixed Regiment 7th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion 3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 28th Mountain Gun Regiment 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 57th Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Corps 6th Chinese Corps Central Reserve 27th Group Army 23rd Group Army 38th Group Army 37th Group Army 303rd Brigade 29th Group Army 26th Group Army Jingcha War Area 32nd Group Army 25th Group Army 9th Separate Brigade The Chinese are driven back across the river and will be delayed again before they can escape during this time should be able to defeat them and force them back into Chungking. Regular bombing of Chungking destroys a P-66 Vanguard, not sure where that came from. Australia Fighters are flown into Darwin and there is a big fight. Against the sweeping Lightnings they do badly but against the bombers and LRCAP manage to get through and shoot down some bombers. Allied losses for the day include 5 of the 4E bombers. Engineering Amchitka Island forts are now at 4. R&D Quiet

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/3/2014 5:37:02 PM)
Did you lose the entire AA unit? AKs are precious, that is bad luck.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/3/2014 9:56:16 PM)
October 6th 1942 Air Losses: 33 Japanese, 9 Allied, 5 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Quiet China Routine Australia Real bad day at Darwin. Only good thing was that 4 P-38F are lost by the Allies. Lightnings rip a hole in the Tojos on CAP and there isn't enough left to protect against the bombers. Engineering Shanghai now level 8. R&D B6N2 to 5/43

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/3/2014 9:57:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Did you lose the entire AA unit? AKs are precious, that is bad luck. No, I'll see when it lands but I don't think it was much at all. Yes, probably shouldn't have been using an AK there.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/3/2014 10:05:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Real bad day at Darwin. Only good thing was that 4 P-38F are lost by the Allies. Lightnings rip a hole in the Tojos on CAP and there isn't enough left to protect against the bombers. Hey, be thankful your AA probably has guns. Mine don't.[:D] You know, I thought that Japan was supposed to rule the skies in 42.[:)]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/4/2014 4:51:45 PM)
October 7th 1942 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 5 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Belep Islands (auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Quiet China At last, take the hex between Kunming and Tsuyung. A bloody battle near Chungking. The guns lost seem mostly to be AAMG but 7 27cm howitzers were lost. Will send three divisions across the river in a shock attack to join in in 3 days time. quote: Ground combat at 75,45 (near Chungking) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 28361 troops, 385 guns, 201 vehicles, Assault Value = 823 Defending force 114034 troops, 300 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1743 Japanese adjusted assault: 181 Allied adjusted defense: 302 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: op mode(-), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1585 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 93 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Guns lost 70 (15 destroyed, 55 disabled) Vehicles lost 66 (1 destroyed, 65 disabled) Allied ground losses: 8335 casualties reported Squads: 206 destroyed, 159 disabled Non Combat: 97 destroyed, 196 disabled Engineers: 37 destroyed, 36 disabled Guns lost 23 (7 destroyed, 16 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 40th Division 36th Division 11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment 10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 13th Mortar Battalion 4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 13th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion Defending units: 35th Chinese Corps 2nd Prov Chinese Corps 37th Chinese Corps 7th Construction Regiment 4th Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 13th Construction Regiment 39th Chinese Corps 25th Chinese Corps 1st Construction Regiment 49th Chinese Corps 26th Chinese Corps 6th Chinese Corps 47th Chinese Corps 72nd Chinese Corps 18th Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Corps 64th Chinese Corps 81st Chinese Corps 23rd Chinese Corps 3rd Construction Regiment 2nd Construction Regiment 57th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 32nd Group Army 27th Group Army Central Reserve 18th Chinese Base Force 9th Separate Brigade 303rd Brigade 26th Group Army 17th Chinese Base Force 25th Group Army 20th Chinese Base Force 19th Chinese Base Force Jingcha War Area 38th Group Army 37th Group Army 23rd Group Army 29th Group Army 21st Chinese Base Force Near Chengtu a Chinese army turns out to be a phantom. I hope I can drive it back before it moves out of the hex. quote: Ground combat at 76,41 (near Chengtu) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2460 troops, 219 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 1259 Defending force 49501 troops, 70 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 539 Allied ground losses: 593 casualties reported Squads: 17 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 23 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Australia All fighters withdrawn from Darwin. Annoyingly, today the sweeps come in after the bombers. Allied bombing seems to be keeping Darwin at 50 Service, 0 runway so when I have 120 fixed aircraft I may fly them back in. Engineering Allies expand Dutch Harbour airfield to 1. R&D D4Y4 to 9/44

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/4/2014 4:58:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Real bad day at Darwin. Only good thing was that 4 P-38F are lost by the Allies. Lightnings rip a hole in the Tojos on CAP and there isn't enough left to protect against the bombers. Hey, be thankful your AA probably has guns. Mine don't.[:D] You know, I thought that Japan was supposed to rule the skies in 42.[:)] It is the Lightnings that are a terror. I haven't worked out any counter other than by having 150 aircraft on CAP, even then losses are heavily in the Allied favour. Outside of China, I haven't done much in the way of offensive air operations so MrKane gets to pick his targets. I have fighters protecting industry and that reduces the amount available at places such as Darwin. Next month, I should start getting the Ki-44-IIc and I hope with armour and better weapons it will hold its own against everything except the Lightnings and even there only suffer a 2:1 loss.

Erkki -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/4/2014 5:32:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery It is the Lightnings that are a terror. I haven't worked out any counter other than by having 150 aircraft on CAP, even then losses are heavily in the Allied favour. Outside of China, I haven't done much in the way of offensive air operations so MrKane gets to pick his targets. I have fighters protecting industry and that reduces the amount available at places such as Darwin. Next month, I should start getting the Ki-44-IIc and I hope with armour and better weapons it will hold its own against everything except the Lightnings and even there only suffer a 2:1 loss. They are also probably flown by the very best cream of the USAAF fighter force. Could you possibly bomb their home field? They have high service rating so they are probably used 100% offensively, with other fighter types doing the CAP duty. You could take the risk and try it with a group or 2 of low-flying Ki-21s or Ki-49s. Defensively, not much you can do beyond trying to outnumber them and layering your CAP in order to take away some of their speed advantage(when they attack lower fighters, some of yours will end up higher than those that went lower, and your guys are likely to get to bounce them, creating the occasional many vs. 1 situation). Fighting the P-47 will be just the same except that they have servie rating of 1 instead of P-38s' 4 or 3, depending on exact model.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/5/2014 12:15:47 PM)
October 8th 1942 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 2 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Rambutyo(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Quiet China Chinese forces refuse to retreat despite being defeated. quote: Ground combat at 76,41 (near Chengtu) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 24514 troops, 468 guns, 609 vehicles, Assault Value = 1264 Defending force 48140 troops, 63 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 511 Japanese adjusted assault: 452 Allied adjusted defense: 61 Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 321 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled) Allied ground losses: 2060 casualties reported Squads: 67 destroyed, 111 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 58 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 79,49 (near Changteh) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 13601 troops, 113 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 447 Defending force 23218 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 444 Japanese adjusted assault: 436 Allied adjusted defense: 106 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(+) Japanese ground losses: 305 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 26 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 331 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 40 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Australia Allied bombing of Darwin does better pushing it to 76 service, 24 runway damage. I have a supply convoy trying to unload but it will probably be destroyed if left there so better pull back. Engineering Allies expand Katherine to 8. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/5/2014 12:22:02 PM)
China At "A" there are some fairly intact Chinese so the hope is to bloody them and hope they disintegrate as they march across the mountains to Ledo. At "B", I hope to set up a moving road block at X so these forces can never get to India. At "C", I want to drive them back into Chungking. I have delayed entering the Chungking hex until this can be finished. Tsuyung, "D", is the last serious road block before Paoshan [image]local://upfiles/43194/8F44A49D73524F459CA24627C18A1754.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/5/2014 12:40:54 PM)
quote: Could you possibly bomb their home field? They have high service rating so they are probably used 100% offensively, with other fighter types doing the CAP duty. You could take the risk and try it with a group or 2 of low-flying Ki-21s or Ki-49s. In Australia, not viable given the relative field sizes. I realise I made a mistake not developing Bathurst Island. In India, he has a lot of choices where to base and can use the railroad to evacuate damaged aircraft but may be worth a try or two.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/5/2014 5:45:19 PM)
October 9th 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 5 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Bad intel, I tried sweeps and bombing against Comilla which reported as having 70 odd bombers but when I got there there were no aircraft present. At least, no losses taken. Allies attack my troops in the jungle using a new aircraft, the Fulmar II. Looks like this is some pretty hopeless fighter-bomber. No damage or losses. China Chinese again fail to retreat despite a 9::1 result. Do forces that have no supply and no nearby supply source not retreat? Australia Allied bombing of Darwin continues to do heavy damage. Carelessness costs, I pulled the supply convoy back to near Saumlaki and put LRCAP over it but failed to notice that a reinforcement convoy was arriving at Saumlaki the same time. Some B-26 attacked the reinforcements and only 6 Tojo met them. Four bombers were downed but the rest sunk an xAK and another xAK and an xAP are on fire and will most likely by lost. Some troops lost but most seem to have got ashore. Engineering Allies expand Rennell Island port to 1, Tassafaronga airfield to 1 R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/6/2014 12:25:28 PM)
October 10th 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 2 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Allies are moving to the attack against a weak point in my line between the two rivers. I have a couple more divisions moving to Burma but they won't reach there for a couple of months so I think I need to fall back slightly. China Some Chinese units are destroyed or surrender rather than retreating. A mess near Chungking. I had 3 Divisions plus artillery moving across the river into the Chinese held hex. I expected that to trigger a shock attack so had the forces already in hex launch a shock attack. However, the forces entering the hex did not participate and now I have 2 divisions needing some R&R. Fortunately, devices lost weren't too bad. Maybe some time I will understand the rules for when units crossing a river shock attack[&:]. Australia No Allied air action today. Darwin fixes the runway and recovers service damage to 79. The xAK damaged yesterday put out its fires [:)] but at 50/24/26 damage disbanded in a level 1 port it is going to take a while to get it fixed. The xAP has unloaded its troops but still burns. Engineering Quiet R&D Ki-43-IV to 8/44

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/6/2014 1:48:05 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery A mess near Chungking. I had 3 Divisions plus artillery moving across the river into the Chinese held hex. I expected that to trigger a shock attack so had the forces already in hex launch a shock attack. However, the forces entering the hex did not participate and now I have 2 divisions needing some R&R. Fortunately, devices lost weren't too bad. Maybe some time I will understand the rules for when units crossing a river shock attack[&:]. There is a threshold number that needs to be met when reinforcing across a river for the units to shock attack. Less and they don't as you found out.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/6/2014 2:11:41 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery A mess near Chungking. I had 3 Divisions plus artillery moving across the river into the Chinese held hex. I expected that to trigger a shock attack so had the forces already in hex launch a shock attack. However, the forces entering the hex did not participate and now I have 2 divisions needing some R&R. Fortunately, devices lost weren't too bad. Maybe some time I will understand the rules for when units crossing a river shock attack[&:]. There is a threshold number that needs to be met when reinforcing across a river for the units to shock attack. Less and they don't as you found out. Beta notes state: 50. Gameplay Change: Change to river assault � reversion to original rule - when crossing a river into a hex all units entering should shock attack in the turn they cross, unless 1/3 of the unmodified AV of the defenders has already crossed from that hex side in a previous turn. No forces had crossed through that hex side before since the Allies had sole occupation of the hex so I expected a shock attack by the forces crossing. So I don't know if the Beta has further changed this, or there is some other factor at work.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/6/2014 6:35:45 PM)
October 11th 1942 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 3 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Movement arrows confirm an attack here. China Tsuyung proves to have forts 1 and one good corps, a promising start: quote: Ground combat at Tsuyung (68,46) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 19247 troops, 380 guns, 470 vehicles, Assault Value = 611 Defending force 19933 troops, 119 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 508 Japanese adjusted assault: 307 Allied adjusted defense: 484 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 24 (2 destroyed, 22 disabled) Allied ground losses: 727 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 43 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled) Assaulting units: 23rd Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 24th Division 9th Tank Regiment 11th Tank Regiment 14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 10th Mortar Battalion 20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment 3rd Mortar Battalion Defending units: 14th Chinese Corps NCAC 33rd Base Group Chinese units are fighting and being destroyed near Chengtu. A brigade has cut the route to India. quote: Ground combat at 76,41 (near Chengtu) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 36342 troops, 565 guns, 645 vehicles, Assault Value = 1131 Defending force 36382 troops, 34 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 264 Japanese adjusted assault: 695 Allied adjusted defense: 13 Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 204 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: 4185 casualties reported Squads: 165 destroyed, 17 disabled Non Combat: 275 destroyed, 66 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 17 (10 destroyed, 7 disabled) Units destroyed 5 Assaulting units: 32nd Division 1st Division 2nd Tank Division 26th Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment 4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 22nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 11th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion Defending units: 2nd Chinese Corps 71st Chinese Corps 19th Chinese Corps 75th Chinese Corps 8th Chinese Base Force 2nd War Area 69th Chinese Corps 34th Separate Brigade 40th Chinese Corps 36th Group Army 6th Chinese Base Force 1st War Area 39th Group Army 15th Chinese Base Force Chinese forces West of Chungking collapse, thousands surrender. Chungking is surrounded, recce report is of 367,160 troops, 854 guns in 97 units. quote: Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 41100 troops, 652 guns, 220 vehicles, Assault Value = 1674 Defending force 94695 troops, 235 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1092 Japanese adjusted assault: 456 Allied adjusted defense: 100 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1340 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 100 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Guns lost 18 (3 destroyed, 15 disabled) Vehicles lost 9 (4 destroyed, 5 disabled) Allied ground losses: 37909 casualties reported Squads: 852 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 1881 destroyed, 63 disabled Engineers: 36 destroyed, 12 disabled Guns lost 40 (34 destroyed, 6 disabled) Units retreated 34 Units destroyed 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 59th Division 36th/A Division 40th/C Division 36th/B Division 40th/B Division 116th Division 110th Division 40th/A Division 36th/C Division 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion 5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 28th Mountain Gun Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion 13th Mortar Battalion 3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment 6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion 11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment 7th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 11th Field Artillery Regiment 13th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion Defending units: 26th Chinese Corps 4th Chinese Corps 47th Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Corps 64th Chinese Corps 6th Chinese Corps 18th Chinese Corps 3rd Construction Regiment 74th Chinese Corps 37th Chinese Corps 25th Chinese Corps 49th Chinese Corps 57th Chinese Corps 13th Construction Regiment 1st Construction Regiment 37th Group Army 72nd Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Base Force 81st Chinese Corps Central Reserve 19th Chinese Base Force 35th Chinese Corps 27th Group Army 18th Chinese Base Force 38th Group Army Jingcha War Area 23rd Group Army 2nd Prov Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 7th Construction Regiment 25th Group Army 32nd Group Army 26th Group Army 17th Chinese Base Force 29th Group Army 2nd Construction Regiment 21st Chinese Base Force Australia Darwin is flattened, flak takes out a single B-24D. Darwin is at 87 service, 55 runway damage. Engineering Allies expand Townsville port to 7 and Rennell Island airfield to 2. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/6/2014 6:42:27 PM)
Forgot this one. Allies bombard Akyab quote: Night Naval bombardment of Akyab at 54,45 Allied Ships CL Caradoc CL Birmingham CL Ceres CL Dauntless DD Fortune DD Decoy CL Caradoc firing at 52nd Division CL Birmingham firing at 52nd Division CL Ceres firing at 52nd Division CL Dauntless firing at 52nd Division DD Fortune firing at 52nd Division DD Decoy firing at 52nd Division That is correct, not a single shell hit!

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/6/2014 8:34:07 PM)
Banzai!

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/7/2014 9:15:44 AM)
October 12th 1942 Air Losses: 7 Japanese, 4 Allied, 6 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific An Allied DMS hits a mine at Rennell Island and the Allies clear the minefield. Burma Quiet China Start ground attacks against Chungking, disable about 20 devices. Ground a number of groups to give their aircraft time to repair. Launch airfield attacks against Paoshan and Tsuyung, not much damage inflicted and heavy flak encountered as I forgot to raise altitude from 6000 feet. Recce suggests that some retreating Chinese units are disbanding from lack of supply. Australia No strike on Darwin, recovers to 87 system 11 runway. Engineering Allies expand Fenton to 4 and various others. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/7/2014 12:59:45 PM)
October 13th 1942 Air Losses: 11 Japanese, 24 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific I-30 is lost South of Pearl Harbour. Numerous reports of task forces but no carriers confirmed. Burma Quiet China 6 Infantry Divisions plus supporting troops enter the outskirts of Chungking. Attack at Tsuyung makes progress but Allies do well in the adjusted defense. Also, no supply(-) reported. Australia Oscars and Tojos fly into Darwin. By good fortune, the bombers all come in before the sweeps. Result[8D]! Allies lose 11 B-24D, 6 B-17E, and 5 B-17F for the loss of 3 Ki-43-1c and 3 Ki-44-IIa and only the one pilot. Allied losses are 9 air-air, 2 flak and 11 ops. By the time the Lightning sweeps arrive, all CAP aircraft have been grounded. A total of 119 aircraft bombed so losing 22 of them must put a bit of a damper on things. Unfortunately, service damage is now 100 and runway damage 49 and the fast transports that were supposed to drop supply and then load damaged aircraft have failed to arrive. Engineering Neikiang now 2. Allies expand Luganville to 2. R&D Quiet Economy Chengtu is short fuel and Port Arthur is short oil, seem to be some supply movement problems. Intel Confirmation on the sinking of CV Wasp is received[:)]. I have a resource convoy at Soerabaja that is refusing to sail, looks like a bug.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/7/2014 7:14:57 PM)
October 14th 1942 Air Losses: 24 Japanese, 3 Allied, 8 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Pacific Quiet Burma Try to bomb some of the advancing troops in the Jungle but only hit a single Indian Brigade. China Have entered Chungking from the three non-river hexsides, now have 7 divisions in hex. Some 7 other divisions are moving there or fixing disablements. Should be able to attack with 13 divisions and a mild over-stacking about the end of the month. More Chinese units that are out-of-supply but not surrounded surrender, useful VP but more strength to Chungking. Australia A right mess up at Darwin is costly, losing 4 APD and a training CL plus also more aircraft to the Lightnings. Engineering Dili airfield to 3, Saumlaki airfield to 3. R&D Ki-44-IIc to 12/42. Mitsubishi Ha-43 to 10/44.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (5/8/2014 6:43:41 AM)
China and Burma At Chungking I can use about 11 divisions at a time to attack. With the artillery that will put me about 25% over stacked. I will have 17 divisions available so should be able to rotate out damaged divisions and maintain attacks weekly. Or, should I over stack more heavily? In Burma, he appears to be attacking with at least 3 divisions. My line in the jungle is weak so I don't think it will hold. If I detach the 2 tank divisions from China to help on the road to Burma then I can hope to get to central Burma with about 6 division equivalents in time to counter-attack. MrKane seems weaker at the land game than he is at sea and in the air so I may be able to do some serious damage.

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