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 (6/23/2014 12:37:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe How does the IIc match up against his lightning sweeps? 3 to 1 loss ratio? Or better? What lightning sweeps? MrKane has mostly stopped doing them. I think there has only been one clash between the IIc and lightnings and, from memory, the ratio was about 1::1 (with the numbers present to overwhelm his sweep). Currently, I have Ki-44-IIc at Magwe, Katha, Lanchow, Sian and Bangkok all protecting industry. Roughly, at the moment I have: 236 Ki-44-IIc 84 Ki-44-IIa 238 Ki-43-IIb 178 older, unarmoured, Ki-43 models, mostly used for training 180 Nates on training 150 Nicks

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/23/2014 12:49:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe How does the IIc match up against his lightning sweeps? 3 to 1 loss ratio? Or better? What lightning sweeps? January 3rd 1943 Air Losses: 33 Japanese, 9 Allied, 5 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Expensive turn. Subs A Sanyo class AV is lost to SS Haddock near Pagan, taking with it 11 Jakes. Pacific 4E bomb Rabaul airfields at night from 20000 feet and destroy 6 aircraft on the ground. Lightnings sweep during the day, trading 5 P-38E for 13 planes lost. That one? [:)]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/23/2014 1:20:14 PM)
quote: That one? Nope, not that one. No Ki-44-IIc at Rabaul. I though it was in December but I can't see it so maybe they have never clashed.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/23/2014 1:22:37 PM)
January 5th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 3 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs A manzyu (7950 capacity) tanker is lost to SS Tarpon. Pacific Quiet Burma area Allies launch a deliberate attack at Warazup, the defense isn't too good. My disablements are worse than it suggests, in particular over half the AT guns have been disabled. quote: Ground combat at Warazup (63,41) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36929 troops, 712 guns, 1000 vehicles, Assault Value = 1316 Defending force 16913 troops, 171 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 573 Allied adjusted assault: 987 Japanese adjusted defense: 397 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 937 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 65 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Allied ground losses: 568 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 108 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Vehicles lost 36 (2 destroyed, 34 disabled) Assaulting units: 18th British Division 7th Armoured Brigade 70th British Division 3rd Carabiniers Regiment 267th Armoured Brigade 3rd Cavalry Regiment 77th Heavy AA Regiment 28th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment 23rd AA Bde IV Indian Corps 24th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment 13th Indian Light AA Regiment 23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment 20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment 25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment 6th Medium Regiment 26th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment 22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment Defending units: 68th Division 7th RTA Division 4th RF Gun Battalion 55th Mountain Gun Regiment It is 7 days before the 1st Tank will arrive. I have split a division at Myitkyna and am sending 2/3 but need to keep enough back to avoid an air assault. Allies are taking C-47 ops losses. I wonder if he is air dropping supply. May give a try at using LRCAP. China First deliberate attack to reduce cut off forces takes a lot of disruptions so will be a long wait before try again quote: Ground combat at 79,45 (near Patung) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 31885 troops, 244 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 989 Defending force 37267 troops, 196 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 813 Japanese adjusted assault: 619 Allied adjusted defense: 317 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(+), fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 925 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 148 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Allied ground losses: 1070 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 133 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 110th Division 19th Ind.Mixed Brigade 41st Division Defending units: 90th Chinese Corps 45th Chinese Corps 85th Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 98th Chinese Corps Australia Quiet. Engineering Sabang to 2. R&D B6N2a to 10/44. A6M5c to 11/43. D4Y4 to 12/43. Reinforcements Endo Det. of 2 J1N1-S night fighters. Three excellent pilots are assigned (exp/air/defense): Hamano, U. (83/80/89) Kawakami, T. (82/89/79) Minobe, I. (82/87/80) It is transferred to Pagan, and will then move to Truk to recover plane fatigue before being used at Rabaul.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/23/2014 5:59:31 PM)
January 6th 1943 Air Losses: 15 Japanese, 1 Allied, 13 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Pacific Nells out of Rabaul and Milne Bay find some ships near Munda. They can't hit big targets, such as cruisers, but against small targets they do well. 4 LCM and an LCVP are sunk, apparently carrying engineers and non-combat squads[:)]. The LCM and LCVP do not appear on the sunk ship list, are they worth VP? RO-60 locates a transport convoy, possibly an invasion, near Munda but fails to get a good shot and is damaged. Burma area My Helens are sent to help at Warazup. As a compromise they are sent at 12000 feet; bad decision, 12 planes are lost to flak and 2 to ops for only a few hits on the troops[:(]. The Allies attack again and the situation looks bad for the defenders[:(]: quote: Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36250 troops, 712 guns, 998 vehicles, Assault Value = 1216 Defending force 16073 troops, 171 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 485 Allied adjusted assault: 805 Japanese adjusted defense: 397 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 960 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 172 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Guns lost 28 (1 destroyed, 27 disabled) Allied ground losses: 768 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 70 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 20 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled Guns lost 23 (2 destroyed, 21 disabled) Vehicles lost 32 (4 destroyed, 28 disabled) China Quiet Australia Quiet. Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/24/2014 7:56:44 AM)
January 7th 1943 Air Losses: 35 Japanese, 10 Allied, 30 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Warazup Japanese land at: Allies land at: A Miserable day. Subs Quiet Pacific An xAP delivering troops to Kusaie Island is sunk by 3 PBY-5. The PBY now have torpedoes and manage to sink the ship so quickly that the men on board are not rescued[:@]. 2000 men lost at sea. Zeroes on CAP retaliate by shooting all 3 PBY-5 down in post attack air-air combat. At Munda some Kates and Vals attack with 35 Zeroes in escort. They meet massive CAP and all bombers are lost and half the zeroes[:@]. No bombers penetrate CAP. Burma area Warazup falls with heavy losses[:@]. China Quiet Australia Quiet. Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet

setloz -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/24/2014 8:54:02 AM)
quote: Burma area Warazup falls with heavy losses. Ouch! [8\|] What about Myitkyina? Are you evacuating? Or is it to fortified enough to be next point in your line of defence?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/24/2014 9:02:58 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: setloz quote: Burma area Warazup falls with heavy losses. Ouch! [8\|] What about Myitkyina? Are you evacuating? Or is it to fortified enough to be next point in your line of defence? Reinforcing. By the time he can attack there it should have two Tank Divisions present.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/24/2014 1:48:29 PM)
January 8th 1943 Air Losses: 9 Japanese, 2 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs SS Trusty takes 6 near misses from Type 2 DC at Ponape. So close! Pacific A cruiser force provides overkill sinking DE Humphreys (Clemson class) near Munda. Some Nells and Mavis launch ineffective night attacks (for some reason they have bombs, not sure why) Burma area Quiet China Allies bomb Sian at night from 15000 feet and score no hits. Australia Quiet. Engineering Allies have expanded Rennell Island to 8. R&D Quiet

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/25/2014 2:12:31 PM)
January 9th 1943 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 6 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Choiseul Bay (auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Allies have 4 F4F-4 lost to ops, I wonder what he was doing? All carriers are now repaired. I could do something with them but it seems better to remain hidden and conserve fuel. I have a CVE acting as an ASW platform in one of the areas with poor land coverage. Subs Lots of claimed hits by Helens on subs near Rabaul, no reason to believe any of them. SS Spearfish scores hits on two xAK near Wakkanai, both are duds[:D]. I am seeing subs around Truk and Rabaul and at least one near Sakhalin but the mass that were spotted South of Formosa have vanished. Pacific Quiet Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia Quiet. Engineering Quiet R&D Ki-43-IIIa to 12/43

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 11:47:40 AM)
January 10th 1943 Air Losses: 13 Japanese, 2 Allied, 6 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Pacific Mess up orders and a group of Mavis PA commit suicide, 9 lost [changed from Night Attack to day and set 40% search, 60% rest but forgot to set to Naval Search]. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia Allies bomb Darwin Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet Reinforcements CM Yirijima, will be parked until it upgrades to an E in 3/43

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 12:17:05 PM)
Resource shipping. I think I am doing a good job getting the fuel/oil/resources back to Japan. There are some changes being made to allow for the increased sub threat. CS Convoys take resources from Toyohara to Wakkanai. Each has 4 adens and a PB and has to risk the subs. A CS Convoy of 2 of the 1250 tankers plus escorts runs from Shihuka to Hirosaki/Aomori taking oil and returning with fuel. CS Convoys of a few ships each run from Hakodate and Muroran to Ominato and Hirosaki/Aomori. These have no escorts but there are ASW groups in the ports and the intervening hex. Some of these take fuel back. A single CS convoy of 1 YO runs oil from Hakodate to Ominato and takes fuel back. CS Convoys of a few ships, and no escorts, run resources from Fusan to Fukuoka being routed through Tsushima. All three hexes are covered by mines and ASW task forces. Some of these ships return with supplies (I think this may be the mistake I've been making that caused supplies to gather at Port Arthur). CS Convoys run fuel or oil from Mukden to Georgetown, oil from Bengkalis to Batu Phat. There are mines at Bengkalis and Batu Phat and ASW forces all over the Straits of Malaya. There are some CS convoys running fuel or oil from Palembang to Singapore but these aren't enough to cover all the production at Palembang. All the rest of the convoys are micro-managed. The only resources shipped back are if there are ships returning to Japan. Oil and fuel convoys are generally being loaded and formed up into large well-escorted convoys. I have taken care of all the back-logs so can afford the inefficiencies of this and it doesn't waste fuel. Palembang -> Singapore, Singapore -> Nagasaki/Sasebo hugging the coast of IndoChina, Miri & Brunei -> Luzon, Tarakan -> Luzon or fuel to Babeldoab. Balikpapan oil -> Singapore, fuel -> Rabaul or Truk. Soerabaja oil -> Singapore, fuel used in the DEI. Manila -> Hiroshima (varies). Occasionally, run oil from Formosa to Port Arthur. As it sometimes seems to run out of oil. Current Japan (not inc. Hokkaido) stocks: 4,343,807 fuel, 1,944,384 oil, 9,101,309 resources.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 12:32:24 PM)
Quite a few CM upgrade to Es.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 1:04:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Quite a few CM upgrade to Es. In March 1943, about 15 or so. They only get a couple of Mod-2 DC but it does give some 15-knot escorts for the faster tankers.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 2:28:10 PM)
January 11th 1943 Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 8 Allied, 3 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Allied losses include 4 C-47 and 1 DC-3, he is certainly using airlift somewhere. I suspect him of dropping supplies to the Chinese isolated near Tsuyung. He could be running supplies to Warazup. I've tried LRCAP over both these places on occasion but may need to maintain it for a while. Subs The Sailfish appears in the deep water West of Nagasaki. RO-62 is lost to ASW South of Tulagi. Pacific Quiet Burma area Try a night strike at Kalemyo. Helens meet Mohawk IV (an unarmoured Allied fighter). To reduce flak I attacked at 15000 feet but still lost 2 planes to flak and missed with all bombs. Send some of my new Ki-46-III planes to have a look at Colombo. Three are enough to get 9/10 DL despite flying at max range. Colombo is pretty empty, only 8 fighters there and a few ships. China Quiet Australia Allies bomb Darwin Engineering Tsuyung to 4, good VP boost and a bomber base in range of Ledo. Katha to 6, will push on. R&D Quiet Reinforcements Getting a lot of aviation support arriving at Tokyo and Sapporo. That at Sapporo is sent to support ASW activities from Wakkanai freeing unrestricted aviation units to be sent to the Kuriles.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 4:30:44 PM)
January 12th 1943 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 3 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Broome Japanese land at: Allies land at: [>:] Subs Quiet Pacific Quiet Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia Allies bomb Darwin Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet Reinforcements DD Kiyonami, a Yugumo class destroyer. A std-A class xAK for conversion to a tanker. 1st Tank Tank Division at Myitkyina upgrades its TOE.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/26/2014 5:57:15 PM)
I thought this would show how quiet everything is. List of all ships with any float damage, all 15 of them. [image]local://upfiles/43194/F9D059EFBE404567B02EE57C9D539958.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/27/2014 4:40:36 PM)
January 14th 1943 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 0 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Panggoe(auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: [>:] Subs Quiet Pacific Quiet Burma area Helens miss some cut off troops. Over one group they find 3 Martlet fighters but take no losses. China A couple of attacks in China wearing down isolated forces. I'm taking these slow and allowing disruptions to recover, there is no point in taking VP losses for destroyed devices. Australia Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D N1K1-J to 3/43. I have 4 R&D factories so will be able to start producing from the 1st Feb. How many should I produce and how much R&D on the N1K2-J? The N1K2-J is slightly better speed, climb, maneuveur and range, is SR 2, but loses on weapons, and ceiling. A mix of the two may be useful. The J2M2 will be available 43/5 and complements the N1K1-J with better speed, climb, and low altitude performance. The Zeroes will be obsolete for land-based (except training). The A6M5c will replace the A6M5 on the carriers starting about June. I currently have about 250 fighters on CV, 450 on land. I receive about 450 land based groups in reinforcement the rest of the year. I don't have deep trained fighter pools so a lot of aircraft will go into training initially. So by end of the year will have about 450 fighters on training, 450 on land in combat places and 400 on CV (including the new four). So I need to produce 450 George/Jack over the year plus replacements. Assuming a bit more action that could be another 600 aircraft. So I could do with producing 1100 George/Jack in 11/8 months respectively. So something like 35 Jack and 75 George would cover that. However, it makes for a slow deployment. I'll leave two factories on R&D (which will give me the N1K2-J about November) and roll 2 into production, I'll expand each by 15 to produce 90 N1K1-J. I'll leave A6M5 production running but turn it off when I have a pool of about 100. Or, I could expand each factory by 30 (or convert a shut off one) and produce 120 allowing to get them deployed earlier but needing to turn off production at some point. Is 33000 supply worth the reduced losses from having better planes earlier?

FeurerKrieg -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/27/2014 5:27:55 PM)
I say yes, the supply is worth the faster deployment. But that is because I also think about the extra production capacity. It is nice when you can shut off production with a lower stockpile, and you can do that with larger factories because you can recover from a heavy loss period faster.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/28/2014 7:27:06 AM)
January 15th 1943 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 4 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Panggoe(auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Allies lose 3 C-47 - I still can't find where he is flying them that is worth the losses. Subs I-15 misses the CA Australia near Rossel Island and is mildly damaged (16/10/0) and will head for repairs. I-24 sinks an unescorted empty, 6000 ton, xAK between Karachi and Abadan. I've had three subs up here for a while and this is the first attack. Some DD and air strikes claimed on subs, also the Allied subs have started shooting back with 2 planes damaged by flak. Pacific CA Australia is spotted and attacked 1 hex SW of Rossel Island. Is this a bombardment gone wrong or the prelude to an attack? Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D D4Y1 to 11/43 (due April). P1Y1 to 6/43 (due mid March). Reinforcements 8150 capacity TK. E W-24, first designated Escort built. A sister ship to the E W-24 [image]local://upfiles/43194/4DBC7DC15F204310B9CCB37463D0C99B.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/28/2014 7:28:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg I say yes, the supply is worth the faster deployment. But that is because I also think about the extra production capacity. It is nice when you can shut off production with a lower stockpile, and you can do that with larger factories because you can recover from a heavy loss period faster. Thank-you, I think I will go with the bigger production. I am aware though that overdoing this uses supply

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/28/2014 12:12:38 PM)
January 16th 1943 Air Losses: 5 Japanese, 1 Allied, 2 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Vella Lavella(auto) Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Pacific B-24D hit Rabaul at 20000 feet. A few Oscar IIb meet them. 1 Oscar is lost and 1 A6M5 on the ground. If they come back tomorrow may see if the Endo Det does any good? Some Nells try a night attack but the only targets are APD and DE so no surprise they all miss. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia Quiet Engineering Quiet R&D Quiet

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/28/2014 6:15:17 PM)
NF: In my sample game of downfall, I lost very few nightfighters. In Obvert's AAR he would lose lots. I am curious to see what happens to Endo in yours.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/28/2014 6:43:58 PM)
January 17th 1943 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 3 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Pacific Quiet. No action for Endo Det. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia Allies launch a deliberate attack at Darwin, the defenders hold their positions: quote: Ground combat at Darwin (76,124) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 72191 troops, 1147 guns, 997 vehicles, Assault Value = 2154 Defending force 37764 troops, 457 guns, 374 vehicles, Assault Value = 1026 Allied adjusted assault: 2983 Japanese adjusted defense: 3190 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 5) Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2132 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 161 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 87 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 27 disabled Guns lost 99 (20 destroyed, 79 disabled) Vehicles lost 34 (6 destroyed, 28 disabled) Allied ground losses: 3996 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 609 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 75 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 39 disabled Guns lost 88 (5 destroyed, 83 disabled) Vehicles lost 42 (1 destroyed, 41 disabled) Assaulting units: 24th Infantry Division 3rd Motor Brigade 32nd Infantry Division 2/10th Armoured Regiment 5th Australian Division 4th Armoured Brigade 2nd Australian Division 25th Infantry Division 3rd Army Tank Brigade 641st Towed Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Australian Brigade 95th Coast AA Regiment II Australian 21/22 Field Regiment 2/16th Field Regiment 109th Anti Tank Regiment 2nd Medium Regiment 1st Medium Regiment 208th Coast AA Regiment 108th Anti Tank Regiment 2nd Australian Hvy AA Regiment 94th Coast AA Regiment 13th Field Regiment 13th Australian Hvy AA Regiment Defending units: 48th Division 14th Tank Regiment 16th Division 56th Engineer Regiment 1st Ind Engineer Regiment 310th Ship Eng Coy 5th Air Defense AA Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 11th Ind.AA Gun Co 31st Ind.AA Gun Co 205th Ship Eng Coy 13th Ind.AA Gun Co 88th JAAF AF Coy 31st Field AA Battalion 12th Ind.AA Gun Co 21st Ind.AA Gun Co 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 110th Ship Eng Coy 14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 47th Const Co /1 14th Army 21st Fld AA Gun Co 28th JNAF AF Unit /1 Can't decide whether that is a good or a bad result. The guns lost seem to have been AA although a mortar unit was completely disabled. One division took about 20% in disablements the other only a few. The one tank unit took a lot of disablements in its light tanks. With about a third of the Allied AV disabled he probably won't be attacking for a few days. He is still taking C-47 losses and I can't find them flying in China/Burma so I think he must be using them to supply Northern Australia. Even so, will he have enough supply to attack again? Engineering Allies have built Nauru Island to 2 and Munda to 3. R&D Mitsubishi Ha-43 to 6/44 Production Hitachi Amakaze engines are exhaused and production of the E14Y1 stops, there are 67 stockpiled plus some have been assigned to groups for training so this should suffice. I look at some of my stockpiles and wonder whether to turn off production: 93 Ki-94-IIa, 65 Ki-45 KAIa, 44 H8K2, 22 D4Y1-C, 95 G3M3, 21 H6K2-L. I will probably use all of these because they are aircraft which are needed for a while. The G3M3 and H6K2-L will be off because I am running low on Ha-33 engines. Reinforcements 2 Std-A xAK for conversion to TK.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/28/2014 11:21:29 PM)
I wonder if your holding Darwin, has caused Mr. Kane to seek a Darwin to southern DEI axis of attack along with another axis of attack up from Lunga on the other side of New Guinea? His bombers are there and he has brought lots to the party at Darwin. How are the supplies holding up at Darwin? Surely, that is where he is losing transports. How are your defenses in the Banda Sea progressing?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/29/2014 6:47:41 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe I wonder if your holding Darwin, has caused Mr. Kane to seek a Darwin to southern DEI axis of attack along with another axis of attack up from Lunga on the other side of New Guinea? His bombers are there and he has brought lots to the party at Darwin. It is possible, but bombers can be moved quickly and I don't really know how much unrestricted stuff he has available. I haven't seen the marines since they took Noumea. quote: How are the supplies holding up at Darwin? Over 40,000 there, no problems. quote: Surely, that is where he is losing transports. How are your defenses in the Banda Sea progressing? Base building is going well but lack of boots on the ground. I would like to hold Darwin until the end of February so I can get the reinforcements from China in place.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/29/2014 6:49:53 AM)
I don't know where the Allied CV are. I don't know where the Marines are. I don't know where the British BB are or most of the American ones. Together, that means he has a strong amphibious force that could target anywhere. Hence, I am keeping the KB quiet.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/29/2014 11:34:48 AM)
A quiet KB is a dangerous KB. Adds uncertainty to Allied plans...uncertainty causes delay.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/29/2014 4:56:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe A quiet KB is a dangerous KB. Adds uncertainty to Allied plans...uncertainty causes delay. Indeed, and because I don't know where the Allied CV are. I am not going to risk any sort of raid. Uncertainty rules!

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (6/29/2014 4:57:18 PM)
January 18th 1943 Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 3 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: Subs Quiet Pacific Quiet. The Endo Det waits for an attack but none comes. Burma area Quiet China Quiet Australia 4E hit Darwin airfield. Flak is light because too many guns were disabled by the land attack. Spotting a lot of subs in the Torres Strait. May be the precursor to something. MrKane has a track record of sending subs in before an operation. Engineering Quiet R&D Ki-43-IV to 2/44

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