RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury

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Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 5:02:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: GetAssista quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Instead, their valor only sealed their doom! Now they are off to make a railroad bridge for Japan somewhere! In this game all those POWs and Koreans are damn slackers, not building a single new road ever =) We get really close in the game, and then that lousy William Holden sabotage line comes up destroying the bridge on its maiden locomotive. So frustrating.[:D]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 5:04:54 PM)
Chinese Corp sitting by its lonesome got bombed yesterday and now it is heading back to the North. I think I probably should figure out how to destroy that 50K Chinese stack in the mountains. I have pulled back a lot of the Armor and I am resting them at Rangoon, Pegu, and some other spots. The star is the isolated 32nd American and 6th Australian Divisions. They are on their last legs, thank goodness. [image]local://upfiles/44178/24C3AE6DFCDF44239297D19E474A683D.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 5:14:44 PM)
On the Burma/Magwe road in the jungle. I am still vulnerable here, but I have some more forces arriving so I feel much better. When the Allies first arrived, I think if they had supplies they could really have taken the hex quite easily. I have the makings of a nice defense. x2 terrain, AA present, heavy artillery, but poor infantry in that they are lacking 43 squads except for the SNLF unit. [image]local://upfiles/44178/988D628144AC43DEAC0877549113CCE2.jpg[/image]

Grfin Zeppelin -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 5:43:38 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin Congrats on you victory at Midway. I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such. Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it. Shattered Sword or Shattered Star ? [:D]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 5:56:43 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin Congrats on you victory at Midway. I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such. Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it. Shattered Sword or Shattered Star ? [:D] I forget. [8\|]

Grfin Zeppelin -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 6:01:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin Congrats on you victory at Midway. I can only recomend the book Shattered Star. It deals in detail with some myths about that battle like that delayed float plane and such. Read it a while back, back thanks. Probably forgot everything I read in it. Shattered Sword or Shattered Star ? [:D] I forget. [8\|] [:(]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 6:08:21 PM)
I stripped Magwe of fighters yesterday, but today I sent them back in. It is Dec of 1943 and this marks combat debut of the George. One squadron of 27 (which gets withdrawn later too[:(]) is now at Magwe. My other sized 27 sentai of Georges is in Luzon. It actually expands to size 36 and will be around for the entire war.[:)] About 3/4ths of my Frank squadrons are either upgrading to the Frank R or taking replacements getting some good R&R. The Japanese Air Force is just extremely fragile in PDU off.

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 6:31:50 PM)
Situation...the Allies outnumber me 2-1 in Raw AV, but worse they have lots of tanks...the 254th & 255th Armored Brigades. The 7th RTA Division has poor leadership (250+ PP to change[X(]), the 6th and 7th Heavy Artillery will be potent against the tanks, and then there is only the Seaasbo SNLF with IJA 43 squads...\ I would like to put the 7th RTA into Reserve (no pursuit) mode, however I can't trust their experience or leadership. So I will put the SNLF unit into reserve mode hoping to preserve their firepower for a final fight against tanks. The 5th Division is now combined, and is a crackerjack unit, but sadly lacking the 43 squads. I am not sure how critical it is to put units here in Reserve mode since the Allied force has only inherent artillery...I normally like to put close to 25% of my units into reserve mode against Allied attacks, but I normally do it after the 1st attack. Trying something new here. [image]local://upfiles/44178/3FD3C1F9BD4D40348FE3526CFB94AAB4.jpg[/image] As long as I don't give a destination to the Sesebo SNLF, they will retain their level 2 forts.[:)] But they won't work on improving their forts, to the best of my knowledge.[:(]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/28/2017 7:34:53 PM)
LangSon: I like this base. Connected by rail to Saigon it is most importantly inland, and not in the malaria zone. A size 3 runway allows a little over 30K supply without spoilage, and this will make for a great r&r runway for my fighters in Burma...less than 20 hex jump to the front there. I have aviation support arriving, and plan on building this base to max 9...which will make for a potent base to protect Hainan/Hanoi/Haiphong from. I will also get an Army HQ here to help with ground unit recovery for when fighting advances into Vietnam. [image]local://upfiles/44178/3C50C2E5DA344947B6FCC979499DDD76.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 5:34:10 PM)
Dec 5th, 1943 New Britain...Allies have amassed a major thrust here. [image]local://upfiles/44178/2E8A956C870942B28D4D0D970AB045BD.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 5:59:36 PM)
Risky business on the morrow... [image]local://upfiles/44178/42CE25119F1E4F8187C8BBCDFC85DED0.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 6:07:34 PM)
Relative quiet on the Burma Front. 12th Division arrives at Bangkok, where it will act as a reserve. Wiped out about 50 combat squads destroyed from the isolated 32nd and 6th Allied Divisions. Moving two Sentai of Franks to Singers for upgrades to Frank R. 1st Sentai is there taking replacements, and resting. Reinforced Magwe with about 24 top of the fighters...only about 150 fighters there, but a real hornets nest with Jacks, Georges, and Franks.

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:33:08 PM)
December 6th, 1943 New Guinea [image]local://upfiles/44178/0670F9A3555B4BA79322C6CDDE39554E.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:35:00 PM)
Argh... [image]local://upfiles/44178/8D1A192766964859B47E61FF9BEE7D2E.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:39:00 PM)
Daytime comes...and we better get back to our air cover... [image]local://upfiles/44178/D80F91E369334C39AF4C402C47E61B99.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:41:47 PM)
Sweetness... [image]local://upfiles/44178/B5D32A84DF06478F9481E8EC983219CD.jpg[/image]

Grfin Zeppelin -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:42:56 PM)
Muahahaha [&o]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:45:08 PM)
Too bad this happened late in the morning...enemy air attacks weigh heavily on the minds of the Japanese commanders. Open fire with the rear turrets for once, you swine! [image]local://upfiles/44178/16D157AC209D434798CF688B347C137C.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:48:49 PM)
Daylight comes and not all squadrons make Umboi... [image]local://upfiles/44178/3F59F2EC531146C6B152E0EB0365E575.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:55:11 PM)
Afternoon comes...ammo low...the morning goes better than feared...only one hit. The IJN is a little upset the IJAAF veers off to protect some ground troops. [image]local://upfiles/44178/F265C1942BED4EA2B52654F79D0F404B.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 7:56:47 PM)
As long as the bombers don't veer off to the south and stick to Umboi....the IJN will survive. [image]local://upfiles/44178/8851E7EFBEBE48D6AFFB6A66420F241D.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 8:47:21 PM)
Two light cruisers and 8 destroyers really run riot over the Allied fleets...and all should escape to fight again. Not to mention the best way to improve morale is to have your fighter pilots jump unescorted single engine bombers. That there was no bombers from Port Moresby area was quite nice for the two task forces that didn't make it back to Umboi. [image]local://upfiles/44178/7B93D1DD89534672866046564E752A07.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 8:54:00 PM)
The only negative for the day, is the Allies finally put up some LRCAP over the Rabaul garrison as it slugs thru the jungle...20 flying boats lost. But, hey! They have rescued over 11,000 pixel soldiers to fight another day...that isn't too shabby![8D] Plus 1300 men have made it one hex further to the west and that should be safe to pick up...at least we will try. And several more units are only a day or two away from joining them. [image]local://upfiles/44178/C804D90AD07B490EBCCCB13BC0207ADA.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 9:10:07 PM)
Today was the 3rd Tank/A's day to attack. I bolstered the attack with the 41st infantry regiment which unfortunately has 65 disrupted squads on 40 combat ready. But they were game! I just want these guys to hurry up and surrender.[:)] [image]local://upfiles/44178/FE883E8CE82743339616988BCE634237.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/29/2017 9:17:22 PM)
Burma [image]local://upfiles/44178/D545F605B7C746358B7F95CDD12AEBFE.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/30/2017 1:21:29 PM)
A perusal of the combat reports seems to indicate the IJN raid sank about 22 fairly worthless ships....and there were some great prizes that escaped. I have moved all the raiders into Escort task forces with low threat in an attempt to avoid retaliation. There is an off chance the Allies surge with their warships from Rabaul. If I would have thought ahead on the matter, the KB would be in position to protect the retreating ships....but then again that could be a fair bit of wasted fuel and the great chance of an Alpha strike at modern battleships with heavy land based fighter LRCAP. That is not how I want to expend the KB pilots and airplanes. Hansa Bay will get elements of the one Division in the area...that recently was defending Rabaul, where half are still stuck retreating thru the jungles of New Britain, but the guns and about 60 AV of troops will fast transport into Hansa Bay to anchor the defense there for a bit. A large amount of reinforcement, regiments and AA, are arriving in the SRA/New Guinea/Mindanao area.

Lecivius -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/30/2017 2:24:59 PM)
Man, so close to putting the Hurt out there [:(]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/30/2017 2:33:46 PM)
Came close, still stung a bit. Here is one of the two task forces that managed to evade during the night. The destroyers would have really eaten them up...and the destroyer squadron then retired and didn't fight anymore. So sad. Night Time Surface Combat, near Buna at 100,128, Range 30,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Akizuki DD Tamanami DD Fujinami Allied Ships LCT-167 LCT-168 LCT-169 LCT-171 LCT-178 LCT-179 LCT-180 LCT-320 LCT-321 LCT-322 LCT-323 LCT-324 LCT-325 LCT-326 LCT-327 LCT-328 LCT-329 LCT-330 LCT-350 LCT-351 LCT-352 LCT-353 LCT-354 LCT-355 LCT-356 LCT-357 LCT-358 LCT-359 PC Aurora PC Daphne PC Morris PC Alert Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 60% moonlight: 11,000 yards Range closes to 28,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese radar detects Allied task force at 28,000 yards Range increases to 30,000 yards... Allied Task Force Manages to Escape Allied Landing Craft TF evades combat

Lokasenna -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/30/2017 3:33:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Today was the 3rd Tank/A's day to attack. I bolstered the attack with the 41st infantry regiment which unfortunately has 65 disrupted squads on 40 combat ready. But they were game! I just want these guys to hurry up and surrender.[:)] [image]local://upfiles/44178/FE883E8CE82743339616988BCE634237.jpg[/image] Cropping fail, where was this at? I think Burma? It must be that battle marker in the next screen? [:'(]

Lowpe -> RE: Gnashing of Teeth: Cries of Fury (8/30/2017 4:00:48 PM)
Yep, in Burma. Lost the graphic....oops.

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