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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/1/2018 3:56:43 PM)

The final assault on Chungking has begun! In the first attack, the Chinese lost about 1,300 squads/devices and the Japanese about 90. But, each one of my divisions finished the day at 90+ disruption and 80+ fatigue. So, we'll have to rest a week or so and then go in again. I did reduce his fort level from 6 to 5 so this should get progressively easier. There are a LOT of VP that I"m going to gather from this attack. Not only from troops but Chungking itself is worth at least 4 fully loaded CVs. Call it my Midway insurance card. :)

In the meantime, Scott has landed at Rabual. He has not assaulted yet but it's going down. He has three full divisions and I have a regiment and some SNLF units. My boys on Saipan, Tinian and Gaum are digging faster!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/12/2018 11:35:56 PM)

We're into February 1943! And I haven't lost . . . yet. :) Here is the VP screen. Note that MY PP are climbing. I stopped needing to take divisions out of Manchuria and there is nothing dead that I really need to rebuild at this time so these are getting stockpiled for future use.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/12/2018 11:37:35 PM)

Here is the production screen. The Tony is finally under production so we can see how that fares against the dastardly allied heavy bombers since not much else seems to bring them down. Lots of oil in the stockpile and I've restarted the oil/fuel convoys.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/12/2018 11:41:02 PM)

The main action continues to be in Burma. Scott did not pull out all the way but sent his Aussies back to Shewbo. He seems to have moved one division north and thus may have a division plus other units in Shewbo. I have 5 divisions (including an armored division, crossing the river from Mandalay. They are three turns away from being over which is forcing me to keep my fighters in Burma to cover the crossing. If my boys are not destroyed from the air, they have a good shot at putting some hurt onto the Allies. It depends on how long my Tojos can keep flying. They're mainly in Magwe with about 90 morale and 15-20 fatigue flying at 40% CAP.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/12/2018 11:44:36 PM)

My policy is to not defend islands that are not worth many VP so having taken Attu awhile ago to slow down any US advance towards the HI from the north, I decided to give it up since it's really just a bombing range for the USAAF right now. My ships, as you can see, have soldiers clinging to rails and are out of fuel because Scott sent in a surface TF. We had two fights which drained my fuel tanks. There were no serious hits on either side but now I have nothing to get home on. I've sent an AV down there that hopefully will refuel at least the DDs but I'm never sure. I have other warships heading that way to get fuel into the cruisers. Scott still sees me by air and he'll pick up on the fact that my ships aren't moving and send the surface TF out again in which case it will be a very bad situation.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/13/2018 11:11:33 PM)

The Emperor is smiling on our efforts today. First, in Burma, Scott was never able to use his huge bomber fleet against my land forces so I got off a multi-division attack on his Aussie division, US regiment, and Chindit brigade at Shewbo. That plus odds and ends got routed out of there. I'm pursuing and Scott's running into the jungle. If the weather ever clears I'll have to run away again. Losses in the air are, thus far, about even which is a win for the Japanese (if I'm not losing 2-1, I'm winning).

Speaking of emperors, I actually saw Hirohito in person. He was in Chicago in the mid-1970s and my mother dragged us out to see him leave the Drake hotel. We clapped and he smiled turned and bowed to us. So, I got that going for me. :)

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/13/2018 11:14:55 PM)

Even better results in China with the Chinese losing about 2,200 squads/devices. Unfortunately it takes me about a week to recover from each battle and the one frustration is that I'm not reducing the fortification level. This turn I"m giong to try attacking with my artillery and two tank regiments. Even if they each get wiped out it will keep his supply drain and I'll only be out 100 tanks/support squads (easy for me to say, but my pixelmen are game). But, I wonder if Scott will be able to kill many of the tanks since I think he has very little supply in Chungking.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/13/2018 11:17:29 PM)

But, Scott is pushing in the So. Pac. He took Penope (?) and I' guess that he'll start bombing Truk but, he can have both of them. I'm putting more reinforcements into Saipan, Tinian, Guam and just wish I could get their fort levels above 6. I have lots of artillery on each island with more on the way. This is where the rubber will meet the road. Scott can bypass these islands, of course, but that's tough to do and if he does that's a bunch of VP that he does not get.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/13/2018 11:19:26 PM)

And, last but not least, I managed to refuel my fast transport TF and they will be in Yokahama next turn. They'll have to spend time in the ship yards but I got most of the brigade off of Attu with no loss in ships. Phew!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/17/2018 12:30:18 AM)

It continues to be on in Burma. My tank division showed first and got in a shock attack on the retreating allies that was a damp squib. So, now the infantry has caught up so I'll have have 4 first line inf. divisions in a shock attack this turn (the armor is very disrupted and is only going in normal mode). The big wild card is the air. The weather has played havoc with Scott's bomber forces thus far but this turn all the bombers got through and put the hurt on the armored division. Not in terms of losses, really, but more in disruption. If he has another good bomber day my attack won't be that strong.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/17/2018 12:33:11 AM)

But, its not like my airforce isn't giving it the old college try. Heavy losses but the P-38s and heavy bombers almost never get shot down by me. I've rotated some squadron's out to put as many air frames over the attack that I can since I doubt his troops are in great shape so if it works I'll wreck those units for some time to come (and being aussies they are worth a lot of VP). Then, I'll have to retreat to bad terrain to rebuild the air units. It's giving the allies the attrition that they want, but with a good prospect of harvesting land unit VP.



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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/17/2018 12:35:51 AM)

Scott did invade Taberfane this turn. But, I had a surface TF that evaded his escorts and sank one of the APDs. He needs to fire his escort commander. :) Scott is chipping away here without using carriers but I want to keep him far away from the resource centers as long as possible. The KB continues to sway gently at anchor in Mersing where I want it to stay until after the April 43 upgrades where they get actual radar [X(]

Meanwhile, in China the troops are resting up for the next assault which is probably 3 days away and I'm starting to ship more supplies into there. The build up at Saipan et al continues with level 6 forts and more troops going in.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/18/2018 12:43:45 PM)

Brutal airbattles over Taberfane and Burma. Taberfane was my mistake in that I did not send in fighter sweeps. He would not be able to fly in planes and I thought "Hey, he can't get fighter coverage" the P-38G on extended range proved me wrong and there are fewer Betties in my inventory. The other Betties were lost over India when they forgot to read the word "night" in their orders. :)

But, there was payback in knocking a large part of Scott's Blenheims and B-25/26 force out of the sky. They came in first before the fighter sweeps and got mauled. The fighters came in later and evened the score up a bit but I"m always happy to trade my fighters for his bombers and their deadly bomb loads. The heavies mocked my pitiful attempts to knock them out of the sky.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/18/2018 12:49:08 PM)

But, it was worth it because my ground attack went in and put the hurt on high value Australian and US units. Two units stayed in the hex and did not retreat (including the US regiment) which, on the one hand, gives me a chance to attack them again. But, I almost wish they would have run away. I'm bleeding fighters covering these guys and they're in the wide open terrain near his airbases. After I push them back I'll need awhile to rest and recuperate. I'm glad I've been able to push back this first real invasion of Burma and weaken two of his good divisions but fighting in the open is bad for the IJA health.

In other news, Scott pulled off a surprise British CV raid on Sumatra (I guess I did not get all of them). But, my lucky day, they did not sink anything. My guess is that they pull back to avoid a counter blow so I"m not actually setting up a counterblow even though the KB is in Mersing. I don't want him knowing where I am and trying to chase down a Brit CV is not worth it.

More troops are unloading at Spaipan/Guam/Tinian.

I'm resting at Chungking but, worryingly, my supply level there is dropping even though I'm not doing anything. More supplies are on their way from the HI.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/19/2018 1:11:01 PM)

Clean up in Aisle 10. :) The two units that did not retreat last turn in Bruma got pushed back this time and I think that independent US regiment and the light AA regiment are out of the fight for awhile. Now, I want to get my divisions out of there and out of the clear terrain asap. I'll try to move three of them to shewbo and strat move them into better terrain where they can rest and refit. I figure this has set back the Bruma invasion plans for awhile since his aussie divisions have been mauled and, with his earlier invasion attempt he's had three brigades surrender. I'm hoping for at least a couple of months of quiet but Scott's not that type of player.



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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/19/2018 1:18:30 PM)

As you can see, Scott keeps pressing. He's sent a surface TF to the far north to see what I have (a few air squadrons that will jump him if he comes in closer), he's taken Taberfane, and he is building up the airfield on Hollandia. His Brit carriers disappeared but he'll try stuff like that again. My last major strategic objective is Chungking and wearing down that monster is a bit away.

Otherwise, I've fortified the marianas and poured troops, artillery, and AA guns into there. Even if Scott bypasses that, they're safeguarding lots of VPs. I'm also fortifying Manila as I figure that's the only real place worth defending in the Phillipines. My strategy is delay in Burma as long as possible with Moulmein being the final chokepoint and delay down in the DEI as long as possible. My navy has been using zero fuel and I'm trying to build up stockpiles here and there for when the navy finally has to move.

The HI stockpile continues to grow and the oil stockpile is at about 4.5 million barrels. I guess that's reasonable and I'm trying to ship in more fuel.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 11:46:18 AM)

We have, as they say, a situation. Down near Taberfane it appears that the allies are sending a new convoy likely with troops to develop the base there. I'm sure it's more of his CLs/CAs along with transports. I have a CL TF that just unloaded supplies at Darwin and a CA TF up at Ambon that just refueled. so, with the Razor in charge of one TF and someone else who is pretty good in charge of the other TF we've set our sites on a surface action at Taberfane. The moon is pretty bright so I hope that helps offset his radar advantage and I also hope that one TF makes him run short of ammo when fighting the other TF. My betties are set to try as well. Stay tuned!




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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 6:37:14 PM)

A special shout out to my naval search teams that decided to not inform me that there were CVs in this group of ships. [:@] And then to my TF commanders who decided to advance five hexes and then stop rather than actually move on to launch a surface action so that they were nice sitting ducks for the waves of US carrier aviation. [:@][:@] Fortunately, it was not as bad as it could have been since, as of right now, I only have one sunk CL and two heavily damaged CAs.

But, the boys are fired up to go in again. I have split them up into multiple TFs, some with only one DD, to go for the lucky shot on the CVs or the AP TF. Betties will, allegedly, fly night time torpedo missions and the KB has finally scrapped the barnacles off its hide and is heading this way. It's coming from Mersing so it's still a few days away. I'm not flying ASW as I do not want Scott to know that I'm coming!



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GetAssista -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 6:50:32 PM)

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ORIGINAL: John B.
A special shout out to my naval search teams that decided to not inform me that there were CVs in this group of ships.

Were there any air-to-air losses of your navsearch planes in the preceding days? They tend to increase a lot when your search stumbles on the death star CAP



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 7:44:42 PM)

No, there was nothing. That would have been a real red flag. Next turn is off to Scott so hopefully we'll see some action later on this afternoon!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 9:26:13 PM)

This was much more satisfactory. First, a brave IJN sub captain put two torpedoes into the Yorktown. No fires but reports of belt armor penetration for both hits so likely it's taken some not insignificant flooding damage and may not be serviceable for aircraft. Given the rather tepid response from his naval air (one hit on one of my CLs) during the airphase he may only have three operable CVs.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 9:28:40 PM)

And, even better, the Razor got into is transport TF. There had been some desultory combats before this one when some of my DD got through at night and put a torpedo into a large AP (which was hit by a sub in the daylight and is reported to have sunk) but this was very nice. Reasonable to assume that several of these APs went down and maybe even two DDs. The APs matter more and there was a pleatora of sinking sounds later on in the turn.

Well done Razor, well done.[sm=happy0065.gif]

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/20/2018 9:31:06 PM)

Here is the current map situation. Scott is running south and I'm sprinting subs into his likely withdrawal path to see if I can get any stragglers and, even more hopefully, take care of the damaged CV. I have one DD heading out of Darwin on a prayer mission but everyone else is heading home. His troops on Taberfane are now exposed to a series of shore bombardments so we'll see how much damage I can do to them.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/21/2018 1:16:52 AM)

Time for a quick update. We did another turn and my subs found the Yorktown again. Put one more torpedo into it and got a heavy damage report (but no fires). There were sinking sounds but no dead aircraft. I'm not sure and the subs continue to scour the area. I did get a torpedo into a burning destroyer and took it down but I think it was on the way out already anyway.

Assault on Chungking planned for this turn!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/24/2018 2:11:12 PM)

Damn Yorktown is just not going down. My DD made it into the attack but no torpedo hit. It did get 2-3 hits on the CV but they all bounced off its armor (that's pretty sad when you think about it since this CV has a wooden flight deck) and my DD went down with flags flying. So, 3 torpedoes and 3 shell hits on this CV.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/24/2018 2:12:48 PM)

But there is a massive sub hunt going on to see if I can put another torpedo into her. I've got 5 subs scouring the area. On the down side, I'm at level 10 detection. On the upside, it's 100% moonlight and the Yorktown is moving very slowly. The allied TF you see to the Southwest is his main CV TF.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/24/2018 2:15:46 PM)

And, another day, another assault on Chungking. :) More dead Chinese and a drop in his fort level which will help future operations. It's tough going though. Each assault puts my troops at 90 percent disruption and 85+ fatigue so I have to sit around and recuperate for a week or more. But, progress is being made.

Bad day in the air over Burma. I lost 33 planes and did not shoot any down. :(

But, a sub near Pearl put a torpedo into the Pennsylvania. There was belt armor penetration so that will be sometime in the yards for that BB.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/24/2018 4:00:34 PM)

Another day and the Yorktown is one hex closer to a port. There are subs all over so we'll just have to see if I can get a good shot in.

As a back up plan, the long quiescent KB is about to refuel at Balikpapan. If I don't sink the Yorktown and Scott leaves it Meruke to repair a bit before trying to move it, I think a carrier raid might be in order along with a shorebombardment to see if we can put it down.

Not much other news. Scott's heavy's hit another airfield in china and I lost more planes on the ground since nothing really dents those big bomber boys.



GetAssista -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/24/2018 6:06:09 PM)

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ORIGINAL: John B.
And, another day, another assault on Chungking. :) More dead Chinese and a drop in his fort level which will help future operations. It's tough going though. Each assault puts my troops at 90 percent disruption and 85+ fatigue so I have to sit around and recuperate for a week or more. But, progress is being made.

Those kind of sieges against the enemy with relatively weak firepower are ideal for building up experience for your infantry units because squads are mostly disabled not destroyed. You will come out with dozens divisions in 90+ xp that will come handy in defense later. Just don't forget to rotate those with high disablements so that they not lose too many squads destroyed in the next assault. No biggie if the siege is prolonged for some weeks.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (5/24/2018 6:15:23 PM)

Get Assista,

Good point. I wait between assaults for the Disruption to be under 5 and the fatigue to be under 10. I was actually surprised in that last assault for me to get a (-) for disruption but I guess I missed a die roll someplace. Getting the forts down is most important towards cutting down my losses and, hopefully, shortening the turn around time for the next assault.



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