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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:44:38 PM)

Sorry for the delay in reporting. Here is the news. Nothing much to see here right?

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:45:11 PM)

Wrong! Invasion HI!!! It's on.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:46:17 PM)

After a relentless bombardment by air and see it looks as if the Allies have put 6 divisions ashore in one turn. Pretty impressive. Not much happened other than the paradrop by a regiment that was basically wiped out.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:46:36 PM)

Rapid Rail Transit time with the Bullet Trains in Japan!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:50:07 PM)

You got that right! More to follow



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:51:58 PM)

The next day the Kamis went in. This is the day that they've been waiting for and this was the day of their death. My continuing frustration with Kamis came out again and fighter sweeps did not go in and Kamis picked CVs (can't really blame them on that one). Many dead Japanese and no ships hit.

The one bright spot here is that Scott's sweeps also did not go in so he lost a number of bombers over Shiminoseki.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:54:35 PM)

Also, MTBs were created at Shiminoski and they went in and took out a few allied ships. No reported troop loss but a few ships. All of the MTBs were sunk but they died smiling.

SSXs were created and sunk. Pretty useless.

The conveyor belt of US shore bombardment continued. Shelling by 8-9 BBs, just like last turn. My CD fort does some damage to a few but not much.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 7:56:08 PM)

The allies attack and reduce the fort level by one down to 5.

Japanese reinforcements are delayed by a paradrop on the railroad from Tokyo to Shiminoseki. MY transport aircraft start airlifting a regiment into the battle.



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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:04:13 PM)

And the next day. More BBs bombard the target. Japan stopped expending planes over the target hex so the allies can bomb at will, but AA units are headed there. This is the crucial turn if Scott can push me out of the hex he'll have essentially split Japan in two.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:05:28 PM)

The last of my MTB reserves go in. One of them does very well. But, at the end of the day, all but two are sunk. I don't bother creating more SSXs.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:08:13 PM)

I send the CVS out near Tokyo in the hopes of luring Scott's CV planes into a CAP trap but he has moved too far away. And, one of Scott's subs puts two torpedoes into one of the CVS. It's not in bad shape and has a shot at making it back into port. I move most of my DDs to Osaka (middle circle) so that next turn they can raid the invasion fleets.

Right circle was a duel between the CD and a CLAA plus two DDs. All three ships may have gone down as they took punishing damage.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:08:59 PM)

Sorry, left circle was the CD duel.

A sub near Manila did put a torpedo into a British CV but no real damage was reported.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:09:57 PM)

And the ground attack? Scott reduced the fort level down to 4 (this is bad for bombardment purposes as I"m in clear terrain). But, the hex held and the allies got a punch in the nose.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:16:11 PM)

Here are my divisions that are now at Shiminoseki. They are unpacking so my defensive strength is growing and now I'm shipping in lots of heavy guns and AA. I may hold off on sending other divisions for now because Scott can hit me with another blow.

Scott thinks it's not terribly realistic for divisions to sit on trains for a year or so waiting for an invasion so that they can move off right away. I agree with him to a point. I don't know the penalty for being in strat mode but it does not seem to affect morale or disruption. And, given that they don't move the actual invasion turn I don't think it's too gamey to leave them in strat mode. Plus, when you factor in unpacking time, a division moving from Tokyo to Shiminoseki takes 6 days to be completely combat ready. Still, if anyone has thoughts on this I'm curious. Also, there does not seem to be a limit on railcap.

Scott is worried that I'll push him into the sea but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I'm so disrupted by his constant BB bombardment and air bombing that I would be foolish to attack. But, I do want to move in enough artillery to attrit his forces down.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/4/2020 8:43:04 PM)

It depends upon the type of unit. Having units packed up and ready to load on rail cars is not gamey. Having tanks loaded on flatbed cars waiting to move along with other equipment loaded on rail cars waiting to move is game. Having troops in passenger cars for a year can be messy since they did not have septic tanks. However, with the manpower available to load the rail cars and knowing that you can load vehicles relatively quickly on rail cars is a fact especially considering that as soon as the invasion occurs or even any invasion force seen at sea, it would behoove the enemy High Command to issue orders to load. Once the invasion site is known, the trains would be moving and maybe even before then to the general area.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/5/2020 2:13:11 PM)

Yeah, its hard to be precise with strat mode. combat mode means you're spread out somewhere in the 45 mile hex and need to be gathered (packing time) to get into strat mode. Given that you don't actually move on the turn of the invasion (unless you guess the exact day and place) I figure having the unit in strat mode means its kept in garrison close to the rail yard and spends the invasion day loading so it can move out the next day. And, then it still has to unpack when it gets there. I guess the game really doesn't take into account allied air interdiction of the rail lines that would slow things down or rail cap, but I moved about five divisions to the invasion site in three days so I think that's not some wild amount.

In any event, waiting for the next turn.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/7/2020 1:52:32 PM)

March 7th was not a good turn for allied naval airpower. I sent some DDs on a high speed night raid to Shiminoseki and they sank a couple of DDs and lost one of their own. But, during the day as they rode at anchor they attracted the attention of a CV TF that sent several waves of planes over Kobe. The cost was one IJN DD and about 200 TBF, SBDs, and Hellcats. A very good trade (sort of offsets the Kamikaze disappointment from a few turns ago).

21 BBs bombarded Shiminoski this turn and every turn. They rearm at Fusan and make the two hex trip for the bombardment. Not too much I can do about that.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/7/2020 6:57:11 PM)

So you each lose 2 DDs but he loses a lot more aircraft. That is a definitive win for you that day.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/8/2020 12:14:20 PM)

Well, on the military front it was a decent day with my AA at Shimonoseki taking out a number of dive bombers and allied losses based on a couple of small attacks that he made. But, the civilians might not think so. Scott launched a fire raid at Fukokua and has started to scorch Japan. Putting air assets in Kyushu is just an invitation for Scott to destroy my fighter arm but let's see if I can pounce one of these days if he gets careless with sweeps.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/8/2020 3:39:39 PM)

Nice AAA losses. Maybe the Japanese civilians would get some fresh meat . . .



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/8/2020 9:42:59 PM)

It's hard to tell if weather kept Scott from bombing shiminoski or the flak losses. But, it helps my troops in that they are "only" bombarded by 21 BBs and then not also subject to bombing from the air. Interestingly, it's been my 88 mm flak and 75 mm artillery that seems to be getting the most hits on his landing ships.

Bad but not unexpected turn for the Empire of Japan. Scott sank a lot of AK/AKLs languishing in port with no fuel up in northern Japan and also plastered Nagasaki. I'm not defending either one but concentrating things in Central Japan for as long as I can. Right now Scott can't quite reach Kobe with anything in normal range except his 1A corsairs and those are almost gone.

I lost 28 squads and Scott lost 9 squads in my bombardment at Shiminoseki which I think is a Japanese victory. My 28 squads is 4.5 VP and his 9 is 3 VP and 4.5 is less than 2x3.5. The Emperor was pleased even though it's a trifle.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/10/2020 11:40:49 PM)

Another day and more strat bombing. this time Scott wiped out a large NK-45 engine factory. I have 201 Frank KI-84rs stockpiled so I'm going to scale back their production to conserve the 45 engine production. I have 119 of them stockpiled but they seem to be critical to Japanese fighter defense. As Scott shuts down one factory area I redeploy the defensive resources to another thus slowly concentrating.

21 more BBs bombarded me at Shiminoseki. I probably sank an AK and a couple of landing ships with return fire from the shore.
I do have 741 engineers there trying to get ahead of the damage so I can start building my fort level back up but so far that is making limited progress. I'm not sure if I'll ever catch up with his entire BB force bombarding me every turn. I guess the only bright spot is that it's tying down his BBs and it makes it hard for him to do another invasion.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/10/2020 11:55:38 PM)

Too bad your mini subs don't work better.[:@]

You probably can't lay mines either.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/11/2020 12:57:19 PM)

I can't. :( minelayers can't make it in there and I can't lay mines from the air because it's not an enemy base. I've also tried night air attacks and while allied AA was very effective at shooting down my planes I never got a single hit. It's just not cost effective. Basically he has a free run with BBs until the end of the war.

So far the troops are holding up well, they have high disruption but their morale remains at around 95 and I do still have level 4 forts. He's hemmed in for now. It will be interesting to see if he tries another invasion.



GetAssista -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/11/2020 10:30:45 PM)


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ORIGINAL: John B.
Another day and more strat bombing. this time Scott wiped out a large NK-45 engine factory. I have 201 Frank KI-84rs stockpiled so I'm going to scale back their production to conserve the 45 engine production. I have 119 of them stockpiled but they seem to be critical to Japanese fighter defense. As Scott shuts down one factory area I redeploy the defensive resources to another thus slowly concentrating.

Woah, alarm! Those are very thin stocks of the most important Japanese engine [&:] And thin stocks of one of the best army fighters. Both can run out in a week of air fighting. What are your fighter pools?



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/12/2020 3:02:11 PM)

Another day and not a bad turn in the air for the Empire of Japan given that we out shot the allies on a pretty wide basis. But, as we shall see, Scott was able to plaster another Japanese city.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/12/2020 3:04:47 PM)

Here are the actual plane losses. Sadly, almost none of the heavies were shot down. Scott did massive everything that can fly sweeps over Kobe and bombed the snot out of Osaka. His anti airfield mission at Osaka went in before the sweeps but probably saved a number of his heavies from being shot down.

I did pick up about 60 bonus planes from an anti-shipping strike that went over Kobe again. You have to be careful when you set your ranges since they were going after an SC TF.

I did notice a number of instances of my pilots ramming enemy bombers. At least six this turn. Not sure I like that but I don't think I can control it.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/12/2020 3:05:47 PM)

But, here is what happened to Osaka. Given the damage to the airfield I pulled my fighter defenses out and reinforced other non-bombed locations.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/12/2020 3:08:17 PM)

One thing that is a bit annoying is that I can't prevent my troops from bombarding Scott at the Shiminoseki beachhead if he lands more troops. So, I get bombardment results like this that I can't stop and which are very damaging to me. On the plus side, He has been taking heavy losses in the troops he has been landing. All told this turn, I lost 203 squads/devices to his BB bombardment and my own bombardment and Scott lost 190 squads/devices to his landing stuff through the hail of shellfire I can put into the way of his landing craft.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (9/12/2020 3:16:10 PM)


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ORIGINAL: GetAssista


quote:

ORIGINAL: John B.
Another day and more strat bombing. this time Scott wiped out a large NK-45 engine factory. I have 201 Frank KI-84rs stockpiled so I'm going to scale back their production to conserve the 45 engine production. I have 119 of them stockpiled but they seem to be critical to Japanese fighter defense. As Scott shuts down one factory area I redeploy the defensive resources to another thus slowly concentrating.

Woah, alarm! Those are very thin stocks of the most important Japanese engine [&:] And thin stocks of one of the best army fighters. Both can run out in a week of air fighting. What are your fighter pools?

Get Assista, Well, I was actually happy to have the 84rs at above 200 in the pool for the first time in the game but that did not last more than a turn. :) Here is the latest pool info. I've been living hand to mouth on fighter production for a long time and the increases have basically only kept pace with losses and bombing. Since this is my first time as the Emperor I may have saved up too much supply (I'm still at 1,800,000 or so saved up) as opposed to converting into more aircraft production more quickly. But I really don't know. Given that Scott can sweep with godawful numbers of fighters to clear the way for his bombers, I've focused fighter and AA defense on a few cities and I'm basically letting him bomb elsewhere for free.



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