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Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/3/2021 1:34:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock quote: Baker Island bombarded for the first time, by only two destroyers, but they put in a solid show. Night Naval bombardment of Baker Island at 149,136 Allied Ships DD Balch DD Porter Those are no ordinary destroyers! [:D] I love all the different destroyers the Allies have...it is a definite advantage over Japan.[:)]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/3/2021 1:35:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: witpqs Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties. That is a court martial offense! [:@]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/3/2021 1:36:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BBfanboy quote: ORIGINAL: witpqs Send for repairs at Colombo to save PP penalties. The Japanese hold Columbo - were you meaning CT or were you suggesting it be sent for a quick sinking? [:D] I think Lowpe has time to get her to CT and repair enough of the damage to withdraw her before the due date. Thanks for the reminder on damage re withdrawing ships. Forgot that. Yep...Ramillies will try to run to Mombasa and then to Cape Town. Cross your fingers![;)]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/3/2021 1:45:00 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart On the leader ratings, everything I recall from hint sheets and old threads says "aggression" for ground leaders has no effect. Aggression does have an effect on the naval side and possibly on the air side. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. For the admin rating, I've split divisions into A, B and C and have clearly seen how leaders with higher admin un-disable devices more quickly, as expected. My guess is admin rating doesn't affect device upgrades. Good luck with the Ramillies. I'm not sure what else you could do other than a suicide run. Cheers, CB I don't really give any credence to the old leader charts...rather, I use the definitions of the values and think could it apply...so I do a lot of crazy things like selecting high naval skills on a dive bomber squadron commander for example. It is probably totally a waste of PPs, but it really increases my enjoyment of the game and gives me some tidbits to throw out in the AAR.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/3/2021 1:46:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Alfred quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe ...I was always curious if the admin rating of the leaders had any effect on upgrades in that unit, my play experience tells me that if they do it is very minimal in the range of a few percentage points.... The short answer is no re Admin rating. That rating does have an indirect impact on device recovery which in turn impacts on what gets returned to the pools when upgrading. Alfred Thanks Alfred...[&o]

CaptBeefheart -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/5/2021 8:26:46 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart On the leader ratings, everything I recall from hint sheets and old threads says "aggression" for ground leaders has no effect. Aggression does have an effect on the naval side and possibly on the air side. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. For the admin rating, I've split divisions into A, B and C and have clearly seen how leaders with higher admin un-disable devices more quickly, as expected. My guess is admin rating doesn't affect device upgrades. Good luck with the Ramillies. I'm not sure what else you could do other than a suicide run. Cheers, CB I don't really give any credence to the old leader charts...rather, I use the definitions of the values and think could it apply...so I do a lot of crazy things like selecting high naval skills on a dive bomber squadron commander for example. It is probably totally a waste of PPs, but it really increases my enjoyment of the game and gives me some tidbits to throw out in the AAR. Ah, giving the game a role playing flavor. That's cool. Cheers, CB

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/6/2021 2:28:19 PM)
July 20, 1942 China is certainly hanging on, if barely. Supplies, supplies, supplies. I need to look and see how what the HQ supply drain is....I could perhaps move extra HQ units into the wild where they wouldn't draw supplies or something else. Wonderful game inside a game the developers have created here. [image]local://upfiles/44178/0F5CA16C318F438DA5A1302D30329A0F.jpg[/image]

witpqs -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/6/2021 3:35:22 PM)
They would still draw supply unless they were WAY into the wild, just that more supply would be lost to movement friction. But moving them might reduce over stacking penalties where there are any.

RangerJoe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/6/2021 5:41:40 PM)
I wonder if moving them closer to India will help bring supplies from there. Even with a high wastage rate, it might help. That should probably have been done at the start of the game to help bring more supplies in from/through Burma.

Alfred -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/6/2021 8:05:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe ...I need to look and see how what the HQ supply drain is....I could perhaps move extra HQ units into the wild where they wouldn't draw supplies or something else... No, that won't accomplish anything. All HQs are not created equal when it comes to attracting the hidden extra supply demand. In practice only a Command HQ will attract the extra supply demand. Then only if located at a base assigned to it. They have zilch effect if located outside of a base. China starts off with only a single Command HQ, which is static, hence not mobile. Not till 1943 do any further Command HQs arrive in theatre, and they don't have any bases assigned to them. All the Chinese Corps HQs have the standard LCU supply demand, which in their case is not that much anyway. As a LCU, those Corps HQs, if located out in the field, will be fed supply from any relevant base whereas if located at a base they are fed only from that base's supply depot. Bringing into China non Chinese LCUs simply exacerbates the existing structural supply difficulties. Expecting those units to both take replacements and upgrade devices adds to the supply difficulties. Alfred

RangerJoe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/6/2021 8:29:58 PM)
Thank you, Alfred.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/7/2021 3:00:52 PM)
July 21, 1942 Switching over to destroyers for the heavy lifting now on the Baker Island thrust...going to move North Carolina to nail something else I think or simply to perform shakedown cruises. In other news, almost all of our slow battleships are fully upgraded for the date, and also have finished their shakedown cruises and have max experience so they might be employed. However, I really fear putting them to use now, knowing how powerful they can be in late 43 and 44 with so much more support. For the naval invasion bombardment support, I haven't decided what my bombardment task forces will look like yet or even the timing. I feel good just building the dot bases and bypassing for now rather than pulling the trigger and putting at risk a lot assets. [image]local://upfiles/44178/9B807148723A49AB9E66F4271EA51897.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/7/2021 3:05:49 PM)
Note the good combat value, the lack of a supply malus...got to be discouraging for Japan. Ground combat at 81,41 (near Ankang) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 17006 troops, 141 guns, 464 vehicles, Assault Value = 627 Defending force 30406 troops, 69 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1012 Japanese adjusted assault: 501 Allied adjusted defense: 2539 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 5 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 241 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 75 (2 destroyed, 73 disabled) Allied ground losses: 547 casualties reported Squads: 6 destroyed, 38 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 9th Tank Regiment 15th Tank Regiment 23rd Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 15th Division 13th Tank Regiment 11th Tank Regiment 51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion Defending units: 35th Chinese Corps 9th Chinese Corps 57th Chinese Corps [image]local://upfiles/44178/861DBDF6924742D08065E8EEEE674064.jpg[/image]

ny59giants -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/7/2021 3:25:06 PM)
quote: For the naval invasion bombardment support, I haven't decided what my bombardment task forces will look like yet or even the timing. I tend to put those old, slow BBs in the Amphib TF to fire while unloading as it usually takes many phases to do so and they soak up any CD or FA gun hits in '42 and '43 before you get APA/AKAs. Since you will probably have to place those precious few APs to use, placing the old BBs nearby makes sense to me. Make sure you have a LCU with Naval Support for each invasion.

mind_messing -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/7/2021 4:34:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe July 21, 1942 Switching over to destroyers for the heavy lifting now on the Baker Island thrust...going to move North Carolina to nail something else I think or simply to perform shakedown cruises. In other news, almost all of our slow battleships are fully upgraded for the date, and also have finished their shakedown cruises and have max experience so they might be employed. However, I really fear putting them to use now, knowing how powerful they can be in late 43 and 44 with so much more support. For the naval invasion bombardment support, I haven't decided what my bombardment task forces will look like yet or even the timing. I feel good just building the dot bases and bypassing for now rather than pulling the trigger and putting at risk a lot assets. I would urge some caution, as the battleships are a challenging asset to manage at this point in the game given how they guzzle fuel, and even more so given the need to depend on tenders this far from a major port. I think they need to be able to make a bombardment run and get back under friendly CAP before the air phase, elsewise it's a field day for the Betty/Nell. That said, you should be alright for this corner of the map, at least for Canton and Baker, as it's probably far too far for any IJ land based air to fly. Far better to stick with the destroyers and cruisers that you can use more regularly and more economically for the day-to-day work, from a practical standpoint. I've had some success by simply plastering bases using a whole load of destroyers, which has the advantage of being a quick run in and out as well as fairly easy on the logistics train. I've had issues with battleships soaking the supply and OPS points from AKE's/smaller ports and making rearming other ships a real bottleneck, which is exactly what you don't want when you're running a campaign from a small port and a load of tenders. Leaning on the destroyers also gives you the option of leaning of the AD class ships a lot more - there's quite a few of them so you can take a few more risks with them than you would with other ships and inch forward your power projection that way...

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/11/2021 8:45:31 PM)
July 22, 1942 A good fight on a road in China... [image]local://upfiles/44178/3E873077AFB344FEB7682EBC139D94D9.jpg[/image]

RangerJoe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/11/2021 11:05:56 PM)
You have good roadblocks, now if you can just keep the supplies flowing . . .

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 1:44:22 PM)
July 24, 1942 China...we are leaking a bit...but holding. The big hit will be another armored push up from the Canton area with full armored divisions I bet. [image]local://upfiles/44178/392557066E2846DD86C38A1430C1111F.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 2:07:49 PM)
Baker and Canton and Gilberts Japan has unique units that can make bypassed bases dangerous...like Rufes, flying boats, type 88 mines and Iboats. Our three launching bases have at least gotten to level 1 ports and now we can begin unloading bulldozers...Malden & Fanning. Christmas is almost fully built out. Overall I am working at understanding the capabilities of Allied shipping to get the units to the front and working. We are using all destroyers to keep up the bombardments, and yesterdays on Baker showed Nells so Japan is flying Nells for search out of a size 1 runway...something I wouldn't do but it does give him good search and is less expensive than flying boats. [image]local://upfiles/44178/537B5A190410431280D9A3389194554D.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 2:20:45 PM)
We are getting enough supply up here for the troops, but not enough to get the bases past 20. I could fly some in to help with runway building, but haven't yet as all the good transports go to India. I could start using bombers, the Hudsons and probably will. This is slow burner advance. I haven't really spent a lot of time optimizing here. [image]local://upfiles/44178/EE5A9BD0876C42DABB258CFDB5F76015.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 2:23:14 PM)
A long way to Kal... [image]local://upfiles/44178/FEB8BB6D678143599404442763C7E363.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 2:25:14 PM)
Flood damage was over 60 yesterday...came down a bit today. Hard to see this ship making it all the way to Mombasa...but we will try. [image]local://upfiles/44178/00662FD5B6164FEC930D6878CDCAB883.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 2:49:14 PM)
Definite backwater area currently given Japan's lack of grabbing bases...will start our push here following my overall strategy of pushing along the entire Japanese perimeter but with the hammer blow coming at Marcus and Marianas. [image]local://upfiles/44178/A6566DC66B0B4EB0A2C37A0E2030622D.jpg[/image]

BBfanboy -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 5:23:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe We are getting enough supply up here for the troops, but not enough to get the bases past 20. I could fly some in to help with runway building, but haven't yet as all the good transports go to India. I could start using bombers, the Hudsons and probably will. This is slow burner advance. I haven't really spent a lot of time optimizing here. [image]local://upfiles/44178/EE5A9BD0876C42DABB258CFDB5F76015.jpg[/image] Anecdotally, I found that when I brought in a convoy of supply to Port Augusta and set the supply spinners at Oodnadata or Alice Springs to max draw, at least part of the supply went on the direct rail line to those bases. The supply ships came via Cape Town.

BBfanboy -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/15/2021 5:25:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Flood damage was over 60 yesterday...came down a bit today. Hard to see this ship making it all the way to Mombasa...but we will try. [image]local://upfiles/44178/00662FD5B6164FEC930D6878CDCAB883.jpg[/image] Allied damage control and an experienced crew - I give it at least 60% chance it will make it.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/17/2021 1:18:57 PM)
July 25th, 1942 Naval clash near Baker Island in the Pacific... [image]local://upfiles/44178/92EE8A7828D64C73B92E4338E3702BB8.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/17/2021 1:23:10 PM)
China...starting to crack. [image]local://upfiles/44178/18B22E442C624C0385BA14F4ED580A69.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/17/2021 1:42:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BBfanboy Anecdotally, I found that when I brought in a convoy of supply to Port Augusta and set the supply spinners at Oodnadata or Alice Springs to max draw, at least part of the supply went on the direct rail line to those bases. The supply ships came via Cape Town. No problem getting supply to Alice Springs just can't get enough north as priority is the troops in the field. I will start flying some up today.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/21/2021 12:47:04 PM)
July 26th, 1942 The Chinese lines are buckling, no supply, but our troops can still move and in an absolutely shocking maneuver manage at the very last minute to reinforce our line against two IJA division and save the day...and for now prevent a breakout. Not shown in this picture is all the small guerilla units moving all around the IJA frontal lines, infiltrating...therein lies the longer term possibility of holding this line. Additionally, wearing down and disrupting the IJA divisions in this inhospitable terrain, means a long time before they are combat ready again... [image]local://upfiles/44178/15766959877742C9987774C3ABE966F3.jpg[/image]

witpqs -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/21/2021 1:02:37 PM)
Good job! Pnce they clear a road for supply onto the plain there it's much more difficult to slow them down.

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