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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 11/22/2006 8:48:26 PM

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Sent in another Deliberate Attack on Singapore and got good results...my Engineers knocked down some forts and we inflicted more casualties that we took. The 21st Division should be on site in ~2 weeks should I need it for the final lunge...but it seems that my strategy of heavy bombing and judicious attacks is working fairly well...the only thing that has really hurt has been the repeated shock attacks for crossing the causeway into the place.

I believe that I will be able to use a couple of Divisions to take Java and let the rest recover for the assault on W Aus.

The PI units are gaining booku xp by sieging the Americans in Bataan. These Units are going to form my SAA garrison forces and as such are not going to be needed for some time.

CHINA

I am rethinking my basic strategy here.

The placement of Chinese LCU's in the numerous wooded hexes makes multiple penetrations and a front wide advance extremely difficult to accomplish. I do believe that the other goal of forcing the Chinese into a high optempo to depelte supplies is working...but it is also depleting my supplies at a time when a lack of resources and industrial expansion are also draining me.

Therefore I am going to consolodate and reposition with the new goal of clearing my rear areas once and for all. After that I may let the Chinese Theater decay into a stalemate...or I may try for a single breakthrough towards resource generating areas.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 11/24/2006 2:28:06 AM

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First real surface clash so far this game.

Results follow:

Round 1

Night Time Surface Combat, near Norfolk Island at 60,123

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami, Shell hits 1
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya, Shell hits 1
CA Kumano
DD Maikaze, Shell hits 7, on fire All 20mm AAA
DD Nowaki, Shell hits 3, on fire A couple of 6" hits
DD Arashi
DD Hagikaze, Shell hits 3

Allied Ships
CA Australia
CA Canberra, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Takes 4! Torpedoes and goes down like a drunken prom date...
CL Leander, Shell hits 4
CL Achilles, Shell hits 3
CL Perth, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CL Hobart, Shell hits 1
CL Adelaide, Shell hits 1
CL Marblehead, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Norfolk Island at 60,123

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami, Shell hits 1
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano, Shell hits 1
DD Maikaze, on fire
DD Nowaki, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Arashi, Shell hits 1
DD Hagikaze, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Australia
CA Canberra, and is sunk
CL Leander
CL Achilles, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Perth, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CL Hobart, Shell hits 1
CL Adelaide
CL Marblehead, on fire, heavy damage

I call this a Japanese win...post battle pucs to follow, but the number of torp hits more than makes up for the couple of DD's that I had badly damaged.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 11/24/2006 2:29:09 AM

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20mm tears these tin cans up......

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 11/24/2006 2:29:55 AM

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The rest of the fleet

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 12/1/2006 3:42:46 AM

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Sitrep 1/31/42

4TH FLEET

Still sending in as many reinforcements as PP's allow (which is not many). I have South Seas Detach and some NLF's prepping for the next set of objectives (Samoa and Fiji). Recon shows that neither of these targets has been heavily reinforced...and my recon will tip my hand.

Therefore I am tasking the Mobile Force with patroling for reinforcement convoys going to these places...hopefully we can ambush some American LCU's and also devastate the American AP fleet (which is weak at this time).

SE FLEET

Many reinforcements are arriving for this theater and are being hurried south. Buna and Dobadura have been taken and will be developed into small airfields capable of handling tactical air...coupled with long range naval aviation from Rabaul/Gasmata I believe that PM cannot be easily reinforced (and I will LRCAP it with Zeros from Buna in a few days to prevent airlifting reinforcements to it).

With PM in hand I can take Meraluke and Thursday Is. and seal off the northern route to Darwin. The route from Perth is covered by naval air on Timor. This means that W Aus is effectively cut off from the world (excepting a narrow dirt trail...). Couple this with the sealing of the convoy routes to Aus from the US and India with CV's and strategically placed bases and I do not think Australia can support a large army in Darwin.

SAA

Recon indicates many LCU's moving to reinforce Darwin. Due to manuveurs in other theaters I think that I can trap these elite Divisions in an attritional battle where their lack of support will doom them. This is good for my defense of the DEI as it will make the Darwin-->Timor route untenable for a long time.

Today we launched a Deliberate attack on Singapore and achieved 3-1 odds (fort 3...now 2). I think this indicates that supplies are now critical there and I have ordered an immediate follow up attack (Deliberate by the Infantry, Shock by the Armor). With a spot of luck this one will be 4-1 and win outright....even without this, it is obvious that the game there is up and I can push hard now and win in a few days. My Divisions are in reasonably good shape after the siege (running from 75-85% I'd say) and will be fully ready to launch mop up operations on Java and the rest of the DEI as soon as Singers falls. The amphibious units are already in place to launch the invasions.

Resource levels in the Home Islands are becoming worrisome...I need to wrap up the DEI in a month or two at most.

PI

A Deliberate attack here today cost us heavily...I will resume my seige tactics here for now.

BAA

Three Divisions are now entering the Theater...Rangoon should fall in 3-4 days and from there it's North to Mandalay and, perhaps, E India.

CHINA

Walter is finally moving to isolate my penetrations...therefore I am withdrawing back to a stable front and massing my forces for a decicive breakthrough at some single point on the line. This point will have to be on a rail line for supply movement and will likely be in the direction of Changsa. I estimate 3 months before I am ready to kick this opffensive off.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 12/3/2006 1:32:38 AM

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Singapore falls 01/31/42.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 12/12/2006 4:36:49 AM

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Update 2/2/42

4TH FLEET

Submarines in the channels from Panama have detected a large convoy with multiple AP's and a strong air combat group (3 CV's reported...see attached screen shot).

I am betting that this is the 2nd Marines and, based on where they are now, their destination has to be SOPAC.

This is just what I have been waiting for...the KB has been patrolling the open convoy routes to SOPAC looking to ambush some reinforcements. These troops cannot be allowed to land...my forces in 4TH FLEET are incapable of taking on a Marine Division in a stand up fight.

Based on other intel (from Mavisis and from a naval bombardament) I believe that Palmyra has received reinforcements...the number of troops and the lack of CD fire leans me towards the belief that an RCT has made its home there. This officially strikes Palmyra from my target list for other than harassment raids.

SE FLEET

We continue in our preparations to take PM. Zeros are now on LRCAP over the base to intercept any airborne reinforcements and the port is well within the Betty "death zone" so sea-borne reinforcements are probably out as well.

Once we take PM I am going to go for Thursday Is. as well in order to cut off Darwin from the Northern resupply route.

SAA

Since I have decided that India is not in SAA's area of ops, my target list has been substantially reduced. The remainder of the DEI and the PI are doomed, obviously. More importantly I have detected a new division (I think) moving cross country towards Darwin (currently in Katherine).

If I can cut the northern and southern convoy routes to the area, these troops will have to be resupplied via a trail through the desert...while my own troops will have limitless resupply from the nearby DEI via ship.

In this light I have ordered the bombing of both Katherine and Darwin in order to slow the build up of supplies at Darwin (Katherine will have to rebuild the airfield every turn, leading to both the use of supplies there, and the demand for a large stockpile there as well...hopefully this will hurt Darwin's levels).

BAA

Now moving into Burma in strength...I am currently outflanking the Bde. in Rangoon so that I can completely destroy them when I take the city.

CHINA

Mess

PLANS

I forsee this game moving in the direction of a Solomons campaign. The Allies will have trouble attacking my barrier until they get superior carrier aircraft so I see the focus moving to where he can use LBA.

In order to stop that I am attempting to completely cut his links to Oz by a combination of Betty bases and aggresive CV/CVL/CVE/CS/AV patrols in both the Indian and S Pacific theaters.

We will see how this works.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 12/12/2006 4:37:40 AM

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CV's spotted on the move

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 12/26/2006 6:50:15 PM

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2/13/42

My invasion convoy to Port Moresby was unpleasantly surprised by some A-24's and A-20's operating from PM.

losses are a CL heavily damaged from 2x1000# bombs and an AP moderately damaged by 1x1000# bomb.

Air Forces based at Rabaul have been ordered to attack the airfield at low altitude.

These Allied aircraft were moved in in the last day or so according to recon, so I cannot help but worry that this might finally be a target that the Allies are going to fight over. With that in mind, the following orders have been issued...the 2 light SCTF's that were escorting the convoy have been ordered to bombard in advance of the landings (hopefully killing the American bombers) and a heavy SCTF has been ordered up to cover the invasion TF's.

Airfields at Buna and Dobadura are insufficiently developed to handle attack aircraft at this time, but a flight of Mavises based in Dobadura have failed to detect enemy activity in the Coral Sea.

In other news

Multi-Divisional landings on Java are going in within the week. Dutch resistance is expected to be stiff, but we have them by the balls...we will use superior mobility and striking power to divide the island into two halves...Batavia and Soerbaja...and crush each piece in turn.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 12/27/2006 11:29:52 PM

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The bombardament of Port Moresby seems to have done the trick...75 runway hits, 5 destroyed AC (plus an indeterminant number of damaged ones) and not a Dauntless in sight all day.

My invasion forces will begin debarkation tomorrow under the cover of 6 cruisers in 3 TF's (4 light, 2 armored) plus escorts. This should be enough to forestall any interference from the surviving ANZAC cruisers, though if any of the Asiatic fleet or Force Z shows up it could be a different story. Against this I have been scouring the Coral Sea with search AC and have 3 Daitai of Betties on alert.

More of a worry would be the arrival of American CV's.

I have already confirmed the presence of American CV's escorting a (presumed) troop convoy moving from Panama to SOPAC or Australia and they have either slipped the net I have in the south pacific or have not yet reached it (which is more likely at a speed of 2 or 4 hexes per day). If this represents only a single CarDiv (which I doubt) then that would leave 2 or 3 CV's unaccounted for.

Against this I have 4 Chutai (Shotai? 9 AC each) of Zeros flying LRCAP over PM...they are currently shooting down Dakotas that are running the gauntlet, but would be equally helpful against a carrier raid of the landing zone.

All in all this is something of a shoestring operation and probably represents the farthest that SEFLT can push without building up it's perimeter airfields for the next push (or getting some carrier air).

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 1/6/2007 7:43:41 PM

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Update 2/20/42

4TH FLEET

We seized Savaii today as a base of operations against Pago Pago. Once Pago is taken we can move towards Fiji and the minor islands of the South Pacific and complete the blockade of Aus in the East.

I am contemplating a slightly off the wall plan to patrol these waters. I am forming up several groups of AV's (2 per group) and light surface escort with their floatplanes set to 50% Naval attack. The theory is to give me the ability to patrol larger areas of ocean while keeping my CV's concentrated and less vulnerable. The only real problem I can see with this plan is that these AV groups are slow and defenseless against air attacks and might get eaten up by hit and run raids by American CV's

SE FLEET

Port Moresby is being built into the major airfield in the area alongside Rabaul. In order to provide some satallite fields and further seal off W Aus from resupply I am also planning on seizing Thursday Is.

SAA

Things are well in hand on Java with 4 Divisions ashore, more on the way, and massive amounts of Arty and Armor in support. The island garrisons based on Batavia and Soerbaja have been seperated allowing me to tackle them one at a time. Soerbaja will be first, but I have also landed a Division at Merak to keep the forces at Batavia pinned down.

Some IDIOT in the Army has decided to make all the bases in Malaya and Sumatra BAA instead of SAA. The amount of political effort that IGHQ is having to put forth to fix this snafu means that many other vital tasks are not getting done. We can change over about a base every day (though there needs to be a ground unit from SAA present in the base to do it, which makes it even harder) so I estimate that this is costing me 2 weeks worth of PP's

BAA

BAA's combat st4renth consists of 2 full strength Divisions and one Division at 1/3 strength. Due to this progress in BAA is very slow and I anticipate the need to transfer SAA troops to this comand as soon as the Java and W Aus ops are complete.

CHINA

The large Chinese salient in the south has been mostly withdrawn (helped along by the IJA). This is allowing me to transfer units to the north where the real battle is going on. The IJA has driven a large salient into Chinese lines at Homan. This intrusion is well secured with Japanese units covering all the flanks and moving behind to cut supply lines. The net result is that I have surrounded Homan with it's appx 6 Corps of troops and have pinned down another dozen Corps in the perimeter battles.

The goal here is to destroy a large number of Chinese troops in a Cauldron Battle and to also force a high operations tempo on as many Chinese units as possible in order to drive up logistical demands accross the theater.

While progress may not resemble the sweping moves of a Blitzkrieg, I think that the result will be logistical collapse followed by rapid Japanese gains. The destruction off large amounts of in-unit supply in the south coupled with the demoralizing impact of crushing defeats there (I have routed about 10 Corps worth of troops at Nanning) means that the Chinese are already under enormous pressure...hopefully I can use that to my advantage and break them fully here.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 1/17/2007 3:30:53 AM

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So yesterday my CV's on patrol in the S Pacific spotted a lone Amerrican AK at the edge of their search range. Knowing full well that a large troop convoy escorted by CV's had been spotted com,ing S from Panama, I imidiately sent in the KB and had their tanker support withdraw to the North.

This turn I found 3 convoys of AK's, appx 30 ships total, carrying and RCT, a Combat Engineer Rgt, and a Field Arty Rgt and destroyed them all.

The problem is as follows.

1: No American CV's were with this group.

2: The 2nd Marine Division was not with this group. The 2nd Marines are a prime unit for early seaborne movement towards SOPAC due to the fact that I have nothing at all in either 4TH FLT or SE FLT that can take them on and win...any island that they choose to defend will likely not be conquered by me.

This leaves me in something of a quandry. See the picture below...

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 1/17/2007 3:31:56 AM

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As you can see this action was very far south...this leads to the second problem.

See this picture...

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 1/17/2007 3:44:34 AM

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That is my invasion of Pago Pago...the South Seas Detachment is appx 4 days from landing.

The quandry is the missing US CV's and 2nd Marines.

If they are headed for Pago (and thus slipped to the north of the KB) they are in a good position to thwart my landing, and smash a lot of BB's, CA's and AP's.

It is entirely possible that these forces are just south of today's encounter and are also trying to slip through to Oz...this is actually more likely I think.

Also note the AV units I have near Pago...there are 3 AV's and 3 PC's here in two TF's (expanded to 3 TF's this turn). These units can be used to push a screen line out from Pago oriented SE...and have been. This will give me perhaps a days worth of warning if the Americans should attack.

I have 2 options.

1: continue to drive the KB south into the (possible) remainder of the American transport groups.

2: move the KB back to Pago to provide close cover in case of an American counter-attack.

The "book" says that you should never subsume a strategic goal to a tactical one...and severing the SLOC from the US to Oz via taking Pago is a definate strategic goal (*the* goal of moving into the South Pac at all, in fact).

Putting this at risk in order to chase down a target that hasn't been spotted (though is likely to be there) would be a violation of this dictum.

It could be argued that the AV's provide enough early warning to allow me to sprint my CV's back in time...however this is clearly not the case. I can sprint back in time to hit the Americans AFTER they land most likely...but a Marine Division on Pago would destroy my strategic goal by disallowing an invasion of that place...also a two day sprint at this time would be a total of 2 days of sprinting plus at least 1-3 days of normal steaming for the KB...which would exhaust it's fuel reserves and leave me vulnerable to having my carriers and/ or my tankers (an equally important unit, BTW) sunk.

Therefore I have ordered the KB back to Pago after only a single days worth of attacks, despite the opportunity that lies in front of it...I simply have to keep in mind what the Americans CAN do as opposed to what I think they WILL do...and work from that.

On the plus side I got 30ish AK's, an RCT, a Cbt Eng Rgt, and a Field Arty Rgt.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 1/17/2007 4:14:18 AM

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Therefore I have ordered the KB back to Pago after only a single days worth of attacks, despite the opportunity that lies in front of it...I simply have to keep in mind what the Americans CAN do as opposed to what I think they WILL do...and work from that.

Seems like the right decision to me, though of course we could both be wrong.

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On the plus side I got 30ish AK's, an RCT, a Cbt Eng Rgt, and a Field Arty Rgt.

BANZAI!!!

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 2/5/2007 4:40:04 AM

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Been a while since my last post.

March 3, 1942.

4TH FLEET

Things are going well. the Samoan Islands have been conquered and we are now prepping for an attack on Fiji.

Lack of base forces and ground troops have limited my ability to take the core of islands just inside the Baker-->Canton-->Pago line. This is means that my outer line is extremely vulnerable to being pierced and having it's bases cut off from each other with no where to withdraw to. There is no real solution to this aside from transferring troops and planes to 4TH FLEET as quickly as possible. Unfortunately there is considerable demand for these very same assets elsewhere (SE FLEET in particular as well as the Army's SNAFU in Malaya) and progress is slow.

The KB is retiring to a central location within the 4TH FLEET area to attempt some maintenance and to conserve fuel. This brings up another issue...the area covered by 4TH FLEET is huge...far too vast for the KB to reach a trouble spot in a day or two (much less arrive with sufficient fuel to do anythng worthwhile). The answer is more troops to resist an initial invasion, more Betties to provide local defense, more Zeros to provide fighter cover, more construction troops to build bases up with, and MORE MORE MORE supplies to run all this.

I have knocked the Americans off balance...the presence of the KB helps to ensure that an assault through the central or south pacific would be dangerous for them...but I need to hurry up and reinforce this line at all costs.

SE FLEET

Almost all of the objectives have been reached. Thursday Island is captured, cutting NW Oz off from it's SLOC's. Lunga is occupied and Nomea is sitting all by itself as an outpost of NZ. With the south pacific covered I am going to extend the reach of SE FLEET all the way down to Noumea and Norfolk Island. This will ensure the maximum possible length of retreat when I have to start trading space for time.

SAA

Java is nearly mine, with only Tjilitjap and Soerbaja remaining in Allied hands. Half the Dutch Army was captured in Batavia, and so there is that much less facing me when I attack Soerbaja.

Unfortunately Batavia was heavily damaged by the Dutch before they capitulated. All Dutch Engineers are to be executed upon capture if they were involved in demolition work. Palembang will be scoured clean before it is attacked.

BAA

Burma Area Army is deserately short on troops...especially air units. This is creating the situation where I am vulnerable to air attack by British bombers operating from E India. So far these raids have not targeted the oil fields at Rangoon or Mandalay...but it is probably only a matter of time.

CHINA

The attack against Homan has created a large pocket of troops there. I expect to wipe these out within a few weeks. Also continuous defeats and heavy air attacks have cost the Chinese heavily in supplies, and I hope in morale as well. If I maintain pressure here I believe I can punch through to Sian and deal a decicive blow.

NAA

No activity to report. I have begun garrisoning the bases along the Kuriles to ward off any potential American attacks...but there are few troops available (and none being transfered) and the work is slow.

HOME DEFENSE

ASW patrols and fighter cover against possible CV raids have been initiated, but the quality of crews and the density of aircraft make these efforts token at best.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 2/11/2007 9:01:13 PM

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Update 3/12/42

4TH FLEET

Preparations are still being made for the invasion of Fiji. The KB showed up at Baker Is, and drained away 13,000 tons of fuel oil in a mornig and STILL only managed to refill CARDIV1, leaving 2/3 of the fleet on emergency fuel reserves. Dispatching more fuel to this theater immediately.

We are finally starting to get some LCU reinforcements for 4TH FLEET. These are desperately needed as I am very thin at this time. The only thing preventing an Allied counter-attack are my Betties, and the KB.

SE FLEET

Now that we own Thursday Is. and Port Moresby it is time to begin securing all of those little dot bases between New Guinea and the Solomons. These will be used as seaplane bases to keep an eye on the Coral Sea. I am going to build Lunga up into a regional airbase before we make the jump down to the Santa Cruz Islands. This will allow local LBA cover for this move and also give me sufficient time to move ground reinforcements to the theater.

I am expecting the Allied counter-attack to be along either New Zealand-->New Caladonia-->Santa Cruz-->the Solomons or Palmyra-->Canton/ Baker-->Kwajalein. Both of these routes are being reinforced.

SAA

I conquered Soerbaja and the Dutch managed to torch EVERYTHING

. I have not ever taken a base and had all production destroyed by the defenders.

This is going to throw a serious crimp in my expansion plans. Without the supplies that Java would have produced the entire attack on Western Australia will be on a shoestring at best. This attack is still on the table, but I am now much more wary of getting caught in a battle of attrition against the 3 Aus Divisions that I have ID'd in Darwin and Katherine.

On the plus side, much of the industrial upgrading that was ordered in the Home Islands and elsewhere has now been completed, so I am getting an increased flow of supplies from the home factories being available for ops as opposed to being used to repair damaged facilities. Maybe it will all balance out in the end...maybe...

BAA

I need more troops in this theater. There are currently 3 Divisions assigned, and they have reached the limit of their reach at Mandalay. A severe shortage of aircraft and aviation support assigned to BAA is also allowing the British to conduct nuissance raids with light bombers with impunity.

The problem is, of course, dealing with the Army brass. They are most unreasonable about troop deployments, insisting that Manchuria and the Home Islands are the most important theaters. IDIOTS! We have a treaty with the USSR and the Americans will NEVER invade Nippon while the Combined Fleet rules the waves.

The result is that we have whole Divisions cooling their heels in Tokyo while the front lines are held by Battalions of naval personel and the advance in Burma grinds to a halt for want of offensive power.

CHINA

The battle lines are stable at this time...but that means that I have large numbers of Chinese troops trapped in Homan and Nanyang. Once these pockets are reduced, I will advance on Sian/ Yenan and crush the Chinese Northern flank.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 2/13/2007 6:47:30 AM

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I have large numbers of Chinese troops trapped in Homan and Nanyang. Once these pockets are reduced, I will advance on Sian/ Yenan and crush the Chinese Northern flank.

You really have chunks of Chinese surrounded and slowly starving? Good job General!!

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 2/21/2007 2:59:08 AM

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3/17/42

Homan Falls netting 2 Corps and an HQ

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 2/28/2007 5:27:04 AM

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Uh oh....looks like Walter may be commiting surface groups to the fight.

Has he drawn the proverbial "line in the sand"?

Or are these units merely in transit...

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 3/4/2007 5:44:03 AM

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Nice work at Bataan

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 4/5/2007 6:50:56 AM

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So, I have been tracking these two TF's for several days. Numerous cruisers have been spotted in them which makes them either surface combat or CV TF's...due to the way in which they hovering just outside the range of the KB makes me think they are the US carriers (the KB has been spotted and the Zuikaku ID'ed by B-17's from Johnston...so he knows what and where I am).

The real question is why is Walter keeping his CV's so close to the KB?

Clearly he has to have all of them grouped, or there would not be enough combat power to run the risk...maybe he thinks I haven't spotted them yet (no spotting messages have popped up yet...the TF's are simply displayed on the orders screen)...

In any event...they are now outside air support range of Midway and are within Betty range of Wake (Wake is size 3 and so the Betties are armed only with bombs...but there's 100 of them).

We'll see how it goes.

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RE: Jolly Pillager v. wneumann (Japanese side) - 4/12/2007 6:49:56 AM

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Update 4/11/42

4TH FLEET

Fiji and Tonga have been captured. With this the Bismark Barrier is basically complete in territory. Now I just need to get reinforcements out there to stifen the line before the expected American counter-attacks. I believe that I will have until 1943 for this work to be completed. Until such time as sufficient LBA is in place to repel an attack, I will need to keep the KB on station as a mobile counter-attack force.

SE FLEET

All Offensive operations have come to a halt due to lack of troops. Plans are to run down Luganville--->Efate--->Nomea--->Norfolk Is.

SAA

The invasion of NW Aus is on, Broome and Derby have been taken, and my crack Divisions (many have xp in the 90's after Java) should be able to cut off Darwin and take it. Without supplies moving to the Allies, it will be just a matter of time.

Mop up operations are commencing in the Phillipines and the East Indies. The goal is to set up naval bases from which smaller CV's can harrass enemy shipping to Perth.

BAA

NEED TROOPS!

Only 3 Divisions areassigned to this theater and they have reached the limit of their advance. Aviation support is also lacking, preventing me from basing large numbers of army aircraft here. This is where the British will counter attack into, and I need more at the front to stop them.

CHINA

The attack against North China is going well with the capture of some 40k Chinese today at Nanyang (which pockets the survivors of Homan neatly). The last bastion is Sian where 10 LCU's are reported...once I crush this, my lines against southern China will be dramatically shorter, allowing me to carve off sections of front and push the Chinese back towards Chunking.

Map next post.

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