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RE: CV Zuikaku reported hit .. - 6/23/2009 3:14:21 PM

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i'll have to think that over, sounds like a damn good idea!!

The general in command of the Burma offensive, and the Imperial Guards div is probably trying to outmanouvre
the enemy at Myitkyina with a flanking move, i sure hope�he didn't�miscalculate the movement of�his men in doing so..

it could also be that the brits turned a road sign into one of the trails on their retreat�and my troops didn't bother checking this on the map..
as long as they wont be stuck for the rest of the war (who knows what roadsigns they might encounter next

) i can live with it.

My Burma assault will halt at Myitkyina anyways, awaiting the Chinese entering�Burma from�the trails and maybe do some airbattles so that the
RAF is a bit more exhausted once my landing on Indian mainland occurs!!��

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bush wanderers.. - 6/29/2009 10:54:22 PM

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The japanese army has taken Myitkyina by paralanding!

since all units with AV went down the track
(except for a 150 AV unit making a rush north from Mandalay to stabilize the front..)
i had 2 HQ units and 1 artillery unit marching towards the place,
they scared the hell out of the Brittish garrison so it was empty when they marched in.
The para landing went out from Rangoon, where the 1st para reg. is regaining strength for a landing in�Western India by some Tina's

The Units on the Trails will very likely be heading North for the Defence of India, When KB reaches Borneo my main transport force will be leaving Singapore with rested troops for Trivandium. KB is�now 2 days out of Amboina.�

There are still 3 arm. units on the way towards Singers
as well as a Air HQ (which is atm 3 days out of the�Malayan coastline)
My Burma Army will try to make a landing in Pakhoi, to make a retreat path for the Burma HQ, which is isolated in the Jungle,
looking at the political points needed to spend for a Chinese HQ i'm very tempted to let the Burma HQ starve to death....

at least the men will have a example of what happens with total failures
Landing at Pakhoi isn't without danger, since Hanoi will be besieged pretty soon, lowering its garrison won't be without risk,
hence why i'm really considering to buy another HQ unit out

Buying one from Manchuko or HI would take to long and miss the start of the
Indian invasion, whilst one of the 3 HQ's at Hongkong can easily missed!
(carried to Singers by the heavy escorts to make up for some of the time lost in trying to lift the Burma HQ out by fast transport)

In Manchuko, HI and around Yenen�there are another 3 arm. units who will be displaced to India over time, but they'll miss out on the initial push,
i'd say they will be making a start�on the offensive against eastern India upon arrival, this is afterall where a lot of Burmese soldiers will be popping out of the forest in not to long a time.

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RE: bush wanderers.. - 7/8/2009 11:58:16 PM

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Here's the DEI atm

KB is entering just north of Amboina, but is struggleing with Myoko and the sub she ran into..
hopefully with all val's & kates on ASW this sub will be on the bottom of the ocean pretty soon
(the attackplanes don't have any other targets atm, so by doing it this way at least i don't reveal the exact location of KB, only by about 300 Miles)

The BB's around China didn't come down into the DEI as initially planned, they were re-sheduled to fast transporting the HQ unit to the India forces,
in the mean time the BB that was used for escorting duty of mini KB (i believe it was Fuso?) and several CA's are replacing their spot in the DEI ops.

KB will manouvre straight trough the Java Sea to make good speed for Singapore, air superiority has never really been contested, as there are about
one hundred zero's cruising trough the sky between Singers & Amboina. The only place with some minor aircover is Timor.

On the North Western Tip of OZ a force of 1BB+ several CA was sighted making for Northern OZ, perhaps the allies had split up their 2 CV force and are regrouping, or the group sighted south of Timor was composed of the force that used to be "Force Z". Anyways, they'r all up in the Northern area now.

There is a small Allied force approaching Midway, this will be encountered withing 2 days if they maintain their course, the CV group at midway will not respond if they turn away.
Mini KB is 2 days out of Wake and only after regrouping into a stronger force will we try to engage in aggresive naval encounters. (the way i see it it's not aggresive if i don't make the move towards him

)

In China the enemy has left Wuhan, i'm not sure if he's trying to push over the south, or if he'll try to move back to Wuhan when i move over 1K of AV into the south (over the slower moving roads, which might cause a delay in retreating towards Wuhan)
Further forces are relieved from Homan, in order to secure the situation in central China, as a bonos some of the smaller units have relieved several 150 AV units of garrison duty, bolstering the defences around Wuhan a bit more.

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RE: Janary update - 7/15/2009 9:44:45 PM

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Not much to report,�first half of January isnt a very exciting period..

KB has moved into striking position, 60 miles out of Kendari, the only thing missing are targets, it will move to escort both the landings at Borneo and
the Start of the Java offensive (under the lead of the 4th DIV)

After doing these things for about half a week it will move to Singapore to escort the fleet moving out to invade India
*There are still 3 arm. units incoming,
*as well as a eng. regiment
*and the HQ bought from the Cantonese battleline. (which is now loaded aboard the BB TF and moving to Singers at top speed)
This will combine at Singapore.

This would make for a start of movement at about 15th of January, landings planned at about the 25th to 30 Januari at Triv.
We will likely be moving around the Andaman isl and the cut a short corner around Ceylon. (I'm starting recon on Ceylon at this point, so
i'm not sure wether to invade it right away or not, it would provide a valuable port/airfield for the�start of the invasion)

Mini KB is 2 days out of Midway, with Shokaku Zuikaku clearing some of the fighters positioned there over the last few days.
The sweep�is set to�60 % cap and all striking AC set to ASW duty to cover the Bombardment TF that will hit Midway tomorow for the first time.
i hope there won't be to many PT's (and torpedo's)�blocking the road.... they were spotted 1 day ago ... not a very nice tactic ..

printscreens will be added�in a couple of days, that would also show most of the troops in Singapore as well, the force comes down to about 3300 when shipping in. That should be sufficient for�a start, I'm hoping most of the Allied�forces are scattered around the�Indian coastal cities to inflict a lot of�casualties upon the landings.
But�even more so am i hoping that he expects the invasion�to come in March, when the DEI�has fallen and all is in rest, that would�make the battle a lot easier/faster�and cut of the retreating Burma army from the Front in�Western India.�

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RE: Janary update - 7/19/2009 8:45:27 PM

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KB's position is now deciding for further movement within the DEI.

i haven't seen any (T)bombers up lately, so i'm asuming that they're laying in ambush somewhere

My Brother keeps asking me about invading Timor, he seems to have a fixation towards that target,
i haven't really considered it so far. It is a secundary target untill the fall of Java.

I think he won't expect me invading India before finishing the DEI, so up until now were doing good

started recon on India/ Ceylon;
* Madras holds several units, so that will likely be his stronghold during the first 1 or 2 weeks
* Ceylon is garrisoned by only 1 unit per base, port intel shows 2 BB's over there, so a surprise raid ahead of the Invasion
force might be well worth it.
* Glenn sub near Triv holds still, to not reveal the plan (further Glenn subs moving into other positions)

Because i was looking at Glenn subs i stumbled across the mining subs again, kinda lost track of them after they mined Soerabaja (and others returning from Pearl are still on the move) I'm planning a minefield on the westcoast of India, to slow down his movement.

My Bush wandering units are up and going, most of them are over half the distance, as long as they are of the tracks northern Burma
is a fragile place, with the Chinese units moving up the trails towards India, i could see Lashio falling into Allied hands because of this,
once our 2 division are on the road again this won't matter to much. At the moment a mixed bde of 140 is all AV we have North of Mandalay..

The Burma HQ that was moving towards the tracks is redirected towards the coastal hex next to Hanoi, didn't notice that option earlier, so invading Pakhoi wasn't needed. Pakhoi is evacuated again, 15 units lining up in Nanning would have crushed the 2 units in Pakhoi. I'm wondering if these units will fall back towards Canton to try and break the line there or if they will move back towards Hanoi. Both options could happen, although i don't see the Chinese taking Canton and Hanoi isn't the best place to defend..

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RE: Janary update - 7/23/2009 11:38:21 PM

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KB has been positioned outside of Soerabaja for 2 days, at a distance of about 120 miles they fail to make ANY strikes, with zero's & Martins from landbased airfields are having all kinds of fun..

meanwhile i have been studying the Indian invasion force, now that most units are rested and organising in Singapore the true size of the army is starting to show. with the last units inbound the total AV is coming down to a little over 4000 AV.
composed of;

5 divisions
3 Bde
1 Nav guard
4 SNLF
7 armoured units (and 4 on the way to singapore, but these will probably be dragging behind the main line )
9 Art units
6 Eng reg
4 Army HQ
1 Air HQ
added to that are several BF, some construction units and an aviation unit

In Rangoon another force of 1 ENG reg, 1 arm, 1st and 2nd para reg. and a aviation unit are awaiting transport
(they are replaced by a lightly damaged Bde to add a bit of staying power to my Burma force)

when all forces are setting sail it will come down to about 4.500 AV

This leaves a small contingent for most other theatres
In the SRA 150 AV is rolling over sumatra as we speak (palembang will be shock attacked today)
Balikpapan is landed upon by about 100 AV, aided by a bombardmentforce
from Banjarisman a nav guard and paratroopers will march towards Balikpapan as well
1 div is about to land in Java, which will be supported by about 300 additional AV from sumatra and Borneo once these are occupied
the landing will also be aided by paratroopers from Banjarisman, in order to minimize disruption of the 4th Div as it lands in Kragen.

Cenpac
Midway will fall!!!
at least i hope so... southseas det. is on the way, but takes its time
in the meantime i'm using a bombardment TF and several carriers to keep controle.
i must add that AC losses over there are rather high and my zero's seem inable to stage a defeating attack against the few tomohawks stationed at midway... they do however take down several Fortresses each turn, which is a nice bonus.

Sopac is currently held by the 56 Bde and several nav guards, most of the januari reinforcements have been allocated towards the Sopac
theatre to allow some progress over there as well

something strange happened today as well;
When flying ASW, an attack was launched against ss Cuttlefish, it kinda made me want to check where the Hibiki is hanging out atm

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RE: Janary update - 7/24/2009 1:01:48 AM

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Looking good there Flaggelant. I'm looking forward to seeing how your Indian adventure goes and the response from your brother.

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RE: Janary update - 7/25/2009 5:15:21 PM

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looking forward to that as wel!!

my brother seems to have an important angle on me in land combat,
since i cannot force a breaktrough in China i'm expecting a rough time in India.

Sorry about the late response, but i wasn't at home, i was at my brothers place.
This meant we had some time for the game, and with his PC being A LOT faster than mine
we played about 4 turns within about 5 hours!

with my own PC taking about 40 to 50 minutes, only for watching the combat save i'm now even more convinced that i need a better PC A.S.A.P!!

What happened in the meantime;
Both Balikpapan and Palembang fell without much of a fight.

Balikpapan fell in one attack, after 2 bombardments from the sea, however the base lost about 50 % of its industrial complexes....
Palembang has taken 2 days, with its forts at 3. Despite the longer siege damage over there was only about 1 %
of the total industry, so this attack was a complete victory!!

KB failed to launch even a single airstrike during the last week (no they're not out of sorties, did however run low on fuel for a while), despite good weather, clouds seem to be following KB whereever it goes, even if there aren't suposed to be any... her fighter capacity however did catch a couple of bombers on the way towards the bombardment force.

The bombardment force at Balikpapan hit a minefield, hitting both Sagiri and Fuso, Sagiri came of with only minimal system damage and will stay with the TF until they make port at singapore for replenishment. BB Fuso however has taken more damage; 20 20 5 so she is heading home for greater repairs.

KB will escort the 4th DIV, which lands in 2 days and then fall back towards Singapore which will sign in the start of the Indian operations.

Shoho went to sea over the last couple of days as well, i'm thinking of adding her to the Indian theatre with only fighter squadrons for Capping and air transfers. Because most of the American CV's are unaccounted for it seems that a CV clash might be expected around these waters.

Palembang turned into a massive airbase within 2 days (since an aviation unit was moving along the battle line to start the airbase ASAP and to add support to the attack units) but even on a search range of 20 with several Nell's & Betties no allied shipping is sighted at all. either the CV's are at India allready or they are not going to fight there and will choose the waters of OZ (or Timor) as their battlefield.

2 Glenn subs are moving towards the map edge to cover the little terrain not covered by the LB at Palembang.

Chinese fronts have halted alltogether, no Chinese movement at all.
I've chosen to retreat most of the Yenen offensive units for a resting period.

Midway shows little excitement, only that i have finally managed to force the Tomohawks into a retreat, after only 4
survived the last sweeping missions nothing was heard of the leftovers, so they are likely to have left alltogether.
(airfield bombardment didn't show any AC on the ground anymore either)

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RE: Janary update - 7/26/2009 4:11:43 PM

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current situation around the SRA;

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RE: Janary update - 8/9/2009 1:07:22 PM

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Operation India is about to commence;

some small transporting TF's are�within 2 days of Singapore (accounting for�4 arm. units and part of the 16th DIV),
from Rangoon�there�are 2 eng units (1 special BF, 1 av unit) and another arm. unit shipped to join the party.

the main transportfleet is composed of about 150 transports,
escorted by 8 BB, 10 CA, 5 CL and 4 CV's, �Shoho is also en route and will make port in time�to join as well.

The primary landing force is composed of 35 transports and will land at trivandium, carrying:
1st NLF
16 DIV
8 arm. units

The armoured units will hopefully�achieve a�quick victory and minimal disruption
after landing the armoured units will march towards Bangalore, to capture a lvl 4 airfield,
with 8 units it should be an easy attack, first heavy fights are expected at Madras, as intel shows 8 units over there allready.
This is where my divisions that wont be disrupted from landing will be doing their worst (along with 6 eng. reg and 8 artillery units)

SRA
The main parts of borneo have fallen, samarinda will fall in the coming days and then only Tarakan will be left on the south coast.
(Pontianak & singkawang are still under Dutch controle, but there is no activity over there)

In Kragen forts are reduced to zero and it will fall tomorow, some of the troops resting at palau will also be joining up in Java, but these will
have a couple of days rest before they move out.

Timor will likely be invaded by the first Januari�reinforcements on the HI, these are moving in on Palau as we speek, but�they will�probably take
2 weeks to�get all escorts�& CAP into place for a�worthy attack.�

Midway
the southseas detachement is 2 days out of Midway, all fleet segments will be grouping up for a massive landing, including a bombardment force (1 BB +�3 CA) and the CV�s currently at midway.�
2 CVE had to return to wake to replenish their sorties and will be to late�for the landing, but they will be rejoining the Midway carrier group asap.�

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Becoming the true Midway.. - 8/11/2009 8:21:23 PM

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disaster struck today ...

The carrier TF consisting of 2 CV & 2 CVL went into escorting course for the South Seas Detachments,
approaching Midway from the west. This move is escorted by the entire CenPac Fleet that has joined up so far.

With half a dozen TF's on the move (the bombardment TF believes it to be funny to stop by midway to shatter the last of the PT's, not entirely funny and almost gave me a heart attack!?!) on the next day, there are about 70 ships moving westwards at ca. 60 miles from Midway.

The minesweeping TF that is to do its job at midway, escorted by the bombardment TF make point in this attack, however
in the rear of the navy formations all of a sudden all hell breaks lose when CV-7 Shokaku strikes a mine half a day before the sheduled landing.

I might as well order the bombardment force to direct their fire at the minesweepers, as useless as they seem to be..

Shokaku is to be redirected towards Kwajalijn, to prevent further real danger.
with damage at 43 35 21 and speed down to 19 it is up to the Japanese damage controle to prevent a sinking, to be honest,
i'm not sure she'll make it.

An AR positioned at Palau will be sent out to Kwajalijn to assist in the damage controle once she makes port.

In the meantime the invasion of Midway continues, but with only 1 CV + 2 CVL (and 2 CVE returning to the site in about 4 days) it is starting to become a hostile environment around Midway, one that could easily backfire if several US CV's show up.

There has been a lot of traffic sighted moving east around the Northern Tip of OZ, with several CA sightings,
but the US CV's themselves have not been reporting since they were chased to Western Australia. Counting up all
intell it is very well possible that the Allied CV's moving east, which could position them around Noumea/Suva if their movement is estimated right.

There are about 125 zero's divided between wake, rabaul and the Gilberts, gathered in Kwajalijn, with about as many nell's/betties we should be able to scare off / wreck any allied attempts to intercept Shokaku in the last part of her Journey to safety.

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Midway falls - 8/12/2009 8:11:07 PM

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the next day somewhat compensates;

midway's invasion is on!
the landings start with an AP hitting a mine (the MSW's never gave a sign of the fact that they were in the hex, didn't�clear
a single�mine for the second turn in a�row..)�and one DD being blown to pieces by CD fire.
3 further AP's are crippled but with a swift victory at land they shouldn't be in to much trouble.

With the landings commencing under heavy fire (despite a bombardment and the remainder of the CV TF bombing the crap out of midway)
over 1,000 troops are disabled at the beaches. However the resulting combat is highly favourable towards the Japanese side.
with 200+ AV vs about 100 AV on the allied side (parts of the 25th div were flown in) the battle goes the right way pretty soon,
ending in a 3:1 result with forts reduced to 0.

seems the allied forces had run out of supply quick, the AK loaded with PT's probably didn't carry any supply,
(or convertred it all to PT's

) because�the supplie level�left in midway was at�about 1500.
With 14K unloading from the landing and constant airtransport from wake that would put the allied supplies at about 0.

CV Shokaku seems to be doing good, with almost all fires gone and sys & float not rising to much it seems were making port in safety.
damage is now at 45 37 03 looking good, and all CV's will rejoin her withing 2 days to escort her home to safety.

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RE: Midway falls - 8/25/2009 11:34:20 PM

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moved a couple of days on, CV Shokaku makes port at Wake, not sure if the lvl 1 port is going to do much about the situation,
but it's worth the try, an AR is a couple of days out of Wake, we'll see.

The indian invasion is on the move!

Started flying sweep missions from Rangoon & Mandalay against southern India, to dent the Allied�air capacity, first mission
blew away 5 hurricanes with no japanese losses

Recon is also starting to show some useful unit counts in India, so far nothing that can't be dealt with, only stronghold so far is Madras, but that won't hold against the undisrupted�second wave (first wave being 1 div & 8 arm units, which will be doing the initial landing.�2nd being the rest of the divisions, bde's, artillery�& eng units alocated to India)

I'm still kinda looking for a spot to drop para's with the Tina squadron, both para's are rested and the Tina's have been resting for about 2 weeks as well. most locations seem to have some form of garrison, so it would be either as a supporting action, or i could wait and try to cut of retreat at some place after a week or so (if the�landings occur, there�will�be some shiftings in the allied Garrisons i asume)

in Midway the airbattles are also getting heavier, 30 Zero's (aviation & squadrons�flown in immediatly after the victory)
on CAP intercepted 12 B17 flying from Johnston isl.

the result was 4 Zero's being destroyed & 9 damaged, in return we shot down 7!!��B17!!! (jep, all seven�destroyed!!)
Not entirely�sure if its a good deal, but every 4EB downed by non- KB pilots is a good sign to me

Canton @ SOPAC command is a busy place with several BB & CA sightings, not sure what to think of it, but Tarawa is about to turn LVL 4 AF,
so i'm going to�check for a CAP force over Canton, if there is none, it might�be a nice surprise to see 150 LBA running down the ports of Canton

�

as a sidenote, i started sorting ASW missions to experience, because the *#@$* won't hit anything, with over 200 LB flying ASW,
i don't even get a hit a week, or at least it feels that way (it's probably about 1 hit�every 3 or 4 days..)
LB with XP 80 or higher are moved towards ASW terrain, and lower XP bombers take their places to build�XP in bombing runs.�

So a lot of stuff will be happening withing the next 2 weeks, wish i could play that within�the same amount of RL time...

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RE: Midway falls - 8/30/2009 5:42:34 PM

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not much happening;

B17 stopped bombing Midway, so it seems that my exchange of fighter pilots vs his B17 was indeed a good thing

at Taobali a transport TF was bombed by Martin's .. 2 ships heavily damaged, of which one wont make it back home
this means that most of the TF are back to being capped around Java, there are plenty of small zero & oscar squadrons over there
Most had been bombing southern Sumatra the last days.

In India i had started sweeping missions against India from Mandalay to lessen the airpower the Allies will field against KB escorting the landings, on the first day we downed 5 Hurricanes, the second day makes the mission even more succesfull when 39 zero's meet the AVG and down 22!! (to the loss of 13 of their own number)

If we can keep this going for a couple of days we will be seeing a drained airforce around the beachheads

only Ceylon seems to have a force
of its own to keep me from bombing the fleet there, i am however going to attempt a headrush with KB to see if we can catch these ahead of the invasion. (after this there will be squadrons flying in from Rangoon, where we have another 85 zero's ready for action)

Shokaku is docked at Wake, and lowered its flotation a couple of points, the other carriers (1 CV, 2 CVL, 2 CVE) are headed for other, larger ports, to get some rest and then participate in landings down in Sopac.

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Indian operations - 9/8/2009 4:47:53 PM

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Not much to mention, few turns were played actually..

some of the highlights;
2 sweeping missions vs the AVG,
* one with an evil result flying from Mandalay (39 zero vs 39 tomahawk, with the Japs taking most losses)

* and the next day revenge was executed by the Zero's at Rangoon (50 Zero's vs 25 Tomahawks, needles to say the japs were dealing the punches in this one

)

My brother seems to like me flying the sweeping missions, since they are over his grounds, most pilots are not recovered,
however the pilots flying the missions are mostly mid 60's to early 70's in XP so not the real crack, but effective enough to deal with the Allied fighters. After a couple more raids the only fighters left in India will be medium XP Buffalo's and low XP hurricanes, this should give me plenty of room to manouvre with TF's during the invasion.

KB was ordered to move to the south, away from the invasion TF, to try and catch any TF's fleeing India (i'm kinda hoping for a CV contact, since his CV's will probably be lingering over there somewhere)
The main invasion fleet is still capped by 40 zero's from one of the smaller CV's to prevent unescorted long range bombers from having a go against the fleet.

as a minor operation i flew in the 2nd para unit into the Andaman's which was held by a token force consisting of a part of the 1st BF (dunno which command). This operation was a swift succes since bombardment missions had been flown for several days against the island.

screenshots of India will be coming up as soon as we have encountered anything.

The AR has reached Wake, where it will help dropping floatation of Shokaku, she had allready dropped 4 points in 2 days, now with the AR in the same TF, docked at Wake i'm hoping for some more points dropping every day

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RE: Indian operations - 9/11/2009 9:41:54 AM

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Glad to see that you guys are still going at it !

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RE: Indian operations - 9/11/2009 7:57:32 PM

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still on to the good ol' WITP indeed

we agreed on waiting for a couple of patches and winter seazon (no harvesting etc) to be in a better position
to start with AE.

but if we like the WITP game we might just as well keep playing it for some time thereafter,
afterall, WITP on its own is still a very cool game, even if there is a newer version.

KB sortied out from the convoy and caught a single AK moving south, no troops on board, so i'm not sure
if the encounter was an accident or not..?
however we only sortied with 25 val's, 25 kate's and escort, so he might think that i'm sorie-ing with a single carrier,
that could certainly work in my advantage! (first i have to check WHY i only sortied with 25/25)

Shokaku is doing good, went down 7 flotation points today!
the AR is really doing its job well

no real further developments atm.

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RE: Indian operations - 9/13/2009 11:12:46 PM

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Here is the situation in China, the way i feel it i'm kinda stuck over there, the only reserve that is available atm
is the army stationed for R&R at Chengting, but i'm unsure to what city to send it to.. seems if i push the armies back one city they heap up into a pile of units i wont be able to defeat anymore...

on the other side; Vietnam is currently held by units assigned to Southern HQ, so that's an expensive operation as well,
most people seem to have a good time in China, but i have to invest extra units into it, just to keep things from running out of hand.. i don't get what i'm doing wrong on that subject..??

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RE: Indian operations - 9/20/2009 10:14:02 PM

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Here's the invasion fleet headed for India, i've managed to avoid all sub contact, only some of the transports were sighted last turn. KB is undetected at this very moment and will make a longer run, to try and scoop up any shipping towards or from India. Hopefully the Allied carriers will be within range, but that's not for certain..

What kinda looks strange to me is that most of the British fleet is still in port, 2 BB's in Ceylon as well as 5 CA's in port and 2 in TF's around the ports. Seems he's willing to fight around the ports.

The transports and bombardmentforce is still capped by 40 zero's from a CVE, the Bombardment force swapped from Bombardment to Surface action, to get a better chance at intercepting any forces trying to engage (with 4 BB 3 CA that should deal with anything serious coming in). The main transporting TF that is going to create the beachhead is also equiped with a BB and 2 CA, just in case.

To make sure that the allied airforce will be diminished i moved more zero's to the Burma-front, there are now 130 zero's
The air-HQ unit�that is�positioned over there as well will make sure that it will be a blast when they launch!
i believe he is pulling together his airforce around Calcutta (due to high air bal) so 130 zero's will be meeting a mix
of the diminished AVG (probably around 25 to 30 left?) buffalo's, hurricanes and other low�profile fighters.�

The only thing holding me down for the moment is the weather, thunderstorms for several days now, gave me time to gather the zero's but by now they'r only annoying me (i'm not thinking of�sending 130 fighters on a long ranged mission�trough a storm..)

In China the Wuhan line is starting to march;
26 units next to Wuhan,
20 next to nanchang�to the south,
and the hex in between is also contested atm.

He's trying to make sure i cant reinforce Wuhan, but with the 1.300 AV there plus the entire airforce it should be easy to pin down those troops. only problem will be to get them out of there when we finally break trough in the North. Until then i figure its an easy way to pin a LOT of troops with much less

�(i started moving in some units from the north to cut of the retreat of these units, in case that�might come in handy)

on another sidenote; the HQ unit stranded on the southern�beaches of China moved to the railroad and is now directly between a pile of 6 units and one of 16 units.... CRAP...�once engaged they'll probably retreat towards the same hex where they were and get killed..

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RE: Indian operations - 11/29/2009 1:01:23 PM

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It's been 2 months since the last turn & the last update, but we're going on at last!!

Some serious computer problems caused the total blackout, with the new PC turns take about 1/4th
of the time they did on the old one, so i'm hoping to get some turns done real fast

after all this time i have to take a look at all area's to check where i was at

the invasion fleet is about 360 miles out of ceylon (moving past it to triv)
and my Air war in burma is shining brightly with this last mission;

quote:

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Day Air attack on Calcutta , at 29,23

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 77

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 6
Hurricane II x 18
P-40B Tomahawk x 21
P-40E Warhawk x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 12 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 5 destroyed
Hurricane II: 11 destroyed
P-40B Tomahawk: 20 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed, 2 damaged
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i think i'll let the fighters take a rest and give my brother some time to assemble new planes over there,
atm i'd say he's very low in XP fighters, so its not really important to pursue an attack over the next 2 or 3 days.
morale amongst the pilots is high, with almost all fighter squadrons over 85 (one squadron is at 59) so as it seems the pilots are having fun

in one or two days i'm expecting to lose some KB pilots which will be replenished from land, the carrier pilots from the Royal navy weren't sighted during the last scouting round, which probably means that the carriers have left port, most of the CA's are still in port however. The small amount of fighters over the mayor ports will not be a big obstacle, but its important to expect a counterattack at all times (an exact location of the American CV's is still missing)

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RE: Indian operations - 1/15/2010 5:33:39 PM

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i received a "blow" against my landing force, which is moving on trincomale before pushing on to India itself,
with the US CV's being untraced i cant risk running the entire landing force into a CV force of equal size to my KB.

therefore taking trincomale will enable me to station (ground based)fighters on missions against the enemy whilst the cv's remain on cap
(i'm thinking about swapping some val's for more zero's on KB)

here's the result on the initial allied bombing raid against my landing force;

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Day Air attack on TF at 16,26

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 94

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 18
Blenheim I x 20
Blenheim IV x 28
Beaufort V-IX x 27
B-25C Mitchell x 17
IL-4c x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed, 77 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 17 destroyed
Blenheim I: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged
Blenheim IV: 7 destroyed, 7 damaged
Beaufort V-IX: 7 destroyed, 11 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 4 damaged
IL-4c: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Japanese Ships
CV Kaga, Bomb hits 1
CV Akagi
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 1
DD Yamagumo

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x IL-4c bombing at 10000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 8000 feet
2 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
4 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 8000 feet
2 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
2 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
2 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 8000 feet
2 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
1 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 8000 feet
3 x IL-4c bombing at 10000 feet
2 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 8000 feet
2 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
1 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim I bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
3 x Blenheim IV bombing at 8000 feet
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 8000 feet
4 x Beaufort V-IX bombing at 8000 feet
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 8000 feet
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 8000 feet
4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 8000 feet
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i have absolutely no clue why those 20 fighters & 100 bombers dented my cap like this, after checking all settings i could put some of my cap on a higher lvl, but i wouldnt risk a large group passing the cap on low alt. so it'll be about 50/50 on 15K and 20 K alt.
after the initial raid there were some smaller attacks which were unescorted and easily brushed away. (despite the 77 damaged planes most of the zero's managed to get up into the air again in time)

kaga is @: 27 3 12
as long as the fires dont go into extremes i think ill let her stay with the force until after the trincomale landing, after that an AO force will replenish the fleet and she will depart the scene with those oilers. If i manage to get the airfield up & running within a couple of days, combined with some sweeping against calcutta once more, i believe that we will be able to ruin the Indian air force within days (60 fighters in calcutta, about 20 in madras + CV force on the other side of ceylon) the only thing we're waiting for is good weather.. the thunderstorms during the last week are the only real explanation for the high damage rate i can think of

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RE: Indian operations - 1/16/2010 1:08:25 AM

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Hi there flaggelant.

Good to see you two still at it and Kaga in the thick of things. She should shrug that hit off... does't look like it will hamper her too much. Then some R&R time for her crew. Good luck with that invasion.

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RE: Indian operations - 1/17/2010 10:11:46 PM

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some R&R is indeed needed, all CV's have been at it since the start of the war, they went straight from pearl,
to a (not very succesfull) intercept mission between gilbert & guadal, and on to the Indian invasion.
with 10 days in port at max since the start fo the war most CV's are between 5 & 10 sys.

tomorow will bring the landings @ trincomalee,
2 Bde's, 2 NLF and a special BF will be taking it to the beaches, with 1 unit (55 guns) i'm expecting a good fight, but that it wont last to long. the bombardment force will do her job, as well as some minesweepers and all CV planes.
i swapped 1 val squadron for some XP zero's from the mainland, with the landing force in need of CAP i dont want to risk any heavy damage to the TF's that still need to do the heavy work afterwards

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RE: Indian operations - 2/8/2010 5:40:43 PM

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Here�s a good one;

this happend some days ago, didn't think it would matter since i didn't expect any big results from the action, however..

in anticipation to the landings in trincomalee the Allied cv�s made a rush, to get within striking range.
The IJN nav search had spotted this movement early on and the carrier force escorting the transports react to the allied cv�s

In order to get within striking range they move closer to the cv�s and away from the IJN transport and bombardment TF�s
now here it comes: They move into a heavy storm and no missions are flown... in return most of the Allied CV�s fail to find a target in the clouds as well.
However some of the British airplanes manage to find the remaining fleet, the transport fleet is under protection of Hosho, the only IJN CV near India and not in the storms at that time, the Hosho�s crew do as they are trained and fend of many airplanes, but some of the swordfishes manage to get past the CAP.

With the numerous ships in sight they pick the largest one in the formation, and Fuso takes a serious blow. She takes 3 torpedoes and so she is put out of the battle and has to return towards Rangoon, flotation is at 65 at that moment. 3 days later and still about 400 miles out of Rangoon, flotation has risen up to a critical level and she is scuttled..

So much for the glorious battle of the IJN CV�s...
After this attack the Allied fleet is satisfied and retires north, to stay out of range during the landings at Trincomalee.

at the moment we're past this and the "pre"invasion has commenced

Trincomalee falls into IJN hands after the sinking (maybe i should have kept her cruising around trincomalee instead of heading back the long way, not sure there) with the landing being a succes the Burma area is cleaned of Zero�s which are all flown into the new territory, after the victory another aviation unit and an air HQ are also moved ashore. Trincomalee is in steady hands and withing 1 or 2 days the major airbattle will start at madras, an allied airballance of over 1,000 shows heavy activity there.
The airbattle is to be fought before the IJN moves ashore at Triv. (will be flying recon at all shoreplaces, if bombay turns out ungarissoned this might be a nice port as well

)

So the first Japanese Capital ship has sunk, with none of the Allied to have been reported sunk (POW, repulse and hermes are probably floating somewhere, being heavily damaged)

a single transport was sighted moving for Iwo Jima, probably for testing the defences, a CS with 20 floatplanes will try to bomb it, not sure if that will work

Shokaku started making some water during in the last turns, she�s now at flt 39, and i have decided to get her to kwajalijn (shorter distance than the HI) She is under escort of 60 ASW value, and has speed 18.

And south of midway a 3 CA force (probably more) is seen heading west, this seems likely to be a CV force heading for wake, to finish off Shokaku(?). Midway was bombed the day before by 50 B17, probably to close the airfield to disable an organised strike against this force. The B17 were met by 60 (unexpected) zero�s so damage wasn�t big (5 zero�s for 2 B17), so we will be attempting a strike against the TF heading for Wake, 80 Nells and betties, with the zero escorts mentioned before that should do a good job. So now we wait ..

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RE: Allied CV's spotted - 2/14/2010 12:35:13 AM

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rare to see stock played -nice reports!

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RE: Allied CV's spotted - 2/16/2010 10:45:43 PM

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here is what is supposed to become the raid on Shokaku;

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RE: Allied CV's spotted - 3/14/2010 4:01:15 PM

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Been a couple days (gamewise) since the last update so heres some news

1 India
2 Homan
3 SRA
4 Shokaku
5 Port moresby

1. India
We are landing in Trivandium in force, after some recon there seemed to be no units in there, so a quick landing by the 1st paratroopers regiment,
secured the beaches and gave some insight in the situation we were getting ourselves in. Minesweepers rushed ahead of the main transport fleet to clear the port of mines,
which was achieved within one day.

Air superiority is maintained easily without any strikes flown against the fleet, in the meanwhile the british airfleet is under constant presure and is likely to be out of order by the time our army is ashore.

some of our air attacks on Madras' airforce
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Day Air attack on Madras

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 114
E7K2 Alf x 6
Ki-21 Sally x 53
Ki-49 Helen x 7

Allied aircraft
Wirraway x 3
Hurricane II x 16
Blenheim IF x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged
E7K2 Alf: 1 damaged
Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Wirraway: 3 destroyed
Hurricane II: 17 destroyed
Blenheim IF: 3 destroyed
Beaufort V-IX: 1 destroyed
I-16c: 1 destroyed
Lysander I: 1 destroyed

Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 6
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Day Air attack on Madras

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 66
E7K2 Alf x 1

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 23
Hurricane II x 9
Blenheim IF x 3
P-35A x 12
P-40E Warhawk x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 20 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 20 destroyed
Hurricane II: 8 destroyed
Blenheim IF: 1 destroyed
P-35A: 9 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 10 destroyed, 1 damaged
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Without the allies flying missions against the landing force our CV's remain fully intact and capable of hunting the enemy CV's, since they are cornered by now.
The fleet will replenish tomorow and head west after this, the actual location of the allied CV's is unknown but i am guessing that he will be trying to sneak them out by the map border. Next turn will see the Nell/Betty fleet on max range nav search again, so that will determine if we will make a run west or noth.

The landing zone remains under protection of land based Fighters during these operations.

2. Homan
In China our main push will start this week, with the northern army a couple of days out of homan and bombardment missions being flown for the past few days.
estimated AV will come out around 5000 Jap vs 3000 Chinese, due to the bombardment missions disruption will probably be a big problem for the Chinese units.

3. SRA
The siege of Soerabaja starts, most units have retreated towards Batavia, so it shouldnt take to long, with about 500 AS and a tank and eng. reg coming in its only a matter of time.
small bombardment missions are flown, because we dont want to damage the industrial site to much
Tarakan hasnt been under attack since the start of the war, but with most other targets being acomplished forces are moving there over land as we speak, over the roades it will take probably more than a week before we can start a siege there.

4. Shokaku
Shokaku will likely be making it safely to Kwajalijn, she's at 40 47 0 , with a good day af water in between the safe port.
with around 100 zero's watching here movement she'll be safe, or the Allied CV's are willing to make a dash that would endanger their own hulls.
The allied fleet moving west wasn't sighted again, so it remains unclear what exactly was planned/ happening by the other side.

Most airfields around Kwajalijn are, or wil move to lvl 4 within days, when Tarawa reaches LVL 4 there will be a raid on Canton,
because we have sighted several large TF's in port there for the last 2 weeks, containing BB, CA etc.

5. Port moresby
The landing force of PM is some days out of their target, still only 2 units sighted and a minimum of allied airpower in the area,
Zuikaku leading several of the smaller CV's has so far easily brushed aside any air attack that was mustered. The landings here will commence in approx. 3 days.

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RE: Allied CV's spotted - 3/15/2010 11:43:46 AM

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interesting game; i find it funny/amazing/interesting to look at the difference with my own Stock game.

Good luck

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RE: Allied CV's spotted - 3/15/2010 6:46:36 PM

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Hey there, those seem to be 2 different worlds at war.

the only similarities i can make out are KB being split up (something i'm still not entirely sure of weather its good or not)
and the lack of progress in china (which hopefully will change on both sides quiet soon)

my indian invasion pretty much made me halt most of the pacific progress, dont know if its a good thing or not,
since the game seems to end when the US moves down the pacific trail.

Making this trail as long as possible would have been a nice thing, taking on India was the "other alternative"

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RE: Allied CV's spotted - 3/15/2010 10:22:54 PM

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as a small sidenote on aircraft;

yesterday i noticed that the only Air HQ in China is situated at Canton, where only a few planes are stationed, on the other hand Wuhan is still crowded by Japanese Pilots, atm working their way towards the Homan offensive. To improve their efforts i changed the Air HQ's command and sent in some Tabby's to get the HQ towards Wuhan ASAP. The more planes i have over Homan the less time is lost in the siege!

In the philipines there are as allways 3 squadrons of sally bombing the snot out of some baseforce at lingayen, this is escorted by some 50 nates, im thinking of upgrading the nates to oscars to improve their range and start bombing the larger cities. doing so will provide more targets, disrupt more troops and destroy more supplies. upgrading second line (since PI isnt a real front of mine

) nates wont hurt at all. Other nates are all in the HI, manchuko or China, where they dont encounter any hostilities (the chinese airforce is something i havent heard of since the start of the war..??)
I consider PI to be the main training site for LB to get into the 80's for ASW purposes, this really turned out well, being selective about my ASW squadrons is repaying by several hits per week, so the allied submarines probably noticed the change of strategy as well. but with only 3 or 4 squadrons (counting only sally/lilly/helen due to large bomb load) in the 80's atm ill be more than happy to get some extra's available.

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