jonreb31
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Joined: 11/26/2006 From: Santa Cruz, California Status: offline
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December 10th Combat Report A fairly good and active turn with some more destruction. Combat reports are STILL not being written??! All my settings are fine.. yet everytime the combat save is running no combat animations come through and no combat reports are being written. Due to this I've not been making maps, since I don't want to keep going in to watch the combat save over and over again or write my own report. I'm starting to use Anti-Sub task forces of small gunboats (PG/PC) and they are already meeting some success with some hits against several allied subs. China Theater Here's a look at my first destination objectives as well as my longer-term objectives to push China into it's interior, as well as grab me some more industry and resources. No hexes also looks so much sexier! Will post the unit Assault Value being dedicated to these objectives once my units are more allocated, a lot are still marching around. Troops are building up in Changsa with approx 70,000 on both sides. I've also been getting artillery here already. Started doing bombardment attacks, and caused 100 casualties today. Hong Kong Falls! Lost 300 in the assault but bagged 17,000 POWs. The 2 divisions in Hong Kong will now move to Canton in prepartion to attack Wuchow. Malaysia/East Indies front Land Deliberate attack at Khota Bharu, already 3-1 odds. Will shock attack next turn and most likely push them out so I can start moving southwards with this division. Landings at Kuantuan were delayed, I think because of destroyers refueling.. arg. Both brigades moving to this base will now be arriving tomorrow to start their landings. The 55th division arrives in Alor Star and will capture it then start attacking southwards. Base was apparently evacuated, and I think I trapped some planes here when I airfield attacked it a few turns ago--that's good. Large numbers of support units, most importantly 2 tank regiments, will be arriving in Saigon soon originaly from Hainan Light landings begin to take place in undefended places across Borneo and the far southern part of the East Indies. It should start heating up tomorrow as more units reach their destinations. Air Not much happened, much fewer British air naval attacks and all failed. 3 more Allied bombers were killed at Kuantan from my airfield attacks. My planned airfield attack on Singapore was called off AGAIN due to MORE bad weather-- irritating.. I haven't been able to hit this airfield since December 7th because of this damned weather. Naval 2 more BBs and escorts will arrive at Saigon tomorrow. I'll join them up with my CA Force 1 and dub it BB Force 2 consisting of 2 BBs, 3 CAs, 3 CLs, and 11 DDs. It'll provide bombardment support on Kuantan once formed and safeguard the transports. For some clarity--Each BB Force has 2 battleships and 2-4 heavy cruisers as well as various light cruisers/destroyers. Here are my current BB forces and where they are located: BB Force 1: Operating off North Borneo. BB Force 2: To be formed in Saigon and will operate off the east coast of Malaysia BB Force 3: Moving to the Phillipines to support any leftover missions. BB Force 4: To be formed in Truk, still moving. CVE Taiyo will be arriving on the north east coast of Borneo tomorrow. Her final destination is north west Borneo to work alongside BB Force 1 and provide fighter CAP. My submarines that were concentrating on the west Malaysian coast are ordered to start dispering around the East Indies to locate allied ships and, of course, try to destroy them. Phillipines Theater Land: Some landings on a few undefended Phillipine islands, with more to follow tomorrow. Allied shock attack at Lingayen! Looks like some form of (understrength)US division tried to make an attack here, but my brigade that landed at Vigan was already there. They got slaughtered, 400 casualties for them 100 casualties for me. This is probably the worst place he could attempt a counter-attack.. I have 40-50k troops moving in to land within the next few days. Not exactly main combat brigade/division units but such a huge number of SNLF, combat engineer regiments, engineers, tank regiments, and artillery really adds up. Another shock attack by the 1st parachute regiment at Cagayan fails with 23 casualties, despite 31 Assault value vs 1. Not looking too bright for them, I was hoping they'd be successful faster. I'll let them rest for now while I land in more troops and supplies. Air: Virtually no land-based air due to bad weather.. will hopefully attack clark field tomorrow. Naval: My Surface Combat TFs intercepted the fleeing allied ships and corked the exit. Following were some big naval battles (well, not really battles) sinking quite a few more allied ships and heavily damaging many many more. The allied ships are still trapped and I'll continue to pursue them while clogging the exit. Here's a look at one of the "battles": BB Force 3 is also almost in the area, looks like they might make it in time to do some action.. More air naval strikes from Light Carrier Force putting torpedoes in more transports. Here's a sum of allied ships sunk today at Phillipines: 1TK, 1PG, 3MSW, 2AK, 1AS Once again, the majority of damage here was putting dozens of shells and torpedoes into a large number of ships therefore heavily damaging most of them, if they don't sink of their wounds they must be so very slow that I could catch them without even trying. Plus I pushed them away from the exit, none have escaped yet (if ever). Central/East/South Pacific Theaters: South Pacific starting to heat up with units beginning to reach their destinations. In the Solomons, units are isolating Rabaul and waiting for more support before assaulting Rabaul itself. BB Force 4 will be arriving and forming at Truk within the next few days and will begin by providing bombardment on Rabaul to soften them up for the.. South Seas Department(seriously, what a cool name for a combat unit)-- who will arrive at Truk within two days. They'll spearheard the attack on Rabaul along with some other units. I'm also dedicating 27 G3Ms to start knocking out bombers on the airfield at Rabaul, don't want them doing any damage to my transports. Further east I'm starting to make landings at the Gilbert Islands as well as outlying islands. Makin Island becomes Japanese. Aaand my sub picket line south west of Hawaii is already being useful. 3 allied ships were spotted by one of my subs, including a CA. This is more than likely the escorts for one of the Carriers, and who knows, maybe the carrier is still with them. I can't avoid a chance to kill a rather hopeless and lone US carrier so I'm moving to intercept and destroy it. If the carrier happens not to be among them, at least I'll bag some escorts-- and cruisers are always juicy.
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