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RE: June Overview - 9/9/2010 7:20:04 PM   
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                       Japan                      Allies
Air                       5                            1
Flak                     9                            9
Ground                 0                            0
Ops                   116                          30
Total                 130                          40

So that's how little happened, a single fight in which the USAAF challenged the IJAAF which was a small victory. The situation isn't too bad, I haven't had much use for offensive air ops and no where am I forced to defend, so I'm content to sit back. In the meantime my air force is only getting stronger. Also, I'm winning: 3-1 losses in my favour.

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RE: June Overview - 9/9/2010 7:43:46 PM   
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The main interest these days is the China front, where the Japanese have launched a large offensive to take Sian. By the looks of it this will happen sooner rather than later. The Allies mainly spent the month making more logistical preparations and are reoccupying bases that were abandoned earlier, most notably Luganville.



Burma
Some of the last bases near the border have been captured, and a Japanese unit has crossed the jungle to take Akyab, but there seems to be no threat towards India

China
Sian is in a precarious position, the troops are outnumbered, have little supply and are cut off. Let's see how long they last. Some spoiling attacks are launched in other areas,but they usually consist of little more than a few corps.

Northern Oz
A bombing training ground for the Japanese airforce, the raids keep Darwin closed down, but I'm not planning to use the exposed Darwin anyway as long as the Torres strait is closed to me.






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1 July 42' - 9/10/2010 10:47:48 AM   
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Burma
Sweeps are being launched into India, over Dimapur and Ledo. No CAP present at these bases.

China
The first attack into Sian is launched and it's a bloody affair, 5100+ AV storms 4800 AV behind level 5 forts. Losses are high on both sides, the Japanese lose 11,000 men, with over 1100 combat squads disabled. The Chinese take 12,000 casualties, the report shows 300 squads disabled / destroyed, but AV has fallen by over 400. The base is already out of supply, but there is still some left in the LCUs. Forts were dropped to 4, but I am happy about the battle, it will take some time for the Japanese to recover and attack again.

SWPac
The cruiser force raids Ndeni and takes home some scalps and intel. Upon arrival a small transport TF is sighted, the USS Pensacola opens fire from long range and obliterates a PB on the first salvo. HMAS Canberra follows up by doing the same to a second PB. RAN Australia and USS Pensacola then shift fire to the single xAK that's trying to get away, but Canberra gets the kill with a torpedo spread at long range. The battle was over so soon that neither the Japanese, nor the Allied DD got off any shots. The force then goes on to bombard the island, troops of a single SNLF company seek cover, nothing else is encountered on the island.

Subs
Spearfish gets a dud on an E near Mindanao
O23 is engaged by a DD near Northern Borneo, but gets off with some nearby hits
Trigger has less luck, she is seriously roughed up by a DD force after she puts a dud in one of them. Damage is high and she is retiring to Oz


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2-4 July 42' - 9/16/2010 7:37:01 PM   
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China
After the first strike the Japanese restrict themselves to bombing Sian with artillery and airforce, but no more attacks are launched. Because of the bad supply situation all useful corps will make a breakout attempt towards the West. The corps under 1/3 strength can stay in Sian and fight it out.
Near Changsha a limited Chinese offensive routs the 12th mixed brigade, casualties are heavy on both sides, but the Japanese suffer 65 squads destroyed as opposed to 6 for the Chinese. The Chinese troops are retreating over the river to their starting positions.


Subs
Only 1 attack worth mentioning, as the Tarpon hits I-9 off the coast of Honshu, of course this is a case of duds.

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RE: 2-4 July 42' - 9/18/2010 10:17:09 AM   
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It's the USS Trigger, depth charged of Oosthaven a couple of days ago. She's slowly making her way back to Carnaravon and Perth, only about 12 days to go if she keeps up her speed.






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RE: 2-4 July 42' - 9/18/2010 1:00:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Smeulders, I like the ship patches, very nice. Too bad the Japanese don't have much in that vein, since that's mostly what I play.

You are in great shape, BTW. Your opponent didn't expand beyond the historical perimeter, and you got a CV to boot. He should still be pressing you in 7/42, but isn't it seems.

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5-6 July 42' - 9/19/2010 12:25:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		Q-Ball: That's true, I'm not sure why he hasn't tried any more large scale attacks. After the fall of Java I had expected something to happen, but so far nothing yet. The 4th division, which SigInt told me was split up (on ships) and prepping for Trimacolee was later reported back at Batavia. I'm not sure what to make of this, I know it was involved in the Java campaign, later it (or a part at least) was on ships and now it's back on Java again. I'm still keeping an eye out for possible offensives, but I've definitely have to start thinking offensively myself now.

5-6 July 42'

Burma
The airfield at Kalemyo (base just inside Burma) has gone to one. A light raid was launched on it by Sallies, but nothing too worrying. The airfields in the NE India are quickly becoming very large, but the Hurricanes haven't really got the range to fight offensively over Burma from these bases, so I'll need bases like Kalemyo to shorten the range.

Subs
Herring hits a small TK with a dud near Sakhalin.
S-38 misses a SC that's hunting it near New Guinea
Drum obliterates a small SC near Honshu, a whole 99 tons added to his score.


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7-8 July 42' - 9/20/2010 10:25:00 PM   
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Subs
3 duds in 2 days, Flying fish hits a SC, Herring another small TK and Growler an xAK.

Troop movements
Another regiment is arriving at Umnak Island. The base should now be secured with 2 regiments there. Time to start moving on to Adak Island.

The division for Ceylon is now nearly completely there, only support remains on the mainland, the Island is up to 4 divisions worth of troops now.

Amphibious ships are arriving at Pearl on the 9th, they'll load a USAAF BF and Marine Defence battalion and will reoccupy Canton Island. An additional raider battalion will move up from the South Pacific shortly to round out the garrison. If this is done I'll start some recon for a move to Baker. A scout ship recently passed close by Canton and reported no air search, so the move should be pretty safe.

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9-10 July 42' - 9/22/2010 7:41:41 PM   
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China
Another shock attack is launched at Sian, forts come down to 3, but another 900 Japanese combat squads get disabled. Losses for the Chinese are nearly as bad though. If things continue this way Sian will not hold long, but the Japanese formations that launched this assault should go into R&R as well.

Sallies launch a raid on Pashoan, the city just over the Burmese border. The Japanese airforce has gotten more active in Burma recently.

New Guinea
B-17 from the 5th bomber group launch raids on Lae. 2 fortresses go down in the raid (1 Flak, 1 Ops), but in return 2 zeroes are shot from the sky and a further 4 planes are destroyed on the ground.

Subs
Sturgeon damages xAK Hokkai Maru off Kavieng
Trusty has just arrived on station between Singapore and Palembang and engaged xAKL Meiko Maru on the surface. The little freighter was torn apart by 20mm fire, but was not yet confirmed sunk.

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11 July 42' - 9/23/2010 9:39:32 PM   
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Burma
Strikes on the new field at Kalemyo again, mainly Oscars sweeping to stop any ambushes. Some designated squadrons are being filled with 50/70 pilots though, so it may be time to contest these raids. The problem is that there are so many bases to defend, so there is always the danger of being slaughtered in leaking CAP. Lashio seems pretty empty as far as fighters are concerned, so Blenheims may stage a raid of their own if recon this turn is positive.

Darwin
Don't worry, still being bombed daily

Subs
Herring has her third dud-attack in less than a week, bad luck.

Troop movement
Forces are starting to shuttle from Auckland to Noumea which will become my new forward logistical centre in the SWPac. The port is only at 3 at the moment, but engineers are working hard to fix that.

The force to reoccupy Canton is loading, they will round Palmyra on the way in. Cover is given by a small cruiser force. A DE is scouting Canton at the moment and again notices no naval search here.



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12-13 July 42' - 9/26/2010 10:03:00 AM   
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Burma
Kalemyo strikes continue and building up the field is becoming hard. A scouting units has noticed that Akyab may have been abandoned by the Japanese. Units are now moving forward to occupy Cox's Bazaar and Akyab, both of which will also be built into decent airfields. I'd like to see the IJAAF shut down 3 simultaneous building airfields close the the front lines.

A large strike by the RAF did also show that's its not only the close range fields that matter. A large raid consisting of 4x Blenhiem and 2x Wellington squadrons left the fields at Dacca and Comilla to launch a single massive 87 plane raid on Lashio. Surprise was complete, no CAP was encountered and the field, ground troops and resources were targeted. Despite good recon little damage was done to these targets, the field was worst off with 25 damage after the day. No follow-up is planned as Lashio is outside of fighter range at the moment. Closing down the field would have little effect anyway, as I'm not even sure it's in use.

China
Another massive battle at Sian, the bad part is the Japanese are inching closer to a 2-1 every day and the forts fell again. However, the Japanese casualties were massive once again. 16,000 casualties were counted, mainly from non-combat squads that got disabled. Chinese casualties are only 8,000, we even won out in combat squads killed and disabled. The 2000 AV pincer that was North of the city is now advancing on some of the mountain towns to the North, my second line, consisting of 3800 AV and stationed in the mountain hexes near Ankang will start moving forward to threaten their line of retreat, the rearguard is a paltry 2 Ind.Mix brigades.

At the same time I'm moving forward again in the South were it seems Liuchow is as good as abandoned after it fell not that long ago. I'm guessing Joseph is very happy to have destroyed the forts there but decided his forces wouldn't be able to hold on there if I wanted to drive him out. He might be correct, locally I outnumber him nearly 2.5-1 in AV.

Subs
O23 got worked over good near Borneo, a long and hard journey back to OZ awaits, lengthened by the fact I don't dare sending a crippled sub trough the shallow waters of the Java sea. The area is dangerous enough for a good sub, let alone a heavily damaged one. For the record, damage is 49/72(21)/12(4)
Did I mention Herring has got a lot of duds ? On the 12th she again shoots dud at a SC. On the 13th the skipper elects not to waste his last torpedoes on a SC.

Troop movements
The Canton reoccupation is under way, though it promises to be an uneventful trip.

Massive re-organizations are under way in India. The British have promised to attack into Burma in the near future so supplies can flow into China. In divisional equivalents I've got 3 British, 2 Indian, 1 Commonwealth division. On top of that there are several miscellaneous Chinese divisions, Ozzie batallions, etc.  Some Indian divisions are filling out quickly and may be available in a couple of months. One of the British divisions is switching with an Ozzie division on Ceylon though, a matter of not taxing British infantry replacements more than I should. Looking at what my SigInt is telling me this should be more than enough for a conservative operation aimed at taking the Northern jungles and Lashio, which would allow supply to flow into China. Interesting is that the Indian armoured units are still in bad shape. I'm short of Valentines, General Lees and Stuarts. Even my best tank brigade is operating with a mix of Valentine, Lee and improvized vehicles.


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14 July 42' - 9/27/2010 9:04:32 PM   
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Burma
The Japanese are making little progress against the Kalemyo field and 2 engineer battalions are on the way to increase the repair tempo.

China
It seems Joseph will fight in the defence of Liuchow. The stack that was South of the city is turning around to beat my troops to the city. Unless I send a large army from nearby Kweilin as well we'd only have near AV parity. I'm turning back again and getting an extra 600 AV from the North, when they arrive I'll be able to put together some 2000+ AV without denuding Kweilin.

No reaction just yet to my moves near Sian. Interesting is that a a feint (a mere 200 AV) has gotten him to leave the hex just North of Sian, so a breaktrough of this new army would open up a land route to Sian. We're not there yet though, not by a long shot.


Mini-KB?
Some expertise is asked for, what do you guys make of the following sighting ?
Ships: 8, AV BB BB BB CVL CVL, fighters 17, bombers 14, auxilliary 32.
I always believe it to be mini-KB, but could it also be just the CS ships ? At the moment this group is sighted transferring from Singapore to Java.

Royal Navy
A new BB and CL just arrived in Cape Town, Warspite was already lounging around here and Prince Of Wales will come out of repairs in a week. As soon as a couple of DD arrive this force will move to India. The RN has a pretty large battleline (7 old BB) right now, but the CV are all pretty close to leaving, so that doesn't mean much.

USN
West Virginia, hit hard during the PH raid is making it's way slowly to the West Coast. Damage is all major and 0/50/32. 2 weeks ago Arizona tried the trip, but went up nearly 10 flooding to 0/62(54)/0 so she returned to Pearl to get major flooding down to 50. After those two return to the WC only Maryland will stay behind, she's still at 0/74/15. California still has 3 months to go in Alameda.

As to the carriers, they are well and will have completely upgraded their TB in about one to two weeks. 5 are docked in Pearl, Lexington in Sydney. It does seem like there is always at least one undergoing upgrades at any time, but that seems to die down now with a simultaneous upgrade in 2,5 months and then a long lull.

Subs
Trigger has nearly limped to Carnarvon so she seems safe, damage is 20/59(59)/0
O23 is in worse condition, at this speed she is 2 months from Broome and damage is 50/72(21)/12(4). The increase in systems is worrying as that will be needed to control flooding
Trusty got scared a bit by a DD group near Djambi, but only takes light damage. She's taking up station is deeper water.

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15-16 July 42' - 9/30/2010 3:04:49 PM   
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China
A Chinese corps emerging from the jungle retakes Ankang near Sian.

Subs
Tarpon launches duds at a TK near Foochow, escorts attack and cause light damage, enough to let her return to Pearl.
Tresher attacks an xAK South of Honshu, the target is part of a larger convoy. One dud an one explosion are reported on target.
Sealion gets a dud attack on a SC near Sabang.
Trusty gets attacked by a PB escorting an odd-looking assortment of ships including CM, DMS and xAK. No damage reported.

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17-18 July 42' - 10/2/2010 11:52:14 AM   
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China
Lanchow is taken in the North, too bad as it's a city that automatically generates 300 supplies a day. It also means 2000 AV are freed up to come South again. I'm not yet sure if the offensive to break the encirclement will go on now, best case scenario is a wreck 2 independent brigades guarding the North, but letting the Sian corps die and respawn is starting to look better than saving them.

N-Oz
Broome gets an airraid on the field as well, it's starting to look like bomber practice.

Burma
The daily Kalemyo raid is intercepted on the 18th. No escort flew to protect the bombers and a LRCAP from Imphal shot down 14 out of 25 bombers in the raid. Losses for the Allies seem to be 3 ops (2 from flying from Comilla to Imphal).

Subs
With her second to last salvo Herring finally gets lucky, and she hits the 2375ton xAK La Plata Maru
Near Foochow the fleet boats attack again, this time Grouper hits the large Yusen N class xAK Manilla Maru, the ship was carrying fuel and is reported to have succumbed to the flames. This large kill propels Grouper to the 7th spot in the sub standings.

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19-20 July 42' - 10/6/2010 9:16:29 AM   
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China
I decided to go for breaking the encirclement anyway. A couple of good corps remained in Sian who where worth breaking out, and they were nearing the next hex on the eve of the 19th. However, back to back assaults on the Chinese positions finally broke the defences on the 20th. The retreat turned into the usual slaughter and mass desertion. Over 2 days the Chinese lost about 35,000 troops, while the Japanese lost 12,000. The relief force crossed the river on the 20th as well, pitching 3000 AV worth of Chinese against 2 brigades. Losses weren't as lopsided as they might have been, the two Japanese brigades are made combat ineffective and take 6000 casualties between them. The Chinese lose 5000 troops, but over 300 squads are disabled.

The plans now are that the depleted corps will take a stand North of the river, slowing down any pursuit and getting killed off in the process. Any corps over or around 1/3th of it's TOE will join up with the relief force and go back to the mountains. Of course, if my fine troops decided to retreat into the jungles to the West the plan will change.

Burma
A squadron of Hussars advancing on an empty Akyab is getting air attacks thrown at it, but to no effect. One Japanese unit is spotted just over the river in a blocking position, one regiment is seen approaching the area. More recon is flown to find out the composition of the unit in a blocking position.

Sweeps are flown over Dimapur, I've decided to show one of the USAAF Fighter Groups I have in the area to defend the base.

Meanwhile SigInt confirms the 5th Division in the area, this unit has been shipped over from Java. There are now 3 Japanese divisional equivalents confirmed in Burma, with another 2 or 3 RTA Divisions thrown in.

Subs
Spearfish puts a dud in PC Take, near Mindanao.

Canton Island
The convoy to reoccupy the island has reached the island safely and was nearly finished unloading as of the 19th. There was a small chance of Japanese actions as the amphibious TF was spotted by his SigInt (1 detection). No air search over the area makes the job a lot easier though.

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RE: 12-13 July 42' - 10/6/2010 10:30:36 AM   
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Northern jungles and Lashio, which would allow supply to flow into China.

Hello Bart. I thought that Rangoon with a supply line traced to China had to be held in order to get supply back to China. In addition, in my game, I have noticed keeping Burma supplied after Patch 4 is really hard. Katha doesn't seem to get the same amount of Spam as it did before Patch 4.

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RE: 12-13 July 42' - 10/6/2010 10:40:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		Restrictions on supply flows to some bases have been introduced in one of the later patches, but as far as I'm aware they don't work for games started before that patch. Seeing as this is a rather old game I should be in the clear here. You're correct about the supply generated when there is a line from Rangoon to China, however, nothing stops me from manually pulling the supply through the jungle into Burma and then over the mountain road into China.

I know this might be gamey as it would be nearly impossible to do for massive amounts of supply IRL. However, the early patches had some more stuff that is not entirely realistic, such as the rather low garrison requirements for the Japanese in China. I won't require my opponent to use the new garrison requirements (imagine having to look that up every time you want to move troops), but I will use the early patch possibilities to move in supplies to strengthen my Chinese in return.

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Operation Basset - 10/9/2010 8:29:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Without much ado, here are the plans for the upcoming invasion of Burma, operation Basset.



I'm afraid the symbols are less clear than I would want them, but let it be clear that I believe I have a rather good picture of Japanese forces in Burma. Red formations are Japanese, purple are Thai, and thus a lot less important. About 80% of these units are confirmed by SigInt or bombing runs, some Thai formations are assumed due to the presence of other parts of the division and the assumption that all bases are garrisoned.

Basically, the main threats are a Japanese division up North in Myitkyina (33rd) and the 5th Division which is entering the country, last seen in Moulmein. I'm assuming she'll be up North before my offensive really gets going. Besides these two divisions all elements of the 55th Division are in the country, spread in regiments, mainly in the North of the country. I'm assuming a worst case scenario is another 2 divisions present but unobserved. Frequent recon runs can't find any unexplained troop concentrations though.

What are the Allied plans ?
1) A feint near Akyab, I want to draw at least one or two regiments here to prevent them being used near Katha. 143rd Infantry Regiment was transiting towards the interior before I sent troops towards Akyab, now it's returning to the coast, I'd like to keep it there. Troops: BFF Brigade, 26th Indian Brigade, 45th Recon Regiment, 50th Tank Brigade. Most of these units are still understrength or just not that good, but the recon will show a lot of AFVs and bodies going to Akyab.
2) Blocking force, stop Katha from being reinforced. Troops: 1st Burma Div, 36th Chinese Div, 88th Chinese Div, 46th Indian Brigade, total of 800 AV. Far from crack assault troops, but should be enough to hold in a jungle hex.
3) Slow troops, every unit that would take too long to take either 2 or 4, this route is half a jungle hex shorter. Can be used to both reinforce the blocking force or the attack on Katha. Troops: Artillery, AA, 3rd Carbiniers Regiment, Australian Engineer batallions.
4) Main assault force, will split up to invest Mytkyina and Katha. Troops: 18th British Division, 2nd British Division, 7th Australian Division, 17th Indian Division, 44th and 45th Indian Brigades.
5) 2 Understrength Chinese divisions may move up here in case the chance of trapping 33rd Division presents itself. If too many forces move North to reinforce Mytkyina, they may reveal themselves sooner and threaten to cut the road to discourage a forward defence. A 400 AV corps may help with the threatening, but it's perma-restricted so won't be able to actually help if that were needed.

The main goals, as said before, are to capture the Northern parts of Burma and to open up the road towards China. If enemy opposition is light, taking the Northern plains is a possibility as well. This would work rather well to threaten Lashio and so secure the supply route even more.

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21st July 42' - 10/18/2010 11:42:55 PM   
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Due to RL the game and AAR have been paused for a week, but it's resuming as we speak.

South Pacific
Subs are reconning Christmas Island. It may be a routine search, but it's the first time I really noticed sub recon near one of my Islands. 2 convoys are sighted, one bringing fuel to Canton, another a small oiler that was there in case the Canton Island force burned some fuel going at flank speed.

SW Pacific
Recon planes have just arrived on New Caledonia and the airfield on Luganville is building nicely. Soon recon will be undertaken around Guadalcanal and Ndeni. There is little other movement here at the moment.

In the meantime Lexington is leaving Australian waters to join up with the other carriers.

India
Dimapur is getting regular flybys, so troops marching to Imphal are railing into Silchar and walking the rest of the way. Troops are starting to disperse in the jungles around the city. Troops of the Australian division are still on Ceylon though, so the offensive won't be starting just yet.

DEI
What I believe to be mini-KB or at least the CS are making a strange circle, from Singapore to Soerabaja and now on to Batavia. Are they breaking into the Indian Ocean between Sumatra and Java or are they just patrolling in the Java sea on ASW duties ? Unfortunately, my 2 subs that are usually on station to keep an eye on the strait are at Perth, one due to battle damage and one to refuel.

Subs
Drum gets hit by a single Depth Charge, nothing fatal, but she is leaving her station for repairs
O23 is in trouble in the meantime. Since she was attacked, systems damage has gone up from 49 to 59. Float is fairly stable at around 72. Worries about the systems damage mean I diverted her to a dot hex in the Banda Sea. I wonder if I can keep her there unnoticed for some emergency repairs, a Japanese airfield is painfully close though.

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22-23 July 42' - 10/21/2010 2:08:38 PM   
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POW
First some good news for the UK fanboys, HMS Prince of Wales has finished repairs in Cape Town and will return to the battle. Let us hope she gets a chance to avenge HMS Repulse.

SWPac
More and more recon is sighted over Allies bases, sub recon is stationed between Noumea and Efate, Southwest of Suva and near Christmas. The RN and RAN may very well assemble a TF to start hunting again. Other than that everything is quiet.

Burma
A small group of tanks have retaken Akyab, an Indian brigade is being moved up to support in accordance with the above plan. Airstrikes keep coming, but do no damage, there is as of yet no indication of a counter-attack though there is a blocking force just over the river.

Subs
Haddock gets a dud hit on an xAK 300 miles South of the Home Islands.

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24 July 42' - 10/23/2010 7:09:00 PM   
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Air Bombardments
A quick overview of the air-campaigns being waged ATM
Darwin - Daily bombing by some 20 Sallies and 20 Zeroes as escort. The field and port remain closed, Katherine has a standing CAP and the field is getting enlarged
China - Uncontested raids strike Chinese Corps remaining around Sian.
Burma - Air strikes on Akyab, due to a lack of airfields and air support they are still uncontested, but this will change soon.

Subs
I-28 is hit once by APD Kilty NW of Christmas Island.
xAK City of Manchester is hit and sunk. She was part of an empty convoy returning to Cape Town after delivering fuel in Australia.


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25-26 July 42' - 10/25/2010 3:14:52 PM   
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Burma
Troops are moving into position for operation Basset. No recon over Imphal might mean that the build-up can remain unspotted. 2 British brigades have just landed in Karachi and part of an Australian brigade still has to be shipped from Ceylon.

In the meantime we spot movement along the railway in Katha. This might mean the regiment there is Strat moving out. The RAF is going to pay a visit to see whether this is the case.

Subs
DD again attack I-28, this time SW of Christmas Island, but little damage is achieved.



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27 July 42' - 10/26/2010 7:06:25 PM   
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Burma
The airstrikes don't work out too well, the Blenheim squadrons decide to stay home and keep one escort squadron with them. 2 Hurricane squadrons do fly from Imphal and meet 3 Oscars on CAP. 2 Oscars get shot down in return for Hurricane. One squadron then goes down to the deck to strafe and while the RAF is proud to announce they easily beat the puny results the IJAAF gets at Akyab the damage is light with 5 squads disabled. 112th Inf Rgt is again confirmed to be at Katha.

32 bombers don't achieve a thing against the Hussars in Akyab. 8000 feet is not an altitude to fight tanks.

Subs
O23 is still floating, but in trouble. Other subs were sent to scout the Allied dot hexes for air search and confirmed that the 2 closest bases are not safe. She'll have to crawl another 8 hexes to a base on the South end of Moluccas that is hopefully safe. In the meantime damage is rising. Another Dutch sub got hit by ASW planes when scouting one of the bases and is returning to Townsville for repairs.



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28-29 July 42' - 10/29/2010 11:09:38 AM   
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Burma
The hurricanes strike once more on the 28th, going 1-1 with the leaking CAP and disabling a couple more squads while strafing. On the 29th the Oscars from Mytkyina who were leaking decided to go on a sweep of Dimapur instead and they did horrible things to the CAP. The sweep came in at 22k, with CAP layered one squadron of P-40E at 20k, 15k and 10k. Losses were 11-1 in the air, with another 3 being written off after landing.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lemon will want to capitalize on this success, so counter-measures are being taken. 2 extra P-40 squadrons will patrol at 22k and 25k, while Hurricanes from Imphal will sweep Myitkyina to make way for 4 Blenheim squadrons striking the AF. About a week ago recon indicated only one large fighter and one bomber group on the lvl 2 field, so if he launches another sweep we may catch him without CAP.

Subs
HMS Truant, the pride of the Allied submarine force, was completely misrouted and ended up in Singapore last turn, luckily she got away with light damage to her engines, she's retiring to Ceylon for repairs. She got some interesting recon though, no fighters are spotted at the base. Too bad all my carriers are so far away because the huge list of tanker TFs is begging for an airstrike.

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30 July 42' - 10/30/2010 3:09:10 PM   
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Burma
No action today, the reinforcement of Dimapur was correctly anticipated while the RAF again declined to fly, neither the sweeps from Imphal nor the bombers from Comilla left their fields.

Katha is now reported empty and the last recon flights showed much less strength in Mytkyina as well, a division was deployed here earlier, but now barely 5000 men are reported. If Northern Burma is indeed being abandoned then I plan to follow close on his heels and operation Basset has started. Several brigades and even a British division haven't reached their starting positions yet, but they will either tag along with other advances or follow later. In about 20 to 25 days the first units infantry units should reach the roads near Katha, artillery, engineers and armour will arrive later. More units including an Indian division are being railed to Chittagong to make it look like a large strike will come from this direction.

Subs
2 duds on convoy escorts and ASW groups, one other sub is attacked ineffectively by sub chasers.
O23 went down after struggling with heavy damage for nearly 3 weeks.

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July Overview - 10/30/2010 3:26:36 PM   
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                     Japan               Allied
DD                     -1                    0               FOW Correction
AM                      1                    0
SS                     -1                    1
PC                      1                     0
AK                      6                     1
Small combat        2                     0
ACM                    0                     1

Again a month of light losses, with some FOW corrections.

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July Overview - 10/30/2010 3:39:14 PM   
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                      Japan                      Allies
Air                      21                          13
Flak                     3                            1
Ground                 4                            0
Ops                    74                          49
Total                 102                          63

Not much happening on this front, but things may start to heat up soon. The air war over Burma seems to become a bit more active, and it certainly will if Japanese troops try to fight me in the jungle. I still have massive reserves of P-40E to burn and it's replacement is coming in about a month. Hurricane pools aren't exactly low either. For this month these are the new planes.



The P-38F would seem to be the most important reinforcement, but unfortunately the only units that can take it at the moment are permanently restricted to the West Coast. The B-17F is also interesting, but I've still got large pools of B-17E at hand, they will be used first. I'm not quite sure about the Vengeance I, what are people's opinions ? My Blenheims haven't suffered yet so far, so I don't know whether I should keep flying those or switch to the Vengeance. The main goal will be tactical bombing in Burma, so maybe the DB would be better for that.

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RE: July Overview - 10/30/2010 4:08:59 PM   
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While there were no ambitious plans for this month it still went rather well for the Allies. The operations were mainly to prepare for later offensives in the coming months and an absence of Japanese attacks meant this build-up is going according to plan. In China the fall of Sian and the large troops losses did hurt, but they are far from crippling.



Theatre by Theatre

China
We'll kick off here as it saw the largest battles this month. The ground offensive managed to capture Sian and Lanchow, but to my opponent's displeasure the industry of both cities is nearly wrecked. It seems like Sian is even being nearly abandoned already. This means that huge forces are now again free to redeploy to other areas, but none will be so easy to take as Sian, where the Chinese were starving even before the city was surrounded.

Burma
The Commonwealth has been amassing forces on the border and in the closing days of the month these are being released to invade Northern Burma. Akyab was already retaken after being abandoned by the Japanese forces. This theatre allowed me to put the first green arrow on the map, let's hope many will follow all along the map in the next months.

SPac
Canton was reoccupied and further operations are being planned

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RE: July Overview - 10/30/2010 6:50:22 PM   
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The good news is that there is an unrestricted unit that takes the P38F: 35thFG/39FS.

Just caught up with your AAR. Losing Lanchow is very bad news for the Chinese. About 1/4 of the total asupply available within China is produced by heavy industry. No fuel means that China will start to starve if left to it's own devices.


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RE: July Overview - 10/30/2010 7:03:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Yakface, thanks for the tip, I used Tracker to search for units taking the P-38F but found none unrestricted. The trouble seems to be that there is still another upgrade between what they are flying now and the P-38.

I'm still a bit unclear as to the effects the fall of Lanchow will have on my supplies. For one I'm not quite sure if the fuel was flowing regularly even before the fall of the city. Tracker does seem to indicate a trend of falling supplies, but the effect is not disastrous just yet. The offensive that is being launched into Burma will hopefully open a supply route into China to counter that trend.

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