PzB74
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I have no idea about surplus refinery capacity in Home Islands Mynok, but if we run low on fuel one day it can't hurt if we build up oil stocks!
Interesting turn...got some issues I've asked Andy about, a few are described below in the combat text!
The others;
1. In another game I got against Al I put lots of troops to follow my HQ marching into Singapore.
Twice the HQ has cancelled its movement whe 50-75% there. Annoying... Now I've put all units to march and they will cross helter skelter, forcing several shock attacks. Suggestions?
2. If you put 10k troops on an atoll with a limit of 6k troops, will this affect supply levels and supply usage in any extreme way?
Have unloaded 4k supplies at Palmyra and supply levels have been staying steady at 20!! continously despite all damage being fixed a long time ago. Trying to move out some troops but it's very frustrating...just like a black hole is eating up everything unloaded here.
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 11, 42
Sub Attacks
The happy hunting grounds outside Colombo is still rich with targets!
Clan Macnaught - must be a scotsman!-)
Submarine attack near Colombo at 26,48
Japanese Ships
SS I-165
Allied Ships
xAK Clan Macnaughton, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage
xAK Clan Macnaughton is sighted by SS I-165
SS I-165 attacking on the surface
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Bombardments
Ok we gave Perth a severe pounding! 36 ac destroyed on the ground including 8 P-38's! 
The Hyuga and Fuso concentrated on Perth while the not so lucky Yamashiro pulled the shortest straw and engaged
Freemantle fort! Hundreds of 9.2, 6 and 4" shells were hurled at her and she was duped in fire. Still, sys damage = only 2
and one secondary turret is destroyed....
Naval bombardment of Perth at 49,147 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 7 destroyed on ground
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 destroyed on ground
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed on ground
F4F-3A Wildcat: 1 destroyed on ground
PBY-5A Catalina: 1 destroyed on ground
Beaufighter Ic: 2 destroyed on ground
P-38E Lightning: 3 destroyed on ground
102 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
BB Hyuga
BB Yamashiro, Shell hits 31
BB Fuso
CL Tama
Allied ground losses:
181 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 26 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)
Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 9
Runway hits 114
BB Hyuga firing at Perth
BB Yamashiro firing at Freemantle Fortress
BB Fuso firing at Perth
CL Tama firing at Perth
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Air Combat
Tried to organize a massive sweep over Calcutta...found no one home - but what upset me
was that all air units went in one by one despite my preparations!
1. Plenty supplies in base
2. Air HQ in base
3. All fighters given the same target and altitude
I see that weather was poor, but still - the sweeping ac launched unit by unit, no
attempts at coordination!
Why is this 
Afternoon Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
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Afternoon Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 34
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
34 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
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Afternoon Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 36
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
36 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick sweeping at 25000 feet *
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Afternoon Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 9
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 25000 feet
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Afternoon Air attack on Calcutta , at 52,37
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
No Japanese losses
Aircraft Attacking:
36 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 25000 feet
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Ground Combat
Trying to take out another stack that was surrounded...Andy made no attempts at withdrawing or
preventing the encirclement. A bit strange, the combat text says "forts reduced" twice but they didn't go down at all???
Ground combat at Kukong (79,57)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 43316 troops, 327 guns, 64 vehicles, Assault Value = 1590
Defending force 20827 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 731
Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2
Japanese adjusted assault: 980
Allied adjusted defense: 393
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2469 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 161 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 95 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
1497 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 119 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 100 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Assaulting units:
22nd Division
12th Ind.Mixed Brigade
2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment
17th/C Division
13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
116th/A Division
17th/B Division
116th/B Division
Defending units:
21st Chinese Corps
78th Chinese Corps
49th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
7th War Area
30th Group Army
12th Group Army
11th Chinese Base Force
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I've asked Andy about this one; 6 guns an no men defending against 120 tanks and 1000 troops.
3 times in a row I've shock attacked with 15-21 to 1 in odds. No results, no casualties and no retreat
A coastal arty unit should be dead and buried a long time ago - shouldn't even be able to move with guns!!
Annoying....
Ground combat at 50,144
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 1071 troops, 4 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 71
Defending force 0 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1
Japanese adjusted assault: 15
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Assaulting units:
16th Recon Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
Defending units:
276th Coastal Artillery Battalion
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Perth receives a pounding!
36x14" guns can deliver a sizeable barrage
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 "The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without" - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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RE: BACK IN BUSINESS - PzB goes East again(st) Andy Mac - 
So while your sweep or other attacks go in piece meal (strike package) you can be very unlucky in attacking a base with enough radar coverage and face the full Cap and all your "strike packages" will be whiped out. Same goes when attacking TFs, KB for example (and Allied TFs of course), you will face quite a high Cap as many (if not all) fighters will scramble to meet your piece meal strikes. This then leads to the strike packages being hit hard, as can be seen in many AARs. It´s hard coded and you can´t do much (if anything) against it, the air coordination guide on the forum is nice but is 95% theory. Follow it and you won´t find much difference IMO. All the "you need this and that" just doesn´t work in my AE version and it doesn´t work in most versions, at least I have yet to see an AAR that proves it working. 
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