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RE: Allied assault - 12/11/2011 10:05:01 AM   
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A flight of Blenheim iV's gets lost and shows up over Shwebo.

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 17

Allied aircraft
Blenheim IV x 16

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim IV: 15 destroyed

Airbase hits 6
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Blenheim IV bombing from 7000 feet
Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb

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And the Chinese in the open are hit again. Next turn my Ground troops should arrive.

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Morning Air attack on 95th Chinese Corps, at 86,43 , near Loyang

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 17
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 63
Ki-48-IIa Lily x 36
Ki-49-Ia Helen x 35

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 damaged
Ki-49-Ia Helen: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
473 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 45 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 69 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
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RE: Allied assault - 12/12/2011 2:01:26 AM   
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Massed sweeps against Diampur on the Burma/India border see half a dozen P-38's go down for 5 zeroes and 1 oscar. 4 pilots KIA. Seems like a bargain to me!

We also see the return of our old friend the nightflying B-17.

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Night Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
     no flights

Allied aircraft
     Blenheim IV x 9
     B-17E Fortress x 24

Japanese aircraft losses
     Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed on ground

No Allied losses

Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 58

Aircraft Attacking:
      9 x Blenheim IV bombing from 7000 feet
              Airfield Attack:  4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
     11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 7000 feet
              Airfield Attack:  8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
      4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 7000 feet
              Airfield Attack:  8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
      4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 7000 feet
              Airfield Attack:  8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
      5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 7000 feet
              Airfield Attack:  8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

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228 bombs dropped with 79 hits. A 35% hit rate. This is all kinds of silly and I think I am going to have to ask Kfsgo about a house rule to keep night missions over 15k or something like that. Alternatively if he doesn't go for it I can send 300 helens/sallies to visit Calcutta at 6k every night and break some 4E's on the ground.

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RE: Allied assault - 12/12/2011 5:23:47 AM   
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228 bombs dropped with 79 hits. A 35% hit rate. This is all kinds of silly and I think I am going to have to ask Kfsgo about a house rule to keep night missions over 15k or something like that. Alternatively if he doesn't go for it I can send 300 helens/sallies to visit Calcutta at 6k every night and break some 4E's on the ground.


I understood your point. 4E in low altitude are overpowered and in some point unnatural for me.
In my game with Docup we have HR about no flying 4E bombers below 10k. And about night bombings. We restricted them to 2 attacks on single hex in week before 9/43 and 4 after.

We will see is this is good HR or not but at lest we have it.

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RE: Allied assault - 12/12/2011 7:45:34 AM   
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About 30 B-17 have a go at one of my bombardment TF's off the Indian coast. No hits and a few damaged planes from flak. Hopefully some will crash on the way home. The TF was lingering inside divebomber range to bait them out but for some reason the LRCAP did not show up.

Earlier it had a go at the Diamond harbor fortress to see how tough it is and hopefully break a few of the guns.

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Night Naval bombardment of Diamond Harbour at 52,38 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

35 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
     BB Fuso
     BB Nagato, Shell hits 2
     CA Chokai, Shell hits 1
     CA Maya, Shell hits 3,  on fire

Allied Ships
     AMc Calcutta, Shell hits 1
     MGB No. 363, Shell hits 1,  heavy fires,  heavy damage
     MGB No. 362, Shell hits 1,  heavy fires,  heavy damage
     AMc Agra, Shell hits 1,  heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
     98 casualties reported
        Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
        Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 25 disabled
        Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
     Guns lost 8 (3 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 11
Port hits 5
Port supply hits 3

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Maya has 10 Sys damage so nothing major.

As for Fiji I am moving to take back a few of the bases and establish airfields in easy fighter range of Pago Pago and Niue which has rapidly been built to a lvl 4 airfield. I want to see if I can prod Kfsgo into committing ships to the theatre and then jump them. I can also render Pago Pago and Niue very hard to resupply.

To be honest combat here suits me as its about as far away form anything important as you can be and I can't advance any further without running out my logistical tail. The greater range of INA/IJN planes is also a significant advantage in the south pacific and unless he commits some 4E to the theater he is restricted to mostly defensive actions without his carriers.




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Afternoon Air attack on 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, at 138,168 (Tongatapu)

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 39
G3M3 Nell x 15
G4M1 Betty x 44

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
31 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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The Marines at Tonatapu have been rendered combat ineffective and I will drop another Para bn on them tomorrow.

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RE: Allied assault - 12/12/2011 4:46:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		You did not state at what range you executed that bombardment .. did you set the minimum range or did yu let those BB's close to within the 6" guns? I taught my opononet to stay out to maximum range ...

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RE: Allied assault - 12/13/2011 10:04:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think the bombardment was set at range 6.

28 June

The Chinese get mauled.




Ground combat at 86,43 (near Loyang)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 95788 troops, 753 guns, 195 vehicles, Assault Value = 3489

Defending force 71554 troops, 431 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2593

Japanese adjusted assault: 1108

Allied adjusted defense: 439

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
     3822 casualties reported
        Squads: 20 destroyed, 510 disabled
        Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
        Engineers: 2 destroyed, 30 disabled
     Guns lost 29 (1 destroyed, 28 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
     23399 casualties reported
        Squads: 768 destroyed, 419 disabled
        Non Combat: 815 destroyed, 508 disabled
        Engineers: 42 destroyed, 37 disabled
     Guns lost 64 (26 destroyed, 38 disabled)
     Units retreated 18

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

I blocked off all their retreat paths other than into the woods. I really should have pounded them from the air for another week to inflict even more casualties before retreating them but i'm happy with what I got. 27th Corps was essentially wiped out to a man and the rest heavily mauled. 63rd Div too about 150 disablements and the others only took 15-30. Should be back on form in no time. I have about 6 thousand AV in the north with maybe another thousand available soon to reinforce. Against that there is maybe 4-5 thousand Chinese AV with the 1500 or so just retreated in a sorry state.
I am unsure if I can break them in 3x Terrain which they will be fighting in on the defense and in all likelyhood aerial support will accomplish very little in that sort of terrain.

However I have just reconstituted the 1st and 2nd Tank divisions at Shanghai and I may send them on an adventure to the north while I draw Kfsgo's reserves south of Sian. If I can get them through to the open Terrain I hear they do all sorts of nasty things to Chinese troops in the open.

Current China Situation map. It had stabilized until Kfsgo tried to cut off my forward troops and now I think I can go on the offensive again up north to capture the Oil. The image is from a few turns ago as I forgot to take one during the turn.



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RE: Allied assault - 12/13/2011 7:58:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bombardment .. you can set your BB's out to maximum ranage but at least 15K and keep out of 6" penatration range. Actaully my IJ opponet had been just taking the defaut of '0' and getting creamed . so I explained this little tibit ..

The big BB's have much more extended range and do very well ...

Just a thoguht to save your BB's for certain destruction from shore batteries.

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RE: Allied assault - 1/2/2012 8:23:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well I was away on holiday so the game was on hiatus over Xmas/NY. Im (obviously) back now so we are moving onto the 1st July.

A few tussles over Chungking with me sending Zeroes to sweep the Chinese airforce out of the Sky. About 3-1 kill ratio on my side with 25-30 Chinese fighters downed in two days of fighting. P43, H-81 and I-15 just cant compete with zeroes in a dogfight.
Otherwise quiet other than a few Marine planes trying to supress my forward bases around Fiji.

Emily production is started, Mavis's will be mostly phased out as planes are available.

Kfsgo is massing a LOT of fighters at Calcutta, i'm not even sure if I have 450 fighters in the entire Burma/Ceylon theater, seems like a good chunk of the US army AF is hanging out in Burma these days. On top of that I ID'd an American division in India about a month ago. Possibly there is some sort of plan in the works to "do something" about Ceylon, I sure hope so as that is one battle I would love to fight before '42 gets away from me, although if it could just wait another month till the Tojo is in production that would be even better.



Finally an outpost east of Fiji calls in an interesting sighting. I think this just might be the US CV's back to say hello, seems a bit far for planes to be flying from Pago Pago.
If so we might be about to have a thrilling few turns.



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RE: Allied assault - 1/3/2012 7:45:24 AM   
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Literally nothing important happened today, at all. The most exciting part of the turn was a Jake being shot down by a submarine NW of Fiji.

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RE: Allied assault - 1/7/2012 3:34:23 AM   
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The airwar in Burma is heating up. Kfsgo is comitting his 4E to attack lightly defended bases preceeded by sweeping with P-38 to catch leaking CAP. He is very reluctant to contest any even moderately defended base and most of my losses are small packets of leaking zeroes being massacred by P-38 sweeps. In China the Chinese airforce has pretty much been swept into oblivion. Not a lot of functional fighters left at all.

July 4 was the busiest day with only a little bit of skirmishing on  the 3rd and 5th



The three B-17 were lost to balloons hahaha as Kfsgo set them to fly at 6k feet.

My own bombers are refusing to strike at bases defended by even minimal CAP even when I assign twice as many fighters as at the target base to escort even before accounting for the fact that most of the defenders are actually away sweeping my bases.

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RE: Allied assault - 1/7/2012 6:39:42 AM   
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More violence in the air over Burma/India. The IJAAF sends a massed sweep over one of the primary allied forward bases and Kfsgo attacks Katha Airfield with 100 B17E at 10K ft.
The Oscar is a decent little light fighter but really really needs more/bigger guns. Watching the replay my pilots hit the Allied fighters at least twice as often as they hit me but the more rugged US/UK designs are usually only damaged wheras the Oscars fall apart from nearly every single hit.
Most of my losses were from head on passes with both planes firing at each other resulting in some damage to the enemy and the Oscar exploding.



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Morning Air attack on Comilla , at 56,39

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 106 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 36 minutes

Japanese aircraft
     Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 164



Allied aircraft
     Hurricane IIb Trop x 30
     Kittyhawk IA x 15
     P-38E Lightning x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
     Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
     Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed
     Kittyhawk IA: 2 destroyed
     P-38E Lightning: 2 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
     41 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
     15 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
     24 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet
     34 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 25000 feet

CAP engaged:
No.67 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 8 scrambling)
     2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
     Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 29000.
     Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
No.14 Sqn RNZAF with Kittyhawk IA (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 7 scrambling)
     2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
     Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 29000.
     Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes
No.607 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 7 scrambling)
     2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
     Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 29000.
     Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes
51st FG/25th FS with P-38E Lightning (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 12 scrambling)
     4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
     Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 29000.
     Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes

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Morning Air attack on Katha , at 61,43

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
     B-17E Fortress x 103


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese ground losses:
     15 casualties reported
        Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
        Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
        Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled


Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 41

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Losses for the day



10 Fighter pilots didn't come home which isn't too bad a loss all things considered.


China



After the slaughter of the Chinese in Northern china a sort time ago I have managed to pull approx 6k AV of infantry off the front lines into a massive spearhead which I will be taking along one of the highlighted routes to break the Chinese MLR once and for all the 1st and 2nd tank divisions will also be joining the force. I would love to take the Ichang route as it is lightly defended and would cut off Changsha but I doubt that it would be feasible to supply all those troops over that path and I would have to bring overwhelming force as it involves shocking over a river into 2x terrain with fortified Chinese forces.




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RE: Allied assault - 1/8/2012 12:18:40 AM   
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WHOOPS!

Morning Air attack on Port Blair , at 46,58

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
     no flights

Allied aircraft
     B-17E Fortress x 84

Japanese aircraft losses
     G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground
     Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
     B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
     BB Nagato, Bomb hits 13,  on fire
     CA Chokai, Bomb hits 2
     CA Nachi, Bomb hits 2
     BB Hyuga, Bomb hits 18,  heavy fires
     BB Fuso, Bomb hits 11,  on fire
     BB Ise, Bomb hits 12,  on fire

Japanese ground losses:
     10 casualties reported
        Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
        Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
        Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 22
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 2

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I'm sure that will buff right out.



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RE: Allied assault - 1/8/2012 3:58:07 AM   
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A bit more action today. AMC raiders stumble across *something* west of Perth, looks like a convoy.
Unfortunately Kfsgo must have spotted my raiders and CL Sumatra blows AMC Kiyosumi Maru apart in a brutal night action.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Perth at 32,146, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
     AMC Kiyosumi Maru, Shell hits 14, and is sunk

Allied Ships
     CL Sumatra, Shell hits 1

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Some revenge is had near Niue.

ASW attack near Niue  at 147,170

Japanese Ships
     SS I-10

Allied Ships
     DD Buchanan, Torpedo hits 1,  on fire,  heavy damage
     DD Dale

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In Burma Kfsgo sends P-40 in low and fast over Shwebo to try take advantage of leaky CAP from the airbase next door. It doesn't go too well for him as the layered CAP drags his planes into an extended brawl and costs him nearly two squadrons of Warhawks.





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Afternoon Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 28

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 7 destroyed

CAP engaged:
1st Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(13 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes

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Afternoon Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20

Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 1000 feet *

CAP engaged:
1st Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
64th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-43-Ic Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 9000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 52 minutes


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RE: Allied assault - 1/21/2012 12:50:59 AM   
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The first half of July was quiet however on the 16-17th a large scale bombing campaign started in Northern Australia. About 50 heavies and 80 2E pounded my airfields flat. A2A losses were minimal on both sides as I had very little committed to the theater.
From the 18th onwards there has been a back and forth battle between my LRCAP from Timor and the 4CVE who wandered down to help out and bag some heavies and Kfsgo's strike planes, mostly over Darwin. Currently the Airfield is juuust disabled but the only LR fighters in theater appear to be Beaufighters and my Oscars and Zeroes are eating them alive whenever they catch them.Loss estimates for Kfsgo are 10 heavies, 10 Beau's and maybe 10-20 mediums. I have had a few Oscars/Zeroes shot down by B-17's but the pilots mostly make it out alive and my production is more than sufficient to replace all losses.
A CVE ate a sub torpedo but with only 10 sys and 20 (10 major) flt she is fine. About two weeks in the yard I expect.  I got quite lucky there I must say.

Meanwhile in SOPAC I have established an airfield at Va'avu, close range to Niue where Kfsgo has been basing about 2 squads of wildcats and ~30 Dauntless with a dozen avengers. I got 16 wildcats and maybe 10 navy bombers in exchange for four zeroes last turn so he will likely back off here.

Finally Kfsgo has shifted about 50 B-17 into china with a few squadrons of P-38 in support. I am not entirely sure what he is trying to acheive here as the only significant airbase I have is very well protected and he is loathe to strike it. So far he has been hitting all the minor IJA airbases on the front line and no doubt burning up massive amounts of precious supply doing so for what is really very little gain.
In other news I have managed to surprise Kfsgo with 7k AV turning up in Changsha. He has 3K av defending and a deliberate attack is ordered for this turn, should be exciting and if we can break through here it finishes the 'pipeline' from Singapore to Port Arthur.

Finally in Burma a 300 plane sweep was ordered against Kfsgo's primary forward airbase. Losses were about 1.5:1 in our favor for the main strike but then a squad of Oscars got lost and proceeded to get butchered. Day losses were about even with around 40 apiece. I managed to retrieve most of my pilots however.

I think offensive operations will be restricted to the IJAAF from now on. Zeroes seem to perform no better than Oscars on sweep and Navy pilots are is terribly short supply. Besides in two weeks ITS TOJO TIME.

Finally has something changed with regard to bomber defensive fire in the latest patches? Even the Dauntless and Avengers today were firing back at every single fighter pass and 2E allied bombers shoot on every pass and hurt fighters as much as the fighters hurt them. I don't even want to talk about the insanely murderous fire coming from B-17's but I expect Kfsgo's first bomber ace any day now.
On the flipside I think I have seen Japanese bombers fire their turret guns maybe three times ever?

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RE: Allied assault - 1/22/2012 6:09:50 AM   
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SOPAC:

More A2A combat over Vava'u. Sweeps of 22 P-40E and 48 F4F lose a bit over 3-1 against a 36 plane A6M2 wing despite outnumbering the defenders.
I find Kfsgo is fairly predictable with his sweeps and has a consistent tactic of sending army fighters in at low level to draw down the CAP so that later sweeps can get the dive. This is fairly easily countered by properly layered CAP and usually results in the slaughter of whatever poor saps get sent in at low level. In this case that was the P-40's. Only one pilot is killed.




Northern Australia:

The Continental airbases are still shut down. I blast a few more Beaufighters and nab a couple of B-26 with a LRCAP trap over Katherine. The B-26 defensive fire is still quite effective and despite a dozen fighters breaking through the escort to make attack runs only 2 are shot down.





China:

The big action today is a massive assault on Changsha. It doesn't go well for the attacking force.

Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 188595 troops, 1656 guns, 572 vehicles, Assault Value = 7230

Defending force 93314 troops, 617 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3021

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 5

Japanese adjusted assault: 7426

Allied adjusted defense: 9975

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 5)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), preparation(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
     18989 casualties reported
        Squads: 103 destroyed, 2218 disabled
        Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 95 disabled
        Engineers: 12 destroyed, 131 disabled
     Guns lost 105 (4 destroyed, 101 disabled)
     Vehicles lost 28 (1 destroyed, 27 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
     5260 casualties reported
        Squads: 22 destroyed, 435 disabled
        Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 247 disabled
        Engineers: 3 destroyed, 52 disabled
     Guns lost 90 (11 destroyed, 79 disabled)


Assaulting units:
   37th Division
   17th Division
   58th Division
   69th Division
   17th Ind.Mixed Brigade
   13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
   60th Division
   39th Division
   34th Division
   9th Ind.Mixed Brigade
   22nd Division
   15th Division
   36th Division
   12th Tank Regiment
   70th Division
   32nd Division
   116th Division
   1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
   13th Division
   59th Division
   1st Mortar Battalion
   13th Army
   11th Army
   51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
   52nd Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
   2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
   China Expeditionary Army
   12th Army
   4th Mortar Battalion
   14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
   15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
   6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
   45th Chinese Corps
   20th Chinese Corps
   9th Prov Chinese Corps
   50th Chinese Corps
   5th Construction Regiment
   30th Chinese Corps
   87th Chinese Corps
   86th Chinese Corps
   58th Chinese Corps
   88th Chinese Corps
   74th Chinese Corps
   14th Construction Regiment
   49th AA Regiment
   18th Chinese Base Force
   41st AA Regiment
   27th Group Army
   25th Group Army
   22nd Artillery Regiment
   11th Chinese Base Force
   32nd Group Army
   10th Group Army
   30th Group Army
   21st Group Army
   3rd War Area
   9th War Area
   2nd Chinese Base Force
   Central Reserve
   23rd Group Army
   29th Group Army
   17th Chinese Base Force
   RAF 224 Group Base Force /2


So much for breaking through the Chinese MLR around here.

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RE: Allied assault - 1/22/2012 7:40:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		So recently I have been watching this British comedy show about a bunch of university students called "Fresh meat". Personally I think it's brilliant and one of the funniest things I have seen in some time. Unfortunately one of the main characters is a geology student named Howard.

My esteemed opponent happens to be British, a student and studies geology.

Worrying.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teRUZl23EnM




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RE: Allied assault - 1/22/2012 11:31:37 AM   
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I decide not to contest the skies over Darwin and Vava'u this turn to let my pilots rest. I also expected Kfsgo to back off a bit after the casualties he has suffered. Turns out I was mistaken on the second part, P-38 fly in both SOPAC and N-AU followed by strikes of everything he has to cripple my airfields. Even obsolete B-18 Bolo get in on the action against Vava'u.

With P-38 in Australia I really can't maintain a constant defense, they murder LRCAP fighters and the airfield are still shut down. Vava'u however took only minimal damage that was repaired by the next day. No sign of any real allied ships, a few transport spotted hanging around but as per usual the allied navies are conspiculously absent.

In the skies over Changsha the combined airforce goes up against the allied B team and comes out victorious. 5 Navy pilots and 10 planes lost for 25 allied fighters. The navy pilots sting but there are barely enough replacements available. The IJAAF has a massive surplus of pilots and planes and losses by it really don't worry me. The navy however simply does not get enough pilots (150 per month) to engage in protracted fighting.
My training program has already sucked the entire navy replacement que dry down to the 10xp guys and it won't let me draw any more replacement pilots at this point. Over the next 2 months a MASSIVE number of Navy pilots will be available with 70 skill in their proficiency but after that I am basically going to be stuck at the 150/month number. I guess I put too much effort into my training program and I will have to switch some more units to the frontlines.



So far this period of enhanced allied activity hasn't cost me that much other than the Australian airfields. No sign of any major LCU's or indications that a major amphibious operation is underway. I don't know the state of Kfsgo's pools but I doubt he would have kicked off this across the board action without sufficient reserves.
The real issue is its about that time for the first major allied action and I have no idea where/when it will fall. I have about 800 planes in my major reserve that aren't committed to the frontline actions, mostly navy planes with a few LowNav trained army bomber squads. There are also 6 IJA divisions (15th + Southern armies) + two tank divisions and a few tank Rgt not committed anywhere which form my main LCU reserve.

Basically any incursion that looks like the real deal is going to be faced with overwhelming force as soon as I can redeploy to meet it.

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RE: Allied assault - 1/22/2012 2:40:58 PM   
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The scuffles continue over Vava'u and Changsha. This is totally alright with me as it must be bleeding the allied fighter pools dry and I can take losses of Machines and Army pilots much much easier than the allies can. Still not able to get any decent shots in at his bombers but they are only having minimal effect because of the formation disruption and damaged planes withdrawing. I even bagged a few P-38 today over Vava'u which pleased me greatly. They seem to come in last against depleted CAP from the bomber raids and F4F sorties and nail my tired CAP then bounce out. About half my losses today came from a single P-38 sweep of 20 planes.

I was quite annoyed that I didn't get a single Avenger in this attack. All the CAP in the shot was in the air at the start distributed between 10K-20K and approx 20 minutes warning.





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RE: Allied assault - 2/28/2012 11:51:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		So we have progressed onto the 15 August 1942.

Not a huge amount of action around the Map. As it stands Kfsgo seems to have withdrawn onto the defensive in SOPAC and Vava'u is now up to a level 4 AF and building forts.

Northern Australia is where the excitement is now, Daly waters has fallen to what looks like an allied armored Corps. I remain forced to keep my planes off the continent by the 4E threat but I have LRCAP bases built and along with 4 CVE + 6AV (each AV has 8 A6M2-Rufe floatfighters) are basically running intermittent LRCap traps over Darwin.
So far there are losses on both sides as he has started sweeping with P-38 as well as heavy bomber attacks by around 100 4E. No serious losses to the 4E so far other than a few that get separated every now and then and swarmed by CAP. P-38 seem to have been withdrawn for now due to a glorious day in which we bagged 16 of them getting a 1:1 in the air against P-38 for perhaps the first time in the war.

I don't know if he will continue to advance but if he does I have the 5th Air army's bomber group waiting in Java to fly in and pick the armored units apart on the road to Darwin.
Action here suits me well as even if I lose Darwin there is no real threat to the DEI unless Kfsgo can open the sealanes and it will likely be some time until that is a feasible operation and it would have to face the full KB heavily supported by built up airbases on both approaches.
There also remains the option of landing in overwhelming force as the allies approach Darwin and throwing them back into the desert. The current reserve is ~8 Divisions + 2 Tk Div. Only 1 Div is currently prepared for Darwin so I would have to land them before I lost it.





Meanwhile I have been busy preparing troops for two different operations, I doubt I will be able to perform both to be honest as there just isn't time and November is the cutoff for the Northern operation.

The first is a massive amphibious assault against the Burmese coast to crush an Indian division at Cox's Bazzar and then isolate and destroy a second Indian division at Akyab.

This would have the full KB with 8CV, 3CVL, 4CVE and The Kongo's, Fuso's and Yamato in support with the BB running Bombardment and the KB + the Burma valley Airbases providing aircover. 8 CA are also tasked to perform CV escort and run interceptions against any SC forces as there appears to be a destroyer or two docked in Calcutta.
I still own Colombo and Port Blair so I doubt there is much chance of any other Allied fleet units interfering.
The British Naval Strike air is likely intact and is a serious worry. Most of the Airbases including Chittagong are heavily built up and there are large number of American and British planes in the area. We both have about 400 Fighters in Burma but neither of us is willing to face the losses of fighting over the others bases at this point. Maybe 10-12 allied subs are in the area.
This is a fairly high risk operation so I am going to have to give it a lot of thought before okaying it.




The second operation is an occupation of the Aleutians. Adak has been significantly built up but does not appear to have a lot of troops. The operation should be fairly straightforward and could feasibly be pulled off with only some BB's and the CVE + AV force providing fighter cover. If the KB is not needed elsewhere I would likely have it lurking in the ocean to smash anything that tried to interfere.



Currently I am leaning towards the Aleutians as it is a lot lower risk and it isn't long now till the Allies start getting some serious reinforcements. I believe the P-40K and a new model of B-17 are arriving in numbers about now for a start.

Anyone have any thoughts or commentary?

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RE: Allied assault - 3/15/2012 5:29:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		We are about to finish up August. SO far nothing terribly exciting has happened. The Bomber forces in Northern Australia have disappeared and Darwin is fully repaired. Disappointing as I had just got my specialised bomber destroyer force of ~80 Nicks in theater to give them a better run for their money.

Otherwise quiet, for the last two days the only action has been in China.
Chittagong also appears to have been reinforced somewhat.

Tojo's are now rolling out in serious numbers and I am forming a mass with which to take the air war back to the allies and whittle them down a bit before the P-40K comes online.

The plans detailed in my previous post are nearing the jump off point over the next two weeks or so.

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RE: Allied assault - 10/26/2012 3:43:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well in mid September (game time) my opponent Kfsgo vanished and has not been heard from since. After some waiting and an abortive attempt to start another GC I decided to look for a replacement opponent for this game.

Unsplittableatom is my new allied opponent. We are 4 turns into the new game and its already exciting.

I cancelled the Aleutians operation after some thought, the risk is not worth it and my sub plane recon seemed to be painting an overly optimistic picture of the situation on the ground. Looks like the garrisons were a lot heavier than I thought after some proper overflights and I doubt I had enough force to easily overun the defenders who are no doubt very well dug in by now. Instead I will concentrate on building up Japans northern island and fortifying them against any kind of surprise assault.

So far a few things of note, Atom has gone on the offensive in the Changsha area attempting to retake the plains and relieve the siege there. Could be bloody as I can kill 50+ combat squads and even more noncombat per day in open ground with my China airforce.

A reasonably significant number of heavy bombers have appeared in North Aus as well as at least 50 P-38 and another 70+ other fighters including some Kittyhawks and P-40. Some unescorted raids over darwin were handled roughly by LRCAP losing several heavies for no significant damage.
The Australian armored corps (1000+ vehicles yikes) is again advancing on Darwin and moving fast. Darwin is only lightly defended at the moment (forts 5 250AV) and I will have to decide if I should divert a significant part of my reserve there to reinforce. I have the 1st and 2nd tank divisions, 6-8 tank rgt, 6 AT units, 4 Infantry divisions and the IG brigade immediately available which should be enough to handle the allied force if I commit them all. I may try to land them at the absolute last minute as the allies are investing Darwin and see if I cant soundly thrash the armored corps and force it back into the desert.

Finally it looks like an assault along the Burmese coast is coming. I am doing what I can to prepare.
This last turn saw a large raid on Ledo which resulted in 25 Oscar and 20 Sally exchanged for ~8-10 Hurri-IIB, ~4-5 Mohawks and a couple of Martlet II's lost A2A and around 50, maybe more transports torched on the ground who I assume were transporting supplies to China.
Numbers destroyed on the ground are unclear and tracker, the turn loss chart (ingame) and the individual plane losses for the day all disagree by about 20 planes. I think about 40 C-47 and 10-15 other transports (mostly DC-3). About 2 months worth of replacements in any case destroyed in a single day. I lost 25 pilots KIA, 10 MIA.


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RE: Allied assault - 10/27/2012 1:23:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Busy day over Changsha as I try to supress the airbase. There's even a squadron of F4F-4 in China of all places.
Darwin is bombed against no resistance for a few planes lost to flak and 30% AF damage.



And an update on the state of the airwar.






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