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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/8/2012 4:25:59 PM   
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Guards Mixed Brigade - This unit will eventually form the basis for a division when the other components arrive in early '43. If you check the "Unit Organization" button now, you can click on the other LCUs and change what they prep for. Some players forget that you can start the later reinforcements prepping for future objectives now. It effects some of your reinforcements coming in soon. Just a reminder.

After Balikpapan, but before invading Java you will probably want to take Makassar. To speed up this conquest, make sure you take both Pare Pare and Watampone first so his LCUs at Makassar have no valid retreat route and you don't have to waste time chasing them down. Use a Fast Transport TF or two to speed up your conquest in the SRA rather than wait for your transports when all you want to land is a SNLF.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/9/2012 11:15:34 PM   
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As always, good advice, Michael. I never knew that I could prep reinforcements before they arrive. Thanks!

I am aware that the Gds Bde is part of the 1 Gds Div. That division will most likely become the reserve division based at Truk, depending on the situation by early 43, of course.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/9/2012 11:16:56 PM   
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20 Dec 41

Sub War

The I-25 played cat and mouse with several Allied ASW TFs off the US west coast throughout the day for no damage on either side. Time to move her a little bit.

5 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

4 Fleet

The construction battalion allocated to Wake is about a day out. Finally…

SE Fleet

The Rabaul Invasion force has set sail from Truk. It contains the Guards Brigade, 144 Infantry Regiment and Maizuru 1 SNLF. It is escorted by KB and a surface TF of 2 BBs, Kitakami and Oi, and 4 DDs. The 4 Aobas were to accompany this as well but 2 were beat up by 1000 lbers from the Wake Vindicators and need to repair sys damage before heading to Japan for complete repairs and the others are in Truk eliminating the small amount of sys damage they have.

I bought the 90 Infantry Regiment out of Manchuoko, which is loading on xAPs for the trek to Truk. It’ll catch up with the Rabaul Invasion force in time for the Pt. Moresby Invasion. Now I’m saving my PPs for the 20 Division, from Korea, which I’ll buy out piecemeal as the PPs accumulate. The 20 Division is destined for the SRA and will be assigned to the Southern Area Army, where it will assist in the liberation of the SRA. Then it becomes a reserve division, most likely for the SRA. I hope to have a couple of infantry regiments (at least) in the initial Java invasion force.

Hong Kong

Minesweepers should clear the mines out of Hong Kong harbor tomorrow. Then the 38 Division will load and head to Malaya and the artillery will load and head to the Philippines. There is a nice pile of supply there and the resource centers, HI and shipyard are all repairing nicely.

China

A successful attack occurred on a Chinese Corps to the NW of Hwainan. Japanese losses were 151(1) to 1721(157) Chinese casualties.

Burma

The 1 Raiding regiment will be complete at Bangkok tomorrow. I will then para drop them on Pt. Blair and fly in AS, engineers, infantry and supply. Every transport aircraft in that theater will participate in this operation. Elements of the 3 Air Division will support the operation.

Philippines

All that is left of the Philippine air force are a few fighters who refuse to come up and play. The 5 Air Division is taking over air operations in this theater. The 23 Air Flotilla is almost entirely at Truk and the 21 Air Flotilla is preparing to move SW to support operations in that area.

I attacked Clark Field in a DA getting (barely) 1:1 odds. Losses were 1494(14) Japanese to 341(11) Allied casualties. Fortunately, the fort level is 0 and the bombing should keep it that way. Most of the damage was to small units and the tank brigade. I’ve withdrawn them to repair them and send them on to new missions. They had no business being there. I will bombard for a while until the artillery from Hong Kong arrives. Then I’ll bombard some more and eventually push the Allied forces to Bataan. Remember, the only infantry units I have here are the 48 Division and 65 Brigade. Once I have Clark Field, I’ll keep the Allies contained in Bataan until more forces are freed up elsewhere to take them out.

I am landing the 2 Tank Regiment at Aparri tomorrow who will move to Tuegegaro to take out the remaining Allied infantry battalion in the north. That’ll leave 3 units festering in the southern peninsula. I believe they are the 41 and 51 PA Divisions and an AS unit.

Borneo

Brunei and Miri are repairing their oil damage. The 21 IMB and 2x SNLFs will land at Singkawang tomorrow. Then the 21 IMB and 1x SNLF will leapfrog to Tobali, and will be joined by the 22 Air Flotilla HQ and some construction troops.

The 21 Division will land at Tarakan in a couple of days, escorted by the 4 BB TF and the Hosho/Zuiho TF. Then they will leapfrog to Balikpapan and Samarinda. Base Forces (and engineers if needed) are following to backfill them at each location.

Mindanao

The 4 BB TF ran into a couple more xAKLs and sank them in a couple of shots just NW of Zamboanga.

Cotabato is being squeezed by 16 Division from the west and 246 Inf Reg & two tank regiments from the east. Then they’ll move south to clear out the rest of the Island. Then I’ll set up Davao as a hub for stuff from southern Borneo and the southern SRA, as well as a safe harbor for the IJN surface forces.

Malaya

Kuantan fell today to an 8:1 DA. I took 102(0) casualties to 739(209) Brit/Indian casualties. The 22 Indian Bde and a base force were trashed and the AA regiment was destroyed.

Further south, a tank regiment successfully cut Singapore from the rest of Malaya. Some 8-12 British units are isolated from Singapore. That’s not as many as I had hoped, but better than nothing.

The IG Division and 2x tank regiments are isolating Georgetown (and 3 units there) and will reduce them in the next few days.

The 18 Division (Kuantan) is moving west to secure the base on the eastern north-south rail line.

The 5 Division is moving south from Mersing to Johore Bharu (chasing the Aussie and Gurkha bdes). They will secure Johore Bharu and await the rest of the 25 Army.

56 Division (-1 regiment) will begin landing at Mersing in a day or two. They will move west to the western north-south rail line and move north to secure it and keep British forces from heading south.

The 2 Division is a couple days out. I’m still debating where to send it. There are 3 possibilities. I can send it to Mersing to reinforce 5 Division. Or, I can send it to Singora and have it move down the eastern rail line to secure Kota Bharu, which is still garrisoned by an Indian brigade (which is bombed daily and most likely in bad shape). The third alternative is to land it directly on Kota Bharu. That will save some time but cause more disruption to the 2 Division. What do you guys think?

Finally, there is the 38 Division. It’s destined for Malaya as well. It’ll be several days before the minefields are cleared and it’s loaded and shipped to Malaya. I suspect that it’ll go to Mersing then Johore Bharu to prepare for the attack on Singapore.

I will send in to Singapore the IG, 2, 5, 18 and 38 Divisions. The 56 Division will head to Burma. It’s missing one regiment and cannot combine. The small components will be badly damaged in an attack on Singapore. I figure 5 divisions (plus artillery and several independent engineer regiments) will do the trick at Singapore.

The RAF is down to 36 Buffalos (max) and a handful of bombers. I moved 8 Tojos, 18 Zeros and 12 Oscar Ics to Kuantan for fighter cover. There is quite a bit of damage to the port and airfield there, so they may not fly tomorrow. We’ll see what happens. There are about 200 engineers and about a dozen engineer vehicles at Kuantan so I hope they do a lot of repairs tomorrow.

Something I am considering is landing 2 Division at Mersing and then, when 38 Division lands, send the 2, 5 and 38 Divisions (along with artillery) into Singapore to start the siege. When the IG and 18 Divisions complete securing the remainder of Malaya they can join them and start the DA. Sound like a plan?

Other Stuff

I received an AMC today. I like those ships. Fast, nice guns and lots of troop and cargo capacity. Wish their durability was higher though….

My supply increased today. I believe there are two reasons for this. First, supply started unloading at Miri and second, my infrastructure increases are mainly complete for now. I have 2 A6M2 and 3 Oscar Ic factories that will be increasing for the next 3 weeks or so and 6 vehicle factories that will increase for 4 more days. Other than that, there are only a few factories (mainly engine) that are still increasing. I will not do any new expansion for the rest of the month and then look at things in January to see what has to happen. One major expansion (Ha-34 for the Helen) needs to begin in Jan 42. That’s +150 but only on 1 factory so it’s 1k supply a day for 5 months. There’s also Miri’s 150 oil repairs, but 110k of that required supply is already there on ships. I’m offloading it slowly so I don’t exceed the maximum supply and cause spoilage.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/9/2012 11:25:40 PM   
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I vote land on Kota Bharu. Invasion bonus plus weak enemy opposition should equal acceptable DIS. As long as you bring enough supply along the unit will probably not need too long to get patched up and speed is always key at this stage of the game.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 12:15:28 AM   
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Yeah, you're probably right, Cribtop. I've been bombing that poor Indian brigade there since the beginning of the war and it's also been hit by a few naval bombardments for good measure. It's got to be hurting.

Ted claims he's having problems sending the turn. I think he's afraid to send it.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 1:22:27 AM   
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Siege Warfare - whatever you decide to use to take Singapore, make sure go across and then reinforce ONLY with full divisions. Any component part will suffer huge losses in any negative combat results. Been there, done that !! At least two, preferably three, full divisions should go across and suffer the losses from the shock attack.

Sumatra - I like to use at least three tank units to push up the west coast after Palembang falls.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 1:52:06 AM   
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I was planning on sending 3 divisions across to Singapore initially. I wanted to send artillery with them. Do you recommend the artillery go later when the other 2 divisions arrive or should I just wait until the other two arrive as well?

Good idea about the armor in Sumatra.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 4:09:17 AM   
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You can order the artillery to follow by a few days. You just want to get across in good order and give those troops time to recover from disruption. If you go across with artillery, just have everybody set to "follow' one division.

FYI - Remember to double check the leaders of any divisions you have rebuilt. Don't want a lousy colonel leading the troops. I hope you have had the Southern Command HQ prepping for Singapore since Dec 7th. I would be moving it over to Malaya soon.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 10:41:43 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

You can order the artillery to follow by a few days. You just want to get across in good order and give those troops time to recover from disruption. If you go across with artillery, just have everybody set to "follow' one division.

FYI - Remember to double check the leaders of any divisions you have rebuilt. Don't want a lousy colonel leading the troops. I hope you have had the Southern Command HQ prepping for Singapore since Dec 7th. I would be moving it over to Malaya soon.


The Southern HQ will also get the supply moving where you put it.

Is it better to move across in pieces? I've always thought it better to wait for everyone to be there, then go as a full army, trying to get the best possible combat results for adjusted AV. This time I went over with 7 Div and 3500 AV and got a 1 to 1, resulting in the total AV dropping only to 3000 or so. I also find tanks get ruined going over the cause way and I just sent those to Burma.

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18 Jan 42

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 103418 troops, 1182 guns, 437 vehicles, Assault Value = 3518

Defending force 36473 troops, 428 guns, 260 vehicles, Assault Value = 884

Japanese adjusted assault: 2348

Allied adjusted defense: 1303

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
7694 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 324 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 80 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 89 disabled
Guns lost 61 (5 destroyed, 56 disabled)
Vehicles lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
4938 casualties reported
Squads: 87 destroyed, 264 disabled
Non Combat: 74 destroyed, 346 disabled
Engineers: 16 destroyed, 67 disabled
Guns lost 105 (27 destroyed, 78 disabled)
Vehicles lost 46 (7 destroyed, 39 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 11:40:56 AM   
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quote:

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I was planning on sending 3 divisions across to Singapore initially. I wanted to send artillery with them. Do you recommend the artillery go later when the other 2 divisions arrive or should I just wait until the other two arrive as well?

Good idea about the armor in Sumatra.

It goes without saying (but I'm saying it for the noobs reading this thread) that the troops should be set to 'combat' for the final leg of the walk into Singapore. Make sure that they're not in 'move' or else you'll suffer significantly.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 11:47:06 AM   
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Crossing the causeway in "Move" mode sure can turn nasty if you have an alert Allied player who picks up on it

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 12:06:57 PM   
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While we are on this subject of crossing a river, I thought the current engine is that the FIRST unit that crosses the river do a shock and once hexside control is gained, subsequent units do not do SA? If a group of units crosses the river together, then the engine determines a "fastest" unit and have it shock attack.

Or have this feature of the shock attack been reverted to where it was again?

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 12:26:55 PM   
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My understanding is as follows:

- Crossing a river hexside into a hex with enemy units will cause an increase in disruption of the moving units. If they are set to "Move" operations mode, this disruption will be even higher.
- If it is the first friendly unit to cross the river hexside, it will automatically shock attack;
- Any additional friendly units crossing the river hexside after the first friendly unit crossed needs to meet a threshold of strength, i.e. there is a check that there is a certain strength of friendly units already in the hex compared to the enemy units in the hex; if this threshold is not met, the subsequent friendly units crossing into the hex also automatically shock attack;
- Only once the threshold of strength is met do additional units crossing into the enemy-occupied hex via the river hexside not automatically shock attack.

I am not sure what this threshold is, but from experience I believe it to be around 1:1.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 12:29:23 PM   
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All units that cross in the same turn shock attack. If units cross later, I thought there was a factor based on the proportion AV of enemy to friendly units in the hex that determined a shock or not, but I can't remember if this is true and what that proportion is.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 12:45:08 PM   
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Correct.

Which is why ny59giants is correct, it is best to cross the river hexside into Singapore with as much AV at the same time, but to use full divisions to prevent component units being eliminated in that first costly shock attack.

If you cross with three healthy divisions - 1200 or so AV - you will likely only have the initial shock attack since you'll then have sufficient forces in the hex to prevent additional units crossing over from shock attacking.

While the three divisions recover their disruption and losses from the shock attack, other units (e.g. artillery and HQ units) can move into the hex.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 2:42:37 PM   
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When  LCU/s move into a hex the raw AVs in the destination hex are compared, if less than, equal (or 1/3 AV threshold has not previously been met )  and if the hexside is enemy controlled then those unit/s must shock attack.

The best alternative is to arrive with as much AV as you can muster-- see from the manual-

The Attack Odds are used to determine if a base changes hands, as well as retreat or destruction of the defenders in a successful assault. If the assault fails (attacker fails to get odds of 1:1 or better), the attacker will suffer effects to their morale, fatigue, and disruption. These effects will be worse for shock attacks.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 6:20:34 PM   
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Sulu Sea's got it for the follow-up forces: 1/3 previous AV value.

Quick question for the group: why bother moving in HQ units? All of them have a range of at least '1', right? Why not park it on the hex outside Singapore and-at least- avoid any disruption of supply to those units?

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 6:30:33 PM   
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I did park them at Johore. Worked just fine.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 6:58:14 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I was planning on sending 3 divisions across to Singapore initially. I wanted to send artillery with them. Do you recommend the artillery go later when the other 2 divisions arrive or should I just wait until the other two arrive as well?

Good idea about the armor in Sumatra.


I did things a little differently at Singapore in my second PBEM. I sent the first wave of three divisions and some artillery in combat mode to initiate the shock attack, then I set the supporting armour, artillery and second wave of individual Rgt.'s to follow up in three days. It allowed my initial wave to recover and a large force of 600 AV to cross over completely undisrupted. Singapore fell easily after two more deliberate attacks, but I benefited from a forward Allied defence that allowed a succesful Mersing gambit and reduced number of defenders at Singapore. The key though was getting a large undisrupted secondary force across after the initial shock attack.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 11:33:41 PM   
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Thanks guys. I still have several days at least before I'll even begin movement into Singapore.

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RE: Once More into the Breach - 1/10/2012 11:34:50 PM   
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21 Dec 41

Sub War

Nothing.

5 Fleet

Adak’s base force is still working on the first level of the air base. I need to send some engineers there to expedite construction.

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

SE Fleet

The Rabaul Invasion force is enroute.

Hong Kong

The mines were successfully swept and the shipping will arrive tomorrow to begin loading the 38 Division (Malaya) and the artillery (Philippines).

This is pretty much the last time I’ll mention Hong Kong as a theater. This operation is over. Hong Kong’s port is in the long process of building from 8(8) to 9(8). I will use this base for upgrading and repairing ships beyond the capacity of Singapore for the most part. The shipyard will eventually be built up to 100. Also, Manila will become another supporting base. It’s port will be built to level 7 (if it isn’t there already) and the shipyard will be 50.

Philippines

Bombing of Clark Field continues. The US air force has ceased to exist, whether from destruction or fleeing the area. Bombardment will continue until the massive artillery force from Hong Kong arrives, then bombardment and DAs will occur until the remnants of this force flees to Bataan. Remember, my intent here is to contain the enemy ground forces in Bataan until Mindanao is liberated and then the 16 Division will return here to help reduce the enemy. 5 Air Division will be stationed in the Philippines in its entirety within a day or two. The 23 Air Flotilla is at Truk and the 21 Air Flotilla will be heading to the SW shortly.

Mindanao

The 16 Recon (from 16 Division) took Cotabato from the 3/101 PA Bn, causing 193(12) and sustaining no casualties. Operations continue here as I push the rabble south.

Burma

The Pt. Blair operation begins tomorrow. The 1 Raiding Regiment will be paradropped with heavy support from 3 Air Division.

My most forward air support in the Burma theater is a Nate Sentai and an Ann chutai at Rahaeng. Ted sent some Buffalos and Blenheim Ifs to bomb the place. My Nates performed superbly shooting down two of the Blenheims.

Borneo

The Singkawang invasion began today. I’ll take the base tomorrow and then leave an SNLF as a garrison and move on to Tobali. I have to be careful though. My wonderful intel reported heavy radio chatter at Soerabaja. Could be the Dutch and/or Americans and/or the Repulse. I have 2 pincers (Singkawang – Tobali and Tarakan – Balikpapan) and need to support both. The northern pincer has 6 CAs and Kaga/Ryujo and the southern pincer has 4 BBs and Hosho/Zuiho. Both are powerful, but the Repulse can ambush either invasion TF and trash it. Ted is willing to sacrifice ships as we have seen repeatedly this game.

I may reorganize the surface TFs supporting the northern pincer. There are actually 2 Kongo class BBs and about 10 CAs including the ships in mini KB. I’ll look at that tonight before I send the turn back to Ted.

Malaya

My invasion forces continue to spread throughout Malaya. I count 38 units in Singapore, which seems to be about the norm unfortunately.

Lots of combat in the air, including another mistake on my part. My Vals went after another xAKL in Singapore harbor again even though I definitely ordered them not to. I should have reduced their range. Anyway, 13 flew and 6 were shot down, getting one hit on the xAKL. In the PM phase, 25 Kates and a handful of Vals flew again against the same ship, sinking her but losing another Val and two Kates. Overall, I’ve lost ~20 Vals and 7 Kates from these two air groups but only lost 10 Val and 2 Kate pilots. It could have been much worse. Mini KB is now headed to Cam Ranh Bay to refuel and replenish. They’re not needed for a bit.

Ted launched a couple of attacks against Mini KB and the net result was the loss of 9 Buffalos and 2 Blenheim IVs for no loss to us. One Blenheim did make it through the CAP and flak to make an unsuccessful bombing run on Ryujo though.

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I shut off the refinery at Miri. I’m concerned that I will reach the maximum for fuel and suffer spoilage. I still haven’t begun merchant convoys yet. I feel there is still undue risk to my TKs. I’ll wait until I take Tarakan and am headed to Balikpapan. I don’t need to lose any TKs. They’re precious and there aren’t enough of them right now.

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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/11/2012 5:49:04 PM   
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Guys, as we know under the later beta patches since we have to pay 75 PPs to go from single engine to twin engines it really puts the pinch on the Japanese side. At the start of hostilities we have 6 Ki-48 units we can change to better platforms when better alternatives surface which will free them up to allow no PP cost changes to single engine airframes within the upgrade path.

My last game had me building a size 10 Ki-21-Ic factory to use up the HA-5 engines. The initial thoughts were to put less strain on the already struggling HA-32 factories and the long term plan had them being used as ASW platforms and later Kamikazee planes, the downside is they are slower than the future KI-21s and you get no upgrade. It seems the better option would be to build the KI-21-IIa factory up a little more than last game and benefit from the Ki-21-IIb upgrade.

I'm wondering what your IJA twin engine bomber plans are early?

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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/11/2012 6:05:11 PM   
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Because of the PP situation I'm still using 5 groups of Anns bombing China and 1 Ann group in ASW. I still have 6 groups of Lilys, 1 bombing and 5 doing ASW, so I'm glad I kept making those for a month. Almost out now.

I kept building both the Sally 1c (17) and the Ha-5 engine (20 for a while, now changed over to Ha-33) and I'm also glad of that, as most of them have gone to replacements for the existing groups. Now, finally, my Sally IIa are getting a pool (19) and I can start upgrading other groups.

Between buying ENG and Armour units out of Manchuria and small ENG units for the islands it's been hard to find any for the airgroup upgrades.

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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/11/2012 10:55:00 PM   
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It's interesting to see how others solve problems. Since I chose to go the Ki-57 route, I'm building the Ki-57-I to use up the Ha-5 engines. I'm using the Ki-21-Ic to replenish the 3 sentai in Manchuoko using that plane for training. My opponent allows me to bomb Chinese troops with Manchurian (Manchuokoan?) aircraft. So far, I've lost one to op losses. They'll probably last most of the war.

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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/12/2012 11:03:55 PM   
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22 Dec 41

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day. Lots of operations are beginning as noted below.

Sub War

The Ro-66, patrolling off Cooktown, spotted 2 US 4 stackers . That’s the first sighting of any US destroyers I’ve had so far. I’d venture to guess that more of the Asiatic fleet is harbored down there.

5 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

4 Fleet

The engineers have landed at Wake. Now I can begin working on the forts.

SE Fleet

The Rabaul Invasion force (Gds Bde, 144 Inf Reg and Maizuru 1 SNLF) will land, escorted by 2 BB, 2 CL and 4 DD with close cover by KB. It appears that Rabaul is empty, but the Aussies may be just cowering in their holes. A base force and the 23 Air Flotilla HQ are enroute with the 23 Air Flotilla aircraft waiting at Truk to move forward once Rabaul is liberated. The SNLF will provide the garrison to Rabaul and the Gds Bde and 144 Inf Reg (and 90 Inf Reg when it arrives) will continue to Pt. Moresby.

I will use extreme caution when moving on Pt. Moresby. I suspect an ambush. The Dutch and US fleets are unaccounted for. Given the sighting of the US DDs, I know there is something out there. US carriers wouldn’t be surprising either. KB is freshly fueled (with the fast AO fleet nearby) and has full loads of planes, pilots and torpedoes.

Mindanao

Nothing new to report.

Philippines

The tank regiment that landed at Aparri is moving to Tuguegarao to engage the isolated 3/12 PA Inf Bn.

Bombardment of Clark Field continues.

The 6 artillery regiments at Hong Kong are loading for movement to this theater.

China

Nothing new to report.

Borneo

I think Ted pulled a Sir Robin in the Northern SRA. He may have forces in Java, and I suspect there are ships that are attempting to ambush me at Ambon and Kendari vicinities (I always make that assumption). But, Miri seems to be pretty safe. Tomorrow, I will form a TF with the TKs assigned to pull fuel and oil from Miri and move them there. I’ll disband them in harbor and create the CS TFs as needed. I have allocated a total of 19x 1250 TK, 6x Kasu-D and 10x To’su PBs in 5 TFs to haul the oil and fuel from Miri/Brunei.

Elsewhere, the 21 IMB and 2x SNLFs successfully ousted the Dutch from SIngkawang. The DA resulted in 26:1 odds and caused 432(32) Dutch casualties vs. 43(0) Japanese losses. The Dutch remnants fled to the base to the east. I will place 24 AS there but can’t spare a full base force. The base forces have all been allocated. It will become a backwater soon anyway. One pleasantly surprising result of this attack was the destruction of 3x B-339D and 3x 139WH-3 Dutch aircraft on the ground.

The Tarakan invasion (21 Division) will hit tomorrow. It is escorted by the 4 BB TF and the Hosho/Zuiho. A base force is enroute as the garrison. Once Tarakan is secured, the force will move on to Balikpapan.

The Hosho/Zuiho TF stumbled upon an xAK. Both TFs fled. Later that day, the Zuiho’s Kates put her down. Unfortunately, they used torpedoes. That leaves 9 torpedoes for the 9 Kates aboard.

Burma

The 1 Raiding Regiment will perform a para drop on Pt. Blair tomorrow. I’m using every transport plane that will reach and Pt. Blair from Bangkok will be LRCAPed by the Oscar Ib sentai based at Victoria Point.

The 33 Division will begin landing at Bangkok tomorrow. Then it will begin its long trek to the Burmese frontier.

Malaya

Ted attempted to bomb the ships in Kuantan harbor today. He sent 3x Bleinheim IVs escorted by 12 Buffalos. Only 5 Buffalos returned to Singapore to tell the sad tale. I suspect he didn’t realize that I had over 50 fighters stationed there (Zeros, Tojos and Oscar Ics).

My forces continue to pour into Malaya in preparation for the assault on Singapore. In the north is the IG Division and 2x tank regiments. Georgetown is surrounded and isolated. Taiping was captured today by one of the tank regiments. The second tank regiment is in Georgetown and 2/3 of the IG Div is about 20 miles outside of Georgetown. Once these forces arrive in Georgetown, they will assault and destroy the 3 units there.

The last third of IG Div is marching to Kota Bharu to engage the Indian brigade that has been beat up there since 7 Dec.

There are a few British units in central Malaya along the rail line. The 18 Div is marching out of Kuantan (slowly) to pursue these forces, which include the remnants of the Kuantan garrison.

In the south, the 5 Division will reach Johore Bharu tomorrow and take it the next day. The Aussies and Gurkhas that were beat up at Mersing have run to Singapore so Johore Bharu is empty. The tank regiment that cut off Singapore moved north and took Malacca today. The 56 Division cannot rebuild (its third regiment is in Mindanao). It landed at Mersing and is following the tank regiment north to assist the destruction of the isolated Indian/British troops. It will then strat move to Burma. The 3x tank regiments will eventually move to Burma as well.

I have decided to land the 2 Division at Mersing. It will move to Johore Bharu with the 5 Division in preparation for the assault on Singapore. The 38 Division is loading at Hong Kong and will move to Mersing to team up with 2 & 5 Divisions for the initial assault on Singapore.

The substantial AS at Mersing is moving to set up an airfield at Johore Bharu. I will station fighters there initially to clear the skies over Singapore of British Buffalos. There are less than 30 left. Once they are gone, I will commence bombing of Singapore with most of 3 Air Division.

Sumatra/Java

I won’t land at Palembang until I’ve cleared northern Java of the Dutch bomber threat. That will occur by stationing the 22 Air Flotilla at Tobali. The 4 Division and 2x tank regiments from 14 Army will land in Java. The 21 Division, 21 IMB and 2x tank regiments from 16 Army will land in Java, most likely at Kaldjati. Hopefully, this will happen by years’ end.

Other Stuff

Today is day 15 of the war. The batch of conversions started on 7 Dec was finished. I got 29x PBs and 36x ACMs. Very nice. Now, all of my ports with mines have ACMs to cover them. It will take up to 5 days for some of the ACMs to reach their destination though….

The PBs will come in handy. There just never seem to be enough of them. Unfortunately, most of them are the Kiso and To’su PBs. Not a lot of Ansyu-C PBs, but they’re coming.

Almost all the Kiso and Ansyu-C classes have been or are being converted to something more useful. The To’sus are done. The 7 remaining Kisos will convert to ACMs and the 6 remaining Ansyu-Cs will convert to PBs. Tomorrow, I’ll look at Tohos to find another dozen to convert to the –t conversion as well.

The upgrade to the Oscar Ic is proceeding nicely. Right now I have 2x 12 plane chutai and 1 sentai (only 15 Oscars in it unfortunately) upgraded. As I get Oscars, I add them to the sentai. When I reach the 12 plane limit for the week, I’ll start a second sentai. Then I’ll add to whichever sentai can accept them.

After an exciting start, I’m finally on a roll. Ted broke the back of the RN (except for the Repulse) causing some merchant shipping losses to me, but only one old Momi DD and an Otori TB were sunk. My biggest loss was the 3x slow AOs sunk in Saigon harbor (as well as time lost from his DDs sailing all over the place). I still have 7 left, which equates to a 56k slow AO fleet. They’re still scattered around but will form up later when they are needed. When not needed, they’ll most likely transport fuel to Truk.

Looking at supply, I’m down 500k from the start of the war. If you add in what’s sitting in cargo ships, I’m really down about half that. Not bad, but I need to start to think about building it back up.

I still have all of the daily stats from our previous game. It’s very interesting to see the differences between the games. Overall, I’m more aggressive this game (partly in response to Ted’s increased aggressiveness). A few details:

Supply: -650k – I was actually up 150k last game. I did a lot of industry upgrades initially this game that I didn’t do early last game as well as many that I didn’t do at all last game. Increasing naval shipyards by 117 this game comes to mind.

Fuel: I have about 100k more fuel this game. Not sure why.

Manpower: While unimportant, this shows how much I speeded up my invasions this game. Initial manpower is 797, last game I was at 800 and this game I’m at 817. Wow.

HI: Last game I hadn’t taken anything with HI yet. I’ve taken Hong Kong early this game. I think using the 104 Div and the infantry brigade along with the 38 Div was the difference.

Nav Shipyard: I increased this from 1384 to 1501 (I can’t count) this game. That’s an additional 117K supply consumed. That’s significant. My pool is about the same in both games so that means I’m accelerating more ships. I hope it’s worth the cost….

Repair Shipyard: Last game I hadn’t increased any of them at this point in the game. This game, I’m where I was by 4 Apr 42 of the last game. Now there’s a big difference. I guess I’m spending up front this game. After subtracting out the yards I captured at Hong Kong and Manila, I’ve still spent over 100k so far. Fortunately, most of the repair yards are complete, or almost complete.

Vehicles: Here’s another place where I spent up front. In my other game, I hadn’t started increasing the vehicle factories. I had the starting 72 vs. 138 so far in this game. That’s 66k supply here. I do have about 730 more vehicle points than last game. By the way, today was the first day my vehicle point level went down.

Pilot losses: I thought I was losing pilots more quickly this game but look at these numbers:

Type of loss – last game – this game

MIA – 29 – 28
WIA – 15 – 13
KIA – 76 – 74

Interesting….


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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/12/2012 11:32:35 PM   
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Thanks for the nice comprehensive update. It helps new JFB types like myself.

Question: as part of your preparation for your move on Burma, are you expanding any airfields in Thailand, or are you relying on Pt. Blair?







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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/12/2012 11:40:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: pws1225

Thanks for the nice comprehensive update. It helps new JFB types like myself.

Question: as part of your preparation for your move on Burma, are you expanding any airfields in Thailand, or are you relying on Pt. Blair?
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Thanks.

That's a good question. Pt. Blair will be built up to level 4 and house most of the 22 Air Flotilla. Their job is to clear the seas of enemy shipping.

For Burma proper, I'm currently upgrading Rahaeng, probably to level 4. I'll keep Rangoon and Moulmein at level 4. The Allies will take them back eventually. There's no need to give them a large airfield. I like to try and form a complex at Shwebo, Mandala, Magwe, Meiktila and Taung Gui. By building them all up to level 3-4, I can keep a lot of fighters there to defend Burma. The bombers are usually farther to the rear. By late 42, I find that IJA bombers are nothing more than targets. I use them less and less for bombing and more for ASW. I'm training ASW pilots now. The majority of the 3 Air Division eventually ends up in Burma.

In addition, I upgrade Bangkok's airfield to level 7. That makes it nice for air unit upgrades.

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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/12/2012 11:42:14 PM   
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I guess there's more. Right now, all of the 3 Air Division 2E bombers are in Malaya. Burma gets the 1E bombers. That is actually nice, because they can use the smaller airfields more effectively than the 2E bombers can.

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RE: Once Again into the Breech - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A) - 1/13/2012 12:06:14 AM   
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I write down the amount of supply I have at Tokyo every turn for the first few months. Any extra you have on Honshu will go here and it gives me a quick picture of my usage there. Yes, I use Tracker, but this will show me any patterns of over expansion and/or shipping out too much.

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Thanks Mike, I appreciate it.

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