Mike Solli
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Joined: 10/18/2000 From: the flight deck of the Zuikaku Status: offline
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19 Jan 42 Sub War An Allied ASW TF is harassing one of my subs along the San Francisco route. Time to move my subs. I’m going to try and set their patrol along the route so the subs don’t sit in one place. We’ll see how that works. 5 Fleet The engineers and construction troops are still a few days out from Adak. 4 Fleet Nothing new to report. SE Fleet Ted finally put some subs north of Rabaul. I’m glad I located them. Soryu will have all her sys damage repaired tomorrow. I won’t pull her out of port until its safe though. I see 2 subs north of Rabaul and 1 sub south of Rabaul. I have several ASW TFs prosecuting them. Unfortunately, their skipper’s skills are horrendous. Better than nothing I suppose. I also have 2x Betty daitai flying ASW. One is covering the 2 hexes to the north and the other is covering the hex to the south. That’ll be 54 Bettys flying ASW over that small area. Hopefully, I can at least drive them off or damage or destroy some. We’ll see what happens over the next turn or two. Philippines South of the Philippines, I took San Jose, destroying a small base force. I took no losses to his 304(37). The reason I even mention this is because the island (whichever one it is) has 3 bases in a row. San Jose is the western base and the eastern base has already been liberated. The 16 Division is landing there and will move to the center base, which is occupied by a PA Division. The 16 Division will take that hex and then move to Cebu(?) where there is another PA Division. After destroying that unit, it’ll move to Luzon to join the Bataan force. China I hit two hexes effectively sealing Chinese 35 units in the clear. A couple Chinese units were hit a hex SW of Nanyang. Losses were 404(3) for me to his 2820(192). The other hex was 3 hexes east of Ichang where a Chinese Corps was smashed. My losses were 29(0) to his 3151(196). The only open hex is the woods hex just NW of Loyang. I have a unit heading there, but it’ll take a couple weeks to reach it (only 2 miles a day). Some of my forces are pushing the 15 units in the clear into one hex to destroy (if they’re not destroyed in the process) while another force is headed to Chengchow to defeat the 10 units there (5 already badly hurt) and push the remnants into Loyang for their final elimination (along with the 10 units currently at Loyang). Malaya For some reason, the second wave only moved 1 mile today. Hmm… Let’s see how far they move today. Burma The armor (3x tank regiments) is arriving at Pegu and is getting missions. Finally getting things going here. Java There are about half a dozen TFs in Soerabaja, including 2x 1 CL TFs. Also of note, there aren’t any fighters in Soerabaja. I have 9 Zeros and 36 Nells stationed at Makassar. The Nells are on a naval attack mission (with escort from the Zeros) with Soerabaja in range. I’d love to smash those TFs. CAP is provided by some 5 Air Division Oscars. I have a brigade of the 21 Division loading for the invasion of Bandjermasin. Once taken, it’ll be the primary fighter airfield (along with Tobali) for the elimination of the Dutch Air Force until an air base on Java is established. The forces for the invasion of Java are gathering in Balikpapan, Tobali and other nearby bases in the area. They include: 21 Division 21 Independent Mixed Brigade 79 Regiment/20 Div 80 Regiment/20 Div 20 Engineer Regiment/20 Div 2x Tank Regiments 2x Independent Engineer Regiments 1x Artillery Regiment Support forces Note that this is force has 3 missions: 1. Lodgment in Java 2. Secure an airfield in Java (preferably level 4) 3. Split Java in two Then they will do what they can with their limited resources and await reinforcements from Malaya after Singapore is liberated. Palembang The Nells hit Palembang’s port today and sure enough, there was an HDML there. It’s now matchsticks. There are no other ships there. I’m not hitting the port any more. There’s no reason to damage any of the infrastructure or destroy supply or fuel. Other Stuff I finally did an analysis of my oil/fuel/resources. Some interesting things came to light. Overall, I have 5.1 months of resources, 8.6 months of oil (using full refinery capacity) and 4.8 months of fuel for HI in the Home Islands. Not bad. I’d like to get resources and fuel to >12 months by the end of the year. Also note that I use only 50% of the available fuel, assuming the rest is used on ships. I don’t expect to use that much on ships, but I’d rather be conservative. Here’s the odd part. Kyushu has 461k resources, 492k oil and 498k fuel on the island. It’s primarily at two locations: Fukuoka and Nagasaki broken out as follows: Nagasaki 258k R 48k F Fukuoka 152k R 492k O 436k F I’m ok with the stuff at Nagasaki. There is quite a bit of HI/LI there. It’s Fukuoka that concerns me. There is 140 HI, 12 oil, 10 refinery and 280 LI. This requires a lot of stuff to keep it running, but I think there is an excess of stuff there. I’m beginning to wonder if it isn’t moving to Honshu on its own. I’m going to keep track of these numbers for the rest of the month to see what happens and then decide if I need to move it manually. I’m wondering if I accidentally set Fukuoka to accumulate. I have unloaded a lot of resources/fuel/oil on Kyushu so I’m curious as to what’s going on.
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