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RE: 1944 June 18 - 3/21/2015 1:10:50 AM

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Addition of a few hundred troops at Cam Ranh Bay suggests a BF to support more aircraft, or an Air HQ to support torpedo strikes.

Yeah, I figure I have to count on that base there getting its licks in. What I plan is to keep the various cruisers TFs for surface action, plus two of the fast BB TFs. One fast BB TF, with two of the beasts, will be sent to hit CRB at night and shake things up. Then, the old BB in four TF with 1x old BB in each can bombard for four days to keep things suppressed. That will probably not be necessary, so either two or three days, doubling up as appropriate. The carriers will be up there providing air support during the invasion of CRB, so I might even have an old BB bombard Saigon (if they can get in there, which I think they can) because it's the only other substantial air base close enough to be a real threat. However I slice it, the reload for the BBs at the moment is all the way back at Manado, so I have to be judicious in their use!

Hey - if he's bringing in more air support, do you think maybe he is *not* figuring on an invasion in the next week or so at CRB?

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RE: 1944 June 18 - 3/21/2015 6:18:31 AM

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Yeah, I expect your invasion will be a surprise for him - not the good kind either!

The old BBs will not go up the estuary to Saigon - I captured Saigon in my current game and cannot even get US CVs there, and they are a couple of thousand tons lighter than the BBs.

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RE: 1944 June 18 - 3/21/2015 7:23:49 AM

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Oh, OK. Either cruisers or no bombardment at all, then. Availability of cruisers depends on the surface assets that get thrown into the fray. The CL that upgraded at Pearl are still making their way to Guam to refuel and split into their TFs where they'll be replacing the CA that are all in need of some degree of repair.

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RE: 1944 June 18 - 3/21/2015 8:44:09 AM

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Addition of a few hundred troops at Cam Ranh Bay suggests a BF to support more aircraft, or an Air HQ to support torpedo strikes.

Yeah, I figure I have to count on that base there getting its licks in. What I plan is to keep the various cruisers TFs for surface action, plus two of the fast BB TFs. One fast BB TF, with two of the beasts, will be sent to hit CRB at night and shake things up. Then, the old BB in four TF with 1x old BB in each can bombard for four days to keep things suppressed. That will probably not be necessary, so either two or three days, doubling up as appropriate. The carriers will be up there providing air support during the invasion of CRB, so I might even have an old BB bombard Saigon (if they can get in there, which I think they can) because it's the only other substantial air base close enough to be a real threat. However I slice it, the reload for the BBs at the moment is all the way back at Manado, so I have to be judicious in their use!

Hey - if he's bringing in more air support, do you think maybe he is *not* figuring on an invasion in the next week or so at CRB?

Only cruisers can get up the river to Saigon.

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1944 June 19 - 3/24/2015 7:01:43 AM

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1944 June 19

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:
Banggi

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs got nothing. CA Quincy finally sank overnight.

Our next attack between Tsuyung and Kunming did better. More improvement will be had next time.

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Ground combat at 68,47 (near Kunming)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 28368 troops, 263 guns, 320 vehicles, Assault Value = 797

Defending force 11581 troops, 27 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 294

Allied adjusted assault: 325

Japanese adjusted defense: 994

Allied assault odds: 1 to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
96 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
542 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 55 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 36 (9 destroyed, 27 disabled)

Assaulting units:
16th Chinese Corps
754th Tank Battalion
1st Army Tank Regiment
9th Australian Division
Y' Force
6th War Area
1st Group Army

Defending units:
8th Ind.Mixed Brigade
67th Infantry Brigade

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Imperial sweeps over Moulmein at first got far the better of our valiant air-space defenders (11 or 12 to 0!), but later in the day the score was brought much closer during another sweep and a raid of naked bombers gave us a clear victory in the air for the day. See the air losses below. There was also the curious effort of some IJ merchants to presumably resupply troops at Tavoy. They didn't make it.

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Tavoy at 53,60

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 5 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Allied aircraft
Beaufighter TF.X x 14

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAKL Kaisyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
xAK Tatsuhiro Maru, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
xAK Jintsugawa Maru, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Beaufighter TF.X launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Mk XII Torpedo

Massive explosion on xAK Tatsuhiro Maru

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Tavoy at 53,60

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
Barracuda II x 10
Seafire IIC x 3
Martlet II x 11

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
xAKL Assam Maru, Torpedo hits 4, and is sunk
PB Hakozake Maru, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Barracuda II launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Mk XII Torpedo

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Our Loyal Bn will attack the 2nd Guards Division tomorrow to stymie its efforts at withdrawal to the much larger Imperial force to the SE.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1383 troops, 125 guns, 94 vehicles, Assault Value = 4234

Defending force 89630 troops, 696 guns, 267 vehicles, Assault Value = 2441

Japanese ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
254th Armoured Brigade
192nd Tank Battalion
255th Indian Tank Brigade
50th Tank Brigade
81st (West African) Division
268th Motorised Brigade
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
20th Indian Division
150th RAC Regiment
14th LRP Brigade
XV Corps Engineer Battalion
26th Indian Division
Gardner's Horse Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
3rd Cavalry Regiment
72nd British Brigade
27th Infantry Division
Americal Infantry Division
18th British Division
25th Indian Division
18th Cavalry Regiment
5th Indian Division
2/1st Med Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
XV Indian Corps
2/9th Field Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
88th Medium Regiment

Defending units:
19th Tank Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
3rd/C Division
16th Garrison Unit
18th Garrison Unit
19th Division
21st/B Division
33rd Division
63rd Inf Group Brigade
9th Division
114th Infantry Regiment
1st RTA/A Division
3rd/A Division
1st RTA/B Division
20th AA Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
28th Army
15th Army
62nd JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at 56,51 (near Toungoo)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 570 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2537

Defending force 72157 troops, 590 guns, 158 vehicles, Assault Value = 2284

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

Assaulting units:
29th British Brigade
11th PAVO Regiment
8th New Chinese Corps
22nd New Chinese Division
Rifles of Canada Battalion
36th Chinese Division
23rd Indian Division
22nd (East African) Brigade
7th Indian Division
88th Chinese Division
3rd New Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Division
19th Indian Division
2nd Reserve Division
IV Indian Corps
27th Indian Field Artillery Battalion
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
40th Inf Group Brigade
56th Infantry Regiment
14th Division
1st Mobile Infantry Regiment
53rd Division
40th Division
29th Division
77th Infantry Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

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Ground combat at 56,50 (near Prome)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1197 troops, 18 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 41

Defending force 8582 troops, 106 guns, 57 vehicles, Assault Value = 119

Assaulting units:
2nd Loyal Battalion

Defending units:
2nd Guards Division
34th Field AA Battalion
16th AA Regiment

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

Four YMS were dispatched to Chichi Jima to help nurse Quincy to Iwo Jima, but she sank as noted above. Then they hit a minefield, whereupon all of them were hit by shore guns watching the mines. In daylight a swarm of Bettys came in two raids, sinking three of the little helpers and leaving the fourth in woeful condition. But they did not drop bombs or torpedoes or fire guns. The breeze was enough. The survivor will try to make Iwo Jima. But we found the minefield.

The USA 158th Rgt will try an attack tomorrow. Recovered to 63 AV and with negligible disruption and fatigue, they might stand far taller than the defenders who have been slammed by attack bombers for days on end.

Two more divisions for Cam Ranh Bay begin loading tonight. Two convoys that loaded infantry yesterday are loading supplies. SWPac HQ will be in place on Balabac, with the 2x range needed. The corps HQ will be loaded a little behind the other troops but will land with them or right behind them. The flankers also begin loading tonight and will land with the main invasion (to cut the rail line on both sides). Fast battleship Massachusetts has finished upgrade at Pearl Harbor and is on the way, but of course will miss the invasion.

KB has retired westward! Presuming that the KB will replenish at Singapore, 26 more subs are leaving Manado tonight for stations to intercept those carriers if they sally to oppose the CRB invasion.

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RE: 1944 June 19 - 3/24/2015 7:02:26 AM

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Today's air losses.

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RE: 1944 June 19 - 3/24/2015 7:03:01 AM

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RE: 1944 June 19 - 3/31/2015 7:22:29 AM

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1944 June 20

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:
Culion

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs got an xAK. One of their subs off the Burma coast was gravely damaged.

Quiet in China.

The Empire continues to be aggressive about sweeping Moulmein, perhaps trying to pull bombers away from hitting their troops at Rangoon to instead knock out the fighter base at Chiang Mai. But that will have to wait. See air losses below. One more artillery unit will pull into Rangoon tomorrow and four arrived today. Even without their contributions the bombardments are making an impact. Note that Imperial units have begun exiting the hex SW of Toungoo, but we will hold our attack. West of Toungoo the Bn that attacked the division did its job. It will rest tomorrow and have help the day after.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3665 troops, 246 guns, 193 vehicles, Assault Value = 4427

Defending force 87632 troops, 663 guns, 266 vehicles, Assault Value = 2346

Japanese ground losses:
142 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Assaulting units:
18th British Division
72nd British Brigade
26th Indian Division
14th Indian Division
255th Indian Tank Brigade
Americal Infantry Division
14th LRP Brigade
192nd Tank Battalion
150th RAC Regiment
3rd Cavalry Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
81st (West African) Division
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
18th Cavalry Regiment
XV Corps Engineer Battalion
Gardner's Horse Regiment
27th Infantry Division
50th Tank Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
20th Indian Division
25th Indian Division
5th Indian Division
32nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
31st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
8th Belfast Heavy Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
2/1st Med Regiment
56th Heavy Regiment
88th Medium Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
XV Indian Corps
33rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
18th Garrison Unit
114th Infantry Regiment
1st RTA/A Division
47th Infantry Regiment
16th Garrison Unit
63rd Inf Group Brigade
21st/B Division
9th Division
19th Division
3rd/C Division
19th Tank Regiment
3rd/A Division
33rd Division
1st RTA/B Division
28th Army
20th AA Regiment
15th Army
1st RF Gun Battalion
62nd JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at 56,51 (near Toungoo)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 562 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2544

Defending force 58811 troops, 486 guns, 112 vehicles, Assault Value = 1862

Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
19th Indian Division
88th Chinese Division
8th New Chinese Corps
23rd Indian Division
96th Chinese Division
22nd New Chinese Division
29th British Brigade
3rd New Chinese Corps
22nd (East African) Brigade
Rifles of Canada Battalion
36th Chinese Division
7th Indian Division
11th PAVO Regiment
2nd Reserve Division
IV Indian Corps
27th Indian Field Artillery Battalion
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
56th Infantry Regiment
29th Division
40th Division
53rd Division
1st Mobile Infantry Regiment
40th Inf Group Brigade
77th Infantry Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

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Ground combat at 56,50 (near Prome)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 1197 troops, 18 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 41

Defending force 8576 troops, 103 guns, 56 vehicles, Assault Value = 119

Allied adjusted assault: 12

Japanese adjusted defense: 113

Allied assault odds: 1 to 9

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-)
morale(-), supply(-)
Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-)

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

Allied ground losses:
93 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
2nd Loyal Battalion

Defending units:
2nd Guards Division
34th Field AA Battalion
16th AA Regiment

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Lots of support troops and engineers are either on their way to Moulmein or loading now. Two AA units are now in place and some engineers will also arrive via road in two days. The port will probably still be damaged when the first of three convoys arrives. BB Ise has been determined to be sunk, credit to the 380 mm guns of Richelieu.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

The 158th at Balikpapan will attack again tomorrow.

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Ground combat at Balikpapan (64,97)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3172 troops, 48 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 64

Defending force 2490 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 23

Allied adjusted assault: 24

Japanese adjusted defense: 11

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), fatigue(-)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
233 casualties reported
Squads: 23 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
158th(Sep) Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
454th Ind.Infantry Battalion
1st Raiding Regiment
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
9th Base Force

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A division and several armoured and artillery units are the first to set off for Cam Ranh Bay. Several other units are loaded but those convoys are still loading supplies. As mentioned earlier the plan has been adjusted to 'we will land whatever of the invasion forces are available as soon as they are available'. Best guess is 4 or 5 days to the first landing.

The IJN carriers escaped detection this day. They are probably at Singapore but are not seen there. Our fleet will take station about 2 hexes north of Miri. That will put them in a position to intercept if any IJN fleet elements sally forth from Singapore, to move NW and intercept a convoy just passing Cam Ranh Bay (our sub sank a merchant in that convoy last night), and possibly disguise our next invasion target.

Here is the South China Sea, with the ordered position of the Allied fleet highlighted.

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RE: 1944 June 19 - 3/31/2015 7:23:06 AM

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RE: 1944 June 20 - 3/31/2015 7:26:19 AM

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Lowpe - back shortly with that.

obvert -

SWPac: Cam Ranh Bay with a little follow on for Dalat, plus a division for the base down on the coast southwest of Saigon.

PacAO: Okinawa, both bases, plus surrounding islands. Daito Shoto also.

CBI: Mostly what is in play right now. For the longest time I've had a division prepared for a base sort of west of Palembang, I think it's called Sinabang or something similar. Pretend I never read the map!

And there is some overlap/lending of troops between those areas. And I've left out some small ones and back-fill, like the 3x NZ Rgt preparing for Pagan.

Correction to this. It is Sinabang, but that is more or less west of Medan, not Palembang.

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1944 June 21 - 4/1/2015 6:50:53 PM

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1944 June 21

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:
Balikpapan

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs got a TK, and one of our subs was badly hurt.

Quiet in China.

More forces are exiting the hex SW of Toungoo. We attack tomorrow.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3958 troops, 269 guns, 193 vehicles, Assault Value = 4464

Defending force 85400 troops, 608 guns, 266 vehicles, Assault Value = 2233

Japanese ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Assaulting units:
3rd Cavalry Regiment
81st (West African) Division
27th Infantry Division
18th Cavalry Regiment
150th RAC Regiment
26th Indian Division
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
50th Tank Brigade
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
254th Armoured Brigade
18th British Division
25th Indian Division
192nd Tank Battalion
Gardner's Horse Regiment
255th Indian Tank Brigade
72nd British Brigade
14th Indian Division
20th Indian Division
14th LRP Brigade
Americal Infantry Division
XV Corps Engineer Battalion
5th Indian Division
31st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
XV Indian Corps
15th Indian Construction Battalion
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
88th Medium Regiment
56th Heavy Regiment
8th Belfast Heavy Regiment
352nd Construction Regiment
30th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
823rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
2/11th Field Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
2/1st Med Regiment
32nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
33rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
21st/B Division
19th Division
3rd/A Division
63rd Inf Group Brigade
114th Infantry Regiment
47th Infantry Regiment
33rd Division
16th Garrison Unit
1st RTA/A Division
9th Division
19th Tank Regiment
3rd/C Division
18th Garrison Unit
1st RTA/B Division
28th Army
15th Army
20th AA Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
62nd JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at 56,51 (near Toungoo)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 530 troops, 44 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2545

Defending force 41521 troops, 344 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 1319

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Assaulting units:
19th Indian Division
88th Chinese Division
3rd New Chinese Corps
22nd New Chinese Division
96th Chinese Division
36th Chinese Division
Rifles of Canada Battalion
11th PAVO Regiment
23rd Indian Division
8th New Chinese Corps
7th Indian Division
22nd (East African) Brigade
29th British Brigade
2nd Reserve Division
IV Indian Corps
27th Indian Field Artillery Battalion
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
40th Division
1st Mobile Infantry Regiment
40th Inf Group Brigade
53rd Division
77th Infantry Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

Richelieu has gone into pierside repairs at Colombo, estimated at 26 days to full restoration (no major damage). The Imperials are moving troops up the road from Tavoy toward Moulmein, slowing our movement in the opposite direction. Of course they will have to be defeated when contacted.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

Balikpapan is ours.

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Ground combat at Balikpapan (64,97)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3143 troops, 48 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 62

Defending force 2054 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16

Allied adjusted assault: 26

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 26 to 1 (fort level 2)

Allied forces CAPTURE Balikpapan !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: disruption(-), experience(-)
Attacker: fatigue(-)

Japanese ground losses:
863 casualties reported
Squads: 28 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 18 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 4

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
158th(Sep) Infantry Regiment

Defending units:
1st Raiding Regiment
I/81st Naval Guard Unit
454th Ind.Infantry Battalion
9th Base Force

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Suddenly the South China Sea is alive with the IJN! Most appear to be ASW groups running interference for the carriers, and one small surface group has been identified. Weather was horrible, scrubbing several morning strikes and so scouting reports are highly suspect as to enemy force composition. Several bombing raids did attack an Imperial destroyer but without effect. Our own carriers are firmly located by the enemy. There appear to be several IJN CVE at Singapore, but their main carrier strength with 120 aircraft seen is 4 hexes ENE of Kuantan. This could be a reaction to our coming invasion, but it looks to be an escort for a convoy heading west, now 2 hexes SW of Soc Trang. We will not close with them, so as to invite them to retire to Singapore while we then dash to Cam Ranh Bay with our invasion convoys. Our super-beefed up sub barrier will be in place in two days as they have all just passed into the South China Sea from the Sulu Sea.

The convoy with the infantry division is faster and already ahead of the convoy with the armour, artillery, and AA so they will continue on and land perhaps a day ahead. Another infantry division is about a day behind the armour, and yet another a day or less behind that one. More armour is departing Manado tonight on slower LST, and more yet is about 2 days behind them. A base force has amphib loaded at Namlea and is moving forward. Three Rgts (a division without the PP to combine) and numerous support units are strat loading. The last infantry division is amphib loaded at Manado but still loading supply at that over-stressed port. The NZ Bde for the left flank is still loading at Sorong and will be tasked back to PacAO instead. The USA airborne Rgt for the right flank is still loading at Basilan and, preparing for Quinhon, will be landed at Cam Ranh Bay when it is ours and move up the road instead of landing on the raw coast. SWPac HQ begins landing at Balabac tonight but the HQ's influence will not be needed. The corps HQ is still awaiting the remainder of its parts at Manado and although fast APA are standing ready it will be far behind the combat landing and likely too the capture of CRB.

More IJN activity at Torishima - those people don't give up! Weather in the area is bad today so our DB at Iwo Jima either did not fly or did not find them. There are also light cruisers midway just north of a line between Torishima and Daito Shoto, in good position to intercept destroyers on an approach vector we used recently.

Although forecast clear three days in a row, Tinian has extreme weather three days in a row, hampering the transfer of the B-29 groups slated for Tinian. Tomorrow's forecast... clear!

Here is the situation in the South China Sea.

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RE: 1944 June 21 - 4/1/2015 6:51:30 PM

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The Intel screen. Balikpapan is base number 500, not counting dot bases.

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RE: 1944 June 21 - 4/3/2015 9:33:43 PM

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Intel monkey radio intercepts from 20th and 21st mention Palembang?
I'm thinking there is some panic oil smuggling going on.

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RE: 1944 June 21 - 4/4/2015 12:25:59 AM

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Intel monkey radio intercepts from 20th and 21st mention Palembang?
I'm thinking there is some panic oil smuggling going on.

Yeah - didn't even really take notice of it with all the other stuff going on. I do have Palembang under recon too and there has been activity there, which I expect. I'll take a closer peek next turn. I don't remember when the B-29s hit the airfield (it's a lot better protected now!), but here is the SigInt for the last two months.

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RE: 1944 June 21 - 4/5/2015 5:45:11 PM

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I'll be interested to see if you bag some large tankers. I think he is covering for them and unaware of the impending battle plan. Could get nasty as it appears to me it is a max effort to get as much out of the DEI as possible with the array of TF's you have spotted.

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RE: 1944 June 21 - 4/5/2015 6:12:04 PM

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That convoy to the north showed only other ship types, but he certainly could have a bunch of tankers that snaked their way up to Singapore and are ready to make a dash. Oh that would be a mess - a convoy escorted by IJN carriers passing under cover of CAP and kamikazes (could be wrong but I feel certain of it) from Cam Ranh Bay in a meeting engagement with an invasion convoy and the great bulk of the USN fleet!

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RE: 1944 June 21 - 4/5/2015 6:18:11 PM

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It is titillating,

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1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 7:14:35 AM

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1944 June 22

The Empire captured:

The Allies captured:

There were Imperial amphibious or airborne operations at:

There were Allied amphibious or airborne operations at:

Our subs got an xAK.

Quiet in China.

The situation SW of Toungoo is now in our favor.

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Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3966 troops, 270 guns, 193 vehicles, Assault Value = 4486

Defending force 82340 troops, 564 guns, 266 vehicles, Assault Value = 2104

Japanese ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Assaulting units:
26th Indian Division
18th Cavalry Regiment
50th Tank Brigade
18th British Division
Americal Infantry Division
637th Tank Destroyer Battalion
150th RAC Regiment
254th Armoured Brigade
255th Indian Tank Brigade
XV Corps Engineer Battalion
25th Indian Division
20th Indian Division
Gardner's Horse Regiment
3rd Cavalry Regiment
27th Infantry Division
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
81st (West African) Division
72nd British Brigade
14th Indian Division
14th LRP Brigade
5th Indian Division
XV Indian Corps
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
30th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
31st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
32nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/11th Field Regiment
352nd Construction Regiment
8th Belfast Heavy Regiment
2/9th Field Regiment
88th Medium Regiment
823rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
56th Heavy Regiment
15th Indian Construction Battalion
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
1st Bengal Construction Battalion
2/1st Med Regiment
33rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
19th Tank Regiment
63rd Inf Group Brigade
3rd/A Division
21st/B Division
1st RTA/A Division
19th Division
33rd Division
47th Infantry Regiment
9th Division
18th Garrison Unit
114th Infantry Regiment
3rd/C Division
16th Garrison Unit
1st RTA/B Division
20th AA Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
28th Army
15th Army
62nd JAAF AF Bn

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Ground combat at 56,51 (near Toungoo)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 84698 troops, 866 guns, 627 vehicles, Assault Value = 2545

Defending force 28068 troops, 236 guns, 74 vehicles, Assault Value = 892

Allied adjusted assault: 1365

Japanese adjusted defense: 1021

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
4048 casualties reported
Squads: 33 destroyed, 463 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 20 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 55 (1 destroyed, 54 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4041 casualties reported
Squads: 64 destroyed, 308 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 92 disabled
Engineers: 9 destroyed, 36 disabled
Guns lost 118 (12 destroyed, 106 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (3 destroyed, 20 disabled)

Assaulting units:
29th British Brigade
23rd Indian Division
8th New Chinese Corps
88th Chinese Division
3rd New Chinese Corps
22nd New Chinese Division
11th PAVO Regiment
Rifles of Canada Battalion
96th Chinese Division
19th Indian Division
22nd (East African) Brigade
36th Chinese Division
7th Indian Division
2nd Reserve Division
27th Indian Field Artillery Battalion
IV Indian Corps
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
40th Inf Group Brigade
1st Mobile Infantry Regiment
40th Division
77th Infantry Regiment
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

Two small units will stop attacking but the rest will continue. Disruption is at 22% in only one unit, much lower in most. In addition to the modest swing of AV disabled in our favor, there is the possibility of additional units pulling out tomorrow. That would surely result in a rout of whatever units remain. The USA Provisional Tank Bde will also cross the river from the east tomorrow and add its shock attack to the fray.

We now have a Bde and Rgt with the enemy forces east of Pegu and they will attack tomorrow. The 8th Indian Bde (55 AV) has joined the 2nd Loyal Bn between Prome and Toungoo and tomorrow will attack the division and friends there still trying to make their own escape. Tomorrow will be the first attack (of this epoch!) at Rangoon. CL Caradoc will bombard as a distraction.

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Allied Ships Bombarding Babar
Allied Ships Bombarding Pagan

Tomorrow is D-1 for Cam Ranh Bay. Today saw heavy weather in the region, and the forecast for tomorrow is more of the same. Our recon of Saigon and Cam Ranh Bay is sagging, and we have lost contact with the enemy carriers. They and the westbound convoy could have moved north into the eastern side of the Gulf of Siam to avoid a possible strike by the USN carriers. Supporting this view is that three of the Imperial TFs of small (ASW?) combatants are in position about 4 and 5 hexes NNE of Groot Natoena, in the area where our carriers might be if they had moved for such a strike. Search arcs are being adjusted but just now our search of much of the Gulf of Siam is unlikely to be water tight.

The invasion convoys will move to a position 2 hexes SE of CRB. One convoy has an infantry division and the other with armour, AA, and artillery will try to catch up to that spot at full speed tomorrow. The bombardment TFs and some SCTF, along with the CVE TFs will take station with them. The rest of the battle fleet will be one hex to the west.

Regarding the movement of oil by the Imperials, there is a tanker convoy making its way north through the Java Sea that will pass Billiton-Ketapang tomorrow and a smaller one at Palembang. There is also a small CVE TF just off Palembang.

Most of the remaining CRB invasion forces are at sea, some in the Sulu Sea, some in the Celebes Sea, although the HQ assigned is just now loading at Manado and a couple of stragglers at Boela. Manado, incidentally, should max out port size at 5 tomorrow.

Three CVE finished upgrades at Pearl Harbor and are now heading west. We finally have all the B-29 groups transferred to Saipan and Tinian but a number of aircraft are still undergoing maintenance at Watampone and will catch up sometime this century.

Here is the South China Sea. If the Emperor's scouting reports today were weak today and left doubt as to our intentions, tomorrow they will be made very plain with invasion convoys less than 100 nm from Cam Ranh Bay.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 7:15:03 AM

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We have four ground attacks ordered in Burma for tomorrow.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 12:56:48 PM

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Give us some details on how you plan on using your 4E beasts in Saipan/Tinian.

Cam Ranh Bay will absolutely stun Japan; to follow up I would try to get some paratroopers to hit those Indochina rail base hexes Udon, Ubon and Ayuthia.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 3:26:10 PM

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Well, I'm going to feel my way along with the B-29s based on losses. The replacement rate is pretty low right now compared to the number of groups operating, and the groups only have 7 planes each. My first target is Nagoya, with current plan to hit during the day from either 10k or 12k feet, Manpower attack to start fires and get at some of the many different factories there. Last I had good recon that target had about 45 fighters; don't recall how many guns. There are fewer B-29 ready than I would like for the first raid and tomorrow's forecast up there is rain, so they are waiting.

What do you think?

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 4:03:33 PM

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10 to 12K sounds right. I don't fly b29's below 10K, higher for heavy AA targets, but never higher than 15k. In my last turn with mind-messing I flew almost the entire B29 force into Nagasaki in the daytime after fighter sweeps with 90% on Manpower attacks. Poor Nagasaki.

Are you planning daytime? You might want to reconsider that...at first.

Max your DL as much as possible, that is very, very important.

Nagoya -- should be pretty heavily protected -- it is in the industrial top 5.

Part of me says that first attack should be big and bad aimed at the big targets Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Nagasaki, Hiroshima. In fact, I would choose one of the 100+ manpower cities. You might catch the Japanese unprepared, and after that first attack move on to the lightly defended bases until you get a feel for the HI air protection.

On the other hand, it is a long war, and picking lightly defended bases might be better: Akita or Yamagata? Both are north of Tokyo with some oil. Will probably be very lightly defended. And striking there will most likely cause a dispersion of the Japanese fighters. If he has some scary planes in r&d you might want to hit those factories first.

B29's are incredibly tough, but take incredible amount of babying. Only attack the big bases with everything except for maybe a sacrificial high altitude strike designed to draw off adjacent CAP. You will get splinters, especially if night bombing, and those last splinter attacks can be quite devastating when the Japanese fighters have worn themselves out.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 4:28:27 PM

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Hello, new user here and following this AAR. I hope you do not mind, I've had a great time reading it all :)

I am very new to the game, still learning my way against the AI. And given my very limited free time, who knows when I'll be done with that, this game is almost a full time job! So I can't really comment on the B29 strikes. I've just read a lot of AAR for now, I really don't know how B29 strikes work...

Regarding Cam Ranh Bay, I think it's a very good choice. While I do not know the inner workings of the game, it seems a very strategically sound move. If you deploy enough aircrafts there and in Jesselton / Kudat, you can basically close down the south China Sea for the japanese player. And judging from your last Strategic Map screenshot, all the other ways from Sumatra/Java/Malaya to Japan are closed already. This means he has no more access to the oil available there, and also that any and all naval assets he has there are now unable to return to japan (except by trying to make a run for it, and taking horrible losses).

I do not think your opponent has realized yet that you want to take Cam Ranh Bay, if he had he would have moved more troops there I think. That, or he realized too late and he just gave up on defending it seriously because he thought he could not move enough assets to make a difference. But I think it more likely he has not realized it yet. If he had realized you want to take that base, he would have probably moved the KB and whatever naval assets he could back to japan or at least to the Philippines or Hong Kong area. Keeping them in Singapore, likely with relatively low supplies and a small repair shipyard, seems wasteful to me.

He probably thinks you want to take Kuching/Singkawang, and use those bases as a striking launchpad to prepare an assault on Singapore and Palembang. I could be wrong of course, but his moves seems to indicate that. If so, then Cam Ranh Bay will be a very nasty surprise to him!

I wanted to ask a couple of questions though if I can. First, I'd like to know how you feel about the air losses you sustained up to this point. Do you feel you have lost many planes, or not? I ask because well, I'm inexperienced, so those numbers from the intel screen do not tell much to me!

Second, I wonder if you could make a short list of how many naval assets are going to participate in the Cam Ranh Bay invasion. Like, how many CVs / BBs / CA/CL are going to take part? Just for curiosity's sake :)

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 4:44:33 PM

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Just opened the save to look.

While I have some - Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya - I don't have that many LR Recon assets close to Japan yet. Tokyo and Yokohama have 50 and 62 fighters, but have had maybe double that most often and they are next to each other. 42 fighters at Nagoya, and 37 Manpower there. DL is 9/whatever at all of them this turn. 822, 267, and 107 guns at the three, so I'm going with Nagoya. I really have no idea where his top pilots are deployed at the moment and don't have a feel for how it will go. These first model of the B-29 will be flying at extended range and so have only half the bomb load.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 5:01:18 PM

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Here are the bases on the mainland that we have under recon. The two bases on Okinawa and Daito Shoto are also allocated long range recon assets.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 5:53:06 PM

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Well, you can't really go too far wrong. Most likely some of the fighters at Tokyo are night fighters, making it weaker than it looks I bet. Still, flying into 50 Jacks or Georges would be a rude surprise.

Not too impressed with Japan's plane production...

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 6:05:47 PM

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I'm really not versed in where all their plane production is/could be located. Walter is an experienced Japan player and has very likely been maneuvering his economy for longest survival by conserving supply, heavy industry points, and so on.

I don't recall what he has there this turn, but at Clark and Manila he's had like >300 fighters for some time. Ready to smite the Yankee armada!

To quote another forumite "We fool him, we no show up!"

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 6:36:48 PM

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Recon the mountain town behind Tokyo, Maebashi. There he might have some interesting builds.

See no reason why to keep producing the 5 and 5b Zeroes. I guess range on carriers, but trading a little range for armor and better guns seems tough to me.

Personally, I don't think I would sent B29s into daytime CAP without sweeps first.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 6:49:30 PM

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My longest ranged P-38 model can't quite make it. Part of the reason to start hitting the HI now is to get some hits now (earlier) when they have more cumulative effect, but another part is to keep the pressure up in various quarters to keep the defense spread out. The timing of the Pegu and Cam Ranh Bay operations did not line up as I had wanted them to (remember I felt compelled to dash in to Pegu while the IJN carriers were momentarily away) but has actually worked out better than I could have hoped. B-29s over the HI might force more decisions on the defense.

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RE: 1944 June 22 - 4/6/2015 7:13:42 PM

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I am aware you can't CAP the strikes yet on the HI, but night bombing is effective and less damage on the b29 pools. Sure they are less effective than daytime strikes, but you will find you can't maintain any kind of bombing campaign during the day over the HI from the Marianas. Raids yes, but campaigns no, your losses will be way too heavy.

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