Slitherine

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that's the real highlight of the turn as our Commonwealth Army pushes back the Japanese troops SE of Moulmein which means we are very close to surrounding Moulmein and cutting off the Japanese... 4th IJA division was probably nearly fully destroyed after having all combat squads disabled in our last attack... if the enemy isn't starting to retreat tomorrow using the road South to Tavoy then the troops will be cut off at Moulmein and there is no way the enemy will be able to hold the town nor being able to free the units... well, an amphib evac could be attempted but being so close to Rangoon (level 9 af) and Moulmein (level 9 af) it would be suizide to do

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ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock

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that's the real highlight of the turn as our Commonwealth Army pushes back the Japanese troops SE of Moulmein which means we are very close to surrounding Moulmein and cutting off the Japanese... 4th IJA division was probably nearly fully destroyed after having all combat squads disabled in our last attack... if the enemy isn't starting to retreat tomorrow using the road South to Tavoy then the troops will be cut off at Moulmein and there is no way the enemy will be able to hold the town nor being able to free the units... well, an amphib evac could be attempted but being so close to Rangoon (level 9 af) and Moulmein (level 9 af) it would be suizide to do

Well, the Japanese are known for committing suicide.

CF might just try it to avoid losing the Imperial Guards Division. (Tokyo Rose would have a hard time explaining that one . . .)

duds...

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Attacking force 1598 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 154

Defending force 35213 troops, 470 guns, 852 vehicles, Assault Value = 900

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ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock

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Attacking force 1598 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 154

Defending force 35213 troops, 470 guns, 852 vehicles, Assault Value = 900

Are you sure you brought enough troops to Ambon?

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Kudos to Cuttlefish for not giving up, because it's not good

Those air losses are very light on both sides; Greyjoy and I have combined lost more than twice as many aircraft by the same date

That must mean a lack of major air battles, or aggressiveness

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Kudos to you opponent for not giving up already!

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

long time no update as it just wasn't really worth it as the game was boring enough already and the AAR would only be famous for the most boring PBEM ever. The game was going on though and is now in 9/43, biggest highlight was the destruction of the rest of the IJN carrier force around Borneo at the beginning of 43 for the loss of Wasp.

Below the current situation. We crushed Burma long ago, then Thailand, then Indochina and what was left on Malaysia. Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Mindanao and Southern China, the Allied machine was rolling over the Japanese at will, destroying enemy units left and right. There are some red dots left on the map on NE Borneo but these bases are all no threat and can be taken by two btn at will. Currently we have landed 3500 av on Luzon with another 3000 waiting to be brought in. The enemy is split in two already with three div cut off on Southern Luzon, these units are no threat. If they move, they will be bombed and destroyed by the Allied air armada. There is one full enemy division at Manila with a crushed one plus lots of support units but in total not even 1000 av. A small garisson at Clark Field and that's it on Northern Luzon as Cuttlefish made a huge mistake putting those three divs into the Southern bases as these bases are all death traps (two of them in clear terrain).

Luzon will be completely cleared in a couple of weeks for nearly no loss and then we can think of landing on Japan already, that will be around March 44 or so. Formosa is bombed from the Southern China bases, I can land there at will with about 6000 Commonwealth av while I only need 1500 to take the whole island. China is a mess for the Japanese already, as the Chinese are fully supplied with roughly 30,000 av available plus the RAF/USAAF having some 800 fighters plus 500 bombers at level 9 bases, destroying everything in range.

As you can see, I left CENTPAC completely untouched, that's a theatre where I always thought one would give the Japanese a better chance to strike back than elsewhere and I just don't need these islands/atolls.