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RE: Let's start! - 9/17/2012 10:01:39 AM

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That CV you torped has to feel good, even if it is moderate damage. I always am on the edge of my chair whenever an enemy capital ship is in the sights.

I would agree with stacking a couple of groups with top pilots for your Tojos... you will love the results.

These stacking limits make me like this scenario more and more...I have always heard the ASW and AA adjustments in DaBabes is very nice. Love the map too.

Curious to see how Burma plays out for you.

Burma will surely be a problem, but i hope to be able to succesfully defend it up untill 1943 thanks to the stacking limits. I'm already sending units into the jungle to meet their allied counterparts in securing the approaches to the burma central plains.
Akyab will be lost somehwere in the next 12 months...it's not defendable in the long run... but as long as i'm able to mantain the air supremacy in central Burma i think i should be more or less safe (at least untill the spit VIII comes online)

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RE: Let's start! - 9/17/2012 12:46:24 PM

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Cocos Island - I would land a few BFs, construction engineers, and an Air HQ at Christmas Island (IO). Second, I would prep either Southern Army HQ or 5th Fleet HQ for Cocos now. Eventually, they will be placed at Christmas Island before the actual landing so their command range (9) can come into play (up to 18 hexes). You will need to land an Army HQ, but the problem with the main part of the HQ be destroyed will not help. I wish MichaelM would put a patch out to fix this.

Third, start to sweep the base with Zeros until their is no fighters left before committing Nell/Betty. You have the time to do this right.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/18/2012 1:44:01 AM

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I agree with BBfanboy. I would not mess with Cocos except to mine it frequently with I-Boats.

You have a number of higher priority objectives to deal with and you're just wasting brain-power fretting about that minimally worthy rock. Wanna go land on unoccupied Christmas (IO)....okay, but go get Balikpapan and the rest of the DEI, like right now and stop frittering away time and forces on things like Cococabanadom. Damned place is filled with malarial misquitos, very ugly women, a significant shark population and a lot of jungle fevers unknown to modern science.

Now, go kick the crapola out of the remaining Chinese, and finish off the DEI/Phillipines. Get cracking lad. Stop whining and hand-wringing over some woebegone, nearly unihabitable rock, way out in the middle of nowheresville.

Do I have to drag you back to Dreadfort by your good ear and reintroduce you to your former "life"? I should hope not.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/19/2012 8:32:57 AM

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Endless days of work guys...very little time to update the AAR...sorry!

Situation at 05/12/1942

Burma:
Our 15th Army is advancing towards Mitikina very very slowly, being harrassed every day by 60/70 B26s escorted by several hurricanes. We tried some LRCAP missions, but due to the fatigue and the supply constraints, we have not being able to stop those pesky american bombers...result is that our divisions are still struggling along the trails from Katha, while he managed to push out my paras with 2 Aus Bdes, 1 chinese division and 1 burma bde... now we risk to lose the race for Mitikina...which would be a disaster for the whole Burma front.
Burma is always short on supplies. I should send them from Singa, but Singa has the same problem. With the refineries not producing supplies, everything has to be shipped from Japan...but Japan has very low reserves of supplies and they are also needed to repair the R&D factories...
The whole Empire produces only 24,000 supplies daily. 19,800 in Japan and the rest in China, Manchukoku and Korea... The situation will go grimmer and grimmer as soon as the air war will start to attrit my bases...

Java: moving very slow here...we're bringing in a division from Darwin and the Imperial from Padang...but it takes time... in the meanwhile 120 Ki-48s keep on bombing from Palembang...but they suck way too many supplies in the process and very soon i'll have to stop the bombing process...

China:
Things are going bad here. Despite the constant air bombing and the unit rotation, i keep on being repulsed in the contested hex. The stacking limits is really working against me here... not even close to a 1-1 and our losses are getting greater than his...

Southern-DEI/Northern OZ: slow...Whyndam is not yet conquered...waiting for some supplies (some bases have not even a cup of rice for a single soldier left

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SOPAC/CENTPAC: here the supply situation is good...what i lack is fuel here. I barely have 50,000 tons stockpiled between Truk and Rabaul...not even enough to keep my subs on constant patrol... shipping some from Japan but it's never enough. Hopefully in june i'll be able to start some CS from Tarakan...

Luzon: we tried to bomb Manila... 2200 AVs there...and his subs are bringing lots of supplies cause his strenght seems to grow...i even got a mortar unit destroyed by counterbattery fire

The japanese economy is improving tough... in the last 20 days resources stockpiles have grown from 1,2 millions to 2,1 millions and fuel stockpiles are growing too. I think in a couple of months everything will be safe again.

I think i understimated the impact of lack of supplies for my war effort. I probably overextended and now i feel weak almost everywhere. Brad has drawn a line in the sand and i bumbed against it... and Batavia, Cocos, Ndeni and Manila are nails in my back... and the clock is running fast...soon the allies will feel strong enough to come out and play and i'm not so sure to be able to face them under the present conditions...

Hope to be able to update in a more fashionable way very soon

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RE: Let's start! - 9/19/2012 5:07:42 PM

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Totally agree with obvert. Supply is the key in China and he won't ever have enough. Just keep grinding and the Chinese army will eventually break. Don't destroy Chinese units just wear them down and push them back until you take Chunking. There are no replacement devices and squads won't replace due to the shortage of supply.

Also, I think you need to garrison Rossell Island. Not important for Japan but too valuable for the Allies if they take it and build a base there. At least make him fight for it.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/19/2012 5:11:24 PM

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Totally agree with obvert. Supply is the key in China and he won't ever have enough. Just keep grinding and the Chinese army will eventually break. Don't destroy Chinese units just wear them down and push them back until you take Chunking. There are no replacement devices and squads won't replace due to the shortage of supply.

Also, I think you need to garrison Rossell Island. Not important for Japan but too valuable for the Allies if they take it and build a base there. At least make him fight for it.

Rossell?? Where is it?

... I know Rennell Island (already garrisoned) and Russell Island (garrisoned)...but Rossell?? So many islands in the map

Nice to see you Crsutton!

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RE: Let's start! - 9/19/2012 5:37:58 PM

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Rossel Is. is SE from the tip of New Guinea. It's a dot base to start, but if you build a little field and some forts, put a good garrison there, it can thwart early Allied attempt to hold that or other dot bases nearby. Plus it's a good search base for early warning/ASW if you have a group of Jakes there.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/19/2012 11:12:33 PM

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Rossel Is. is SE from the tip of New Guinea. It's a dot base to start, but if you build a little field and some forts, put a good garrison there, it can thwart early Allied attempt to hold that or other dot bases nearby. Plus it's a good search base for early warning/ASW if you have a group of Jakes there.

thx obvert! got it! will try to occupy that island asap!

btw...my GF has never been to London, while i've been several times...i wanna bring her there for her birthday...I wanna make her watch the phantom of the opera at the Majesty theatre(seen it several years ago and loved it!) and bring her to a good chinese restaurant...she loves chinese food!
I only know the old "mr.chow" and "Mandarine kicthen" at Baywater... can u suggest me a good (and cool) chinese restaurant in London which is a bit "on the run" in these days?

May 13th...a bad day... a supply convoy reached Ndeni...and our bombers attacked...a TRAP! i lost 55 planes (against only 4 of his own!), losing 35 crack pilots

At mitikina, for a couple of points, we didn't achieve a 2-1...and we're still there, with the australian getting there from the north...with high distruption and high fatigue....probably we'll lose the race for Mitikina

nothing much else to report.... but things don't look that good

What about using BBs to bomb Batavia and Manila (we conquered Bataan)? do u think i risk finding some CD guns and mines?

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 1:07:07 AM

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Manila has a LOT of mines at game start. I don't think Batavia has nearly as many at start and the Allies do not get that many mines to heavily mine it. I have found CD guns rarely hit anything beyond 10,000 yards, so just set your "Min bbdmt" value to 11 or so and do NOT check the "Escorts Bombard" option on the TF type screen.
Most of the time BBs can handle a mine hit or two and only be in repair for about a month per hit. I did have one BB get a magazine explosion from a mine hit though

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 8:03:44 AM

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 14, 42

Finally a good day ( i badly needed it!)

In SOPAC, after yesterday debacle with the loss of 55 IJN planes (among them some 15 crack fighter pilots and more than 20 bomber pilots), the IJNAF gets back to Rabaul for some rest and to fill their lines with new pilots.

We're shifting forces and engineers, trying to reach a decent number of aviation support in every key base in the SOlomons/NG area. The lack of AV is really a problem with DBB, but it gives you a much more interesting challenge!

In China, finally, one of our land attack took place in a sunny day (northern China seems to have a weather much worse than Burma or Kuriles!)...200 bombers bombed the enemy stack, taking out of the equation not less than 700 enemies (which is a great result in mountain terrain!), then our 44,500 men attacked (stacking limit is at 45,000)...and we achieved a 1-1!!! After 10 attacks in a row where we got 1-2/1-3, this is indeed a great result! Our guys are in a decent shape...so we'll wait for some more supplies and rotate a division with a fresh one...in 3 days we'll be able to attack once again and luckly we'll get that hex!

In Burma i was really relieved...At Mitikina our 15th Army was fatigued and distrupted...with the ghost of the arrival of 2 Aus Bdes from the north... i had ordered a shock attack... this was the last day before the monsoon... i had to take Mitikina before he could reinforce...with the arrival of 2 Fresh Oz Bdes and the upcoming monsoon it would have been almost impossible to conquer the place, thus squandering all my plans for Burma...
So, while 130 IJA bombers from Mandalay and Magwe bombed the aussies, slowing their march, the 5th Division led the attack, followed by a RTA division, a Guards regiment and the 55th Cavalrly regiment... and......

we achieved a great victory!

Now the buma campaign can be called over. We'll march north again, in order to see if we can get that dot base 1 hex north of Mitikina...there the enemy is very exposed so he'll probably run away..let's see.
Then it will be time to dig in and prepare our defences
It also seems that he stopped any air offensive in Burma...it's been a week since the last time his bombers arrived.

A second 42 plane Sentai is ready to be equipped with KI-44a. By the end of the week i'll have 82 operative Tojos at Rangoon... i'm planning a summer air offensive in southern India. Wanna make his pool bleed!

Still undecided if Batavia worths the risk of using the BBs...not so sure...fear of damaging the HI and LI there (and i badly need all the undamaged industry i can get! ...remember that Singapore got conquered completely damaged

so the supply production in the whole SRA/DEI is more or less ZERO!

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Morning Air attack on 30th Chinese Corps, at 82,38 , near Tienshui

Weather in hex: Light cloud

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

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 49
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 43
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 53
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 17
Ki-49-Ia Helen x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
617 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled

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Morning Air attack on 21st Australian Brigade, at 63,41 (Warazup)

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

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

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-Ic Sally x 5
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 45
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 20

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged

Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Also attacking 18th Australian Brigade ...
Also attacking 2nd Burma Brigade ...
Also attacking 22nd New Chinese Division ...
Also attacking 21st Australian Brigade ...
Also attacking 22nd New Chinese Division ...
Also attacking 21st Australian Brigade ...
Also attacking 2nd Burma Brigade ...
Also attacking 21st Australian Brigade ...
Also attacking 18th Australian Brigade ...
Also attacking 22nd New Chinese Division ...
Also attacking 21st Australian Brigade ...
Also attacking 2nd Burma Brigade ...

These were the Mitikina reinforcements.... Thank God they didn't arrive in time!!

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Ground combat at 82,38 (near Tienshui)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 36762 troops, 334 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 1005

Defending force 31748 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 281

Japanese adjusted assault: 585

Allied adjusted defense: 574

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
748 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 110 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1612 casualties reported
Squads: 117 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 70 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 9 disabled

Assaulting units:
110th Division
13th Tank Regiment
63rd Division
59th Infantry Brigade
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
1st Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Mortar Battalion
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment

Defending units:
30th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
4th Group Army
23rd Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
14th Group Army

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Ground combat at Myitkyina (64,42)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 26233 troops, 214 guns, 219 vehicles, Assault Value = 844

Defending force 10052 troops, 28 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 117

Japanese adjusted assault: 887

Allied adjusted defense: 118

Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Myitkyina !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), morale(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
543 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 86 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Guns lost 10 (2 destroyed, 8 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
5294 casualties reported
Squads: 170 destroyed, 31 disabled
Non Combat: 258 destroyed, 84 disabled
Engineers: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 20 (20 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 22 (20 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Units retreated 8
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
4th Ind Engineer Regiment
15th Guards Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
4th RTA Division
RTA Cavalry Division
5th Division
5th Guards Cav Regiment
15th Army

Defending units:
1st Burma Brigade
BFF Brigade
13th Indian Brigade
36th Chinese Division
103rd RAF Base Force
101st RAF Base Force
Burma Corps
221 Group RAF
104th RAF Base Force

I think the Burma Corps won't be seen in combat shape for quite a long time

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 8:25:33 AM

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Might be silly but wouldn't attacking again straight away in that China hex be the best thing to do ?

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 8:33:28 AM

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Might be silly but wouldn't attacking again straight away in that China hex be the best thing to do ?

mmm....tomorrow a thunderstorm is foreseen and without the help of the bombers i doubt i'll be able to obtain anything better than a 1-1...moreover, supplies are in red for a couple of units (usually, after an attack, it takes a couple of days to drain enough supplies from Sian to be in "white" once again). Then one of my division has high levels of distruption and fatigue, with an AV of only 230...

Don't know sincerly...maybe a shock attack?...mmmmm.....

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 8:39:23 AM

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this is the situation ....

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:16:27 AM

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Double check the leaders of the stack in China and replace the worse for the divisional units. You want high inspiration, above average leadership and land skill.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:20:15 AM

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Double check the leaders of the stack in China and replace the worse for the divisional units. You want high inspiration, above average leadership and land skill.

Ok, they are good enough imho, but i'll double check anyway!

But what do u think? Wait, attack or shock attack?

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:30:27 AM

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Double check the leaders of the stack in China and replace the worse for the divisional units. You want high inspiration, above average leadership and land skill.

Interested in this. Why higher inspiration than Land, Aggressiveness or Leadership?

Inspiration deals with moral only, right?

Land is skill at combat itself. I usually rank this the highest for land commanders. Am I missing something?

Aggressiveness is their ability to push the attack, correct? This seems essential in China especially knowing most CHinese commanders have low aggressivenesss.

Leadership affects the unit's ability to improve experience levels, right?

All four seem very important, but I would rank them as follows:

1. Land
2. Aggressiveness
3. Leadership
4. Inspiration

I rarely have problems with moral if the Japanese troops are well supplied and support from HQs is good. Of course after getting routed or severely disabled/disrupted this is really important, as are supply and HQs, rest mode.

I'd love to know if I'm missing the boat on these. I got them from the big list made (I believe) by a dev ages ago.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:32:08 AM

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Very entertaining AAR. Like the maps. Reading both Japan and Allied.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:41:20 AM

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thx obvert! got it! will try to occupy that island asap!

btw...my GF has never been to London, while i've been several times...i wanna bring her there for her birthday...I wanna make her watch the phantom of the opera at the Majesty theatre(seen it several years ago and loved it!) and bring her to a good chinese restaurant...she loves chinese food!
I only know the old "mr.chow" and "Mandarine kicthen" at Baywater... can u suggest me a good (and cool) chinese restaurant in London which is a bit "on the run" in these days?

This place I've seen and wanted to try, but haven't been. Looks good for celebration and is right in Soho near the theaters, etc. Sounds like you have a good plan.

http://www.yauatcha.com/soho/

If you're here for a day or two and want to meet up, I'd love to buy you (and your GF) a drink, or even get a coffee.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:44:19 AM

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Double check the leaders of the stack in China and replace the worse for the divisional units. You want high inspiration, above average leadership and land skill.

Ok, they are good enough imho, but i'll double check anyway!

But what do u think? Wait, attack or shock attack?

Sorry to inundate your AAR with posts, but I just would stress not shocking until a day or two after you've gotten at least a 1:1 and have good supply, low fatigue/disruption. I've had the 1:1 turn into a 1:2 and set me back a week. But once the supply is white it looks like you can break through by the above report.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:53:17 AM

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thx obvert! got it! will try to occupy that island asap!

btw...my GF has never been to London, while i've been several times...i wanna bring her there for her birthday...I wanna make her watch the phantom of the opera at the Majesty theatre(seen it several years ago and loved it!) and bring her to a good chinese restaurant...she loves chinese food!
I only know the old "mr.chow" and "Mandarine kicthen" at Baywater... can u suggest me a good (and cool) chinese restaurant in London which is a bit "on the run" in these days?

This place I've seen and wanted to try, but haven't been. Looks good for celebration and is right in Soho near the theaters, etc. Sounds like you have a good plan.

http://www.yauatcha.com/soho/

If you're here for a day or two and want to meet up, I'd love to buy you (and your GF) a drink, or even get a coffee.

That would be cool! I'll be coming on the 19th of October...let's keep in touch! :)

Thanks, looks interesting that place...i'll give it a look on Tripadvisor!

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 10:56:38 AM

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Double check the leaders of the stack in China and replace the worse for the divisional units. You want high inspiration, above average leadership and land skill.

Ok, they are good enough imho, but i'll double check anyway!

But what do u think? Wait, attack or shock attack?

Sorry to inundate your AAR with posts, but I just would stress not shocking until a day or two after you've gotten at least a 1:1 and have good supply, low fatigue/disruption. I've had the 1:1 turn into a 1:2 and set me back a week. But once the supply is white it looks like you can break through by the above report.

The only problem is that he will bring fresh troop in if i wait, while now those units are badly mauled.... At Mitikina, despite being in red with supplies and very fatigued, the shock attack worked very well....

Tough call....

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 11:31:09 AM

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According to my "Leaders" list that I copy & paste (now have printed out), for land units the priority is Land, Inspiration, Leadership, and then Admin.

How high is your disruption and fatigue levels of these troops?? Are any of your units with over 50% squads disabled?? Those will get far worse if involved in an attack.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 12:13:52 PM

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The only problem is that he will bring fresh troop in if i wait, while now those units are badly mauled.... At Mitikina, despite being in red with supplies and very fatigued, the shock attack worked very well....

Tough call....

Yeah, looking at the report and the state of your troops, it'll probably be fine. I just had one that was similar and didn't turn out fine. But he has very little left with AV in the hex and your disruption is low. I'm changing my view. I say go for it.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 12:20:59 PM

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So say I. disruptions and fatigue are low, and his supplies must be way worse than yours.. Although I the air bombing proved the key than... Hmm. Basically go for it but remember that you alone are responsible for your actions...

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 3:19:02 PM

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Totally agree with obvert. Supply is the key in China and he won't ever have enough. Just keep grinding and the Chinese army will eventually break. Don't destroy Chinese units just wear them down and push them back until you take Chunking. There are no replacement devices and squads won't replace due to the shortage of supply.

Also, I think you need to garrison Rossell Island. Not important for Japan but too valuable for the Allies if they take it and build a base there. At least make him fight for it.

Rossell?? Where is it? ... I know Rennell Island (already garrisoned) and Russell Island (garrisoned)...but Rossell?? So many islands in the map

Nice to see you Crsutton!

Spelled it wrong, Rossel Island. If you follow the chain of islands running SE of Milne Bay, the very last one in the chain is Rossel. If I were the Allied player I would grab it as soon as I felt strong enough to fight for it.

I am reading all the time but commenting less because I am reading your opponent's at times and don't want to blow any intel for either of you...

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 3:54:49 PM

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Stepping back for a moment to look at the game overall, I am amazed at how well GJ has handled himself. This is his second game. This is his first game as Japan. His opponent is very experienced and capable. By all rights, the wheels should have come off long ago. GJ's empire should be in tatters, so that he ought to be looking forward to ending this game and starting a new one.

While everything hasn't gone the way he'd like, GJ has performed very credibly and hasn't done anything to skewer himself.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 4:36:30 PM

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Very busy...got a couple of meetings with clients coming in... just to let you know that we shock attacked and achieved a 2-1, inflicting great damage to the chinese... 7 out of 9 units have retreated but 20,000 enemies are still dug in the contested hex. Another cavarly corp is arriving as reinforcement. We have a brand new army (43,000 fresh men, for 1300 AVs) ready to come in and relieve the heroes of the 1st Army.
Tomorrow we'll shock attack again, hopefully gaining the complete controll of that damned hex.
BANZAI!!

Thanks CR, much appreaciated

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 5:14:42 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Very busy...got a couple of meetings with clients coming in... just to let you know that we shock attacked and achieved a 2-1, inflicting great damage to the chinese... 7 out of 9 units have retreated but 20,000 enemies are still dug in the contested hex. Another cavarly corp is arriving as reinforcement. We have a brand new army (43,000 fresh men, for 1300 AVs) ready to come in and relieve the heroes of the 1st Army.
Tomorrow we'll shock attack again, hopefully gaining the complete controll of that damned hex.
BANZAI!!

Thanks CR, much appreaciated

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You will see that China is very much about breaking successive Crusts of crackling... Sometimes you bang your head on it but give it enough bombing and supplies on your side, you will eventually get through, each and everytime, once you got it snowballing.. For the allies it is at the very beginning that one can set up a defense if left enough time by the IJ, once it snowballs it is dead.

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 6:18:41 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: veji1

quote:

ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Very busy...got a couple of meetings with clients coming in... just to let you know that we shock attacked and achieved a 2-1, inflicting great damage to the chinese... 7 out of 9 units have retreated but 20,000 enemies are still dug in the contested hex. Another cavarly corp is arriving as reinforcement. We have a brand new army (43,000 fresh men, for 1300 AVs) ready to come in and relieve the heroes of the 1st Army.
Tomorrow we'll shock attack again, hopefully gaining the complete controll of that damned hex.
BANZAI!!

Thanks CR, much appreaciated

*
wouhou!!!

You will see that China is very much about breaking successive Crusts of crackling... Sometimes you bang your head on it but give it enough bombing and supplies on your side, you will eventually get through, each and everytime, once you got it snowballing.. For the allies it is at the very beginning that one can set up a defense if left enough time by the IJ, once it snowballs it is dead.

And those Corps will be trashed for the remainder of this portion of the fighting. Good call to go for it. Keep it rolling!

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RE: Let's start! - 9/20/2012 6:48:44 PM

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR May 15, 42

Here's the result...

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Ground combat at 82,38 (near Tienshui)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 36018 troops, 334 guns, 119 vehicles, Assault Value = 924

Defending force 29879 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 214

Japanese adjusted assault: 744

Allied adjusted defense: 322

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1054 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 120 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
3463 casualties reported
Squads: 198 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 388 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 10 (10 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 7 (out of 9....)

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
63rd Division
13th Tank Regiment
110th Division
59th Infantry Brigade
12th Indpt Infantry Regiment
1st Mortar Battalion
1st Army
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment

Defending units:
85th Chinese Corps
80th Chinese Corps
30th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
23rd Chinese Corps
4th Group Army
14th Group Army

Only the two corps with decent AV remained in the hex. We'll keep on attacking. My 1st Army is exausted...this will be their last attack for a while. No matter how it goes the next one, in two days the whole army will be substituted by 3 brand new divisions.

Finally Whyndam falls...now the whole northern Oz (with the exception of Port Hedland) is in my bloody hands. Now it's time to finish off Batavia and to start to prepp the future defences in the region... there's still the option for Cocos...but i really don't like the idea of risking a landing there... however, as soon as Batavia falls, the Southern Area Army HQ will be prepping for Cocos (already have 2 Divs, 2 Eng Rgt and 2 Tank rgts 100% prepped).

Also moving some troops to the Mariannas and to the Kuriles...just in case

Here's the resources situation in Japan...things are improving!
Also the fuel situation is getting better. Palembang, Miri and Brunei are already empty

...and the convoys from HK to Sasebo are working just fine