Slitherine

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Ground combat at Fenton (76,126)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 248 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19

Defending force 3106 troops, 23 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 59

Japanese adjusted assault: 7

Allied adjusted defense: 19

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

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

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

Assaulting units:
Yokosuka 1st SNLF /1

Defending units:
2/2nd Ind Coy
Sparrow Battalion
7th Mil. District
Darwin RAAF Base Force

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ORIGINAL: Spidery

Also, have spotted a lone Allied AMC near the Kuriles. May be trying a raid?

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Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 11870 troops, 120 guns, 49 vehicles, Assault Value = 421

Defending force 7177 troops, 88 guns, 60 vehicles, Assault Value = 207

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 310

Allied adjusted defense: 111

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
487 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled

Allied ground losses:
339 casualties reported
Squads: 12 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
18th Div /6
28th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
Torres Strait Battalion
1st Australian Brigade
9th Australian Brigade
Horn Isl Base Force

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Japanese ground losses:
225 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Allied ground losses:
8028 casualties reported
Squads: 304 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 323 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 116 (116 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 84 (84 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 3

Assaulting units:
18th Division
28th JAAF AF Bn

Defending units:
1st Australian Brigade
9th Australian Brigade
Horn Isl Base Force

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Japanese ground losses:
271 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
6154 casualties reported
Squads: 180 destroyed, 22 disabled
Non Combat: 161 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 20 (5 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
37th Division
6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Army
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion

Defending units:
61st Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps

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Two task forces are spotted South of the Kuriles and just outside of torpedo range from Honshu. Looks like he is poking around for gaps in my search coverage. With luck there are none!

I'm nervous that he could try an extreme action. He has all those old BB from Pearl - could he try a bombardment attack against the home isles?

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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Two task forces are spotted South of the Kuriles and just outside of torpedo range from Honshu. Looks like he is poking around for gaps in my search coverage. With luck there are none!

I'm nervous that he could try an extreme action. He has all those old BB from Pearl - could he try a bombardment attack against the home isles?

Now that you know he's there, move everything critical out, turn off the search for a day or two, turn ON the Netties at a closer strike range and see what happens. Sometimes if you're not paying attention the search might be missed in the replay and the DL might now show a rise on the detected ships. Lure him in and hit him hard!!! The BBs would be fantastic!

He'll likely have a few DD or a maybe a CL there.

-104,000   oil
+185,000   fuel
-110,000   supply
+79,000    HI
+3980      vehicles
+11360     armament

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ORIGINAL: Simonsez

Just an observation. It seems that you have an awful lot of mechant shipping points in the bank - curious as to why?. Might be a good idea to turn off most of your merchant ship production (unless you have already) and simply bank the HI points. Having merchant points in the bank isn't going to be that useful to you, but more HI will as it can be used to build many things - including merchant shipping in the future if you find you need it.

My game is about a month behind yours (Feb 1/1942) and I have 177,000+ HI in the bank after paying the Feb 1 pilot tax. I have most merchant ship production stopped - only bulding the std cargo hulls (C's?) that can (and will)convert to tankers, tnakers and AO's and any xAKs that will arrive before Jun 43. I have stopped all AKL's and all xAK's due to arrive after June 43 while accelerating all CVE's that carry more than 12 planes (Taiyo, Shinyo and Kaiyo classes) and stopping the others as they seem prety pitiful. My current Merchant point pool is hovering around 800 points in the bank.