Lowpe
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Nov 18, 1943 No night bombing. Bombard Great Nicobar, Allies keep flying in more troops, I think I will have to be satisfied with simply bombarding to prevent building for now. I am thinking of evacuating the infantry division on Trinkat while I can...those troops will be needed on either Sumatra or more probably Singers. Forgot to take a sentai of Helens off ground bombing at Great Nicobar and they fly right into Corsairs. Enough said there. Still holding on the Tuang Gyi road, color me surprised! Also no massive assault across the river at Moulmein or to the immediate east. This break is letting my troops recover and dig in further back. I already have engineers on the Vinh line digging in, plus the rail line to Singers, plus Raheng and Uttaradit. Forts, forts, and more forts. My new mantra. The IJN loses a destroyer, a nice one, two hexes from Japan to a lousy sub. Torpedoed once protecting a convoy, and then finished off as a straggler. The great evacuation in the Cent Pacific and Solomons and New Guinea continues. All new troops are heading to points around the HI. Maybe I have two months before the next big attacks come, depends if he cleans up the Marianas first or not. We shall be busy little engineers in the meantime. Bonins have 700AV, 800AV, and 400AV with good forts, supplies, CD guns, ART so they should at least be a little tough. PI, Daito, and Hokkaido are weak, but rapidly improving. My goal is get defence on all the Islands to prevent an easy Allied air base close in. History has shown I can't stop Allied transports flying in supplies and troops (Great Nicobar) so that means ground pounders, INF, ART, everywhere. Armor on the more important bases. On the Atolls, I plan to stack as many of the low AV troops as I can and build forts. The more units present the greater the dispersion of the enemy bombardment. The logical choice would be for the Allies to grab Ulithi and Yap for the air and naval bases and push onto PI, but lets not count out the go for the throat attack on Hokkaido! I have a regiment headed to one of the islands (they make nice airbases, if lousy ports), plus engineers for all. More troops as I can spare them. No winter rules for these bases, to far to the south.
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