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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 11:00:57 AM

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One last comment here. Why is everybody forced on raw AV values vs the actual Anti-Armor and Anti-Soft values the Allied troops have at this time in the war?? Almost all of them are really bad, IMO.

True Micheal. However a +4 terrain modifier, along with forts, can make those values become pretty scary in the adjusted AV results... We'll soon see i guess...

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 11:10:26 AM

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Their morale and experience levels are really poor at start. Some will be at 20 for both. Those will add to their fragile nature. I'm not saying that this will be easy, but the Allies don't have many advantages here except terrain and basic forts.

Since they came off all those ships, have you gone through the leaders of your HQs and divisions at DH??

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 11:14:02 AM

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Their morale and experience levels are really poor at start. Some will be at 20 for both. Those will add to their fragile nature. I'm not saying that this will be easy, but the Allies don't have many advantages here except terrain and basic forts.

Since they came off all those ships, have you gone through the leaders of your HQs and divisions at DH??

Yes, leaders are all very good. The best i could effort to buy. They have all been checked and changed when needed during the Malaya campaign.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:09:05 PM

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Is there supposed to be a "GHOST" river between DH and Calcutta???????
It is not represented! How am I supposed to know!?

Com'on... :-(((((((

Sent only 3 divisions while the other 3 are still 15 miles away. They got impaled. Trashed 1 and half division completely. If I knew I would have sent them all at once...

really disappointed. I don't feel I did anything wrong here. The map is more than misleading.

Wanna cry

funny as it is, I had to find out the same in my ongoing PBEM vs khyberbill when I had 4000av crossing the river from Diamond Harbour into Calcutta. It was quite a surprise to see rivercrossing when ordering the units to march. Or should I call it shocking? The map is misleading and as it stands, Calcutta is the only hex I know that is surrounded by a river in every hex you can enter the town. Add in urban heavy and it is the hardest possible hex on the whole map to take.

I had 4000av, only first line divisions. The river crossing resulted in more than 1000 disabled combat squads (all 100% prepped), caused by second line Indian troops, low experienced, trashed from previous combat, units by far not built out, many support units. Calcutta only got one downside, it can be bombarded from Sea.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:10:12 PM

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here's the situation at Calcutta:

25th Army is 19/46 miles to Calcutta
Small para units moving from 3 other directions, along with Tanks circling around

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:18:31 PM

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One last comment here. Why is everybody forced on raw AV values vs the actual Anti-Armor and Anti-Soft values the Allied troops have at this time in the war?? Almost all of them are really bad, IMO.

Because if you don't get the needed odds the Allied can still wreck your troops easily. In my ongoing PBEM vs khyberbill I have been where Greyjoy is now. 4000 fully prepped IJ av entered Calcutta from DH and had to shock attack. The enemy had two understrenght Ind Div there plus lots of those "crap" units. I had more than 1000 combat squads disabled just from the shock attack into Calcutta. It took another 4 or 5 divisions as reinforcements to take the town on the third attempt. If the terrain is great for defense (no better hex on the map than Calcutta) you can make it more or less impossible to conquer, it just depends how much supply and flak you have and a certain amount of av will hold forever.

Greyjoy's main advantage IMO is the date when he lands there. I was going there in April after all the rest of my targets were conquered so the Allied had more time to bring troops to India but those then weren't in the Calcutta area which was the Allied's main mistake. I don't think 2500 av would be enough to take Calcutta though as the 18th Div is quite worth it.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:19:05 PM

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Is there supposed to be a "GHOST" river between DH and Calcutta???????
It is not represented! How am I supposed to know!?

Com'on... :-(((((((

Sent only 3 divisions while the other 3 are still 15 miles away. They got impaled. Trashed 1 and half division completely. If I knew I would have sent them all at once...

really disappointed. I don't feel I did anything wrong here. The map is more than misleading.

Wanna cry

funny as it is, I had to find out the same in my ongoing PBEM vs khyberbill when I had 4000av crossing the river from Diamond Harbour into Calcutta. It was quite a surprise to see rivercrossing when ordering the units to march. Or should I call it shocking? The map is misleading and as it stands, Calcutta is the only hex I know that is surrounded by a river in every hex you can enter the town. Add in urban heavy and it is the hardest possible hex on the whole map to take. I had 4000av, only first line divisions. The river crossing resulted in more than 1000 disabled combat squads (all 100% prepped), caused by second line Indian troops, low experienced, trashed from previous combat, units by far not built out, many support units. Calcutta only got one downside, it can be bombarded from Sea.

I'll have barely 2200 AVs to face the enemy. So yes, i'm prepared to see my units trashed.
Surely that is a hell of a hex to invade...you can bomb it by river, yes, but you risk to trash the industry even more...
But i guess that there is no option once you get there...you need to accept the fact that you'll suffer the risk of trashin g the industry for the prize of conquering that key-city

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:27:29 PM

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In China my advance North of Sian has forced him to abbandon the Woods South of it. He will probably reposition his armies on the mountains...just like QBall did in my other match.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:27:36 PM

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Is there supposed to be a "GHOST" river between DH and Calcutta???????
It is not represented! How am I supposed to know!?

Com'on... :-(((((((

Sent only 3 divisions while the other 3 are still 15 miles away. They got impaled. Trashed 1 and half division completely. If I knew I would have sent them all at once...

really disappointed. I don't feel I did anything wrong here. The map is more than misleading.

Wanna cry

funny as it is, I had to find out the same in my ongoing PBEM vs khyberbill when I had 4000av crossing the river from Diamond Harbour into Calcutta. It was quite a surprise to see rivercrossing when ordering the units to march. Or should I call it shocking? The map is misleading and as it stands, Calcutta is the only hex I know that is surrounded by a river in every hex you can enter the town. Add in urban heavy and it is the hardest possible hex on the whole map to take. I had 4000av, only first line divisions. The river crossing resulted in more than 1000 disabled combat squads (all 100% prepped), caused by second line Indian troops, low experienced, trashed from previous combat, units by far not built out, many support units. Calcutta only got one downside, it can be bombarded from Sea.

I'll have barely 2200 AVs to face the enemy. So yes, i'm prepared to see my units trashed.
Surely that is a hell of a hex to invade...you can bomb it by river, yes, but you risk to trash the industry even more...
But i guess that there is no option once you get there...you need to accept the fact that you'll suffer the risk of trashin g the industry for the prize of conquering that key-city

The industry?

When I kicked out the 100,000 Allied troops the industry was 100% damaged. 100%. If you go for the Indian area around Calcutta then the reason for this shouldn't be the industry because that is most like destroyed, nav bombardments or not. My heavy cruisers did daily shifting nav bombardments until they had sys damaged near 20 and all my AKE at Akyab were dry and couldn't pick up supply fast enough to rearm my fleet (and I had a lot of AKE there). The damage they did to the industry really wasn't notable but they really influenced the ground battles in my favour. Let alone that it meant Calcutta could not operate aircraft. There was so much flak there, I wouldn't even bomb from 25k and that wouldn't do damage anyway.

Looking at my campaign there my Allied opponent might find it cynical in his current situation if I say that I would just love to see an IJ opponent attack me in this area in spring 42 as there is no other area around that gives me such odds to defend. There are just two things to keep in mind, keep a mobile reserve and keep the raillines open which is no that hard to do vs 2 or max 3 para btn that can be bombed to dust within one turn.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:33:24 PM

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Is there supposed to be a "GHOST" river between DH and Calcutta???????
It is not represented! How am I supposed to know!?

Com'on... :-(((((((

Sent only 3 divisions while the other 3 are still 15 miles away. They got impaled. Trashed 1 and half division completely. If I knew I would have sent them all at once...

really disappointed. I don't feel I did anything wrong here. The map is more than misleading.

Wanna cry

funny as it is, I had to find out the same in my ongoing PBEM vs khyberbill when I had 4000av crossing the river from Diamond Harbour into Calcutta. It was quite a surprise to see rivercrossing when ordering the units to march. Or should I call it shocking? The map is misleading and as it stands, Calcutta is the only hex I know that is surrounded by a river in every hex you can enter the town. Add in urban heavy and it is the hardest possible hex on the whole map to take. I had 4000av, only first line divisions. The river crossing resulted in more than 1000 disabled combat squads (all 100% prepped), caused by second line Indian troops, low experienced, trashed from previous combat, units by far not built out, many support units. Calcutta only got one downside, it can be bombarded from Sea.

I'll have barely 2200 AVs to face the enemy. So yes, i'm prepared to see my units trashed.
Surely that is a hell of a hex to invade...you can bomb it by river, yes, but you risk to trash the industry even more...
But i guess that there is no option once you get there...you need to accept the fact that you'll suffer the risk of trashin g the industry for the prize of conquering that key-city

The industry? When I kicked out the 100,000 Allied troops the industry was 100% damaged. 100%. If you go for the Indian area around Calcutta then the reason for this shouldn't be the industry because that is most like destroyed, nav bombardments or not. My heavy cruisers did daily shifting nav bombardments until they had sys damaged near 20 and all my AKE at Akyab were dry and couldn't pick up supply fast enough to rearm my fleet (and I had a lot of AKE there). The damage they did to the industry really wasn't notable but they really influenced the ground battles in my favour. Let alone that it meant Calcutta could not operate aircraft. There was so much flak there, I wouldn't even bomb from 25k and that wouldn't do damage anyway.

Looking at my campaign there my Allied opponent might find it cynical in his current situation if I say that I would just love to see an IJ opponent attack me in this area in spring 42 as there is no other area around that gives me such odds to defend. There are just two things to keep in mind, keep a mobile reserve and keep the raillines open which is no that hard to do vs 2 or max 3 para btn that can be bombed to dust within one turn.

True, but in Jan 42, if Japan opens the other exit doors, any incoming allied army can be faced in the plains around Calcutta, with a total local air superiority. That's my plan at least...
Ok, so i'll follow your suggestion and use my CAs to bomb the city. I have 10 AKEs en route right for Diamond Harbour.
Clearly if Calcutta industry could fall intact or semi-intact....that would be a gift!

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:49:02 PM

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The date really is your main advantage at this point. I would bet your 2000+ have no chance at all taking Calcutta vs 1000+ Allied av including 18th Brit Div but hopefully for you I might be wrong about that. I just can't see it.

You just also have to keep in mind what he can bring in and what he gets as reinforcements. Much depends on how fast your opponent reacts, an enemy Army landing at DH would really alert me I can tell you that. I could fully focus all I had on the Calcutta area, the SRA cleared, Burma cleared, China in ruins and Northern Australia secured together with PM and the Australian trashed there. So my risk was really limited and still, after clearing Ceylon (enemy lost 600 av there), I was still facing a total of 5500-6000 av in the area around Calcutta all the way to Chittagong/Cox Bazar. And that was in April, so only more or less 2,5 months ahead of your date. There was just yesterday a nice little discussion in John3rd's AAR when he thought about sending 5 or 6 divisions to India and I chimed in saying this would be suizide

and he should either concentrate on Australia or India.

The Japanese juggernaut works as long as you don't beat your head onto a wall and then one should just back down IMO. It won't help if you trash your highly experienced units and might even be routed at some point. As long as you can roll the Allied while you have a highly favourable numerical advantage it works in your way. If you get bogged down it's bad news. And then we are back at your river crossing into Calcutta with not even a 2:1 advantage when 1/3 of the av there is at least as good as your divisions, speaking about 18th Brit Div.

Will be interesting to see and I sure will follow it. Damn it you didn't do it before I had to undertake this operation.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 12:59:50 PM

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I'm feeling more optimistic than Castor Troy at this point due to the date.

Once DH gets AF up to 2, I would have some Oscars on LRCAP over Calcutta to catch any attempts to airlift in any troops.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 1:26:47 PM

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Asked Erik if he's ok in re-doing the turn. I would send all the 6 divisions at once now that I know.
Alternatively, we could ask to some of the guru-map boys to modify that hex.

Let's first hear what Erik thinks about it

Yep, seems to be an anomaly in the data. It's on the Stock Map as well, so it's likely a carry-over from the initial map development.

If Erik says ok, I'll fix it for you. Pm me the pwhexe file you are using (you may have to zip it). I'll fix it right away and send both you and Erik the repaired version. I'll include a changelog so you both know exactly what was done.

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 3:54:33 PM

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BTW GJ, use the 'F6' toggle key to see hex side data. It might be masked if you also have the 'w' toggle on, or if you have a hex you are interested in selected (selection shows the white borders).

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RE: The war has started - 5/7/2014 5:48:10 PM

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Asked Erik if he's ok in re-doing the turn. I would send all the 6 divisions at once now that I know.
Alternatively, we could ask to some of the guru-map boys to modify that hex.

Let's first hear what Erik thinks about it

Yep, seems to be an anomaly in the data. It's on the Stock Map as well, so it's likely a carry-over from the initial map development.

If Erik says ok, I'll fix it for you. Pm me the pwhexe file you are using (you may have to zip it). I'll fix it right away and send both you and Erik the repaired version. I'll include a changelog so you both know exactly what was done.

Ciao. John

if I would have just known that in my campaign before I had to cross that river...

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RE: The war has started - 5/8/2014 4:26:35 AM

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Ok gents,

talked to Erik and he's ok in letting John (Symon) correct the map! Erik is really Comprehensive about this matter. Couldn't ask for a better opponent

So there won't be any shock attack at Calcutta...we're waiting for the new map to arrive

Jan 26, 1942

waiting for DH to reach AF lvl 2, the Kaga and friends perform their last support mission near Calcutta, providing LRCAP for the 4 sentais of sallies that took off from Akyab to bomb Calcutta AF.
No opposition found so my guys did a good job anyway. The AF is bombed. Flak is light and forts stop building!
There's no sign of movement out of Calcutta, nor any indication that a relief force is coming. That is a very good news. I am, however, patrolling the nearby bases, looking for opportunities and traces of a RAF coming back...nothing

4 of my subs discovered that Obvert has laid mines at Penhir Island in order to defend the Yorktown... 4 subs hit mines at the very same day! That's almost a record

. At least 3 of them won't get home... that's a pretty high price! I guess my dreams of getting the York end here...too much defence. Better to move out what is left of my pacific sub fleet and hope to catch here when she moves out.. pity!

At Clark we've made another DA... another 1-2 and forts back to 1... damn, at Luzon i'm really not doing any good! Bombers refuse to fly again...no opposition in the air but i know he's there waiting to get on me. A sentai of 20 Zeros is arriving at San Fernando however. This should quite rebalance the air situation there...hopefully.

CarDiv 1 is passing Sebang, moving towards Ceylon. There will be a lot of subs waiting for me. i've spotted them on western Sumatra for the last 3 days moving North...

Car Div 2 is moving from Timor to Java, escorting the 4th ID and a regiment of the 56th ID, along with base forces and the 16th Army HQ. Then we'll attack.

Now the Malaya strait is mined (heavily) and so is Merak. Enemy subs won't have an easy job coming and going from the DEI.

@Castor: really hope you are wrong there on Calcutta... even if i know you know this game pretty much...i hope to get some decent die&rolls when the first Attacks will be made... but god i know that it will be more than bloody...and not fast either. Hopefully, with a complete air superiority and some naval bombings i could cause enough distruption among the defenders to be able to get those odds you were talking about

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RE: The war has started - 5/8/2014 11:12:26 AM

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not having to shock attack across the river is a huge plus for you. Now depending on his forts and both sides' preparation a lot will come down to die rolls. I'd still bet on the defender in an urban heavy hex plus forts vs an attacker having a 2:1 numerical superiority but given the right die rolls it can work in any sides favour I guess.

From a defender's point of view, when if not in that case could one be optimistic to hold? Outnumbered 1:2 but having a 4:1 advantage due to terrain plus x forts. Will be interesting to see what really is defending there. Feels like a soccer bet, I got a favourite but once in a while the underdog wins.

Fingers crossed.

And in 6-8 weeks there could be 4000av more in India if he wants to. As those wouldn't show up all at once, what happens if 2000+av are closing in on Calcutta in about 3-4 weeks? I only faced two US Inf Divs out of 6000 total enemy av (April that was), so if you take them out of the unit count, it was still 5300 av (Indian/Brit/Australian) that wasn't supposed to be anywhere else than India. Any plan for this? Is there a plan B other than taking Calcutta?

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RE: The war has started - 5/8/2014 12:45:12 PM

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...we're waiting for the new map to arrive

In your email inbox.

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RE: The war has started - 5/9/2014 1:12:06 AM

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...we're waiting for the new map to arrive

In your email inbox.

Now that's service! How many 5-year-old games get this kind of support? Good job and well done!

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RE: The war has started - 5/9/2014 9:48:08 AM

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So John (Symon) managed to do his magic! Thanks a lot!!!!

We now have a land bridge between DH and Calcutta

Jan 27-28, 1942

INDIA:
The allies are advancing towards Calcutta, while my troops are 2 miles far from the town... getting tense!
Calcutta is bombed daily now by 100 IJAAF bombers. 150 Zeros and 50 Oscars are dominating the skies, vacated by the RAAF and the USAAF...for the moment.
The 55th ID is now re.grouping at Hawraw (NW of Calcutta), while the Imperial ID is loading at Singa.
Cruisers are ready to bomb the city.
What if the allies bring in more divisions...???
CAr Div 1 is approaching Ceylon, while Car Div 2 is escorting the 4th ID and the last regiment of the 56th ID to Java, along with the 16th Army HQ, 4 base forces and some artillery units.

LUZON: enemy fighters do not come today. Zeros are now present at San Fernando. Should end the opposition here.

CHINA: another ambush and 20 lilies go down in flames :-( Zeros are coming here too... the AVG sweep Shangai! Damn... need some more fighters in China!

PACIFIC: one of my subs lurking around Thaiti finds the CA Salt Lake City and miss her with 4 torps

... the Yorktown is safe for the moment... my subs are spreading away from the Penhir Island after a minefield has been laid there and 4 of my subs got hit...badly...will lose 2 of them

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RE: The war has started - 5/9/2014 11:11:10 AM

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Great AAR, you're very good in providing suspence to your stories; that makes the real difference for an AAR.
Now we readers got another epic fight for Calcutta, finger crossed even if I bet on Japan :)
Also Obvert is a good writer so this is also another challenge between you two :D

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RE: The war has started - 5/9/2014 11:15:32 AM

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one more question. Why do you attack on Luzon? All you needed there is a force around 1000av that can be mostly second class like those ind bgds just to keep the Allied locked down to be bombed by your airforce. In March at the latest they will have run out of supplies at the latest and by May they will have lost hundreds of combat squads due to starvation. When I took Manila in May with a more or less pityful force khyberbill asked my why I didn't do that any earlier which reflects the situation he had there in the previous months already.

Wouldn't it be better to use your real combat power elsewhere instead of depleting it on Luzon that will just solve itself? Make sure no supplies are getting in and bomb them, the problem solves itself there.

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RE: The war has started - 5/10/2014 6:43:37 AM

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Great AAR, you're very good in providing suspence to your stories; that makes the real difference for an AAR.
Now we readers got another epic fight for Calcutta, finger crossed even if I bet on Japan :)
Also Obvert is a good writer so this is also another challenge between you two :D

Thank you Blizz!

I do my best, but i know that this AAR could be way better. I'd need more time to take screenshots and to write a more Comprehensive story...unfortunately the damned RL Always kicks in

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RE: The war has started - 5/10/2014 6:52:12 AM

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one more question. Why do you attack on Luzon? All you needed there is a force around 1000av that can be mostly second class like those ind bgds just to keep the Allied locked down to be bombed by your airforce. In March at the latest they will have run out of supplies at the latest and by May they will have lost hundreds of combat squads due to starvation. When I took Manila in May with a more or less pityful force khyberbill asked my why I didn't do that any earlier which reflects the situation he had there in the previous months already.

Wouldn't it be better to use your real combat power elsewhere instead of depleting it on Luzon that will just solve itself? Make sure no supplies are getting in and bomb them, the problem solves itself there.

Good question. That was my original plan Castor. However, because of Erik's aggressiveness at Luzon and a couple of mistakes on my side, i wasn't able to estabilish any air supremacy over Manila-Clark so far. The AVG dominates the skies over Manila and Clark and i decided not to divert my zero units there, so to concentrate on a fast conquest of Malaya first and then to obtain immediately the air supremacy over Calcutta.
Probably a mistake, i know. Now i'm sending there some zeros, but it may be too late

I'm using in Luzon 2 IDs and a mixed bde, along with some tanks and 2 SNLF units. I'm attacking in order to conquer Clark and trap the enemy at Manila, hoping to force him back to Manila and so be able to conquer Bataan and then use the BBs against Manila.
Clark is a beast however and Erik got me a couple of bloody noses there already.
It will all depends on how the Calcutta thing develops.
If i see the light at Calcutta in the next few turns, i may send the 26th ID to Luzon so to give the 16th a break. If not, the 26th will immediately move towards India and Luzon will have to wait.
However, what you say (to leave just 1000 AVs of secondary line troops) cannot be done with the present situation.
Manila and Clark cannot be sieged with only 1000 AVs of secondary troops. He has some good quality troops there by now and if he advances towards Central Luzon, i may be not able to hold him back with some mixed regiments and Bdes. too risky.

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RE: The war has started - 5/10/2014 6:57:01 AM

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Jan 29, 1942

The 25th Army arrived at Calcutta.
A general attack is ordered for Tomorrow.
200 Bombers will hit the troops at Calcutta.
5 CAs and 4 CLs will bombard.
The 5th, 18th, 21st, 2nd, 33rd and 38th Divisions will deliberate attack.
2 para companies will shock attack from NE and from N, opening the exit doors for my units (the 55th ID is already moving to Calcutta from DH, along with 1 mixed regiment) that will move North to face the advancing allied tanks.

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RE: The war has started - 5/10/2014 7:20:30 AM

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Today we've bombed some of those units advancing towards Calcutta from the North. A couple of small tank units...nothing to really worry about for the moment. My Air force, along with the 55th ID, will be more than enough to prevent them to reach Calcutta.

In china we've managed to cut the main road North of Sian. Now 100,000 japanese are closing on Sian from 3 different directions: NW, NE and East. The enemy's armies are moving back from the Woods South of Sian and from Sian to the Woods east of the city.

At Wouchow the enemy moved in the AVG along with some bombers and attacked Shangai. Will have to deal with this nail in my side sooner or later.

Enemy subs are spotted in the Mariannas, near the Bonins and in the Bengal Bay.

CAR DIV 1 (spotted 10/10) is moving north west of Ceylon.
CAR DIV 2 is approaching Java. Tomorrow the 4th ID will land North of Sosarbaja.
Kaga's Group (future CAR DIV 3) is moving back to Singapore

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Calcutta is sieged! - 5/10/2014 7:55:05 AM

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The first attack on Calcutta goes way better than expected! 1-1 and forts down to 2...with my units still in very good shape! Don't think the defenders will last long...

My minesweepers did a horrible job...despite being there for days they haven't been able to sweep any mine...and my DDs paid an heavy price as usual

AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 29, 42
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TF 221 encounters mine field at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Ships
DD Minazuki
DD Satsuki
DD Usugumo, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hatsuharu
DD Umikaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze

11 mines cleared

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Night Naval bombardment of Calcutta at 52,37

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CL Naka
CL Sendai
DD Suzukaze
DD Kawakaze
DD Samidare
DD Murasame
DD Hatsukaze
DD Oyashio
DD Kuroshio

Allied Ships
xAK Indianan, Shell hits 1
xAK Oregonian, Shell hits 3
xAKL Illinoian, Shell hits 1, on fire

Allied ground losses:
295 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 12 (1 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Repair Shipyard hits 1
Resources hits 1
Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 20
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 3

CA Nachi firing at 18th British Division
E13A1 Jake acting as spotter for CA Haguro
CA Haguro firing at 18th British Division
CA Myoko firing at 18th British Division
CL Naka firing at 18th British Division
CL Sendai firing at 18th British Division
DD Suzukaze firing at Calcutta
DD Kawakaze firing at 18th British Division
DD Samidare firing at 18th British Division
DD Murasame firing at 18th British Division
DD Hatsukaze firing at Calcutta
DD Oyashio firing at Fort William
DD Kuroshio firing at Calcutta

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Night Naval bombardment of Calcutta at 52,37

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai
CL Kiso
CL Kinu
DD Minazuki
DD Satsuki
DD Shirakumo
DD Shinonome
DD Umikaze
DD Yamakaze
DD Tokitsukaze
DD Yukikaze
DD Yugumo

Allied Ships
xAK Testbank, Shell hits 5, on fire
xAK Indianan, Shell hits 5, on fire
xAK Texan, Shell hits 2
xAK Oregonian, Shell hits 2, on fire
AMc Dacca, Shell hits 2, on fire
xAKL Illinoian, Shell hits 1, on fire
AMc Sophie Marie, Shell hits 1

Allied ground losses:
162 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled)

Manpower hits 1
Fires 40
Airbase hits 17
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 27
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2

CA Chokai firing at 18th British Division
CL Kiso firing at 18th British Division
CL Kinu firing at Calcutta
DD Minazuki firing at Calcutta
DD Satsuki firing at 18th British Division
DD Shirakumo firing at Calcutta
DD Shinonome firing at 18th British Division
DD Umikaze firing at Calcutta
DD Yamakaze firing at Calcutta
DD Tokitsukaze firing at Calcutta
DD Yukikaze firing at Calcutta
DD Yugumo firing at Calcutta

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TF 62 encounters mine field at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Ships
DD Suzukaze
DD Kawakaze

3 mines cleared

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TF 62 encounters mine field at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsukaze

2 mines cleared

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TF 62 encounters mine field at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Ships
DD Kuroshio

2 mines cleared

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TF 62 encounters mine field at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Ships
DD Kawakaze, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

During the day, several bombers attack the troops, escorted by 200 fighters...RAF and USAAF do not interfere...

Then, we attacked...

Ground combat at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 84829 troops, 885 guns, 381 vehicles, Assault Value = 2529

Defending force 38915 troops, 296 guns, 504 vehicles, Assault Value = 1142

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1643

Allied adjusted defense: 1289

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
2060 casualties reported
Squads: 16 destroyed, 289 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 28 disabled

Allied ground losses:
668 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 54 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 32 (9 destroyed, 23 disabled)
Vehicles lost 109 (14 destroyed, 95 disabled)

Assaulting units:
33rd Division
38th Division
21st Division
20th Ind Engineer Regiment
5th Division
19th Ind Engineer Regiment
18th Division
2nd Division
2nd Raiding Rgt /1
2nd Mortar Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
Southern Army
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
34th Field AA Battalion
16th AA Regiment
31st Fld AA Gun Co
35th Field AA Battalion
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
47th Field AA Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
20th AA Regiment
25th Army
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
12th JAAF Base Force

Defending units:
50th Tank Brigade
254th Armoured Brigade
18th British Division
255th Armoured Brigade
43rd Cavalry Regiment
1st Patiala Lancers Regiment
Fort William
44th Indian Brigade
45th Indian Brigade
36th Indian Brigade
23rd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
India Command
Eastern Command
6th Heavy AA Regiment
35th Light AA Regiment

Possibly i'd need not more than 1 day of rest before the next attack!

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RE: Calcutta is sieged! - 5/10/2014 8:03:08 AM

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Here's the situation. As you can see, the doors NE and NW are now closed. The door E will be closed soon. Want them to retreat into the swamps SE of Calcutta...

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RE: Calcutta is sieged! - 5/10/2014 8:12:26 AM

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Somewhere else...

We attacked at Clark again...Downing the forts to 1....but odds are bad...

Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 32771 troops, 369 guns, 253 vehicles, Assault Value = 890

Defending force 25455 troops, 302 guns, 263 vehicles, Assault Value = 674

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 420

Allied adjusted defense: 1324

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 1)

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

Japanese ground losses:
2300 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 178 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 23 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (3 destroyed, 20 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
351 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled
Guns lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Assaulting units:
16th Division
48th Division
3rd Ind Engineer Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
21st Ind Engineer Regiment
Kure 1st SNLF
8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
14th Army
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
14th PS Engineer Regiment
31st PA Infantry Division
26th PS Cavalry Regiment
192nd Tank Battalion
194th Tank Battalion
45th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team
4th Marine Regiment
2nd PA Constabulary Division
88th PS Field Artillery Regiment
21st PA Infantry Division
1st PI Base Force
301st Construction Battalion
I Philippine Corps
201st PA Construction Battalion
Far East USAAF
803rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
202nd PA Construction Battalion
200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment
Clark Field AAF Base Force
301st PA Field Artillery Regiment

We also attacked at Pingsiang... not better results...

Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 42332 troops, 414 guns, 190 vehicles, Assault Value = 1220

Defending force 37625 troops, 216 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1034

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 728

Allied adjusted defense: 1535

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
1870 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 82 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled
Vehicles lost 23 (2 destroyed, 21 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
761 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 80 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Assaulting units:
8th Armored Car Co
34th Division
2nd Ind Engineer Regiment
116th Division
15th Division
23rd Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
13th Army
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
26th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
79th Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps

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RE: Calcutta is sieged! - 5/10/2014 8:14:40 AM

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At Sian things look better....