Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

Feb 04, 42

Quite a turn.

CALCUTTA FALLS and the Whole British army surrenders!!!

Unfortunately, every single HI, LI, Res or whatever present there is destroyed Not lucky here...

The allies sent the B17s against Palembang...and they hit, despite the huge defence put there...:-(

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Night Naval bombardment of Calcutta at 52,37

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CA Myoko
CA Chokai
CL Kiso
CL Kinu
CL Naka
CL Sendai
DD Harukaze
DD Hatsuharu
DD Suzukaze
DD Samidare
DD Murasame
DD Hatsukaze
DD Oyashio
DD Kuroshio

Allied Ships
xAK Testbank, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
426 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 49 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 21 (5 destroyed, 16 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (4 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Manpower hits 5
Light Industry hits 1
Resources hits 1
Fires 694
Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 17
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 1


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Morning Air attack on Palembang , at 48,91

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 52
Ki-27b Nate x 44

Allied aircraft
B-339D x 2
B-17E Fortress x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-339D: 1 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged

Manpower hits 1
Fires 369

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Yamada Det S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters to 8000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
3 planes vectored on to bombers
Ryujo-1 with A6M2 Zero (7 airborne, 15 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes
4 planes vectored on to bombers
50th Sentai with Ki-27b Nate (8 airborne, 18 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes
14 planes vectored on to bombers
77th Sentai with Ki-27b Nate (6 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 9000 , scrambling fighters to 5000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes
4 planes vectored on to bombers
Taiyo-1 with A6M2 Zero (6 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes


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Ground combat at Calcutta (52,37)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 83776 troops, 930 guns, 479 vehicles, Assault Value = 2377

Defending force 34102 troops, 269 guns, 436 vehicles, Assault Value = 696

Japanese adjusted assault: 1452

Allied adjusted defense: 697

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

Japanese forces CAPTURE Calcutta !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
2306 casualties reported
Squads: 11 destroyed, 117 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 37 disabled
Guns lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (2 destroyed, 11 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
42053 casualties reported
Squads: 1070 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1277 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 225 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 336 (336 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 649 (649 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 15

Assaulting units:
55th Engineer Regiment
23rd Ind Engineer Regiment
9th Ind Engineer Regiment
21st Division
22nd Ind Engineer Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
2nd Division
24th Ind Engineer Regiment
33rd Division
38th Division
7th Ind Engineer Regiment
5th Division
18th Division
27th Ind Engineer Regiment
4th Ind Engineer Regiment
14th Guards Regiment
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
14th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
20th AA Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
Southern Army
30th Fld AA Gun Co
3rd Mortar Battalion
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
1st RF Gun Battalion
1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
25th Army
36th Field AA Battalion
15th Ind Engineer Regiment
31st Fld AA Gun Co
2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
26th Fld AA Gun Co
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
16th AA Regiment

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



Now need to decide what to do...i'll sleep over tonight and will decide Tomorrow...

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Now i have 7 divisions at Calcutta... free to go...where???

The idea is to split this huge army: send immediately 2 IDs to Colombo, 2 to Madras, 2 North towards central India and 1 with 2 regiments to conquer Assam and close on Burma...

What do you think?

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

The minimum goals for the end of Feb 42 are the following:

Assam: complete the conquest of Assam (Dacca, Comilla, Chittagong, Imphal etc...)
Ceylon: complete the conquest of Ceylon (Colombo and Tricomalae at least)
Madras: siege and conquer Madras
Java: end the resistance at Java, with the conquest of Batavia
PI: clear Mindanao once for good and possibly conquer Cebu
Borneo: by march 42 I need to have finished the conquest of Balikapan and Samarinda

Then, what's next?
For sure I wanna get Diego Garcia, Addu and Male. Mavis placed there would be very handy.
Northern Oz is more than an option. Already have Horn Island, I wanna get on Darwin. I should have plenty of forces to get there and to estabilish a decent defence for the upcoming counteroffensive

What else should I do?

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

if your opponent abandons Ledo then don't shock attack across the river but just keep a unit within 2 hexes and the base will auto switch without taking damage. Even an empty base takes damage if you shock attack into it and the 70 oil/ref there is a nice catch for the Empire. If he leaves it lightly garissoned, just bomb them to death, it's a clear hex.

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ORIGINAL: princep01

What to do now, indeed??? A very rapid and largely successful blitz thru the DEI/Indian Ocean.

However, it seems you have stopped attending your Chinese language lessons. Will you just try and contain the Chinese while you digest the DEI/Malay/Burmese and Indians? One suspects they can do little offensively for some time to come. Eventually, they will have to be dealt with.

And those pest, the Americans? The paper Tiger will sprout real teeth by late 1942. Whatever will you do to hamper their offensives beginning in the latter half of the year?

decisions, decisions....so many decisions.

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ORIGINAL: GreyJoy

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ORIGINAL: castor troy

if your opponent abandons Ledo then don't shock attack across the river but just keep a unit within 2 hexes and the base will auto switch without taking damage. Even an empty base takes damage if you shock attack into it and the 70 oil/ref there is a nice catch for the Empire. If he leaves it lightly garissoned, just bomb them to death, it's a clear hex.

Ledo is jungle terrain, and he's already massing there at least 8 units. Possibly some Chinese too. Won't be that easy to conquer... I will need to shock attack there I'm afraid...

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CarDiv 1, after the raid in northern IO, is now trying to get back...but not less than 10/15 subs are hunting her down!...no attacks today, but we're surrounded by those pesky bastards!... We're between Karachi and Bombay... almost in the middle of nowhere... long trip back will be!

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

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CarDiv 1, after the raid in northern IO, is now trying to get back...but not less than 10/15 subs are hunting her down!...no attacks today, but we're surrounded by those pesky bastards!... We're between Karachi and Bombay... almost in the middle of nowhere... long trip back will be!

When Mr Kane landed at Diamond Harbor with KB in support, he placed all his Vals and Kates on ASW patrols. I lost over 6 subs to that many planes. So, if you don't think CarDiv1 is going to find any shipping, then try to kill his subs.