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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/11/2016 10:20:30 PM

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2) Does anyone know, for sure, that Chinese respawns will occur at Chengtu if Chungking is in Japanese hands? I know the manual says this, but I really, really need to know.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/11/2016 10:48:50 PM

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Iiiiiiinteresting... hopefully some maps and summaries up tonight. Got some bathroom work to do first. A handyman's job is never done!

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 5:26:44 AM

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CENTPAC - July 7, 1944

We snagged Kusaie last month and we'll just keep bombing away now. Changing units to prep for Ponape. It would be nice to have, and I think he has a decent number of LCUs there. I may as well harvest them, I think. IMO Ponape is necessary if I want to advance on the Marianas (and I might not), but at the very least I should be able to bomb the place for pilot training with B-25s and the like. It takes a long time to actually destroy units in this way, but if that's how I end up taking Ponape then that's what I'll do.

Not really a CENTPAC item, but close enough - shifting some CVE/CLs to CONUS for repairs, as Pearl is about to be overly full in terms of hulls that need the shipyard. Repulse is coming, to cycle in/out for quicker repairs on the major damage.

I don't really have anything major going on here, so I'll probably skip this one again soon. Not even anything worthy of a picture, so here's a screen of what's in Pearl right now but not repairing. Repulse is here with 40/11/13 damage.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 6:05:03 AM

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Burma - July 8, 1944

Just doing what I said I'd do here. He appears content to sit in Moulmein, doesn't seem to have noticed the size of the forces I moved around. I'll have Chiang Mai soon, but I can't actually do much with it yet. Supplies will be an issue, plus I bombed it like crazy.

Enormous piles of IJNAF/IJAAF planes here.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 6:28:34 PM

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Update on the units marching to Rahaeng. A few hundred increase in AV in the last week.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 6:40:31 PM

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Banda Sea - July 8, 1944

I made these screenshots so long ago... we've had a few pauses in game turns. I'm glad I made comments on the maps themselves.

In general, his little air triangle at Sorong/Sansapor/Waigeo is trying to keep me off balance at Biak, etc. WITP-Gods bless PTs. Also, not having built up the AFs at Manokwari or Noemfoor yet I am able to base Catalinas out of Manokwari for search, allowing me to see any IJN all the way to Cotabato on Mindanao and just beyond Manado, as well as just beyond Babeldaob. Combined with search capabilities from Hollandia going to the NE, this is going to be one of my little playgrounds for a while. Once I have supplies and air support I will move on his bases. I've got several divisions prepped from further back along the New Guinea coast. The hard part will be balancing needs here with those around Timor.

I have an extreme glut of air support on the New Guinea coast. Literally a few thousand more than I need. I will fly some over the island to the Banda Sea area soon, but otherwise I'll mostly keep it around in anticipation of my expanded OOB in 1945 and potentially invading deeper CENTPAC targets (Marianas, Philippines).

If anything, I'm short of Patrol-type groups. I never have enough Catalinas or Mariners around.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 6:42:41 PM

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Search arcs in the Banda. A few nuggets in here for those keen of eye, but I won't explicitly mention them just yet.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 6:43:14 PM

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Is it really "near Exmouth"?

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 6:50:02 PM

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Score screen - July 8, 1944

Normally wouldn't have posted a score update after just a week, but got a lot of planes and such.

Allied VPs: +1457 (about 384 from planes, 300-some from bases also, 600-some from LCUs)
Japanese VPs: +365 (133 from planes, 38 from ships, 48 from LCUs)

Ratio: 1.071:1 against, change of +.022.

After seeing the 30K LCU losses in Wargmr's game, I'm feeling OK about the 18.5K I have to make up for so far this game.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/12/2016 11:14:40 PM

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The Japanese have lost a lot of planes! That hurts in HI and in supply while replacing them all.

Are you bombing out industry/oil in the DEI and SE Asia?

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/13/2016 2:01:53 AM

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The Japanese have lost a lot of planes! That hurts in HI and in supply while replacing them all.

Are you bombing out industry/oil in the DEI and SE Asia?

I can't really reach any centers yet, aside from Balikpapan from Broome with B-29s, and that's a long ways. I hit it for 10 points sometime in June, I think.

Medan I raided in 1942, and he actually repaired some of the damage! But it's still damaged about 20-22 points.

I've bombed out some Chinese industry, but there's still some to go. I've started to leave the central valley bases alone, as I'm hoping to eventually retake them. He expanded Hong Kong a fair amount and I've bombed it more than half of its total. For the moment, I'm working on pushing forward in a few areas and it's requiring my bombers. My USAAF pools are hurting, and I'm trying to begin conserving airframes for February '45 when the units expand a bit.

I'm not sure, but I think his strategy might be to run me out of planes, since my numbers are limited. I'm going to be trying to run him out of supply by making him lose tons of planes, which he'll have to replace - not to mention the supply to fly them. On one side of that, however, is that I think there might be a bug in supply usage for replacements. I haven't tested it, but I've noticed that in some cases supply doesn't appear to be used. Here are the cases when air units can take replacements, that I'm aware of:

1) AF 7+ and 20K+ supply
2) Within command range of an HQa

It's #2 that I'm not sure triggers any supply usage. But again, I haven't had time to test it. I just notice that sometimes, when I upgrade an air unit (as either Japan or Allies), the supplies for the base that I have selected do not go down. Other times, they do. Presumably in case #2, the supplies are supposed to be pulled from the base that has the HQa present, but I've never remembered to check. Maybe soon, I will remember.

So I'm also using Wildkittens, even though they're just kittens.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/13/2016 9:20:43 AM

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Interesting. Something I've not checked either. (Supply from HQa base)

I used to just disband unit remnants when a base got hit and nearly closed and I could fly out the few healthy planes. This used to really piss off Jocke because he thought he'd closed the base and could then smash the remaining airframes over the next turns. What it did do that neither of us probably realized at the time is cost me a lot of supply in filling out those same groups time and again. I also was happy to use a lot of non-optimum airframes and settings to test them out my first time through.

I would guess his approach is more deliberate and that yes, he's testing your pools.

It will hurst even to take out small HI/LI/oil centers as they come in range. Jocke basically removed 80-90% of the industry from the DEI up through China in our game. That contributed to my supply difficulties later.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/13/2016 9:56:07 PM

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In general, I'm working on the assumption that he is worse off than I am in my Japan game that is around the same maturity (just over 3 months difference in 1944) because of the following:

-Scenario 1 for this game instead of Scenario 2. I don't know the exact difference in Fuel levels or if there are more resources, etc., but I know that Scenario 2 has "more".

-I hit Palembang for 100ish points of Oil in January 1942 right after he took the place. That cost him 100K supply that it didn't cost me.

-He may have been slow to repair Miri; I wasn't.

-I hit Medan for about 50 points, of which he's repaired 27-28 (which is actually a net supply loss for him)

-He got Magwe with Oil, while I didn't, but I bombed it down by 200. This may make up for Palembang.

-Hard to compare, but he seems to have been more lavish in his fleet movements than I have been, which means less fuel to burn for supplies. On the other hand, I think the number of aircraft sorties between games might actually be similar. This might be because of my 24-plane Jake units running 50-80% Search since April of 1942 and never moving, though - yeah that burns supply, but not as much as 27 Jills with torpedoes.

-I took Tarakan from him for a short time, but only damaged a few points of Oil/Refinery when he took it back. I denied Babo and Boela to him before they were denied to me.

Add it all up and I think I might have cost him maybe 200-300K Oil that I got in my game, plus he's probably burning more supplies and started with less... I'm really trying to get him running out of supplies by summer 1945. I'm simply not going to make the 8/31/1945 AV cutoff for a decisive victory, which I think may have been achievable for me if I hadn't made some mistakes in early 1943. Difficult, but at least still on the table. Now I'm just looking at the Russians and thinking "If I can get to 1.3:1 or 1.5:1 by the time they activate, I can at least eke out a minor victory."

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/13/2016 11:00:26 PM

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I'm simply not going to make the 8/31/1945 AV cutoff for a decisive victory, which I think may have been achievable for me if I hadn't made some mistakes in early 1943. Difficult, but at least still on the table. Now I'm just looking at the Russians and thinking "If I can get to 1.3:1 or 1.5:1 by the time they activate, I can at least eke out a minor victory."

Strat bombing. It is the goal.

In my one long game against Jocke, we were at even VPs just about the turn of 45. We lasted until July 45 with him threatening 2:1 through intensive strat bombing and methodical destruction of LCUs. You're well ahead of the game here. You'll win going away if you get in range of the HI by Nov 44.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/14/2016 1:42:19 AM

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I'm simply not going to make the 8/31/1945 AV cutoff for a decisive victory, which I think may have been achievable for me if I hadn't made some mistakes in early 1943. Difficult, but at least still on the table. Now I'm just looking at the Russians and thinking "If I can get to 1.3:1 or 1.5:1 by the time they activate, I can at least eke out a minor victory."

Strat bombing. It is the goal.

In my one long game against Jocke, we were at even VPs just about the turn of 45. We lasted until July 45 with him threatening 2:1 through intensive strat bombing and methodical destruction of LCUs. You're well ahead of the game here. You'll win going away if you get in range of the HI by Nov 44.

We'll see. In my other game, I did get in range of the HI in early 1945, but with the enormous IJNAF fighter groups (including as many IJNAF NFs at 81 as he wants to resize, really)... I'm not optimistic of the rate at which I'll be able to accumulate strat VPs. I have 13 months before the decisive deadline, and I can only look at the OOB to about 9 months out for planning purposes. Getting 2 A-bombs before 8/31 would help a lot.

I've got something big coming in the next month or so. I had ballparked it at September. I think I might pull the trigger in a couple of weeks. I'm waiting on some ships to transit that I should've moved weeks ago.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/14/2016 3:14:10 AM

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I went all the way to page 7 to dig up your AAR, and found what I think is your most recent VP screen post:
Post #3358 on this page http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2953587&mpage=112&key=

He lost less LCU VPs at that point in the game than I did so far. My guess is this is China. I'm creeping up on 19K now. I also don't know that I'll really be able to get that high on base VPs, but... like I said, got something big coming.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/20/2016 8:16:23 PM

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Still planning to update, but need to make screenshots yet. We're now at August 7, and I'll be doing the August updates later, but... pertinent info request, now that my opponent has revealed what appears to be his entire KB (two TFs, large numbers of planes remaining despite losing over 300 of them) off the tip of New Guinea with nary a USN CV anywhere nearby, it's time to pull the trigger on something else.

Does anyone know what the numbers on the AGC with 100% prepped HQm on board unloading bonus are, exactly?

Like, does it add 250 points per ship per turn? 50? 300? All I've been able to find is that an AGC in the TF is a bonus to that TF, an AGC with amphib HQ loaded on it provides a bigger bonus to the whole hex, and having 100% prep for the hex is an even bigger bonus. Just no numbers on what those are. It likely doesn't matter that much, but I'd really like to know if somebody does know...

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/20/2016 9:09:38 PM

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No idea Lok. Sorry.

I will eagerly await your pulling the trigger!

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 3:09:17 AM

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Making screenshots now for the rest of July while my brain absorbs the latest GoT.

In the latest turn, I used 389 ships making (I think?) 33 new TFs

. Might take 2 days for the port to handle it

. I still have another 200ish ships that I think I may use for target #2, depending on how amazeballs the AGC with 100% prep HQm bonus is... Either way, I'll have time for those ships to unload if I need to wait for the first stringers to return to port to do another run.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 5:06:02 AM

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Housekeeping - July 15, 1944

In CENTPAC, we sink another SSX at Maloelap. Brings the total to 58. He only gets 86... yes, I'm keeping track.

Ship repairs
I'm using pier side for capital ships until I think they'll repair on just one turn in the shipyard. This greatly speeds up repairs, but it does require things that pier side can fix to begin with, or else the ships won't accrue points. Still, we're almost there on these BBs. With BB New Jersey on the way after a submarine torpedo off Darwin, I'm going to transition Prince of Wales to Colombo. I have no qualms about sending her into action with 8 float, if necessary...

Cape Town:
BB Prince of Wales - 2/8/0, will be moving soon for Colombo
BB Maryland - 1/11/21
BB California - 1/5/11 with a main turret destroyed
CVE Fanshaw Bay - 0/18/20

Colombo:
CV Lexington (Essex class) - 0/24/0
BB Washington - 3/8/0
BB South Dakota - 3/8/0

Sydney:
Almost ready to get back to action, much needed with the heavy diversion of my forces elsewhere.
CL Cleveland - 0/1/0.
CL Columbia - 0/16/20
CVL Monterey - 5/4/9

Perth:
CV Lexington (another Essex) - 1/50/15, refitting for 6 more days then heading for Sydney

Gove (ARD):
SST Nautilus - 0/41/2, going to head for Brisbane soon.
CV Wasp - 0/61/5, this will take forever. Will move to Sydney when deemed ready.

Can't wait to get my 2 SST's back. I could really use them in a couple months.

Pearl:
CVE White Plains - 0/47/11
BC Repulse - 36/10/13, would take 81 days with just the shipyard, but I'm "pier hopping"

San Francisco:
CVE Santee - 17/34/7
CVE Corregidor - 1/46/34

By and large, the Pacific repairs will go back to the Pacific when they're done, for timing purposes, but it does leave me a little weak on the front if he is paying attention to where I am, and where I'm not - more on that in the Banda update for this week.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 5:26:14 AM

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Burma - July 15, 1944

Relevant link: https://youtu.be/LbAPwwAXaWM?t=25s

We lose some 2Es outside Chiang Mai every now and again because of CAP/LRCAP/escort bungles. Not thrilled about that, given my hard riding of my bombers. For his part, he sends 150+ 2Es just about daily on bombing missions in the jungle. That's what, 300+ supply? Keep on burnin'. We shot a few down once or twice, but LRCAP is a challenge so far.

Interesting to note that Chumphon has just an engineer unit slaving away on the airfield. It's tempting to drop paras from Blair just to be a nuisance, but I'll save them for something/sometime more useful.

Unsure if he decided to do this before or after I got through outside Rahaeng, but it seems he's sent troops, from somewhere, to Bangkok to unload to reinforce. He seems intent on holding Moulmein as long as possible, for which I don't really blame him (much) if I were planning a conventional campaign towards Indochina - but I'm not, and the Chinese coming in from the NE are only part of it. Bangkok is also some kind of black hole for his planes. 400 there now, and the numbers will only climb in the coming weeks. Well, at least I know where they are...

IIRC that's about 3000-3500 IJA AV at/outside Moulmein. I sent almost 4K of my own to Chiang Mai and only about 2000 towards Rahaeng, while my other 4400 or so is at Rangoon/Pegu or outside Moulmein, perpetually feinting movement towards the place hoping to keep him there as long as possible.

A side note: B-29s from Ledo plaster Hong Kong on the 11th, burning up 60-some LI. I'm not too keen on using these just yet, but wanted him to notice/spread out a bit. And I wanted to burn up supply generation. Mostly I use the long range (23/28 hexes) British Liberators to do this kind of work.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 5:34:50 AM

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Oh yeah, we captured Rahaeng on July 12. The initial shock across on July 11 got 1:1 and dropped forts from 3 to 2. Raw AV was 4291 to 761 on the 11th, casualties 1394 + 28 guns + 105 vehicles for him, 3619 for me. Then the 12th, with my units in mostly OK shape:

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Allied Deliberate Attack

Attacking force 129645 troops, 743 guns, 194 vehicles, Assault Value = 3900

Defending force 19593 troops, 277 guns, 785 vehicles, Assault Value = 604

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Allied adjusted assault: 1513

Japanese adjusted defense: 493

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

Allied forces CAPTURE Rahaeng !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(+), preparation(-)
fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
5463 casualties reported
Squads: 133 destroyed, 113 disabled
Non Combat: 483 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 65 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 149 (134 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Vehicles lost 451 (444 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Units retreated 5

Allied ground losses:
1729 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 232 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 25 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Units pursuing 1

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating:

Assaulting units:
20th Indian Division
87th Chinese Corps
63rd Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
75th Chinese Corps
24th Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Corps
94th Chinese Corps
5th Chinese Corps
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Group Army
4rd War Area
32nd Group Army
27th Group Army
7th War Area
31st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
6th War Area
34th Group Army

Defending units:
3rd Tank Regiment
16th Division
2nd Tank Division
Botanko Hvy Gun Regiment Don't these guys have literally irreplaceable guns?
3rd Ind.Hvy.Art.Battalaion Same with these guys?

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 5:54:38 AM

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Oh yeah again, Chiang Mai capture. The casualties on July 8th:

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Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 130303 troops, 937 guns, 1213 vehicles, Assault Value = 3849

Defending force 43499 troops, 609 guns, 1493 vehicles, Assault Value = 623

Allied adjusted assault: 1311

Japanese adjusted defense: 268

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Chiang Mai !!!

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Defender: terrain(+), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
11104 casualties reported
Squads: 374 destroyed, 23 disabled
Non Combat: 972 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 224 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 175 (175 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 992 (991 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 16

Allied ground losses:
614 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 143 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 9 disabled
Guns lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Vehicles lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

With Rahaeng, that's all 3 of his "real" Tank Divisions wrecked. There is the 4th Tank Division, but it's smaller - only about 1/2 to 2/3 the size.

About 300 VPs on the 8th for IJA LCUs, and about 130 for the capture of Rahaeng on the 12th.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 6:12:25 AM

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Banda Sea - July 15, 1944

He's got Endeh up and running, finally, although I can't help but wonder if he's under-supporting all of his airfields. I lost a few LSTs and 1 AM at Lautem before they can land more tanks on the 9th.

The 4 Kongos are hanging about, around Manado for a few days. He uses all 4 of them with 4 DDs.

Our P-47s are winning 4 of every 5 sweeps, give or take, and I'm shooting down Jacks now. Of his 510 air losses in this last week, most of them are in this theater. Not all fighters, though... we get a fair few bombers for the ships he sinks at Lautem. More than the VPs that he got for sinking them, usually, but I'd rather just shoot down the planes without losing the ships.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 6:12:52 AM

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Lost this one on a day when we got 181 planes to his 42.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 6:49:40 PM

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Banda - July 23, 1944

Kongos on their way to Biak. We clear everything out.

He tries to catch landing craft at Lautem, but I usually see him coming from at least a day away (unless he uses full speed to get in from more than 12 hexes out). One of these days I might be able to engage him with some Fletchers, but the nearest ones right now are out of ammo and at Babar.

Koepang has been slightly annoying, but nothing LRCAP can't handle so long as I'm careful. I'm thinking he is low on supplies at Dili/Lautem, as he turns off the bombardments triggered by my landing more troops, but I'd also prefer to build up my own supplies a bit more and land more Support devices before I start doing my own. Eventually I should start bombing them, but my bombers are otherwise engaged right now.

Haven't seen KB this week. Building up Kaimana and Kai-eilanden, troops prepping for Boela, where I shouldn't have the same problem as at Lautem with all its artillery. LCTs should be able to conduct the landings just fine.

Haven't seen any merchants making runs to Dili, Lautem, or Boela. Sometimes to Koepang, but I can't always interdict. No bases close enough as I haven't and won't develop Truscott.

Edit - oh, yeah... I'm tracking his stuff at Lautem too in order to get a feel for the shape his units are in. On the 22nd in the post-landing bombardment, he had 202 guns bombarding and 12 were reported destroyed or disabled. This is somewhat typical, and I am seeing the total numbers of guns decrease. This makes me think he's under the 2x supply requirement to take replacements, at least at Lautem and maybe Dili.

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Ground combat at Lautem (72,115)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2534 troops, 202 guns, 140 vehicles, Assault Value = 1845

Defending force 30197 troops, 587 guns, 1104 vehicles, Assault Value = 1261

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)

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

Assaulting units:
5th Division
79th Brigade
38th Division
56th Division
2nd Division
17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
25th Army
14th RF Gun (Pack) Battalion
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
11th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
2nd Medium Mortar Battalion
71st Field AA Battalion
44th Field AA Battalion
Southern Army
10th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
2nd Mortar Battalion
15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
9th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
762nd Tank Battalion
2/4 MG Battalion
3rd Motor Brigade
15th NZ Brigade
2/5th Armoured Regiment
17th Australian Brigade
194th Tank Battalion
8th Australian Division
1st Army Tank Regiment
16th Australian Brigade
13th Australian Bde /1
Sixth US Army
76th Coast AA Regiment
2nd Medium Regiment
2/16th Field Regiment
249th Field Artillery Battalion
85th British AT Gun Regiment

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SE Asia - July 23, 1944

Well, now that I'm not really in Burma anymore, renaming this theater to SE Asia. Not Thailand because it's becoming a bit bigger than that...

That big stack of mine just outside Chiang Mai just got consolidated, and now I'll move SE along the rail in an attempt to catch his stack that I pushed out of Chiang Mai. I should be able to get him.

Overall, he has just enough "stuff" along the Bangkok-Pisanuloke rail line that none of my individual stacks can push through. I am going to try to break the line and isolate him just south of Pisanuloke, but it's only Chinese moving in from the NW and they aren't likely to hold against what's coming up from the south. I also have my western flank to worry about. I can't let him cut off and wreck/destroy a significant portion of this army or I will stall out.

2800 AV is holding the Rahaeng area (the crucial hex to the west and the base itself), with 2600 AV on the road to the SW (800 Chinese, then 1900 Chinese/Indian in the "battle hex").

There is ~3600 AV resting/recovering/upgrading between Rangoon, Pegu, and the hex just outside Moulmein. Eventually he'll have to give that place up or be trapped, and that's when I'll let the shock across the river happen. About 500 spare AvSupp up here, too (1200 total squads, will make use of AF 8+ to maximize their effect).

Supply flow to the Thailand bases themselves is slow, and Rahaeng in particular is low, but the units themselves are getting supplies OK. Sometimes they'll be in the red a little bit, but still good enough to conduct operations. I'm going to build the forts at Chiang Mai a couple of levels first to increase supply draw limits. If I can get Uttaradit and Pisanuloke soon-ish, the rest of Thailand should collapse down to Bangkok. I didn't intend to get so far here this quickly, but I think this is better. I was simply trying to force him to abandon the coast, while my Chinese came in from the east and took some bases by stealth if possible before he had the chance to garrison them.

That's still 2900 Chinese AV in northern Indochina. They're always in the red on supply, but enough flows to them or gets dropped from the air to prevent any serious damage to morale/disruption/devices.

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CENTPAC - July 23, 1944

Pretty self-explanatory in the image.

2x13 A-20G Havoc at Ailinglaplap

4x16 A-20G Havoc at Makin
2 B-24D1 units at Makin

2x15 Mitchell units at Tarawa

4x16 Mitchell units at Nauru

3x12 PBY-1 Liberators at Tabiteuea

I'll move in some TBFs and SBDs soon, and begin to use Mili as well. I'm trying to increase my bomber reserve pools. If it takes another 4 months to bomb out the Marshalls, that's fine.

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NORPAC

A peek at NORPAC.

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RE: Headhunter - Lokasenna (A) vs. mind_messing (J) - N... - 5/23/2016 7:59:52 PM

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Now that I'm closer to the game date, I'm going to try just jumping around to significant events as they occur.

Andaman Sea - July 24, 1944

"O hai der!"

All of the shown losses are at/around Blair. No action down in the Banda today. A few transports are also hit at Blair, but nothing sinks outright during the turn. I forget now if things sunk later, but I don't think so. Even if they did, all of the cruisers and DDs lived and it was just xAPs/xAKs that got hit, so "whatevs."

I think he was trying to bag the merchants that I know he's seen running into/out of Rangoon, and possibly hit the bombardment force I've been using here (which he did).

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