Slitherine

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Japanese aircraft
G4M2a Betty x 27
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 41

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M2a Betty: 2 damaged

Allied ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x G4M2a Betty bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb

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Morning Air attack on 111th Chindit Brigade, at 58,61 (Nakhon Ratchasima)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49-IIb Helen x 53
Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy x 62

No Japanese losses

Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Aircraft Attacking:
23 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
37 x Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
21 x Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb
30 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Careful, there sport.

The very end of the turn there is a phase called searching for adjacent enemies or something like that.

So they don't show up here, but will at the end.

You probably know that, and are encouraged that there is no MDL on those soldiers during the replay, but there might be DL on them at the end.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

I found out the hard way that combat engineers alone lose more or less automatically. Those are my words, not Michael's, but that is how I recall the gist of the matter. They must have friendly infantry along or they will almost certainly be wiped out.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Operation Hangman

Sweeps of our own! Goes pretty well, although I am loathe to lose many more P-47s of either model until the P-51D and P-47N arrive and alleviate some of my pool pressure.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

He's running out from Moulmein now. My guys outside of Pegu were in combat move mode this past turn, so are 12 miles towards Moulmein. He appears to have left about 2 Divisions behind at Moulmein, but at least one is moving/feinting SW. I only have 1700 AV across the river, and I'm not really anxious to shock across here and lose a lot of combat power. I switched to Reserve mode for movement, which should get my guys up to about 34-36 miles moved. I can then switch back to combat mode for the crossing itself in 2 days... although if he doesn't abandon the place I may cancel yet again.

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Operation Hangman

Sweeps of our own! Goes pretty well, although I am loathe to lose many more P-47s of either model until the P-51D and P-47N arrive and alleviate some of my pool pressure.

Even though you lose some this damages at least as many as it destroys, and the next day you'll do even better with the same sweeps. You got a pretty good ratio after the first one though.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

He's running out from Moulmein now. My guys outside of Pegu were in combat move mode this past turn, so are 12 miles towards Moulmein. He appears to have left about 2 Divisions behind at Moulmein, but at least one is moving/feinting SW. I only have 1700 AV across the river, and I'm not really anxious to shock across here and lose a lot of combat power. I switched to Reserve mode for movement, which should get my guys up to about 34-36 miles moved. I can then switch back to combat mode for the crossing itself in 2 days... although if he doesn't abandon the place I may cancel yet again.

The way your guys are encircling here I'd leave it until he moves or gets surrounded. No sense risking the crossing.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

I made a note to check to see if I could figure out how much fuel the KB would burn at full speed over 31 hexes, because he just did that... but I closed Tracker before I did so. I'll have to check it later on.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Got the replay back, but it sounds like I shan't be getting a turn back before I go out of town for the weekend. It would seem that my opponent's morale is suffering (and he's been sick for the last week, leading to the most recent delay). I think we've done about 5 turns in the last month or so.

I do have the replay, but likely won't have time to watch it before I leave work. I reviewed the text file last night. It would appear that some sort of "KB" launched a strike against Sibolga as well as a few kamikazes, and was pretty much shot down. I had changed my CAP settings as I'd judged the biggest danger to be past, so CAP over Sibolga was not as heavy as it would have been a couple of days earlier. Looks like I lost a handful of xAPs and also the empty AGC (go figure ) before anything had unloaded. So I likely also lost maybe 100-150 VPs of LCU devices.

But it would seem that my opponent now despairs of ever being able to use KB to get a strike off that actually does some damage. I have refrained from commenting on why I think that might be or how I might deploy them for these battles instead because I obviously can't see the full context that he has on his side.

Will try to update before I get out of town.

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Got the replay back, but it sounds like I shan't be getting a turn back before I go out of town for the weekend. It would seem that my opponent's morale is suffering (and he's been sick for the last week, leading to the most recent delay). I think we've done about 5 turns in the last month or so.

I do have the replay, but likely won't have time to watch it before I leave work. I reviewed the text file last night. It would appear that some sort of "KB" launched a strike against Sibolga as well as a few kamikazes, and was pretty much shot down. I had changed my CAP settings as I'd judged the biggest danger to be past, so CAP over Sibolga was not as heavy as it would have been a couple of days earlier. Looks like I lost a handful of xAPs and also the empty AGC (go figure ) before anything had unloaded. So I likely also lost maybe 100-150 VPs of LCU devices.

But it would seem that my opponent now despairs of ever being able to use KB to get a strike off that actually does some damage. I have refrained from commenting on why I think that might be or how I might deploy them for these battles instead because I obviously can't see the full context that he has on his side.

Will try to update before I get out of town.

This kind of stuff just happens in game late, and it's tough to get the KB to beat superior odds and equipment. The tradition is hard, as you know. You're probably also aware of how to defend those KB strikes since you play both sides.

Glad you've gotten some turns done. Nothing worse than being slowed down in the middle of an op.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

Got the replay back, but it sounds like I shan't be getting a turn back before I go out of town for the weekend. It would seem that my opponent's morale is suffering (and he's been sick for the last week, leading to the most recent delay). I think we've done about 5 turns in the last month or so.

I do have the replay, but likely won't have time to watch it before I leave work. I reviewed the text file last night. It would appear that some sort of "KB" launched a strike against Sibolga as well as a few kamikazes, and was pretty much shot down. I had changed my CAP settings as I'd judged the biggest danger to be past, so CAP over Sibolga was not as heavy as it would have been a couple of days earlier. Looks like I lost a handful of xAPs and also the empty AGC (go figure ) before anything had unloaded. So I likely also lost maybe 100-150 VPs of LCU devices.

But it would seem that my opponent now despairs of ever being able to use KB to get a strike off that actually does some damage. I have refrained from commenting on why I think that might be or how I might deploy them for these battles instead because I obviously can't see the full context that he has on his side.

Will try to update before I get out of town.

This kind of stuff just happens in game late, and it's tough to get the KB to beat superior odds and equipment. The tradition is hard, as you know. You're probably also aware of how to defend those KB strikes since you play both sides.

Glad you've gotten some turns done. Nothing worse than being slowed down in the middle of an op.

I think it's really more the aircraft and CAP quality than anything else. Really early warning for strikes, plus while the George/Frank/Jack can beat up on Allied planes all day every day until November of 1944 when the P-51D arrives, none of those can fly on KB. So KB's strikes always have Zeroes, although the Sam might show up soon, and they just aren't enough to keep the strike packages from getting beat up. Plus there's the whole carrier capacity thing. I have 1100 planes between my 2 CV TFs, and almost half of the planes are fighters while more than half of his are strike craft if he used default unit sizes. He wouldn't even have 1100 planes if he had every single flight deck he gets in the course of the game. On this particular day, I was flying every single unit on CAP.

Tomorrow I hope to get some summaries up of the 17th-23rd. Most days didn't have a ton of action, just a few big days in the air and some movement in some places on my part. I really want to be able to post about the 27th and upcoming 28th.

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Night Naval bombardment of Georgetown at 49,74

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5b Zero: 6 damaged
D4Y3 Judy: 75 damaged
D4Y3 Judy: 4 destroyed on ground
B6N2 Jill: 57 damaged
B6N2 Jill: 1 destroyed on ground
E13A1 Jake: 11 damaged
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-49-IIb Helen: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CA London
CA Baltimore
DD The Sullivans
DD Thatcher
DD Taylor
DD Stevens
DD Stanly
DD McKee
DD Hoel
DD Clarence Bronson

Japanese ground losses:
368 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Guns lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)

Airbase hits 37
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 76

DD The Sullivans firing at 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade - a bit more of a defense here than SIGINT reported a short time ago

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Sibolga at 44,79

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 22 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5b Zero x 9
B7A2 Grace x 20
D4Y3 Judy x 3

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 31
F6F-3 Hellcat x 37
F6F-5 Hellcat x 23

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5b Zero: 3 destroyed
B7A2 Grace: 10 destroyed
D4Y3 Judy: 2 destroyed

No Allied losses

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Sibolga at 44,79

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 55 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Strato-kamis, and my CAP is on the light side
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
B6N2 Jill x 27
J2M3 Jack x 7
N1K2-J George x 8
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 8
Ki-84a Frank x 16

Allied aircraft
F4U-1A Corsair x 34
F6F-3 Hellcat x 53
F6F-5 Hellcat x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
B6N2 Jill: 13 destroyed
B6N2 Jill: 1 destroyed by flak
J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed
N1K2-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIIa Oscar: 2 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
xAP Archbishop Lamy, Kamikaze hits 1, on fire
APD Liddle, Kamikaze hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AGC Appalachian, Kamikaze hits 4, and is sunk
xAP William S. Young, Kamikaze hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
xAP William P. McArthur
xAP William Kent, Kamikaze hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
108 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Aircraft Attacking:
27 x B6N2 Jill flying as kamikaze
Kamikaze: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

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Ground combat at Taiping (49,75)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 776 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 57

Defending force 933 troops, 26 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Allied adjusted assault: 8

Japanese adjusted defense: 11

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled

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

Assaulting units:
50th Indian Para Bde /1

Defending units:
2nd Ind. Field Artillery Regiment
8th Field AF Construction Battalion


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Ground combat at Temuloh (50,78)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 23 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 3

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Temuloh !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)

Assaulting units:
50th Indian Para Bde /2

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Ground combat at Alor Star (49,73)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 101 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8

Defending force 1143 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10

Allied adjusted assault: 6

Japanese adjusted defense: 13

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
44th (Support) Bn /1

Defending units:
40th JAAF AF Bn

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The attack at Taiping is frustrating. I must have gotten some really, really bad rolls.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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The attack at Taiping is frustrating. I must have gotten some really, really bad rolls.

I suspect that the defenders' guns made a big difference. In a shock attack the attackers are exposed to an extra round of fire by the defenders' guns.

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Naval bombardment of Medan at 46,76

Japanese Ships
BB Hiei
BB Kongo
CL Nagara
DD Shigure
DD Maikaze
DD Fujinami

Allied ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

BB Hiei firing at 36th Indian Division
BB Kongo firing at 25th Infantry Division
CL Nagara firing at 25th Infantry Division
DD Shigure firing at 36th Indian Division
DD Maikaze firing at 36th Indian Division
DD Fujinami firing at 25th Infantry Division

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Medan at 46,76

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 34 minutes

Allied aircraft
SB2C-1C Helldiver x 24
SB2C-3 Helldiver x 36
TBM-1C Avenger x 33

Allied aircraft losses
SB2C-1C Helldiver: 1 damaged
SB2C-3 Helldiver: 1 damaged
TBM-1C Avenger: 3 damaged
TBM-1C Avenger: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
BB Kongo, Bomb hits 20, on fire
BB Hiei, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
CL Nagara, Bomb hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Fujinami
DD Maikaze
DD Shigure