Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: zuluhour

PTs not present?
PTs and mines can work to cause some consternation on occasion. I like a lone fast four stacker CL hidden close by as well.

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1st Art.Mortar Regiment is located at Lahaina
22nd Ind.AA Gun Co is loaded on xAK Uzan Maru moving to Pearl Harbor.
10th Division is planning for an attack on Vancouver.
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment is located at Pearl Harbor
9/2nd Division is loaded on xAK Meiten Maru moving to Pearl Harbor.
9th Division is located at Kodiak(181,42).
5/48th/B Division is located at Annette Island(198,42).
6th Air Defense AA Regiment is loaded on a Japanese xAK moving to Pearl Harbor.
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment is located at Pearl Harbor
9/2nd Division is loaded on xAK Meiten Maru moving to Pearl Harbor.
9/1st Division is loaded on a Japanese TK moving to Adak Island.
23rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment is located at Pearl Harbor
3rd Air Defense AA Regiment is loaded on xAK Biwa Maru moving to Pearl Harbor
15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion is located at Adak Island
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment is located at Lahaina
1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment is planning for an attack on Victoria

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Seems odd. Vancouver and Victoria are nice bases with some industry but are by no means vital to the overall war effort. If he is going for them big time it is to get his bombers in range of your aircraft industries, IMO.

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Vanua Lava at 121,148

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 16

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Akebono, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Ikazuchi
DD Inazuma, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Vanua Lava at 121,148

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 16

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Ikazuchi, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Inazuma, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Akebono, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk

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Ground combat at Silchar (59,39)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 57802 troops, 491 guns, 938 vehicles, Assault Value = 2214

Defending force 40604 troops, 403 guns, 97 vehicles, Assault Value = 1140

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Allied adjusted assault: 1227

Japanese adjusted defense: 1467

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
2035 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 139 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled

Allied ground losses:
907 casualties reported
Squads: 24 destroyed, 215 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 36 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 29 disabled
Guns lost 37 (2 destroyed, 35 disabled)
Vehicles lost 67 (1 destroyed, 66 disabled)

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

Got the replay and CR back. Hard to tell for sure without the turn but it looks like a decisive Japanese victory.

By the looks of it Exeter and Devonshire are sunk after TT hits together with 2 DDs. In exchange only 3 or possible 4 Japanese DDs are sunk. CA Hawkins also hit a mine at Chittagong to add insult to the injury. Not a good evening.

I´ll have more info once I get the turn. Allied high command is not happy.

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Chittagong at 55,41, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Nowaki
DD Tanikaze, Shell hits 3
DD Mochizuki, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
CA Dorsetshire
CA Devonshire, Shell hits 5
CA Exeter, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Hawkins, Shell hits 7
DD Nestor
DD Tjerk Hiddes, Shell hits 2
DD Arrow
DD Encounter

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Chittagong at 55,41, Range 1,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
Walrus II: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
DD Shiranui, Shell hits 17, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Fubuki
DD Shikinami, Shell hits 3

Allied Ships
CA Dorsetshire
CA Devonshire, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
CA Hawkins
DD Nestor
DD Tjerk Hiddes, on fire
DD Arrow

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TF 39 encounters mine field at Chittagong (55,41)

Allied Ships
CA Hawkins, Mine hits 1

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Morning Air attack on 56th Division, at 55,41 (Chittagong)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Allied aircraft
Hudson IIIa x 10
B-17E Fortress x 7
B-17F Fortress x 3
B-24D Liberator x 43
B-25C Mitchell x 22

Allied aircraft losses
Hudson IIIa: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
1229 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 47 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 82 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

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Ground combat at Chittagong (55,41)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 82981 troops, 1342 guns, 953 vehicles, Assault Value = 2659

Defending force 79742 troops, 908 guns, 694 vehicles, Assault Value = 2043

Japanese ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Allied ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Both of your TF have an older ship, Hawkins in the CA and Dauntless with the CL.

Both slower and "older" guns, not saying it caused problems but sometimes they can affect results.

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna
You took a risk. It might've paid off, but sounds like it did not - and definitively.

Don't worry. You get more ships than I know what to do with .

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12th Air Flotilla is planning for an attack on Seattle.
5/2nd Division is loaded on a Kyushu Cargo class xAK moving to Pearl Harbor.
3/2nd Division is loaded on a Aden Cargo class xAK moving to Pearl Harbor.
5th Air Division is located at Lahaina(182,108).

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

West Coast defenses
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Basically I can´t cover everything. So I put down a few locations that I under no circumstances can afford to lose. Initially they were the following.

-SF
-LA
-SD
-Seattle

I later added Portland and Alameda to the list after advice here in the AAR. The idea here is very simple. I will rely on forts and a smaller force to hold while I rail in reinforcements. Fort construction is going well.

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Forces on the WC
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-7th Motorized, 25th, 35th, 37th, 40th, 41st, 43rd, 44th, 91st and 104th Infantry divisions.
-5th, 6th and 13th Armored divisions.
-3rd Marine division
-14 Regiments/BDEs
-5 Tank Battalions

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Emergency Reinforcements
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II USA Armored Corps arrives at San Luis Obispo
II USA Corps arrives at Salt Lake City
2nd Armored Division arrives at Salt Lake City
4th Motorized Division arrives at Salt Lake City
8th Motorized Division arrives at Salt Lake City
36th Infantry Division arrives at Salt Lake City
Provisional Tank Brigade arrives at Mojave
2nd Army Tank Brigade arrives at Canada
Invasion Mobilstn Supply Convoy arrives at Salt Lake City

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Total in case of Invasion
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14 Infantry divisions
4 Armored divisions
1 USMC division

So understandably I´m not very concerned. So while I continue to build forts I also save up PPs to buy out the 40th and 41st for the counter attack into NORPAC.

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Japanese intentions
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SIGINT is confusing. But I still believe the Japanese reinforcements are defensive ones. In this game the Japanese have invested heavily into Base VPs in NORPAC/CENTPAC. Now Jeff wants to defend them for as long as possible. Especially PH is a huge VP pool for him with 3000 VPs in PH alone.

I also think he overestimates the Allied need for PH and thinks this is my first priority to take back. Its not though as I´m doing just fine without it. Allied Logistics were a bit strained initially but things are now in order.

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ORIGINAL: Rio Bravo
Joc-

Your guess as to Jeff's intentions seems reasonable. I can't believe that he wants a fight with 15 Infantry Divisions and all those tanks.

How is your aircraft in the states holding up?

Best Regards,

-Terry

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I like your idea of having your reserves on rails though - flexible response!

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

I agree that he would be foolish to take on your US land forces and hope to hold a beachhead for long. But if you have restrictions on moving them to Canada that SIGINT about Vancouver and Victoria makes sense. Especially Victoria, since you can't safely get your troops there without getting control of the air or the sea first.

If I were him at this game date I would want to bomb your aircraft industries so that there will be a much weakened Allied bomber force later in the game. I would also know that a ground offensive would not likely take a major city like Seattle before you reinforced and drove out the invaders, so destroying your aircraft industry by ground offensive is not going to work. And bombarding with ships just isn't feasible given your air forces in the US.

His first bombing offensive suffered for lack of good enough CAP/escort against your fighters. He now has better fighters so all he needs is some closer bases to improve their time on LRCAP of your bases or the reach of the escort for the bombers. He may be willing to take massive AA losses in exchange for crippling your aircraft manufacturing in the long run.

I like your idea of having your reserves on rails though - flexible response!

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ORIGINAL: BillBrown

You just need to hold the important cities for about 8-10 days. As soon as he lands and triggers the reinforcements
you will need to load them on trains and move them. Most of them show up in Salt Lake City.

As far as I know, his bombing you aircraft factories does about nothing. You can just rebuild them later.
Without firestorms, he can not destroy them, just damage them.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

West Coast defenses
_____________________________________________________________________________

Basically I can´t cover everything. So I put down a few locations that I under no circumstances can afford to lose. Initially they were the following.

-SF
-LA
-SD
-Seattle

I later added Portland and Alameda to the list after advice here in the AAR. The idea here is very simple. I will rely on forts and a smaller force to hold while I rail in reinforcements. Fort construction is going well.

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Forces on the WC
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-7th Motorized, 25th, 35th, 37th, 40th, 41st, 43rd, 44th, 91st and 104th Infantry divisions.
-5th, 6th and 13th Armored divisions.
-3rd Marine division
-14 Regiments/BDEs
-5 Tank Battalions

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Emergency Reinforcements
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II USA Armored Corps arrives at San Luis Obispo
II USA Corps arrives at Salt Lake City
2nd Armored Division arrives at Salt Lake City
4th Motorized Division arrives at Salt Lake City
8th Motorized Division arrives at Salt Lake City
36th Infantry Division arrives at Salt Lake City
Provisional Tank Brigade arrives at Mojave
2nd Army Tank Brigade arrives at Canada
Invasion Mobilstn Supply Convoy arrives at Salt Lake City

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Total in case of Invasion
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14 Infantry divisions
4 Armored divisions
1 USMC division

So understandably I´m not very concerned. So while I continue to build forts I also save up PPs to buy out the 40th and 41st for the counter attack into NORPAC.

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Japanese intentions
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SIGINT is confusing. But I still believe the Japanese reinforcements are defensive ones. In this game the Japanese have invested heavily into Base VPs in NORPAC/CENTPAC. Now Jeff wants to defend them for as long as possible. Especially PH is a huge VP pool for him with 3000 VPs in PH alone.

I also think he overestimates the Allied need for PH and thinks this is my first priority to take back. Its not though as I´m doing just fine without it. Allied Logistics were a bit strained initially but things are now in order.

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ORIGINAL: JeffK
I hope this is high level only, and you have Regiments and CD units etc etc at the smaller ports.

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ORIGINAL: JeffK

Given the ability for the IJN to recce using sub based FP & from Coal Harbour it means that he can have a very good idea of your defences. (I assume there is a HR to stop non base landings)

This enables an undefended landing. An RCT, some artillery etc under L6 forts could be hard to move. There are 12 bases he could land at, most are developed to some level and make good targets. Likewise inland bases should be garrisoned to stop para drops.

You have to unpack your forces from their trains (2-3 days) and get them moving by land (Road/Trail), it might be a week before yiu get to react. In the meantime troops & supplies are landed and base construction started.

The Garrisons could also be left on trains as part of your reaction force, I'm not sure recon shows if a force is packed and ready to move??

If Lowpe doesnt intend to attack somewhere on the WC, what his options from these movement?? Is there another move being hidden behind a screen, cant be India, would moving south from Pearl and cutting Australia off from the WC/Panama hurt??

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]Ground combat at Silchar (59,39)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 56803 troops, 491 guns, 941 vehicles, Assault Value = 2055

Defending force 39207 troops, 403 guns, 97 vehicles, Assault Value = 1007

Allied adjusted assault: 999

Japanese adjusted defense: 779

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

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1227 casualties reported
Squads: 10 destroyed, 159 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled
Guns lost 26 (2 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
1779 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 204 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 26 (1 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Vehicles lost 53 (2 destroyed, 51 disabled

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Ground combat at Chittagong (55,41)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 83629 troops, 1384 guns, 991 vehicles, Assault Value = 2655

Defending force 78464 troops, 907 guns, 690 vehicles, Assault Value = 1989

Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

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Still desperately short on DDs.