MichaelU
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On the bright side, a small TF led by the Dutch light cruiser Tromp catches four minesweepers heading to Palembang and sends them all to the bottom.
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Night Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 49,90, Range 2,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DMS W-1, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
DMS W-4, Shell hits 1, on fire
DMS W-5, Shell hits 8, and is sunk
DMS W-6
Allied Ships
CL Tromp
DD Tenedos
DD Express
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Day Time Surface Combat, near Palembang at 48,91, Range 15,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DMS W-4, Shell hits 12, and is sunk
DMS W-6, Shell hits 6, and is sunk
Allied Ships
CL Tromp
DD Tenedos
DD Express
The Tromp ends up, at the end of all this high speed running around, with zero fuel and 5 hexes northeast of Batavia. Worth it though, because he is going to have to get more minesweepers up to clear Palembang before it is safe to send in his tankers. Every turn he is not pulling oil is a good turn.
For another turn the Hurricanes totally own the Zeroes over Palembang, clearing the way for waves of bombers to go in and smash up the airfield and the oilfield. I'm using the Dutch bombers to hit the airfield and the B17s on anti oilfield duty.
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Morning Air attack on Palembang , at 48,91
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed
Reports show another 9 hits on the oil. But when i mouse over Palembang it is showing 946 (55) for the oil, which I assume means 55 damage in total. I thought you could start fires that would keep doing damage.
I'm so glad NYGiants jumped in and told us to drop the whole 'No strategic bombing' thing. As he correctly pointed out, taking Palembang early is ridiculously easy for the Japanese. But unless you have other bases nearby, it's hard to stop the Allies giving it a good working over.
The Dutch bombers can't hit very much, but they can hit ships parked in ports. He seems to have put a lot of what I assume are damaged xAKs in Miri, and the Dutch bombers give them a good working over.
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Morning Air attack on Miri , at 64,87
Weather in hex: Clear sky
Raid spotted at 9 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 11
No Allied losses
Japanese Ships
xAK Anbo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAKL Kiko Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAK Zinzan Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires
xAK Hokko Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
The Makassar Straits has been set up as something of a killzone for any ships venturing in there, with Banshees, Vildebeest and even some Dauntless 1s at bases able to strike into the area. And strike they do, but hit nothing. As expected, the Banshees can't hit a real target -- 27 go in against a heavy cruiser TF and score nary a hit. I was hoping for a little more from the Dauntlesses, as they have decent pilots, but no hits there either. And the Vildbeest don't fly at all. The main outcome is to lose a a lot Banshees, as when they do finally attack the transports they run into strong CAP and get butchered.
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Balikpapan at 66,97
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 20
Allied aircraft
B-339D x 1
A-24 Banshee x 9
P-40E Warhawk x 4
F2A-3 Buffalo x 2
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-339D: 1 destroyed
A-24 Banshee: 2 destroyed
A-24 Banshee: 1 destroyed by flak
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
Japanese Ships
xAK Amagi Maru
The ground combat phase is particularly depressing. Let's start with this one, where even though we manage to hold somehow, we don't hand out a single casualty. Not one. Just look at that list of negatives for the Allies. No idea why the Japanese didn't just roll us.
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Ground combat at Cabanatuan (80,76)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 384 troops, 0 guns, 71 vehicles, Assault Value = 454
Defending force 7605 troops, 75 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 243
Japanese adjusted assault: 35
Allied adjusted defense: 27
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), morale(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:
Allied ground losses:
284 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 35 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Assaulting units:
9th Tank Regiment
4th Division
And then, the inevitable fall of Singapore.
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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 28906 troops, 384 guns, 347 vehicles, Assault Value = 1072
Defending force 20799 troops, 258 guns, 127 vehicles, Assault Value = 68
Japanese adjusted assault: 1034
Allied adjusted defense: 171
Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Singapore !!!
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
Buffalo I: 1 destroyed
Vildebeest III: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
306 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
23736 casualties reported
Squads: 242 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1448 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 100 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 340 (340 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 157 (157 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 18
And then this rather bizarre tank attack at Manila. Nice to blunt his tank spearhead like this. Wonder why they didn't wait for the infantry to catch up.
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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 3163 troops, 12 guns, 266 vehicles, Assault Value = 146
Defending force 38572 troops, 374 guns, 173 vehicles, Assault Value = 843
Japanese adjusted assault: 39
Allied adjusted defense: 731
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 18 (fort level 0)
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
626 casualties reported
Squads: 25 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 30 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 8 (5 destroyed, 3 disabled)
Vehicles lost 60 (14 destroyed, 46 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
304 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 31 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Assaulting units:
22nd Recon Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
48th Recon Regiment
2nd Recon Regiment
And Wake falls.
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Ground combat at Wake Island (136,98)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 3715 troops, 64 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 115
Defending force 710 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17
Japanese adjusted assault: 83
Allied adjusted defense: 1
Japanese assault odds: 83 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Wake Island !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), disruption(-)
Attacker: shock(+), fatigue(-)
Japanese ground losses:
43 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
773 casualties reported
Squads: 35 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 33 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 14 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 25 (25 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
We've had massive numbers of subs in the area, but no hits, and a few subs sent back to port for repair. The only hit we got this turn was on a transport off New Guinea, and it was a dud.
Japanese attacks also capture Cagayan, Davao, Buin and Tulagi.
Rabaul is deinitely in line next. We get intel that:
14/1st Sasebo Assault Division is loaded on a Japanese xAK moving to Rabaul
I wonder what he's bringing with to cover the invasion. Surely after our Banshees worked over all his other transports in the area, he is going to want to bring more than just a bunch of transports.
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