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RE: 1942 January 14 - 1/24/2018 3:15:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: zuluhour

noted, drug store trip at lunch for new glasses.


I thought you were in disbelief. That squadron now in Sydney got chewed up in the Philippines and Malaya. The smaller part was down to 0 aircraft on Malaya and I had to upgrade to a different TB just to get the squadron out. When the detachments got to Australia I did another upgrade to same plane so I could combine them. They've been training for Port Moresby defense since.

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1942 January 15 - 1/25/2018 4:22:47 AM   
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INVADED
Amphibious TF 16 unloading at Gorontalo
Amphibious TF 109 offshore of Tacloban
Amphibious TF 145 offshore of Morotai
Clark Field, Cagayan, Pontianak, Moulmein are also invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Tablas is occupied by the Japanese
Japanese forces CAPTURE Batu Pahat !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Gorontalo !!!



Overall
• A search contact with heavy radio traffic nearing New Ireland. Yorktown is still over a week away from joining her sisters.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• The sub dance goes on.

• Loading land units on convoy at San Francisco. A few air units will load tomorrow. All will proceed together until Pago Pago, some ships will go on to Suva, some ships will go on to Port Moresby. Units as noted in geographical sections below.


Pacific
• CL Concord is 15 hexes away from Nauru Island on the way back to Pago Pago and was not harassed.

• Embarking at San Francisco for Pago Pago:
95 Cst AA Rgt
205th Cst AA Rgt
2nd USMC Tk Bn
198th FA Bn
47th Const Rgt
5th Port Maint Engr Bn
1st Marine Air Wing
11 MAG
164th Inf Rgt

• Embarking at San Francisco for Suva:
193rd Tk Bn


New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• A very modest search contact corresponds with...
quote:


Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at 107,119

...which is 3 hexes NE of Kavieng. Is KB1 protecting a convoy? Is it a large convoy to invade Port Moresby?

• Embarking at San Francisco for Port Moresby:
34th Inf Rgt


Philippines
• Now 3 enemy units at Cagayan.

DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• The Empire continued to smash naval assets at Batavia.
quote:


Night Naval bombardment of Batavia at 49,98 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
75A-7 Hawk: 3 damaged
B-339D: 1 damaged
139WH-3: 3 damaged

20 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Japanese Ships
CA Atago
CA Takao

Allied Ships
AMc MMS B, Shell hits 1
CL Java, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
HDML P 14, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied ground losses:
420 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 22

Batavia Defenses firing at CA Atago
CA Atago firing at Batavia Defenses
CA Takao firing at Batavia

quote:


Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
B5N1 Kate x 20
B5N2 Kate x 24
D3A1 Val x 15

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged
D3A1 Val: 3 damaged
D3A1 Val: 1 destroyed by flak

Allied aircraft losses
C.XI-W: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
DD Van Ghent, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Banckert, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AMc MMS B, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
CL Java, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
HDML P 9, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Port hits 2
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 9000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
11 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
3 x D3A1 Val releasing from 2000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 10000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 800 kg AP Bomb
8 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb
4 x D3A1 Val releasing from 1000'
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb

quote:


Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 15000 feet

quote:


Morning Air attack on TF, near Toboali at 50,95

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 19

Allied aircraft
139WH-3 x 10
75A-7 Hawk x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
139WH-3: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged
75A-7 Hawk: 2 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CV Kaga
CVL Zuiho
CA Nachi

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x 139WH-3 bombing from 3000 feet *
Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb
5 x 139WH-3 bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 3 x 300 kg SAP Bomb
2 x 139WH-3 bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 3 x 300 kg SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
Kaga-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes
2 planes vectored on to bombers
Ryujo-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 4000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes
4 planes vectored on to bombers
Zuiho-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes

Our bombers came from a different field, not Batavia, although our fighters did take off from there. The airfield is damaged. The port is damaged and has DD Van Ghent, 3x HDML, and 3x AMc remaining. Of course Van Ghent is very heavily damaged.

KB2 is 3 hexes NE of Batavia. With targets basically expended at Batavia will KB2 move on Soerabaja or back off to replenish and clear the sub swarm?

• In 5 days we will get the last Dutch sub and the last Dutch CL at Soerabaja. It would be nice if the CL can get out without KB2 nabbing it.


China
• It looks like the Imperial unit coming up the road from Kukong is not walking into my trap near Hengyang, so I will withdraw the units into that city in orderly fashion.

• We did pull off a tiny ambush in the air over that spot.
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Morning Air attack on 25th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 , near Hengyang

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 7 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24

Allied aircraft
H81-A3 x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 destroyed, 5 damaged

No Allied losses

Allied ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 5000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 15000.
Raid is overhead

Also attacking 63rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 25th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 63rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 25th Chinese Corps ...

Even though the bombers got through we took out a chunk of them.


India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• CV Indomitable has arrived at Aden and will make haste to Colombo.


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• Quiet.


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RE: 1942 January 15 - 1/25/2018 4:23:19 AM   
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That ominous contact mentioned previously.




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RE: 1942 January 15 - 1/25/2018 11:48:12 PM   
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1942 January 16 - 1/27/2018 3:25:13 AM   
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INVADED
Amphibious TF 298 offshore of Emirau Island
Clark Field, Cagayan, Pontianak, Singapore, Moulmein are also invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Treasury Islands is occupied by the Japanese
Japanese forces CAPTURE Morotai !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Emirau Island !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tacloban !!!



Overall
• KB1 whereabouts unknown.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• The dance with IJN subs continues.

• Troops & supplies fully loaded. Aircraft now loaded, topping up with supply will finish tomorrow. Our troop convoy is spotted at DL 3/3.

• BB New Mexico arrived at San Francisco.


Pacific
• CL Concord well inside friendly air search without incident.


New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• Small supply convoy is 4 hexes from Port Moresby and spotted DL 5/5.


Philippines
• Clean up invasions continue while the main points of resistance - Clark Field, Cagayan - await events.

DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• KB2 withdraws during the night.
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ASW attack near Billiton at 53,92

Japanese Ships
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CS Chiyoda
DD Kuroshio
DD Ushio
DD Sazanami
DD Amatsukaze
DD Hayashio

Allied Ships
SS KX

SS KX is sighted by escort
KX bottoming out ....
DD Ushio attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sazanami fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Hayashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Ushio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Sazanami fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Ushio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Ushio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Ushio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Ushio fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Persistence pays.
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Sub attack near Billiton at 53,92

Japanese Ships
CVL Ryujo, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
CS Chiyoda
DD Ushio
DD Kuroshio
DD Sazanami
DD Amatsukaze
DD Hayashio

Allied Ships
SS KX

SS KX launches 4 torpedoes at CVL Ryujo
DD Sazanami fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Hayashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

The submarine crew claims Ryujo is sunk, but I think not.

• Invasion of Singapore!
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Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 62487 troops, 601 guns, 206 vehicles, Assault Value = 1950

Defending force 51721 troops, 542 guns, 351 vehicles, Assault Value = 1052

Japanese adjusted assault: 1107

Allied adjusted defense: 1159

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)

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

Japanese ground losses:
7810 casualties reported
Squads: 200 destroyed, 508 disabled
Non Combat: 68 destroyed, 161 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 48 disabled
Guns lost 87 (26 destroyed, 61 disabled)
Vehicles lost 42 (12 destroyed, 30 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3527 casualties reported
Squads: 33 destroyed, 232 disabled
Non Combat: 37 destroyed, 103 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled
Guns lost 98 (7 destroyed, 91 disabled)
Vehicles lost 32 (2 destroyed, 30 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
42nd Infantry Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
41st Infantry Regiment
114th Infantry Regiment
11th Infantry Regiment
55th Infantry Regiment
56th Infantry Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
113th Infantry Regiment
12th Engineer Regiment
5th Engineer Regiment
55th Engineer Regiment
2nd Division
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
18th Mountain Gun Regiment
56th Field Artillery Regiment
5th Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
34th Field AA Battalion

Defending units:
1st Malay Battalion
5/14th Punjab Battalion
3/16th Punjab Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
2nd Malay Battalion
22nd Indian Brigade
15th Indian Brigade
SSVF Brigade
2nd Loyal Battalion
2/17 Dogra Battalion
28th Gurkha Brigade
3rd Cavalry Regiment
1st Manchester Battalion
27th Australian Brigade
8th Indian Brigade
22nd Australian Brigade
2nd Gordons Battalion
5/2nd Punjab Battalion
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
III Indian Corps
AHQ Far East
1st ISF Base Force
Singapore Base Force
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
3rd HK&S Light AA Regiment
109th RN Base Force
30 Battery/3 HAA
112th RAF Adv Base Force
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
111th RAF Adv Base Force
137/155th Field Regiment
109th RAF Adv Base Force
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
2/215th Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
11 Battery/3 HAA
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
Singapore Fortress
Malaya Army
29 Battery/3 HAA
Malayan Air Wing
110th RAF Adv Base Force
5th Field Regiment



China
• This is the (so far) main drive on Sian.
quote:


Ground combat at 85,44 (near Nanyang)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2526 troops, 144 guns, 272 vehicles, Assault Value = 800

Defending force 37828 troops, 147 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 734

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

Assaulting units:
10th Tank Regiment
41st Division
37th Division
11th Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
85th Chinese Corps
29th Chinese Corps
41st Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
3rd Group Army


• This is a newly invested route to Sian.
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Ground combat at 85,43 (near Loyang)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 468 troops, 15 guns, 63 vehicles, Assault Value = 346

Defending force 36163 troops, 190 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 921

Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
5th Tank Regiment
13th Tank Regiment
15th Ind.Mixed Brigade
3rd Tank Regiment
23rd Tank Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion

Defending units:
9th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
96th Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
1st War Area
24th Group Army
39th Group Army


• The withdrawal into Changsha went well. The second stage will be to deploy more troops to neighboring cities to force the IJA to deploy. The third stage will be to withdraw into the forests before any point of defense yields.


India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• Imperial forces at Moulmein are much stronger than I anticipated at this point.
quote:


Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 480 troops, 40 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 389

Defending force 2057 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 67

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

Assaulting units:
33rd Division
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
11th Burma Rifles Battalion
2nd Burma Brigade

Even our second line cannot stand against a full division at this point.


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• Peaceful.


Complete combat report attached.

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/27/2018 3:27:19 AM   
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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/27/2018 3:27:54 AM   
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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/27/2018 11:08:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Wonder what he's doing in the mountains east of Yenan, seems like a loooooong detour. I'm watching your play at Changsha, I have
not handled that area well before. I do have a different idea on it this game, but I had hoped to block more rails and roads longer.

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/27/2018 2:50:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: zuluhour

Wonder what he's doing in the mountains east of Yenan, seems like a loooooong detour.

Starting to the north of there, the road into the hinterlands... There is an IJA division up there! At first I thought it was heading toward the China Outback, but it was following a retreating unit heading toward Lanchow (IIRC). That was when I observed it moving between roads at a point where there is no junction, but since it seems to be standing still without having crossed to the other road.

The units in the mountains you asked about are... drum roll please... tanks! Two tank units attacked pursued a Chinese unit multiple times into the mountains. It does look like they got a bit of anomalously fast movement out of the deal but my unit finally got away so now they have to move out of the mountains on their own, without a road.

Add these two to the multiple advances on Sian and Ankang (the road east of Sian, the road from Nanyang, the road between those two, the road to Ankang: 4 other approaches in all) and you have a very concerted effort to test all approaches at once.

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I'm watching your play at Changsha, I have
not handled that area well before. I do have a different idea on it this game, but I had hoped to block more rails and roads longer.

This might not be a best way to do it, I am trying to improve on the long term results of last time. There is a bit of an effect (coming soon) from the early fall of Wenchow. I certainly want to block the rail net longer but it looks to me like retaining heavy weapons might be critical to holding in the forests. And that means not getting too many units retreated and certainly not destroyed (as they come back with none).

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/27/2018 4:25:24 PM   
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A suggestion, for Singapore as well as elsewhere, evacuate a fragment - even just a single support squad - from any unit that you can so you won't have to buy back the unit. From Singapore, send the fragment to OZ or somewhere else that is safe and start letting it take reinforcements there. Doing so from the unit screen will allow the fragments to take replacements. Simply stockpile any device that you don't want to go into those units yet. Even just support squads and engineers from the fragments should help you build up somewhere else.

I just reinstalled the game onto my new hard drive (Win 10) so I also have to make all of the modifications that I want as well. I will try to get tracker working as well for my games now so I can try the evil side as well as possibly some PBEM.

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/28/2018 12:47:20 PM   
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is bargain basement anyway.

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/28/2018 12:51:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		As they say, Ahhhh Sooooo. I can't think of better place for his armor, from your perspective.(smug nod in your direction). AS
far as getting behind you up north, I think Francois slipped something by me as well. There just not enough, maybe company
Bn size units to scout with up there.

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/28/2018 1:56:43 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

I just subscribed. I will learn a lot more from this one as well.

A suggestion, for Singapore as well as elsewhere, evacuate a fragment - even just a single support squad - from any unit that you can so you won't have to buy back the unit. From Singapore, send the fragment to OZ or somewhere else that is safe and start letting it take reinforcements there. Doing so from the unit screen will allow the fragments to take replacements. Simply stockpile any device that you don't want to go into those units yet. Even just support squads and engineers from the fragments should help you build up somewhere else.

I just reinstalled the game onto my new hard drive (Win 10) so I also have to make all of the modifications that I want as well. I will try to get tracker working as well for my games now so I can try the evil side as well as possibly some PBEM.

That was the only way to do it before buy-back of destroyed land units was introduced. Now I use the buy-back system. Of course there are still some fragments floating around but they are incidental, such as when a land unit is airlifted but some devices are too large. Radars come to mind, but motorized support is also too large. The infantry unit from Rabaul had the parent be 5 motorized support devices after the rest of the survivors were taken out by PBY's. There is a fragment of a base force at Cagayan with just a device (forget if it is radar or observer device) too large for air transport, and another such case at Cebu. The bulk of those units (now the parents in fact) are at Darwin.

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/28/2018 2:01:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: zuluhour

As they say, Ahhhh Sooooo. I can't think of better place for his armor, from your perspective.(smug nod in your direction). AS
far as getting behind you up north, I think Francois slipped something by me as well. There just not enough, maybe company
Bn size units to scout with up there.

So there is armour coming through the Yenan area toward Sian, on the Loyang road to Sian, on the Nanyang road to Sian, and I think also on the Ankang road. Not sure about the road to the east of Sian.

That's quite a priority concentration. It tells of the Empire's high level plan to bust through Sian and break into the Chungking plain from that side thereby bypassing defenses south of Chungking. Cheeky buggers!

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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/28/2018 8:16:15 PM   
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RE: 1942 January 16 - 1/28/2018 8:47:48 PM   
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INVADED
Amphibious TF 88 offshore of Dagua
Amphibious TF 114 offshore of Tandjoengselor
Amphibious TF 145 offshore of Galeia
Clark Field, Cagayan, Pontianak, Singapore are also invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Serasan is occupied by the Japanese
Japanese forces CAPTURE Moulmein !!!



Overall
• No data on KB1.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• The sub dance continues, currently 1x single-sub TF and 1x 2-sub TF near SF.

• The Convoy is ready to go and will try to evade the subs while ASW groups suppress them.

• 2nd USMC Para Bn is 3 days out from Midway Island. The APD's are escorted by BB's Colorado and Warspite. No DL on the convoy, and no DL on Midway. Reiterating: Colorado and Warspite will be dropped off at Pearl Harbor for future assignments.


Pacific
• Enemy submarine presence still minor, only 1 detected near Suva. Does this signify the island of Fiji is an Imperial target for invasion or the Empire believes we will reinforce/supply it and looks to sink ships there?

• One week for Yorktown to join her sister fleet carriers.

• Lots more fuel in the area but mostly no where to unload it. Tankers have been unloading at Pago Pago as ships fuel up there. Other tanker convoys are spread out in case of Imperial incursion.


New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• A small supply convoy (2 merchants, 1 escort) is at Port Moresby beginning to unload. No carriers on search. There is still (far a number of days) what might be a fast transport TF at Buna, a convoy at Rabaul, and a BB-centered TF at Rabaul. We are moving in a P-40E group which takes up CAP tomorrow.

• A convoy with 9 squadrons of fighters and medium bombers will arrive at Melbourne in 3 days. A convoy with 3x USA base forces is about 9 days out from Melbourne. USA II US Fighter Command air HQ is about 2 days by train away from Charter Towers (the developing 4EB base for Port Moresby defense).

• A double dose of "Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions" at Truk today. Is KB1 there?


Philippines
• Slow pain.

DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• The damaged DD sank today when it put to sea to escape.

• I am transferring the TB groups to Australia so they can aid the defense of Port Moresby. And of course the deadly Wirraway group too.


China
• Look at the line up of artillery the Empire has brought here!
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Ground combat at 85,44 (near Nanyang)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 2520 troops, 144 guns, 272 vehicles, Assault Value = 808

Defending force 37807 troops, 147 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 733

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 9 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
10th Tank Regiment
41st Division
37th Division
11th Tank Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
41st Chinese Corps
29th Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
92nd Chinese Corps
3rd Group Army

Our units are gaining experience quickly.

• This is the open terrain hex bordering Changsha, Siangtan, and Hengyang. Our unit will cross the river into Henyang tonight.
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Ground combat at 81,53 (near Changsha)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12310 troops, 102 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 378

Defending force 12985 troops, 75 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 297

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

Assaulting units:
13th Division

Defending units:
8th Chinese Corps


• SigInt confirms armour on the road to Ankang.


India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• A nice defensive catch in the air over Moulmein. But on the ground the enemy was supreme. Our own bombers made no difference to events below.
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Morning Air attack on 2nd Burma Brigade, at 55,55 (Moulmein)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 13

Allied aircraft
Buffalo I x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 destroyed, 1 damaged

No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 7000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Raid is overhead
No.67 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 0 and 10000.
Raid is overhead

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Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 55,55 (Moulmein)

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Allied aircraft
Blenheim I x 15
Blenheim IV x 3
Buffalo I x 17

Allied aircraft losses
Blenheim I: 1 damaged

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

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Blenheim IV bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
7 x Blenheim I bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb
8 x Blenheim I bombing from 5000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 55th Mountain Gun Regiment ...
Also attacking 33rd Division ...
Also attacking 55th Mountain Gun Regiment ...

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Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12805 troops, 138 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 388

Defending force 2069 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 69

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 320

Allied adjusted defense: 9

Japanese assault odds: 35 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Moulmein !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
1199 casualties reported
Squads: 56 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 26 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
33rd Division
55th Mountain Gun Regiment

Defending units:
11th Burma Rifles Battalion
2nd Burma Brigade


• Our forces in the next line will be crushed during the river-crossing shock attack, and the 33rd Division is already moving to cross the river. Rangoon will be evacuated of non-combat units at once. Combat units will yield when the enemy arrives.

• One problem is that when a battered, otherwise useless unit unit was ordered to move NE from that blocking hex Intel (the movement box in the LCU display) was had of enemy presence in that hex. Is that enemy far enough along in crossing the river to Pegu to trap our forward units?


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• Someday.


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RE: 1942 January 17 - 1/30/2018 7:10:38 PM   
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Ship losses in the recent Imperial incursion. This should help drive home how irresponsible and dangerous those harbor overflights are.

I still am skeptical about CVL Ryujo being sunk because I did not see corresponding ground losses for Ryujo's aircraft. Or did that bit of Intel leakage get plugged in a patch? Anybody know?




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RE: 1942 January 17 - 1/30/2018 7:13:35 PM   
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anything left of the RAF Swordfish and the like?

You're looking at them. There is also a 3-plane squadron at Denpasar. So all 27 planes are Vildebeest's.

There's a squadron at Sydney that was a squadron plus a detachment. Both parts had losses and I got them combined to the parent squadron which is about half strength now. Of course they are out of theater.

I looked at that other squadron, the one that was at Sydney. They are Albacore's, 8 planes out of 8. Right now they are hopping up to Port Moresby to see if they can get some shots in at that fast transport TF but it might be gone before they get there.

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I still am skeptical about CVL Ryujo being sunk because I did not see corresponding ground losses for Ryujo's aircraft. Or did that bit of Intel leakage get plugged in a patch? Anybody know?


I do believe they show up as "ground" losses if they were on the ship. If they land in the water, then they are considered "operational losses" - at least as far as I have seen.

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RE: 1942 January 17 - 1/30/2018 11:01:05 PM   
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I still am skeptical about CVL Ryujo being sunk because I did not see corresponding ground losses for Ryujo's aircraft. Or did that bit of Intel leakage get plugged in a patch? Anybody know?


I do believe they show up as "ground" losses if they were on the ship. If they land in the water, then they are considered "operational losses" - at least as far as I have seen.
Yeah, I just couldn't be sure that the ground losses things hadn't been changed in the more recent patches and I missed it.

At any rate Ryujo was torpedoed at night for heavy damage so certainly would not have launched any aircraft; any losses should have been ground losses. At least she's out of the war for a few months.

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INVADED
Amphibious TF 298 offshore of New Hanover Island
Amphibious TF 16 offshore of Loewoek
Clark Field, Cagayan, Pontianak, Singapore are also invested.

CHANGED OWNERSHIP
Torokina is occupied by the Japanese
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tandjoengselor !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Dagua !!!
Japanese forces CAPTURE Galeia !!!



Overall
• KB1 sighted 4 hexes E of Kavieng.


West Coast USA, Alaska, Hawaii
• Only one sub encounter, near San Diego.

• The convoy cleared the immediate San Francisco area and will head west a few hexes before turning southwest and finally south.


Pacific
• Yorktown & Co will be just passing Malden Island tomorrow.


New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua New Guinea, New Britain
• KB1 is 4 hexes E of Kavieng heading SW toward the Solomon Sea.

• Bungaree is in tough shape and will try to make Rockhampton.
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ASW attack near Bundaberg at 97,153

Japanese Ships
SS RO-66

Allied Ships
CM Bungaree, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AM Wollongong

SS RO-66 launches 4 torpedoes at CM Bungaree
RO-66 diving deep ....
AM Wollongong attacking submerged sub ....
SS RO-66 eludes ASW attack from AM Wollongong
AM Wollongong fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Wollongong fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Wollongong fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Wollongong fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


• The PM supply convoy unloaded more than half today so should finish tomorrow if not attacked.


Philippines
• Waiting.

DEI, Dutch new Guinea, Borneo, Malaya
• Our aircraft in the eastern DEI made a number of attacks on Imperial invaders and most were disrupted or worse by Zero's, although several made fruitless attack runs. This one did better.
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Morning Air attack on TF, near Galeia at 79,101

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 7 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Allied aircraft
PBY-5 Catalina x 3

Allied aircraft losses
PBY-5 Catalina: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Minryo Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x PBY-5 Catalina bombing from 1000 feet
Naval Attack: 4 x 250 kg SAP Bomb



China
• Imperial units have been scouted 1 hex SE of Kweilin, heading west (either to enter Kweilin on the road or to enter Liuchow.)


India, Burma, Thailand, Indochina
• There are 2 Imperial units 1 hex due E of Pegu and they are heading NW to cut the road. Our bombers will strike at them from Magwe to slow them.

• Several Zero sweeps of Rangoon but our fighters have left.


Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russia
• The lonely waters.


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One or more of the 5 Imperial units on the road to Ankang are heading due west!




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RE: 1942 January 18 - 1/31/2018 7:30:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Looks like you have that offload move covered. Some units on the yellow road connection and It'll take him so long to get there you can set up in the x3 to build some forts.

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RE: 1942 January 18 - 1/31/2018 3:57:15 PM   
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Looks like you have that offload move covered. Some units on the yellow road connection and It'll take him so long to get there you can set up in the x3 to build some forts.

I have been trying to cover cross country but the vector straight west from where they are now is puzzling. Rough-woods, then mountain, then another rough-woods to arrive at the road. Or go straight through another full rough-woods then onto clear terrain. Quite a long way through bad terrain where supplies can't follow and would have to be airlifted.

The units I have heading to that road head are zombies with little or nothing in the way of heavy weapons. I'll watch and see if I need to beef up defenses there.

I've also thought about the possibility one or more of the newly arrived units was ordered to move to Ankang, found the road blocked and automatically is pathing around it. When it gets noticed movement orders will be changed. But I better defend in case it is purposeful.

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very interesting thoughts on China if you don't have them already.

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RE: 1942 January 18 - 2/1/2018 5:48:22 PM   
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feint or frustration? I'd take a look see with someone you could spare if possible, might change his tune if he sees you marching on him. I have Alfreds
very interesting thoughts on China if you don't have them already.

I've read his China stuff but I'm not sure I saved it. If you have it I would appreciate that. I think I recall the gist of it but having a look again wouldn't hurt at all. I've been thinking about using undead units as infiltrators.

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feint or frustration? I'd take a look see with someone you could spare if possible, might change his tune if he sees you marching on him. I have Alfreds
very interesting thoughts on China if you don't have them already.

I've read his China stuff but I'm not sure I saved it. If you have it I would appreciate that. I think I recall the gist of it but having a look again wouldn't hurt at all. I've been thinking about using undead units as infiltrators.


I'd be interested in seeing this as well, if that's ok ? I'm in the process of starting my 2nd PBEM game, Allies again, and I am following both this AAR and Zuluhour's AAR with keen interest. Trying to learn from two experienced players !

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feint or frustration? I'd take a look see with someone you could spare if possible, might change his tune if he sees you marching on him. I have Alfreds
very interesting thoughts on China if you don't have them already.

I've read his China stuff but I'm not sure I saved it. If you have it I would appreciate that. I think I recall the gist of it but having a look again wouldn't hurt at all. I've been thinking about using undead units as infiltrators.

IIRC Alfred's thesis is that China requires a mobile defence strategy, using interior LOCs on the railroads to move mobile units to stop IJA thrusts and to outflank him where he is weak. Trying to form a static defence line is a doomed strategy in Alfred's books. I think the mobile defense was to include a few Western units like anti-tank guns and AA units and some tanks if they can make it in before the Japanese close the Burma Road.

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