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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/1/2018 9:02:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		Could has been much worst against the Vildebeest and Swordfish torpedoes.

Attacking close to Singapur, without air supremacy, can be dearly expensive.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/1/2018 10:03:49 PM   
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Could has been much worst against the Vildebeest and Swordfish torpedoes.

Attacking close to Singapur, without air supremacy, can be dearly expensive.


Agreed. I have lsot a lot of AKs so far but they are about the only ships Japan has plenty of.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/1/2018 10:10:05 PM   
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Mersing falls on the first attack. Moving units west of there to stop any more of his troops getting back into Singers. Palembang invaded and will fall next turn. Lots of AA already in place and I will be moving the best Zero unit in as well (45 a/c). Will also have at least one strong SCTF there in case he tries to bombard it. For some reason (I f***** up) the Wake invasion does not go in, we try again next turn....

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/1/2018 11:31:56 PM   
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Palembang falls. Wake falls. AVG CAP trap in China kills about 15 heaps of crap, happy to see them there rather than Singapore, think he won't try and make a serious attempt to hold there now. About to land troops at Tarakan and Balikpapan but won't attack until I have control of the air.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/2/2018 2:51:05 AM   
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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/2/2018 5:52:20 PM   
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Now you have to defend Palembang from bombing of Oil, or is there an HR delaying that?


No, he is free to bomb it if he wants, but I have 80 Zeros there and plenty of AA and a CA force to protect against bombardments.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/2/2018 6:15:53 PM   
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The Houston shows up with half a dozen old US DDs at Tarakan, sinks one of the two DDs escorting the invasion (they hit her with a torp but it's a dud) then sinking the invasion fleet of 4 AKs, but after they had already landed the troops. I have two SCTF's in the area and hopefully one will intercept her next turn. Nothing of note elsewhere except China where I take Nanyang in the north and Wuchow in the south.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/2/2018 8:36:03 PM   
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Houston evades my SCTFs, drat.

Interesting development in China at Changsha where I has moved in 3 divisions, he tries to kick them out but fails and takes considerable losses:


Ground combat at Changsha (82,52)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 62861 troops, 359 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1886

Defending force 34177 troops, 328 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1072

Allied adjusted assault: 2526

Japanese adjusted defense: 1841

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
1887 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 63 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled

Allied ground losses:
8522 casualties reported
Squads: 285 destroyed, 372 disabled
Non Combat: 110 destroyed, 137 disabled
Engineers: 66 destroyed, 31 disabled
Guns lost 66 (50 destroyed, 16 disabled)


May go over onto the offensive here if I can scrape enough troops together....

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/3/2018 2:15:50 AM   
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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/3/2018 2:00:09 PM   
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He had (-) Op Mode, probably what cost him the most.


Actually it was one my divs in move mode as it just moved into the hex the same turn, so it could have been even worse for him.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/3/2018 2:03:34 PM   
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KB is fully refueled at Truk and air group losses made good and will move to the DEI without delay. Busy unloading a load of troops at Mersing, I'm going all in on Singapore. No sign of his air force at all over the last few turns.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/3/2018 2:08:48 PM   
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KB is fully refueled at Truk and air group losses made good and will move to the DEI without delay. Busy unloading a load of troops at Mersing, I'm going all in on Singapore. No sign of his air force at all over the last few turns.


He will re-organize his air force and then defend with large CAP over places he wants to protect. Your biggest challenge in the game will be to compete with his pilots.

His Ground & Naval game is good but his air game is supreme.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/3/2018 2:21:57 PM   
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KB is fully refueled at Truk and air group losses made good and will move to the DEI without delay. Busy unloading a load of troops at Mersing, I'm going all in on Singapore. No sign of his air force at all over the last few turns.


He will re-organize his air force and then defend with large CAP over places he wants to protect. Your biggest challenge in the game will be to compete with his pilots.

His Ground & Naval game is good but his air game is supreme.


That's why I have been fairly reticent about using Netty's on Naval strikes, I cannot guarantee they will not hit a CAP trap and I don't have enough long range escorts to spare. My two large (45a/c) Zero sqds are currently over Palemmbang for the foreseeable future and all my Oscars are currently employed in Malaya. Hopefully the KB will tip the balance when it arrives in the area.....

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/4/2018 8:14:16 PM   
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Nothing of note on 19th or 20th, I continue to make mass landings at Mersing and push SW to take Johore Baru. A few units are waiting in strat mode in northern Malaya waiting for my tank units to clear the rail lines, he has 6 units at Temuloh but they are cut off with no means of retreating south.

On the 21st Hong Kong falls, I immediately move transports in to pick up the div and art units there, not sure where I will send them yet. In the PI an empty Manila falls, he is down to Clark and Bataan now, but I will need to bring a LOT more troops here to have any chance of making further progress, it will have to wait for now. He sends a TF of old Britsh crap to bombard Jolo but they do little damage and land based Kates flying from there give him a taste of 1000ft bombing, sinking the old CLs Dragon and Durban and the DD Vendetta.

Recon shows he has cleared Singapore and Batavia of most a/c so looks like he is already preparing for my next move after Singapore falls. I will probably use 2/3rds of the troops from there for my Java invasion and the other 1/3rd for Burma. I already have the 33rd Div and several smaller units marching towards Moulmein, but obviously it will take them a while to march there through the jungle trails.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/5/2018 7:21:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very strange he did not contest the Mersing landings. Singapur's TBs could have dealt you big pain easily. What air cover do you have over Mersing? CVL? Oscars and Nates? From where?

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/5/2018 4:40:16 PM   
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Very strange he did not contest the Mersing landings. Singapur's TBs could have dealt you big pain easily. What air cover do you have over Mersing? CVL? Oscars and Nates? From where?


I forgot to mention he did launch another air strike against the ships there a few turns back but they got chewed up by my LRCAP based at Kuantan (about 50 Oscars). It was only crap like Blenheims and Wirraways though, he's obviously saving the Brit TB's for my up coming Java invasion.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/5/2018 6:36:03 PM   
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KB, currently south of Davao attacks and sinks about 10 low value transports either fleeing or trying to get supply into the PI, either way he knows where it is now.

Landing the last dregs of my Singapore invasion troops into Mersing and my tanks clear the last Allied unit blocking the rail lines down to Johore Baru, allowing the units in northern Malaya to start the move south. Looks like I will have roughly 3500AV crossing the river, probably in the first few days of January. He will have almost 1000AV behind level 4 forts, so it won't be a walk in the park but I'm confident it will fall before my target of the end of January.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/5/2018 9:06:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		In PDU off the Aussies will have less than nothing for a long time to protect the industry and resources. Do you plan to harvest anything down there once the DEI is secure?

Also, as you contemplate 44-45, do you have any target airframes for the end of the line in a PDU-off game?

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/6/2018 2:58:37 PM   
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In PDU off the Aussies will have less than nothing for a long time to protect the industry and resources. Do you plan to harvest anything down there once the DEI is secure?

Also, as you contemplate 44-45, do you have any target airframes for the end of the line in a PDU-off game?


I will have to see how the next month or so pans out before I consider setting foot on Aussie soil, something I have yet to do in any of my other games playing as Japan. I know he is due 125 P40s to arrive there within that time and they could make any potential raid on his industry by the KB expensive.

To be honest this PDU-off carry on is rather scary. Obviously the Oscar line will be important as most of the Army fighter sqds upgrade to one form or another of it at some stage of the upgrade path. The armoured versions which carry 2x250kg bombs should come in very handy at 1000ft Long term wise I'm going to have to sit down one night and go through each sqd and note what road they go down.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/6/2018 3:01:38 PM   
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Christmas vacation time for the Allies as Mr Kane seemingly gives all his air and sea units two days off to celebrate. A bit of ground combat aside in China where I rough up some of his units in open terrain nothing is happening.

Initial recon of Java indicates a lack of shipping or air units present at the main bases, I'm wondering if he is pulling out what he can rather than staying there for a fight? I guess I will find out soon enough...

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 12:53:03 PM   
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Constant recon of Surabaya showed no fighters there but search picked up quite a few ships milling around the area. Taking a chance, I send the KB plus escorts on a full speed run from Singkawang to 6 hexes north of Surabaya. They find a RN fleet to attack:

Morning Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 56,104

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 45 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 44
B5N1 Kate x 6
B5N2 Kate x 75
D3A1 Val x 75

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
D3A1 Val: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Glasgow, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
AO TAN 3
CL Mauritius, Bomb hits 16, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Stewart, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
CA Exeter, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Enterprise, Bomb hits 1
AM Pieter de Bitter, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
CA Cornwall, Bomb hits 1
DD Tenedos, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires

Pretty poor shooting by my Kates but we still sink a modern CL and it looks like Exeter will go down. Bad weather prevents any PM strikes and surely saves the rest of the ships in the TF. No CAP at all over Surabaya is very surprising, I doubt he will make the same mistake again. So do I hang around and perhaps attack the port? I don't have the fuel to move south of Java to intercept anything he decides to flee south with.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 3:18:54 PM   
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As I expected, he moves in 130 fighters at Surabaya but I had wisely decided to retreat north and refuel. He sends his cripples south for Aus but my subs are waiting and sink Exeter and the CL Glasgow.

Over in Malaya the last of my troops are about to reach Johore Baru, where I will recombine them into the full size Divs, I will have seven crossing the river with a total AV of just under 4000. D Day will be in about 10 days. Over in the PI Clark is now under seige, he has 1800AV there to my 1200AV, so obviously I won't be attacking here anytime soon. He is using AKLs to ship in supplies, fine by me as in the end it will only prolong the agony of his troops.

I have to take my hat off to Mr Kane, he can crank out the turns at a rate of knots

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 3:32:28 PM   
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I am looking forward to an exciting game between two excellent players. This should be fun!

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 3:36:25 PM   
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I have just started following your AAR and wanted to say that I enjoy the style in which it is written. Short and crisp action reports match my attention span.

I am looking forward to an exciting game between two excellent players. This should be fun!


Thank you Sir. I'm not very techie minded so find doing Maps and other screenshots a chore, though I will eventually post a few up when things get less hectic.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 6:23:01 PM   
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As I expected, he moves in 130 fighters at Surabaya but I had wisely decided to retreat north and refuel. He sends his cripples south for Aus but my subs are waiting and sink Exeter and the CL Glasgow.





Wow!

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 7:50:00 PM   
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Almost nothing of note. There will be a lull I would imagine until Singapore falls and I can start my second phase of landings on Java and elsewhere, hopefully within a months time.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 8:39:22 PM   
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Noticing he had withdrawn his fighters from Surabaya again I send the KB along for a crack at the port as recon showed several warships there, not any more:

Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 103
B4Y1 Jean x 10
B5N1 Kate x 25
B5N2 Kate x 143
D3A1 Val x 147

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged
D3A1 Val: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CA Houston, Bomb hits 14, and is sunk
DD Tenedos, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
DD Encounter, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
SS KXVII, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
DD Scout, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
DD Stewart, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk

Elsewhere a nasty AVG CAP trap in China kills about 30 of my single engine bomber crap. My troops begin their march to Singapore, 8 Divs with a total AV of 3800......

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 9:22:50 PM   
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3rd Jan 42

Noticing he had withdrawn his fighters from Surabaya again I send the KB along for a crack at the port as recon showed several warships there, not any more:

Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 103
B4Y1 Jean x 10
B5N1 Kate x 25
B5N2 Kate x 143
D3A1 Val x 147

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 2 damaged
D3A1 Val: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CA Houston, Bomb hits 14, and is sunk
DD Tenedos, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
DD Encounter, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
SS KXVII, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
DD Scout, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
DD Stewart, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk

Elsewhere a nasty AVG CAP trap in China kills about 30 of my single engine bomber crap. My troops begin their march to Singapore, 8 Divs with a total AV of 3800......




Thiiiis was painful

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 9:33:37 PM   
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My first major setback as Akagi eats a torpedo from S39, with 30 major float and engine damage she will be out of service for at least 3 months. However I should be able to accommodate her air groups on the rest of my CVs.

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RE: Miller (J) vs Mr Kane (A) - 4/7/2018 9:52:21 PM   
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