Slitherine

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The Port is size 1 (with a Standard Potential size of 1) - so it could increase to a 4

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There are 4 patrol aircraft (Mavis) located at the airfield. I will look at aircraft later.

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Here she is. She's not sunk but there's a lot of red and orange numbers here. Call me old fashioned, but I don't think that's a good thing.... There is no mention of any troops (it looked like she was carrying supplies?) and some of these were unloaded before the cowardly attack by the British.

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1) You currently have sufficient force at Kota Bharu to capture it. The transports there will continue to unload, increasing the infantry regiment's AV to 126 (that's standard for a fresh IJA regiment) and unload supply and a bit of fuel. Set the units there to deliberate attack and you should defeat the demoralized and inexperienced Brit/Indian units defending the hex. It might also be a good idea to bring your BB TF there to cover the landing, because even though you've sunk PoW and Repulse, those pesky Brit DD's may try to mess up your amphib TF's (the AI will try this, don't know about your human opponent). Also, provide air cover (LRCAP) from Singora for the BB's. All three landing sites (Singora, Patani, and Kota Bharu) need to be covered by a combat surface force, with the strongest in the south.

2) Singora and Kota Bharu are connected by rail. Patani is not. But, the road from Patani across Malaya to Georgetown is mostly a major road; only minor roads connect Singora to the west coast. You can change the destinations for your amphib TF's to get 5th Div units to land at Singora and 18th Div to land at Kota Bharu, but they really don't need to be reformed into the divisions until Alor Star, Georgetown, and Taiping on the west coast are captured. At this point, speed of attack is more important than getting organized. I would want at least 1 good infantry regiment to land at Patani (or even better 1 tank regiment) to move west and cut off retreat from Alor Star.

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3) There is not much aviation support in the preplanned amphib TF's, but there is plenty in Indochina. That needs to be brought across the Gulf of Siam by ship (or rail thru Bangkok). The Imperial Guard Division is in Battambang and should be changed to rail movement and sent to Singora. It will take 3+ days to get there after the 2-3 day packing delay.

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4) Also, find the 4th Div (I think Osaka) and 33rd Div (Hiroshima?) and get them on an amphib TF heading to (whatever your plan is). The 33rd is prepped for Rangoon, but Palembang might be a good first target (don't change the prep). There are many targets available for the 4th Div - Wenchow, Palembang, Mindanao, Luzon, Rabaul, Malaya - I like Palembang. Also, the 21st Div is at Shanghai and is unrestricted, but if you move it Shanghai will not meet the garrison requirement of 720.

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Yes I've been looking at Kull's Japan set up and I don't think three divisions will cut the mustard......

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I think you have got the wrong end of the stick old fruit. The English language is whatever we say it is. It was correct at the time Harold ordered his troops to Hastings, it was correct when Shakespeare wrote his plays, it was correct when Victoria became Empress of India, and it is correct now. If, at various times, we decided to mix it up a bit and change things here and there, then that is entirely for us - as owners of our language - to decide. We speak and write English. Any variation is totally and utterly wrong. FACT .

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Kota Bharu, Malaya

I click on the Ground Unit icon in the hex and this provides me with the ground units I have there. Let's see what the manual has to say about this. The screen is a little different to that in the manual but most of the info seems to be the same so I'll plug on. At this stage I am most interested in finding the three divisions of 25th Army so I click on the 56th Infantry Regiment.

Remember to click on the lingerie button in the upper right corner.

warspite1

Yep I've been pressing that button all afternoon but I'm not finding any missing divisions.....

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real life

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Wake's AF is most likely still operational. Further unescorted Nell's will likely suffer.

What I prefer to do here is to give the joint a whack with the KB as they sail past. Not much danger to A/C losses and it'll help prep the place for invasion. I'll even detach some surface forces from the KB (temporarily) for a bombardment.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: Anachro

It looks like you left the fighters to strafe at 100 feet and the flak more than decimated them.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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I also have destroyers off Midway and so I will look to bring them within TF1 if they have the fuel to do so - otherwise these will head back to Japan.

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I like this as I think its partly historical (didn't a couple of KB carriers assist the invasion?)

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but want to keep the TF together while in hostile waters.

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left hand corner of the Task Force Information Screen turn red (I don’t know what these relate to but on the basis red is bad it is simpler to head home).

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Ships use fuel whenever they move and each ship is rated for how much fuel it can hold as well as its maximum endurance, which is the number of miles the ship can travel at cruising speed. The TF display shows the amount of endurance remaining for each ship in the TF.

Whenever a ship moves in a TF, it draws on its Endurance, which in turn subtracts from the amount of fuel carried. Fuel is expended when:

» A ship moves the entire turn at or below its Cruising Speed (the cruise speed for the ship in hexes as specified on each Ship Information Screen); this ship will use up Endurance equal to 40 times the number of hexes moved. So TF 1 will be moving 8 hexes per turn, they will expend 320 endurance per day over the 6 days (1,920) out of the 4,400 the destroyers have.
However they will likely need a reserve as:

» For each hex moved over the ship’s Cruising Speed, the ship will expend an additional 240 endurance per hex. The cruising speed of the TF in hexes is figured by the Cruising Speed of the slowest ship in it. Since each ship checks the TF move against its own Cruising Speed, ships in the same TF can use up different amounts of Endurance in the same move.

» Every ship in a TF that is involved in surface combat expends 200 Endurance.

» Whenever a TF is bombed or strafed, all ships in the TF expend one Endurance per attacking plane.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

The Yellow and Green radius markers (F4 to toggle on and off) provide the ranges in visual form. I am not sure why these seem to indicate 10 and 5 hexes can be travelled. A) I thought 9 was the maximum and b) the calcs above indicated 8 and 4 anyway? Maybe one doesn't count the hex the line travels through. I'll see next turn how far this task force actually moves having started in hex 180,104.

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I’ve word searched mission speed and nothing comes up.

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I’ve word searched mission speed and nothing comes up.

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but my Kates also appear a little worse for wear and are low on torpedoes.

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Not guilty - it was an historical first turn so any result - good or bad was not my fault!

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

The Yellow and Green radius markers (F4 to toggle on and off) provide the ranges in visual form. I am not sure why these seem to indicate 10 and 5 hexes can be travelled. A) I thought 9 was the maximum and b) the calcs above indicated 8 and 4 anyway? Maybe one doesn't count the hex the line travels through. I'll see next turn how far this task force actually moves having started in hex 180,104.

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

I had to look it up: Kentucky windage is "An adjustment made by a shooter to correct for wind (or motion of the target) by aiming at a point horizontal to the target's position in the sight rather than by adjusting the sight to compensate."

The corollary is 'Arkansas elevation' - "A shooter's adjustment by aiming higher than the target's position in the sight to allow for the bullet's drop during travel rather than adjusting the sight."

Thank you, CB.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: Zorch

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805