Slitherine

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Ground combat at Johore Bahru (50,83)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 12313 troops, 116 guns, 49 vehicles, Assault Value = 427

Defending force 1011 troops, 2 guns, 68 vehicles, Assault Value = 54

Allied adjusted assault: 149

Japanese adjusted defense: 23

Allied assault odds: 6 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
223 casualties reported
Squads: 5 destroyed, 7 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 26 (8 destroyed, 18 disabled)
Units retreated 1

Allied ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 27 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
15th Indian Brigade
27th Australian Brigade
6th Indian Brigade
5/14th Punjab Battalion
28th Gurkha Brigade
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
110th RAF Adv Base Force
III Indian Corps
109th RAF Adv Base Force
2/215th Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
113th RAF Adv Base Force
111th RAF Adv Base Force
137/155th Field Regiment

Defending units:
5th Recon Regiment

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Saidor at 100,122, Range 20,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tomozono Maru #3, Shell hits 2, and is sunk
PB Edo Maru, Shell hits 15, and is sunk
xAK Shinwa Maru, Shell hits 21, and is sunk
xAKL Taiyu Maru, Shell hits 8, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CA Louisville
CL Adelaide

Japanese ground losses:
760 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 36 destroyed, 39 disabled
Engineers: 5 destroyed, 7 disabled

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ORIGINAL: BlitzimX


Changsha industries have also all been set to repair for a few days now, but no progress have been made so far.

The air bridge between Ledo and Chungking has also started. Ledo is a bit weak for now, but the soon arriving Chinese base force will reinforce the area. I don't know how much supplies the 10 planes can carry, but that's better than nothing.

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First, DO NOT repair any industry. In fact as Allies, you really should not ever be repairing industry. Repairing 1 point of industry costs 1000 supply, so it can take 1000 days (for Light Industry) or 500 days (for HI, IF you have fuel) to "earn" that cost back. In Changsha, you are only helping the Empire by making repairs, if they eventually take it (which they probably will).

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--Retreat from all open terrain; you should try to only defend 3x terrain. Maybe 2x in a couple circumstances. But pull out of open terrain, you'll just get rolled

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On REPLACEMENTS, you need supply to get replacements, and supply is short. You should probably turn all replacements OFF in China.

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You should be moving every point of supply you can to Rangoon, and pulling that up the Burma road. Are you doing that? You need to do this as long as you can

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ORIGINAL: BlitzimX

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You should be moving every point of supply you can to Rangoon, and pulling that up the Burma road. Are you doing that? You need to do this as long as you can

Ships haven't made it to CT yet but it's planned to get that bowl rolling asap. To conserve fuel i mostly do CT>>Colombo>>Rangoon.

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Sometimes your planes will report your fleets as enemy fleets.

No special advantage to taking the supplies from the UK but there are there so you might as well haul them out. Until you are on the offensive plus have lots of escorts, your ships are safe in off map convoys.

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ORIGINAL: BlitzimX

If something happens, you will have to live with the death of those sailors and soldiers! :p

Also what i didn't state in my turn was that i started doing some small bombing run in China on unprotected units (especialy Naning, currently under attack) with my Medium bombers, from 11K. Not much result, but i can't blame it given the pilots' skills.

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Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 85,45 (Nanyang)

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Allied aircraft
DB-3M x 6

Allied aircraft losses
DB-3M: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
122 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x DB-3M bombing from 3000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 100 kg GP Bomb
3 x DB-3M bombing from 3000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 100 kg GP Bomb

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 18859 troops, 199 guns, 67 vehicles, Assault Value = 799

Defending force 12204 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 170

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

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Ground combat at Manila (79,77)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 24190 troops, 212 guns, 221 vehicles, Assault Value = 801

Defending force 12213 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 169

Japanese adjusted assault: 598

Allied adjusted defense: 111

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Manila !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
189 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
5473 casualties reported
Squads: 57 destroyed, 26 disabled
Non Combat: 167 destroyed, 50 disabled
Engineers: 21 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 30 (20 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Units retreated 7

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!


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Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 85364 troops, 765 guns, 114 vehicles, Assault Value = 2479

Defending force 37775 troops, 151 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 919

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 2129

Allied adjusted defense: 406

Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Nanyang !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
1423 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 66 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 32 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 35 disabled
Guns lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
6872 casualties reported
Squads: 531 destroyed, 176 disabled
Non Combat: 595 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 76 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 61 (50 destroyed, 11 disabled)
Units retreated 6

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

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Who would have thought my first taste of battle and death would have been on Christmas day, on a ship lost somewhere near the Solomons. There is a general saying going on around here : It's not the wits or military genius of your oponent that gets you killed, it's how much crap and nasty trick your commander can pull out of their ass to get you in trouble. And that's what happened.

The Camberra had no chance of survival. After we escaped the first assault from the Japs, with a few damages on the stern and a few compartments, it was clear the old girl with us wouldn't get back home. The Admiral was still willing to try, and after transfering most of the crew to our ship and the Voyager, only a handfull of men stayed on the Heavy cruiser to try and save her. We were getting pretty crowded in here, with the survivors we picked from the Louisville and the Adelaid a bit earlier, and we all knew those men would not see the lights of Brisbane again, or whatever bush lost town they happened to come from.

But they accepted their fate, and as we slipped away to the north, hoping to join Java before the fuel ran out, or the japs caught us, we could only see the silouette of the smoking, listing ship shrinking and desappearing behind the horizon. Like a promess of what awaited us all for the weeks to come, maybe only destined to end up down under.