DesertWolf101
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December 20, 1941
S/SW Pacific
Rabaul falls to the Empire.
Celebes
A major surface engagement occurred tonight! My opponent sent a large cruiser task force composed of the heavy cruiser Houston, the light cruisers Boise, Java, Tromp, and De Ruyter, and five destroyers to smash up my landing at Sidate.
Fortunately, the Allied task force first ran into my covering force of warships. Unfortunately, this covering force, being composed of the heavy cruiser Haguro, the light cruiser Sendai, and four escorting destroyers, was nowhere near large enough to contend with the threat. The Japanese warships nevertheless did fairly well, soaking up the Allied ammunition and badly damaging the heavy cruiser Houston with a torpedo hit and 14 shell hits, most of them 8inch shells from Haguro (the Houston sank right after the engagement). Sendai even put a torpedo into Boise but the darned thing failed to explode! In return, the Allied task force hit Haguro with a torpedo and five shell hits, put Sendai in danger with heavy fires, and critically damaged the destroyer Ayanami with another torpedo hit. After the battle, Haguro and Sendai limped back to Babeldaob and then back to the home islands for repairs, while Ayanami had to beach itself at Sidate with 87 float damage until I eventually sent an AR to repair it enough for it to reach a shipyard under its own power.
Having dealt with the covering force, the Allied task force then powered through to reach the landing force composed of an AMC, an AP, an AK, and their escorts of the light cruiser Isuzu and two destroyers. The Allied task force remained relatively unscathed during this fight. Frustratingly, Boise again was hit with a long lance only for the torpedo to fail to explode! The Japanese on the other hand lost the AK and the AP and the AMC had 32 fire damage, which despite my hope that it would be dealt with, continued to burn the ship for many turns to come until finally I had had enough and scuttled it. The key silver lining here was that all the troops had already disembarked.
After this second engagement, a small Japanese landing force that was transitioning through the area was unlucky enough to get caught in the melee, losing two small AKs before the Allies pulled back as they ran low on ammunition, sparing the escorting TB and PB from damage. This was very lucky as these escorts picked up the survivors from the Naval Guard unit and quickly landed them at Sidate.
Malaya
86 Sally bombers hit the Singapore port facilities, losing half a dozen to the flak and three Buffalos that rose up to meet them. No allied ships were present in the port however, as my opponent had decided to get out with the surviving vessels while he can despite their damaged state.
Luckily, Kates from my light carriers at Mersing were still within range, and they quickly responded to the fleeing ships, finally sinking the light cruiser Mauritius as well as DD Encounter, the AMC Kanimbla, the TK Harpa, and two AKs and an AKL.
Japanese forces capture Mersing. I attempt a paradrop at Johore Bahru but the British base force holds it ground there.
Philippines
Heavy bombing of Clark airfield meets no fighter opposition for several days now. My opponent has clearly long ago pulled out the defending fighter squadrons. Likely sending them to Australia?
Burma
Japanese troops take Tavoy.
< Message edited by DesertWolf101 -- 6/30/2020 8:19:57 PM >
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RE: Empire of the Sun - 
I can't believe I didn't catch that until now! I will have to go back and edit all the posts where I made the silly mistake. Thanks for alerting me to it!
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