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RE: 30 January 1942 - 12/27/2004 9:58:01 AM   
soeren01

 

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Status: offline 		Seeing some industry data would be very interesting.

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RE: 30 January 1942 - 12/27/2004 9:27:48 PM   
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While waiting, I am thinking of posting my expanded industries on here for your guy's opinions... Or at least what industry each base has now (I doubt I remeber exactly what was expanded and by how much). Are you guys interested or not ?


Yes, let's have a look.

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RE: 30 January 1942 - 12/27/2004 10:24:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Please post that up (Industry etc). Very interested.

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Industry Data as of Jan 30, 1942 - 12/29/2004 12:51:35 AM   
Xargun

 

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Status: offline 		I have gone through the bases and think I have my list of expansions. I will go through the list base by base for industry, then list engine and aircraft as a total and then list some overall stats...

Toyohara - increased HI to 40
Sapporo - increased NS to 12, MS to 12 and RS to 24
Maysuyama - increased HI to 40
Takamatsu - increased NS to 16, MS to 16 and RS to 32
Kitakyushu - increased NS to 44 and RS to 46
Nagasaki - increased Arm to 24
Hiroshima - increased RS to 46 and Arm to 24
Okayama - increased Arm to 20
Matsue - increased HI to 40
Maizuru - increased Arm to 16
Kanazawa - increased Arm to 20 and AFV to 16
Osaka - increased Arm to 16 and AFV to 42
Nagoya - increased MS to 20, RS to 20 and AFV to 30
Shimuzu - increased NS to 12, MS to 12 and RS to 32
Gumma - increased Arm to 24
Tokyo - increased AFV to 50
Sendai - increased NS to 16, MS to 16 and RS to 16
Hakodate - increased NS to 20
Hong Kong - increased RS to 48 [captured at 24]

Overall Engine Production / Needed
Mitsubishi - 865 / 588
Nakajima - 424 (136 damaged) / 492 *Forgot to convert / expand at game start so I am behind here
Hitachi - 120 / 64
Kawasaki - 80 / 0 [currently halted]
Aichi - 20 / 0 [currently halted]

Aircraft Production:

A6M2 Zero 179; G4M1 Betty 72; Ki-43-Ib Oscar 62; B5N Kate 56; Ki-51 Sonia 45; Ki-27 Nate 41 [currently halted]; D3A Val 41; Ki-48 Lilly 40; Ki-54 Hickory 32; Ki-46-II Dinah 31; Ki-57-II Topsy 30; E13A1 Jake 26; H8K Emily 24; K-49 Helen 23; F1M2 Pete 23; Ki-21 Sally 20; A6M2-N Rufe 14; L2D2 Tabby 12; MC-21 Sally 5; E7K2 Alf 5; L3Y Tina 5; E14Y1 Glen 4; C5M Babs 4; H6K2-L Mavis 2

I haven't messed with much rd at all, although I have converted some Nate into Oscar and expanded some CV DB and TB factories (Forget names: Judy & Jill ?).

Overall Totals:

HI - 13660 MP - 799 Resources - 15758 Oil - 1097 NS - 1258 MS - 1056
RS - 738 Arm - 594 AFV - 165 Aircraft - 796 + 150-rd

I am planning another round of expansion for Arm and aircraft factories (probably in Feb or March) once my supply situation is better.

Abbreviations:
HI - Heavy Industry, NS - Naval Shipyard, MS - Merchant Shipyard, RS - Repair Shipyard, Arm - Armament Factory, AFV - Vehicle Factory

If you have any questions or comments, please post them..

Xargun

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RE: Industry Data as of Jan 30, 1942 - 12/30/2004 12:07:28 AM   
Tanaka


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ORIGINAL: Xargun

I have gone through the bases and think I have my list of expansions. I will go through the list base by base for industry, then list engine and aircraft as a total and then list some overall stats...

Toyohara - increased HI to 40
Sapporo - increased NS to 12, MS to 12 and RS to 24
Maysuyama - increased HI to 40
Takamatsu - increased NS to 16, MS to 16 and RS to 32
Kitakyushu - increased NS to 44 and RS to 46
Nagasaki - increased Arm to 24
Hiroshima - increased RS to 46 and Arm to 24
Okayama - increased Arm to 20
Matsue - increased HI to 40
Maizuru - increased Arm to 16
Kanazawa - increased Arm to 20 and AFV to 16
Osaka - increased Arm to 16 and AFV to 42
Nagoya - increased MS to 20, RS to 20 and AFV to 30
Shimuzu - increased NS to 12, MS to 12 and RS to 32
Gumma - increased Arm to 24
Tokyo - increased AFV to 50
Sendai - increased NS to 16, MS to 16 and RS to 16
Hakodate - increased NS to 20
Hong Kong - increased RS to 48 [captured at 24]

Overall Engine Production / Needed
Mitsubishi - 865 / 588
Nakajima - 424 (136 damaged) / 492 *Forgot to convert / expand at game start so I am behind here
Hitachi - 120 / 64
Kawasaki - 80 / 0 [currently halted]
Aichi - 20 / 0 [currently halted]

Aircraft Production:

A6M2 Zero 179; G4M1 Betty 72; Ki-43-Ib Oscar 62; B5N Kate 56; Ki-51 Sonia 45; Ki-27 Nate 41 [currently halted]; D3A Val 41; Ki-48 Lilly 40; Ki-54 Hickory 32; Ki-46-II Dinah 31; Ki-57-II Topsy 30; E13A1 Jake 26; H8K Emily 24; K-49 Helen 23; F1M2 Pete 23; Ki-21 Sally 20; A6M2-N Rufe 14; L2D2 Tabby 12; MC-21 Sally 5; E7K2 Alf 5; L3Y Tina 5; E14Y1 Glen 4; C5M Babs 4; H6K2-L Mavis 2

I haven't messed with much rd at all, although I have converted some Nate into Oscar and expanded some CV DB and TB factories (Forget names: Judy & Jill ?).

Overall Totals:

HI - 13660 MP - 799 Resources - 15758 Oil - 1097 NS - 1258 MS - 1056
RS - 738 Arm - 594 AFV - 165 Aircraft - 796 + 150-rd

I am planning another round of expansion for Arm and aircraft factories (probably in Feb or March) once my supply situation is better.

Abbreviations:
HI - Heavy Industry, NS - Naval Shipyard, MS - Merchant Shipyard, RS - Repair Shipyard, Arm - Armament Factory, AFV - Vehicle Factory

If you have any questions or comments, please post them..

Xargun


i noticed a lot of your productions are in multiples of 4. any reason for this??? 12,16,20,24,32 etc...

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RE: Industry Data as of Jan 30, 1942 - 12/30/2004 12:19:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi, Your going to get multiples of 4 quite often because when you expand a number below 100 it doubles. (over 100 it adds 100) A factory with a starting size of 0 adds two when expanded first time
So the arms factories that start as 0 (there are 2 I think) become 2 and from then on double 2-4-8-16-32-64-128 (now add 100 where allowed)

Since this is the means all facotries were created to start even existing factories follow the same path.

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RE: Industry Data as of Jan 30, 1942 - 12/31/2004 1:15:44 AM   
Xargun

 

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ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, Your going to get multiples of 4 quite often because when you expand a number below 100 it doubles. (over 100 it adds 100) A factory with a starting size of 0 adds two when expanded first time
So the arms factories that start as 0 (there are 2 I think) become 2 and from then on double 2-4-8-16-32-64-128 (now add 100 where allowed)

Since this is the means all facotries were created to start even existing factories follow the same path.


Exactly... Look at a lot of the starting sizes... lots of 2's and 3's in shipyards which - when expanded - end up at 24 or such...

Xargun

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31 January 1942 - 1/3/2005 10:12:07 PM   
Xargun

 

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Status: offline 		Yeah we are back to fighting Rob and I are both home from holiday travelling and Rob having to go to Texas for a bowl game and now the war will continue.. Although I will admit I will need some time to get back into the flow and remember all my plans...

Well the turn starts off with more night air raids. 19 Blenheims (both type I and IV) raid Yenen, causing no damage - figure he's going for the airfield. He also sends a trio of B-17s to hit Rangoon - no damage - figure he's going for the air fields there too. In those raids report claim 3 Beinheim damaged as well as 2 B-17s... IJA night attack on Samarinda airfields were more successful, getting 1 supply and 2 runway hits with no losses.

My Bombardment TF returned to Koepang for another shot at those SBDs on the runway. It engaged the 3 PTs left there and hammered one (73 hits) and sunk it with no return fire.. Then the TF turned around and left... I think I forget to reset it to a bombardment TF after last turn - and it probably auto converted to a surface TF... Argh.... Now it doesn't have the fuel to return again and has to limp home to Kendari for fuel...

I also sent in a daylight raid on Samarinda airfield consisting of over 60 bombers. They claimed 27 men as well as 6 airbase, 2 supply and 13 runway hits.

Air and Arty strikes in China claim 84 Allied men and 3 guns.

A large chinese bomber raid struck at the IJA 6th Tank Regiment north of Hanoi. My LR CAP claimed 1 SB-2C bomber and reports indicate 4 tanks and 39 men lost. The bombers can in at 1000 feet and my zeros on CAP did not do a very good job.. Oh well.. win some, you lose some.. I have dozens of tanks in my replacement pool, so I'm not worried.

An allied Sub (US sub actually) struck at an ASW TF hitting a PC with a torp. Somehow the torp must have expoded prematurely as the PC survived and should make port at Palau without trouble.

An IJN Sub located an allied AK and put a torp into her side. Unfortunately the AK survived and no further attacks were made.

My arty strikes on Clark Field were good today, claiming 200 men and 3 guns. The arty strike on Singapore was poor, only claiming 27 men. The forts at Singapore must be good and I'm gonna have to start actually attacking soon if I want to take the base.. Luckily my 2 ENG rgt just landed at Mersing and will arrive in Singapore in a few days to lend some engineering support to the attacks so I can destroy the forts faster.

A Shock attack on the surrounded 21st Chinese Corps was repulsed. IJA forces lost 128 men and 2 tanks, while only causing 26 allied losses. The Corps has to be heavily fatigued and low on supplies so I have ordered another Shock attack - the last barely affected my men's fatigue or disruption. The 1st Vietnamese Division is leading the assault.

My NLF landed on Tawi Tawi last turn and captured it unopposed this turn.

That is about it.. I have created a cargo TF and placed several fully loaded AKs and TKs hauling resources and oil from Balikpapin.. I have also placed several DD escorts as well as 2 heavily damaged CAs. They will make best speed eastward away from Allied bases before resuming a normal speed for return to Japan. The oil and resources will be offloaded as the damaged CAs head for repair yards.

I am conducting a heavy night air raid on Akyab's airfield to keep the number of Hurricanes down. With the new version, my zero bonus against the AVG is gone, and I need numbers on my side, so hopefully my night air raid will claim a large number of his fighters at Akyab.

My subs are also chasing 5 or 6 allied TFs all over the map including a TF fill of damaged ships from PH - been unable to attack it yet.

More good news is that every capital ship in repair yards repair at least 1 point of damage this turn - several repaired 2... I have several BBs that have been repaired back into the usable range, but will remain in port as I have no use for them.. So I might as well keep repairing them until they are 100% or I have use.

My subs have spotted several allied TFs moving to and from Lunga so I have reassembled CV Group 1 (at Kwajelein) and sent it steaming for Lunga. It will be a couple days before it reaches the islands, and I hope it has success in hunting enemy shipping. If not, I will bomb the island flat.

Xargun

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1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 8:17:08 AM   
Xargun

 

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Status: offline 		Well the turn starts off with several IJA night air strikes. 46 Sallies struck at Akyab airfield. Reports indictae 5 Sallies were damaged. Reports also indicate that 3 Hurricanes were destroyed and 1 damaged on the ground. The Airbase took 1 hit, the supplies took 1 hit and the Runway took 6.

I also struck at Banjarmasin just in case any SBDs were around. 22 Nells and 15 Betties partook in the raid and suffered no losses. 2 airbase, 1 supply and 2 runway hits were scored with no enemy losses.

Rob conducted a night air raid on Kendari port. Only 8 british bombers were used - and they came in low (1000 ft) and managed to hit the CVL Ryujo with a single bomb. Ryujo is sitting in port awaiting fuel to leave - over 100k of fuel is enroute. Ryujo suffered moderate damage (17 sys) but no fires or flt (or they were fixed before the next turn).

A US ASW TF found an IJN sub and hit her with a depth charge. IJN SS I-171 suffered 9 sys and 28 flt and is ordered back to Wake for repairs.

In retaliation, IJN SS I-17 located and put 2 torps into an allied TK. The allied TK did not sink, but is far enough away from port that it should sink before reaching safety. Another IJN sub (I-20) located and struck the AV Wright with a single torp west of PH. It is not known if the AV will make PH or succumb to its damage.

An allied TK sank beneath the waves from previous damage as well - believe she was a victim of my aggressive subs.

Air and land combat in china reports 237 enemy troops and 1 guns lost. Reports also indicate 69 IJA men and 3 guns lost. In SE China my troops have forced two partial chinese units to retreat - this should disable the majority of the squads left and leave them with little to no supplies. Units are following to finish them off.

The damn 21st Chinese Corps is still holding on. Odds of 158:1 were achieved today, yet they refuse to surrender. 152 enemy men and 5 guns were reported destroyed. 194 Men, 5 guns and 2 tanks were reported lost by IJA troops.

My aircraft in Luzon struck at Clark Field, causing 15 men and 2 guns lost to the 91st PA Div. The arty strike on Clark caused a further

Fighters from Kendari struck at the 2 remaining PT boats at Koepang. Reports indicate PT TM-4 struck by 12 shells in the straffing runs.

My troops will land at Rabaul this turn - thus I am bombing the ground troops there in preparation for battle. I am landing more men at Gasmata this turn as well so I can capture the base before combat gets serious at Rabaul - so hopefully the troops there will just surrender instead of retreating into the jungle.

I am also capturing Dili (on Timor) this turn and am landing men at Jesselton (Borneo) as well. I have just picked up a single squad and will land them on Andaman Island in a couple turns to scout out the enemy troops there.

Troops from Manilla are moving north to Clark Field to help in the soon to be launched attacks - most importantly another ENG regiment is being sent - will give me two there - and these should help bring down the forts fairly fast.

I have halted nearly 100 Mitsubishi Engine factories - which still leaves me with roughly 200 surplus engines per month - my converted Nakajima factories are coming online as well.

I just had 2 DDs recieve the first AA upgrade (2/42 upgrade)... It caused 14 sys damage and they now have 135 AA - WOW !!! 3 of them now equal a CA in AA... This upgrade is quite impressive... The rest of the 2/42 upgradable DDs are enroute to Japan - escorting either damaged ships or resource/oil and will be upgraded ASAP...

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RE: 1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 12:13:39 PM   
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I just had 2 DDs recieve the first AA upgrade (2/42 upgrade)... It caused 14 sys damage and they now have 135 AA - WOW !!! 3 of them now equal a CA in AA... This upgrade is quite impressive... The rest of the 2/42 upgradable DDs are enroute to Japan - escorting either damaged ships or resource/oil and will be upgraded ASAP...


That would have been the Mutsukis, there are some even better upgrades ahead of you, e.g. the Kamikaze class (169, 4-42) and the Shiratsuyu class (186, 6-42).
But don't put to much faith on this, as they still do not compare to any allied shipborne AA, as you can see in my Link: little mishap.

btw: just seeing your production statistics, did you accellerate some ship building, e.g. the Yugumos (radar-equipped DDs), CVs, ARs, MLEs, Yamato...

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RE: 1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 10:53:05 PM   
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btw: just seeing your production statistics, did you accellerate some ship building, e.g. the Yugumos (radar-equipped DDs), CVs, ARs, MLEs, Yamato...


Yes I have been accelerating ship building since day 2 - first day you're allowed access to the screen. I have been accelerating 2-3 CV/CVLs constantly, as well as close CVEs. I have also accelerated the first couple DDs with radar and as many TKs as I can. I have not accelerate the Yamato - as the price tag is steep and I have no super need for it. I have converted 20+ AKs and am accelerating a good chunck of them (like 10 ARs) and the MLEs. Other than that I'm not really accelerating much else.

Xargun

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RE: 1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 10:54:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Xargun

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ORIGINAL: WhoCares

btw: just seeing your production statistics, did you accellerate some ship building, e.g. the Yugumos (radar-equipped DDs), CVs, ARs, MLEs, Yamato...


Yes I have been accelerating ship building since day 2 - first day you're allowed access to the screen. I have been accelerating 2-3 CV/CVLs constantly, as well as close CVEs. I have also accelerated the first couple DDs with radar and as many TKs as I can. I have not accelerate the Yamato - as the price tag is steep and I have no super need for it. I have converted 20+ AKs and am accelerating a good chunck of them (like 10 ARs) and the MLEs. Other than that I'm not really accelerating much else.

Xargun


Even with halting the Shinano (which i assumed you did) you still don't run out of naval shipyard points?

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RE: 1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 11:36:07 PM   
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Even with halting the Shinano (which i assumed you did) you still don't run out of naval shipyard points?


Yes, I halted the Shinano.. as for running out of naval shipyard points I don't keep that much track of it - I'm sure I'm running at 0 or so extra but so what... I think this turn I had 9 extra, but it will be gone next turn I'm sure - I usually run a slight surplus one turn and none the next - no point in trying to save naval shipyard points...

Xargun

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RE: 1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 11:44:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		then you are no doubt running short on shipyard points. I'm quite sure that some of your projects are lagging.

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2 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 11:52:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		The turn started off with several ASW attacks by both IJN and US warships - nothing was hit on either side though.

Rob continued with his nightly bombing of Yenen - this time catching a Nate on the ground and damaging it - along with a single runway hit.

My night raid on Akyab was met by 3 Blenheim night fighters which did nothing to help him. My 35 Sallies destroyed a Liberator and damaged 2 more on the ground, while collecting 2 airbase, 2 supply and 9 runway hits as well. A single Sally was damaged in the raid.

My troops finally arrived at Rabaul this turn.. The 4th Regiment unloaded during the night and day phase and took some minor enemy arty strikes - my return fire inflicted more losses than his did.. The 4th took decent losses during landing - 383 men, and 51 coastal guns fired at my fleet - no hits.

My MSWs discovered and worked on a mine field at Tarawa.

IJN sub I-172 located and attacked a US TF. The sub surfaced and raked the AK Admiral Gove with its MG, as well as planting 2 torps into her side. The ship did not sink, but I doubt very much she'll make port.

My bombers attacked Lanchow (finally) and ran into some P-40Es... Several Sallies were shot down and the rest continued onto the airfield, where they claimed 1 Blenheim IV destroyed and 1 damaged. They also claim 37 enemy men, along with 1 airbase, 1 supply and 8 runway hits.. In total 8 Sallies were destroyed (about 50/50 between fighters and flak). A costly raid, which won't be continued until fighter cover is available.

A small air raid struck at Palembang (8 zeros, 26 Nells and 30 Sallies) - 1 Sally was damaged during the raid. The bombers claim 2 supply and 8 runway hits.

Another raid hit Macassar airfield - 35 Nell and 26 Betties. No losses were reported, but 2 Beaufort V-IX and 1 Do-24K-2 were claimed destroyed along with 2 Beauforts claimed damaged. 1 Supply hit and 31 runway hits were also claimed.

I also struck at Bataan airfield this turn - the only logical place Rob could be basing his recon planes that keep scouting the area. 8 Vals and 33 Anns hit the field - 1 of each was damaged in the raid. They claimed 1 PBY destroyed and 1 damaged, as well as 5 airbase, 4 supply and 21 runway hits.

I also tried a trick and struck at Broome's port from Kendari. Two groups of Nells were assigned and 35 planes flew the mission - 5 Nells were damaged in the raid. They struck the port and hit the MSW Burnie with a single bomb, setting her on fire again. It seems Rob still has some ships in this port which is kinda odd since it is very much exposed.

Chinese bombers struck at the 1st Parachute Regiment - as they are still marching home to Hanoi after their failed attempted at Kunming. 86 men and a gun were reported hit.

Air and land combat in china claim 168 men and 5 guns. My men once more achieved high odds (156:1) against the 21st Chinese Corps - but they still refuse to surrender. Makes no sense. IJA units lost 419 men, 3 guns and 1 vehicle while inflicting only 35 men and 2 gun losses. What am I doing wrong ?

My air raids on Rabaul claimed 195 men, 1 vehicle and 3 guns at a cost of 7 damaged bombers.

Bombers attempted to hit a TF at Balikpapan but were intercepted by CAP. 1 Beaufort was shot down and another one damage with no IJN ships hit.

My sub commandos have captured Dili base on Timor and I need to decide if I really want to reinforce it and hold it, or simply fade back into the water.. Not sure what to do.

Rob has made an all out effort to bag my CVs at Kendari. He has at least 6 subs in the waters around the base (South and East only) looking to bag the ships.. Not sure if he knows it or not, but the 2 fleet CVs escaped this turn and will be speeding away towards Palau and out of his grasp - leaving the baby CVs there.. The baby CVs may be gearing up for another strike at Broome to finish off anything there and perhaps a hit at Koepang as well. But they are waiting for the fuel to arrive which seems to be roughly 4-5 days out - provided subs dont nail the TF.

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RE: 1 February 1942 - 1/4/2005 11:54:05 PM   
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then you are no doubt running short on shipyard points. I'm quite sure that some of your projects are lagging.


I'm sure some are, but I check every few days (for a couple days straight) and make sure the ones I'm worried about are progressing and they are. My second batch of converted ships are falling a little behind, but I'm not worried about them. In roughly 6 weeks I will have my first batch of converts on the water and can then accelerate the rest if I want... I have also halted a bunch of merchie builds - AKs and APs as I have plenty at this point and would rather spend the extra points on the converted ships I want - and CVEs.

Xargun

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3 February 1942 - 1/5/2005 2:21:28 AM   
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My Minesweepers have appeared to finish cleaning up the mines at Tarawa making it safe once more for my forward subs deployed from here. My ASW efforts are proving insufficient against the horde of allied subs around Kendari... but at least my fleet CVs have gotten away safely.

IJN sub I-23 located and attacked crippled ships fleeing PH. This sub - along with a couple others - have been chasing this TF from a few hexes East of PH and have finally caught it off the west coast. The sub attacked and put 2 torps into the CL St. Louis causing heavy damage. A few moments later the sub attacked again, this time putting a torp into the DD Jarvis. Both ships will probably make port at San Fran, but with a little luck they won't and maybe I'll even catch them again next turn to inflict some more damage.

IJN Sub I-15 located and put 2 fish into an allied TK most likely crippling her. It is doubted if she will make port.

My sub force is declining rapidly as I rotate subs back home to Japan for repairs. I currentlyhave 1 sub in Japan for repairs, but 6 or more on the way home.. Most of them have low damage - around 10 - but a few have 30+... I also have 3+ subs heading to port for reloads - this will lower my sub presence around PH for a week or so while these subs retire to Wake, reload and return to stations.

I bombed Akyab yet again at night. This time 5 Blenheims were aloft.. yet once again they did nothing... In the raid I lost 2 Sallies (4 damaged) and destroyed 2 Blenheim fighters and 2 Hurricanes on the ground. Another Blenheim and 3 Hurricanes were damaged. I also put 7 more hits on the runway. Its just a matter of time until Rob gets sick of this and hammers Rangoon with a major raid... I have 72 Oscars at Rangoon (4 groups) at 50% CAP during the day, so hopefully any raid will be chewed up. I am also moving AA units there as fast as I can - lighter guns have been flown in, heavy ones are enroute via rail.

I landed roughly 20 men on Andaman Island and they shock attacked the british force there. Unfortinately it seems Rob is intent on keeping this island, as he has the 44th Indian Brigade stationed there - roughly 3300 troops and 30 guns. Not sure if this is the whole Bde, but it could easily be. My men put up a little fight before they were wiped out. Once Sumatra falls, Andaman Island will fall as well.. Hopefully Rob will move in some engineers and build me an airfield before I get there.

I have also landed troops at Menado. I don't need the base, but it sits in the middle of my SLOC between Balikpapan / Kendari and Palau and seems to have a lot of aircraft there. I am shock attacking this turn with an NLF and a SNLF unit - should take it easily. Hopefully Rob will leave the aircraft there and I can wipe them out.

Sallies based in Hanoi bombed the city of Kunming today, causing 5 Manpower hits. Kinda odd, since I was aiming for HI. No losses were sustained. I am raiding the city again ths turn - aiming for HI again. Basically I'm bombing here to weaken his supply situation - I'm thinking he is burning supply to repair everything here.

I bombed Bataan Airfield again with only 1 damaged aircraft. My bombers inflicted 9 airbase hits, 4 supply and 38 runway hits. They also caught 4 men, 1 gun and 1 PBY on the ground.

In china my air raids and land combat inflicted 64 men and 1 guns lost on the chinese. I shock atatcked the 21st Chinese corps again and did good this time.. Only had 38:1 odds, but inflicted 84 men and 5 guns destroyed with no losses on my end. Maybe they are about to break ? I hope...

My CVs were fleeing Kendari and passed by Menado and were attacked by 16 Brewsters set for Naval attack.. My CAP shot down 10 of them and the rest missed.

I have a bunch of air units set to arrive in 9 days - 7 units. Also in 15 Days the Junyo will arrive - and the Unyo will arrive in 29 days [both are accelerated etas]. In 32 days I will have a nice load of ARs, as 10 are scheduled to arrive. The Yamato is still plugging away with 105 days til completion - so I should see here in mid May... Not sure when the Yamato historically arrived, but I should be close.

CV Group 1 will come within range of Lunga this turn as well. I have all bombers standing by for naval attacks and the accompanying CS has its search planes out. I have kept all planes but ASW Petes and fighter CAP grounded until I came within range so Rob wouldn't see me spotting anything and know I'm there. Hopefully I will catch a bunch of ships in and around Lunga. My subs have a TF spotted at Lunga - bunch of APs.. They've been there a couple turns, so they are probably empty except for supply, but I'll sink them if nothing else shows up.

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4 February 1942 - 1/5/2005 9:41:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		The turn started off with more men landing on Rabaul - mostly my secondary support troops - Base Force, CD guns, some AV troops, etc... The coastal guns decide this time to actually hit some ships, hitting 2 PGs with a few shots.

I also unloaded some more sub commandos at Gasmata to bolster the men there so I can actually attack and take the base next turn.

Rob continued with his nightly air attack on Yenen. This time his 3 Hudsons got 2 runway hits and claimed 2 Mary on the ground. I returned the favor hitting Akyab again. I lost 1 Sally and 3 damaged to flak, but claimed 1 Hurricane, 1 Catalina and another Liberator destroyed and another 3 planes damaged. I also claim 21 men, 3 airbase, 2 supply and 7 runway hits.

IJN Subs did a good job this turn... Starting with 3 torps into the AK Julia Luckenbach along the far right edge of the map. I have been trailing this TF from Diego for about a week now and this is my first attack.. It seems to consist of 1 AK and 3 DDs... I sunk the AK and was rejoyced at the 25 B-25C Mitchell Bombers listed as OPS loses in the air losses report Looks like I caught another US bomber group heading to Oz... Sub I-18 escaped with injury, despite the report of a depth charge hitting her. I will follow the TF 1 more turn to make sure there are no other merchies with it before heading for home. Rob seems to put a couple of merchies into a TF with 3-4 DD escorts and skirt the map when he is carrying air groups... Perhaps this will help me identify which TFs have a higher priority target ? South of PH another IJN sub put a torp into the AO Brazos, setting it on fire and causing heavy damage. It is unlikely she will make port.

I bombed Kunming again with my Sallies, this time reporting 2 Manpower hits... I cheated a bit and looked at the numbers in the City Attack screen and noticed that I have been damaging HI, not Manpower... Odd... Does it always list Manpower hits when you hit HI ? I have very little experience in city attacks... I also took no losses again on the raid.

A fighter sweep over Pagan consisting of 16 zeros found 2 Hurricanes and 5 P-40Bs on CAP. A little battle erupted in which I lost 1 zero and 1 Hurricane and 2 P-40Bs were shot down. Good fight.. 1:3 odds... I like those. A similar fighter sweep over Taung Gyi found no CAP

Air raids and land combat in china claim 84 men and 2 guns destroyed. The 21st Chinese Corps once more took losses without giving any back.. I have ordered all units there to conduct a Shock attack - hopefully this will force the unit to surrender.

A lucky Dutch air raid near Kendari nets a single hit on an ASW PG. The ship will limp back to port and should survive. My CAP did little to protect the TF.

CV Group 1 located an allied TF at Lunga and hammered it with 2 separate air raids. Almost all aircraft launched on both attacks and devastated the 6 APs spotted. Of the 6 APs, 4 have been sunk and the other two brutallized. CV Group 1 is moving a bit south and will keep its Kates on Naval Attack, while sending the Vals to hit Lunga Airfield. I'm sure Rob is building one.. time to slow it down some.

Near Saigon, an IJN ASW TF located and hammered an allied sub. 4 Depth Charges are claimed to have hit SS O23, sending it to the bottom.

On the ground my men attacked Clark Field. In a day long, bitter battle, me men were repulsed but inflicted greater losses upon the enemy then they suffered. They also reduced the fort to level 3. IJA losses: 1493 men, 33 guns and 3 vehicles. Allied losses: 2232 men, 76 guns and 1 vehicle. I have ordered a Shock Attack this turn and with a little luck (and help from all nearby bombers to cause disruption on enemy troops) I will drive the allies from Clark.

My men also captured Menado base. My losses were low: 91 men and 2 guns, while I captured over 2800 allied men. No my SLOC are clearn from Southern Borneo to Palau. Next step is the systematic capture of the rest of South/Eastern Borneo - in fact troops are at the Samarinda now and should capture it this turn. Next will be Tarakan and Amboina - which will protect my SLOCs and deny Rob any real air bases in the area.

My recon reports on Sian shows only around 6 enemy units there. I am guessing this counts 1-2 partial Corps, plus at least 1 base force / HQ unit. I have ordered my men from Homan to march along the rail to Sian and they should arrive in 2-4 days. Roughly 4 divisions are on the march and they should be enough to capture the base with its precious oil intact.

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5 February 1942 - 1/6/2005 8:53:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Like most of the last week or so, the turn started off with the nightly bombing of airfields in Burma. 3 Hudsons attacked Rangoon, claiming 2 runway and 11 IJA troops hit. 38 Sallies from Rangoon said hello to Akyab (again). 3 Blenheims were aloft, but did nothing. 1 Sally was damaged in the raid which destroyed 2 Blenheims, 6 Hurricanes and 2 Hudsons on the ground, as well as damaging another 3 Hurricanes. The bombers also scored 1 airbase, 1 supply and 21 runway hits.

Rob must be sick and tired of my nightly air raids on Akyab as he hit Rangoon airfield in force during the day phase. The first raid was small - only 3 Martins and 6 Hudson.. They didn't hit anything and 1 Hudson was shot down, along with another damaged and 1 Martin damaged. The next raid was 9 B-17s and 15 LB-30 Liberators. My CAP (25 Oscars) engaged. 1 Oscar was shot down, but no enemy planes were shot down, although roughly 10 were damaged. The bombers missed my planes, but put 4 hits on the runway and caught 100+ men and 2 guns in their blast radius. These bombers came all the way from Dacca.

52 Bombers from Bangkok appeared in the skies over Andaman Island and proceeded to bomb the airfield there. No planes were lost, and 1 supply and 2 runway hits were claimed. A single Hawk 75A was flying CAP and it did nothing.

Air and arty strikes in china claim 77 enemy troops and 0 guns.

My air strikes on Clark were good.. 137 enemy troops and 4 guns were damaged in the raids which cost me 2 Anns, 1 Val and 4 planes damaged. The air strikes were followed up by another Shock Attack which inflicted 1181 men and 41 guns destroyed on the allied troops. IJA troops suffered 1863 men, 45 guns and 3 vehicles lost. But all forts have been reduced at Clark.. The next attack may capture the base

My Sallies at Kuching bombed the 107 RN Base Force inflicting 69 losses a few moments before half a brigade attacked, driving them south into the northernmost base on the West coast of Borneo. The Brigade is heading south to capture these bases.

Robs dutch aircraft from Amboina (I think) got lucky and dropped a bomb on an ASW MSW east of Kendari. The ship took massive damage but will make port.

Rob's ASW finally caught up with my subs, hitting I-159 with a single depth charge. The sub has massive flt damage (68) and is heading for port - it is unknown if she will make it.

Rob's subs finally scored after what must be a 2 week lull.. SS Searaven struck an IJN MSW with 2 torps sinking it.

Two Naval Guard units arrived at Samarinda last turn and captured it this turn easily. Allied forces were forced to retreat north heading for Tarakan.

Rabaul still holds out after an unsuccessful Shock Attack. IJA troops took massive losses while inflicting around a dozen losses on the enemy.

I have also captured Sandakan on the east coast of Borneo and troops took Gasmata on the Bismark Arch...

CV Group 1 is heading south at full speed to clear out the seas around Noumea. Rob has to have ships in the area - evident by his landing troops on Lunga already. If nothing is found, CV Group 1 will refuel and head East looking for incoming TFs from the States.

At Saigon and Camrahn Bay troops and supplies are being loaded onto TFs for the upcoming invasions of Miri and Brunei. Enemy air power is non-existant in Borneo, so its a good time to grab these oil rich bases and begin shipping oil home.

Troops at Singapore have been standing down for the past couple days and are resting while awaiting the arrival of the 4th Eng regiment, which is currently at Johore Bharu. The Regiment should arrive next turn and then the final drive on Singapore will begin..

Air assets at Johore Bharu are warming up for the Singapore campaign by bombing Bankha (sp ?) base in Sumatra. Rob has some scout planes stationed there so I'm gonna attempt to hit them on the ground.. The entire wing stationed there is involved in the raid - 2 groups of Lillies, 2 of Sonia and 1 of Anns.

In china, my men approach Sian and I begin to amass air power in Nanning for the push northward. I believe Rob has been too worried about me taking Lanchow, that he has moved a lot of men to the north and now its time to see just how many men. Rob has roughly 4 Corps (all in partial units) all over the lands north of Hanoi and Nanning and I will soon begin rolling up on those units and pushing them north. BUT, I need to wipe out the 21st Chinese Corps first - and they are still holding on, despite 200+:1 odds this turn. ARGH !!! They are really upsetting me and slowing up my time table...

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6 February 1942 - 1/6/2005 11:14:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Once more the turn starts off with nightly air raids... Once more Rob's Hudson raid on Yenen is useless - nothing is hit. My raid on Akyad proved much more effective.. 1 Sally was destroyed and 2 damaged, but they claimed 1 Blenheim, 1 Martin, 1 Catalina and 1 Liberator destroyed and another one of each damaged. The Sallies also hit the airbase 3 times and the runway 11 times and caught 22 men lounging around.

Rob also tried another daylight raid on Rangoon with 3 Martins and 5 Hudsons. One of each were shot down and another one of each damaged. I suffered 1 damaged fighter - no losses. These bombers are coming in at 25000+ feet and can't hit crap from that high... I've concentrated my CAP at 5000 feet to catch his low level raiders which have been doing all the damage.

My air raid on Bankha (Sumatra) was a success as well. 4 Bombers were damaged from flak, but they claimed 3 Lockheed 212s (What the heck is this plane ? A transport ?), 1 Wirraway and 1 F.K. 51 destroyed with another one each damaged. They also placed 11 hits on the airbase, 8 on supply and 54 runway hits. That should close down that airfield for a couple days. All planes are standing down for a turn for the upcoming campaign to captured Singapore - which will be hell on my aircraft...

Rob bombed my troops at Sian inflicting 11 men and 1 gun losses. My men shot down 1 Blenheim and damaged another. He also bombed the retreating elements of the 1st parachute regiment - they still haven't reach safety yet. The losses were heavy on this unit - 171 men and 2 guns.

In china, my aircraft and arty strikes claim 118 allied troops. The 21st Corps is still holding out and I've decided to stop attacking it and will simply use arty and aircraft to bomb them into the stone age.

At Clark my aircraft hit 115 men and 2 guns and inflicted some nice disruption for the upcoming bayonet charge. As the smoke was just clearing from the air raid, over 130000 IJA troops rushed the defenders. In a short battle, 1177 IJA men and 35 guns were lost, but they inflicted greater losses on the enemy and captured Clark Field. The retreating allied troops left 1519 men, 48 guns and 2 vehicles on the field as they retreated to Bataan. Now all of Luzon is mine except for Bataan. I'm planning on waiting a week or more before moving on Bataan, just to give my guys some rest (and replace losses) as well as force Rob's men to consume supplies. I will move my aircraft to Clark and begin bombing Bataan daily starting next turn.

My division at Sian performed an arty strike doing no damage.. But the intel gained shows 3 full Corps and 1 partial defending the city - not enough as the rest of my units moved in this turn. I am conducting an attack and should have the city in a couple days.

The attack at Rabaul was a dismal failure... again.. Why is Rabaul always so hard to capture ? I've had easier times (with less men) at other bases... but Rabaul is always a pain for me. I have ordered the troops there to stand down and perform arty strikes as I gather a second wave from Truk. It will be 4-5 days before they land.

Rob performed a Shock attack at a northern base - Tabun-Nur. He has a partial corps there against 2 parts of a Mog Cav Div. The cavalry held on and inflicted nearly 250 losses (while sustaining none) on the attacking troops.. The Chinese Corps then decided to retreat (odd ?) and they retreated towards Russia .... I have a feeling his unit has been pulling supplies from russia (which they are not supposed to do) and now has escaped the trap I have been working on for almost 3 weeks (units move slow in these parts). Now there is no way I can catch the unit and surround it again and will have to leave men here to garrison the area to make sure the chinese unit doesn't reappear sometime later and take the base or cause other trouble...

CV Group 1 has not spotted any targets and will patrol the area looking for something to drop bombs on.

My fuel TF (carrying over 100k of fuel) is 1 day from Kendari. Unfortunately it must pass through a hex containing at least 1 allied sub. I have something like 10 ASW escorts with it and will hope they don't spot them (passing through the hex at night too). Then next turn I can fuel up all my ships at Kendari and get them out of there. I have spotted at least 6 different subs around Kendari and there are probably more - my ASW TFS have attacked a couple times, but have yet to hit anything. I have even converted some Nells to ASW search to help.

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Scoring update - 1/6/2005 11:22:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well its Feb 6th, 1942 and we've been at war for nearly 2 months and here is a score update.

Japan: 9869
Allies: 5585

Army points lost:
Allies: 3694
IJA: 71

Ships lost:
Allies: 171 ships for 2339 points
IJN: 25 ships for 221 points

Aircraft losses:

Method Allies Japan
Air to Air 413 153
Dest. on Gnd 396 18
Flak 58 280
Ops 235 224

So far I am still doing very well in the air war and continue to catch Rob's planes on the ground. I am also outperforming him almost 3:1 in fighter combat.. I am sure this will change as the year goes on and more advanced allied fighters come into play... Not too worried about the US fighters as they seem so far away at this point.. More worried about the british spitfires - when do they show up ? Nothing else (besides the AVG and damn B-17s) can give my fighters a fight... and I'm not even using Zeros up here yet... just Oscars..

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7 February 1942 - 1/7/2005 5:34:57 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well... A glorious day for IJN Submarines... but I get ahead of myself...

As usual a trio of Hudsons appeared over Yenen as soon as it grew dark, lobbing their bombs all over the place except where Rob wanted them... Once more the bombers score no hits.. I think Rob has kinda forgotten about Yene in his concern over Sian and Akyab.

My Sallies hit Akyab again, but failed to catch any planes on the ground. Has he moved them ? Or did I just miss ? 1 Sally was shot down and 3 more damaged. They claimed 18 enemy troops, 1 airbase, 1 supply and 10 runway hits.

Then the sub onslaught began...

I-172 located an allied TK and attacked, putting 2 torps into an AK, sinking her. A moment later I-15 put a torp into an TK. The I-15 put 2 more torps into the same TK and yet she didn't sink - my guess is 1 or 2 of those hits are FOW... I-3 joined the fun putting a torp into another TK [All night attacks].

My Sally raid on Kunming claimed a single Manpower hit - will I ever hit anything but manpower ?

Air raid on Amboina inflicted 1 airbase, 1 supply and 5 runway hits.. No planes nor men were caught and 3 Nells were damaged.

Rob's bombers hit my troops at Sian again. This time I had 4 zeros flying CAP and they shot down 3 P-40Es. My men on the ground damaged 3 bombers while suffering very minor losses (7 men and 2 guns). A moment later another raid came in. My CAP intercepted and had a shoot out with the escorting Warhawks. 3 P-40Es and 3 zeros were shot down, along with a single Blenheim. This raid was a bit more effective, causing 49 men, 5 guns and 1 vehicle losses.. but it wasn't enough.

Air raids in china claim 100 chinese losses.

My subs were active again during the daylight. I-8 caught and put 2 torps into an AK near Gili Gili, sinking her. The sub then evaded the 3 DD escorts. I-6 put a torp into an AO damaging her.

At Sian my 114000 men attacked the 28000 defenders. In a quick battle my men overran the chinese defenders and they retreated NW. 734 japanese men and 22 guns were disabled. The chinese left behind 895 men and 13 guns in their haste to run away. More important than the base, I also wiped out 2 air groups there - 1 consisting of 20 P-40Es and another of 7 I-153c's. Unfortately the base is wasted. I'm guessing ROb had a lot of engineers there as everything is completely damaged except Manpower. Now I have to decide whether or not to spend supply repairing the HI, resources and oil or just leave it...

My arty strike on Singapore inflicted 72 losses on the brits. And my arty strikes at Rabaul claimed 17 men and a gun.

It seems that Rob is trying to reinforce Gili Gili as well as Lunga (which he already has). I do not have enough ground forces in the area to oppose this yet, but will try to use sea and naval power to stop this.

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8 February 1942 - 1/8/2005 2:06:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		As usual night bombings start the turn off.. This time its 5 Hudson over Yenen and they actually claim 1 hit on my airbase... Nothing important - its fixed before I even really know its damage. My strike on Akyab reports 3 Sallies damaged and 1 Liberator destroyed on the ground - he must have moved his planes out as I'm not getting many hits anymore. The Sallies also claim 1 airbase, 2 supply and 5 runway hits.

Next combat is my ASW sinking a dutch sub off of Northern Borneo... Finally. 10 DDs land 4 depth charges on K-16, sinking her.

Rob tried a little naval bombardment at Rabaul to beat up my troops... What he failed to noticed during the combat replays is a nice little CD unit mixed in with the troops there. Rob landed no hits on my men at all, and my CD beat up on his 3 DDs.. 1 DD sank outright after the failed bombardment and the other 2 limped south of Rabaul.. Maybe with some luck they will fall victim to bombers from Turk or my subs I just moved into the area.

I-170 located some PH cripples and put a torp into the CA New Orleans. The ASW response was luckily avoided, although a few depth charges came close...

My Sallies bombing Kunming claim 8 resource hits as well as shooting down a chinese fighter 2 Sallies were damaged in the raid.

My fighter sweeps over Koepang and Macassar turned up nothing. Looks like Rob has pulled most of his air assets out of the DEI for fear of losing it to invasion...

A small air raid on Bataan claims 2 airbase and 10 runway hits. Actually they were trying for supply hits to whittle down what little supply he has left, but if he repairs the damage that will help too. I plan on bombing Bataan every day as long as weather and morale hold out.

Rob bombed my men at Sian, catching 59 men and a gun in the open. 1 Nate was shot down as well as a Blenheim - 2 more bombers were damaged.

The highpoint of the turn came when CV Group 1 located an allied TF docking with Gili Gili and hammered it.... 15 zeroes escorted 46 Vals and 47 Kates on a nice raid. 6 allied AKs were hit with a combination of bombs and torps. Nothing was sunk in this raid. A few moments later another raid came in with no escort (22 Vals and 40 Kates). These planes finished off several allied ships including 3 AKs and a DD escort. Intel reports 2 DDs and 5 AKs still afloat - all damaged. I shall finsih them off tomorrow or the next day... CV Group 1 also spotted a long AP heading for Gili Gili to the north and sent 14 zero and 21 Vals after it.. They sunk it after only 6 bomb hits. I'm assuming it was carrying men to Gili Gili - or otherwise it would not have been sailing where it was... Possible evac from Rabaul or Lunga ? Or something else.. not sure.

Of offshoot of my CD guns success at Rabaul is that the fleeing DDs ran right into my ML TF moving in to the south of Rabaul to mine the narrows there to prevent just such a thing. Unfortunately the fleeing DDs said hi, hammering 2 MLs... The combat was brief and nothing was sunk, but 2 of my MLs need to make it back to Truk before sinking.. The one should make it the other I'm not sure about

A sub SW of Truk got off a lucky shot and hit an AP carrying the relief force heading for Truk The AP is not hit too bad, and it will divert to Admiralty Islands to drop off its load of men.

A Brigade and Division said hi to 2 partial chinese units west of Yenen, sending them running for cover back to the west. Probably some sort of recon in force of Robs.

My attack on Singapore went ok I think. I reduced the forts to 6, but lost over 4100 men. The defenders lost 1200 men. I am considering this a good attack despite the heavy losses as I am going up against a high fort level and decent experience troops, but I outnumber them 110000 to 58000 and should be able to take the base. The men are resting this turn to recoup some disruption they suffered...

Rob tried an attack at Wenchow, where he has a partial chinese unit against my NLF. The NLF luckily has level 3 forts and repulsed his attack without loss. The chinese suffered 89 men lost. His unit is much bigger than mine, but his lack of supply and fatigue/disruption from moving through the jungle can't be good.

Sub commandos have landed and captured Aru Island north of Oz. I plan on taking all 3 of these islands over the next week or so simply to deny them to Rob.. My troops also captured Jesselton on the northern coast of Borneo.

Invasion TFs heading for Miri and Brunei are 2 days out and will hit both bases at the same time to minimize damaged to the precious oil. I have TFs of engineerings, AV support and supplies right behind them as well as 10 TKs moving in to pick up oil.. There has to be 100k oil sitting in those 2 bases by now.... I am also counting on the free fuel there as well, as Saigon is a little low on fuel due to supporting dozens of TFs back and forth to Malaya and Borneo ferrying men and supplies.

I have pulled my 3 Sentais of Sallies off the line at Rangoon and moved them back to Bangkok for a couple days R&R. The units don't NEED the R&R (still have good morale), but they are slowly gaining more and more damaged planes and figured I might as well give them somewhere safe to relax. In there place I have flow 2 Sentai and 1 Chutai of Nells / Betties. The 3 units will rest this turn and then perform a long range raid on some ports in India. I am thinking of Diamond Harbor - looks nice and safe And from Rangoon its well within torpedo range too.

CV Group 1 is heading SW a bit to see what I can find floating around the waters between Oz and PM - hopefully I can pick off some more merchies carrying supplies or better yet men to PM or Gili Gili.

Also, in 4 days I have a ton of new units arriving: 4 Special BFs, 1 BF, 1 Construction BN, 2 Chinese Divs, 2 SNLFs and 5 Naval Guard units. Most of these will be sent south to Truk to begin the capture of the Solomons and PNG. I need to land at Lae and perhaps Gili Gili with force and hold them.. Perhaps I will try Lunga too... Not sure what he has there... Or even perhaps Noumea - depending on what he has moved where... Oh well some ideas for thought.

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9 February 1942 - 1/9/2005 10:18:18 AM   
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Status: offline 		As usual the turn starts off with nightly air raids in Burma / China. Rob sends 4 Hudson against Yenen and they actually hit 2 Nates on the ground destroying them - no real loss. I have hundreds of these to spare - and I didn't lose pilots which are more important to me.

An IJN Sub I-18 found another AK with the 3 DDs creeping along the far east edge of the map and put a torp into her.

I also sent a fighter sweep into Lashio and they found some Buffalos to play with. 27 Zeros against 7 Buffalos... not a fair fight, but oh well... My zeros shot down 6 Buffalos without any losses

I sent another air raid against Bankha (Sumatra) and caught a FK 51 on the ground. They also claimed 2 airbase, 3 supply adn 21 runway hits at the cost of 1 Lilly lost and 1 damaged.

My air strikes on Bataan continue with 1 plane being damaged and targetting the port. I got 4 port hits, 3 fuel and 5 supply hits. Those should hurt his supply a bit - especially since he can't have too much supply there.

Rob raided Sian again with Blenheims and some P-40s. My Nates did nothing but my flak claimed 1 Blenheim destroyed and 3 more damaged. The bombing raid wasn't too great, only 45 men and 1 gun hit.

In china my air raids claim 164 chinese troops.

My Air raid on Singapore proved distastrous. I lost 7 Sonia and another 9 damaged - and they hit nothing. Dive Bombers just get eaten up by flak here, I will have to use my level bombers...

My troops captured Tomini base (northern half of Suluwesi I think). No losses were incurred due to the base being unoccupied.

Arty fire at Rabual claims 17 allies and 0 japanese troops. I will simply be bombarding until fresh troops arrive in 3-4 days.

This turn was rather slow all around - just the way Rob likes them

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10 February 1942 - 1/9/2005 10:38:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		The turn starts off with an allied sub attack on my transports heading for Brunei. Dutch sub K-14 hit an AP with 2 torps, but failed to evade my depth charges, taking two hits. 40 IJA troops were killed or wounded in the attack and we're not sure if the AP will make Brunei to unload its troops or not. Even after the turn it has 94 flt, so maybe it will make the 1 hex to the target and offload during the night phase before it sinks - at least I hope so.

Then Rob's nightly air raid at Yenen - this time by 6 Hudsons but they hit nothing.

My air raids in china claim 66 chinese troops and 2 guns.

Roughly 40 Lillies bombed Singapore from 10K feet taking minor damage (2 planes damaged) but nothing was hit.. I think I will keep around this altitude to save pilots and planes.

Another fighter sweep this time at Mandalay runs into 5 Buffalos and 6 Hurricanes. IN a brief battle, 1 zero is downed along with 5 buffalo and 1 hurricane.

IJN Sub I-6 put two torps into another allied Tanker - but it didn't sink A moment later I-25 puts two torps into BB Oklahoma a few hexes east of PH Unfortunately, escorts landed 3 depth charges on her, sinking her

My troops unloaded at Miri and should be capturing the base this turn. Troops should be landing at Brunei next turn.

My reinforcements for Rabaul are 2 days away, but ROb has a sub sitting there guarding the port. I have ASW escorts with the TF and they will have to brave the sub as I don't have time to wait for a dedicated ASW TF to be formed and sent. I want Rabaul so I can bomb the hell out of Port Moresby. I have the bombers all ready at Truk and they are itching to go...

My port raid on Diamond Harbor did not launch for some reason - possibly fighters, so I have assigned a chutai of zeros to escort them. Hopefully the raid will launch and damage a few ships - just to give Rob something else to think about. I am planning a raid on Ceylon in a few days after the Diamond Harbor raid.

One of my MLs damaged by those retreating DDs sunk this turn. An allied AK sunk this turn too - hit it last turn with torps. Also an allied TK sank this turn too - damaged a few turns ago by torps.

I have most of the fuel unloaded at Kendari and the ships are refuelling and getting out of the sub trap - I am leaving ASW assets behind to try to bag some subs, but the bulk of the warships (and baby CVs) will be moving out next turn. Not sure where to employ them yet, but I'll find somewhere. Perhaps Malaya ?

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11 February 1942 - 1/10/2005 7:01:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Night started with I-170 putting a torpedo into the CA New Orleans sinking her Yeah !!! Then came an air raid on Sian by 4 Hudson - hitting nothing.

My BB (Mutsu) and a CL (Katori) ran into two damaged allied DDs near Vella Lavella. After a quick round of combat in which the BB missed, the Katori landed a single shell on a DD and then they fled into the night and escaped. Damn, would have been nice to bag them both.

My ASW efforts near Kendari hit the dutch sub K-9 with a single depth charge - hopefully it will be enough to send them packing for some repairs.

My damaged AP heading for Brunei sunk before unloading troops - but some of the men were rescued by the ships of the TF - but still I lost a lot of men - 1/3 of the SNLF invading Brunei.

My troops finally unloaded at Brunei and will be attacking next turn against the light defenders. If I remember correctly there is only a base force defending Brunei.

In a sader note, I-6 was hit by two enemy depth charges and sunk while trying to escape from enemy ASW DDs.

My air raid on Kungchang ran into some P-40s flying CAP. 5 Sallies were destroyed in total, along with 1 P-40 [reports claim]. The bombing raid did very little damage to the airfield there and wasn't worth the losses.

Rob raided Rangoon again (from Dacca I think) with 10 B-17s and 16 LB-30 Liberators - 24 Oscars intercepted them. 2 Oscars were shot down by defensive fire as well as 4 Liberators. Another 7 Liberators were damaged along with 1 B-17. They managed to claim 2 manpower hits and I forgot to check the actual damage. I will check this next turn though.

My air raid against Diamond Harbor finally flew - guess they wanted those zero escorts, although they ran into no CAP. 4 Nells and 1 Betty were destroyed along with 7 and 5 planes damaged respectively. They didn't do a great job (nothing sunk), but they should have caused some havoc in the port. They hit 2 APs and 6 AKs with bombs only - all torps missed. They also claimed a couple men, a gun and 3 hits on the port facilities. Kinda funny though, combat report shows them all launching torps and no bombs ... Hmmm.

Another raid on Bankha costs me 1 Ann and claims 2 supply and 22 runway hits.

Just incase I raided Macassar airfield as well. No losses - 1 plane damaged in the raid. My bombers claimed 5 men, 1 airbase, 1 supplyand 17 runway hits.

Air raids in china claim 165 men and 1 gun.

My troops from last turn captured Miri base.

Not much else happened last turn. I got a ton of units for this turn: 2 chinese divisions which were fully filled out. 4 Special Base Forces which arrived fully filled out and 1 SNLF which arrive fully filled out. The rest arrived in their normal 25% status. My Manpower pool, which was over 135,000 is now at 77,000 due to the newly arriving units. Not worried, the newly filled units will be quickly used - especially the base forces and the 2 chinese divisions - they have already been sent to the front.

My baby CVs and all warships not assigned to ASW duties were refueled and ordered to leave Kendari this turn. They are heading west to avoid the clump of enemy subs along the eastern approaches. Not sure if anyone knows this, but you can sail through the islands directly west of Kendari - if you select that hex as your destination... otherwise it will try to move you around them.

Also, an allied AO and 2 TKs sank this turn from previous damage. Just more kills for my subs which are doing a wonderful job so far this game against his merchies...

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12 February 1942 - 1/10/2005 11:56:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		A slow turn - which is only good for Rob.

An ASW TF returns to Nagasaki and locates a mine field. The MSWs start clearing it automatically - nothing is hit.

Surprisingly there are no night raids by anyone - I believe weather prevented Rob from hitting Sian.

A fighter sweep over Lashio finds 5 Buffalos. In the fight, 1 zero and 1 buffalo are shot down - not a good showing, but then only 8 zeros were sent.

Air raids on chinese units claim 101 men.

My Lillies bombed Singapore again from 10k feet, this time hitting some men and claiming 17 men and 1 gun. My troops fired a couple hundred arty shells into Singapore, claiming 25 allied men hit.

Bataan recieves more bombs, costing them 158 men and 1 gun. I have also ordered a couple divisions and arty to Bataan to begin shelling them as well for preparation of the last battle on Luzon.

IJN sub I-153 put a torp into an allied AK south of Timor. I believe it is heading to Koepang to help the build up there. I have several subs now stationed south of Timor to inderdict shipping from Oz to the island.

My men were repulsed at Brunei, but the fort was lowered. I have ordered a Shock attack and should capture the base next turn. Miri is damaged pretty good for having suffered no air raids and having no friendly troops there during the invasion. Roughly a third of its oil production is damaged - not sure how, but it is... I am loading up supplies at Saigon and sending them there for repairs. The oil at Miri and Brunei is fairly safe from any allied attacks for most of the war, so its worth it to repair this supply.

My sub commandos capture Tenimbar Island, bringing the total to 2 of the little islands north of Darwin that I now control. The troops are loading back up on their subs and heading for the third island. Hopefully they will not be disabled when unloading and will be able to capture the island before returning to Kendari for some R&R.

An IJN PC in port at Palau sunk this turn from previous damage. Not happy about it, as PCs are my backup ASW assets and I will need all I can get in 43...

Troop ships at Tokyo are loading up men and supplies for destinations elsewhere. Base Forces are loading up first, then combat units for dispersion to the South Pacific where they are needed.

CV Group 1 is rendevousing with an replenishment TF southeast of the PNG and once refueled will head to Noumea to bomb the base there. CV Group 3 is heading SE towards Pago Pago and such to see if I can find some allied merchie TFs and the missing 2 allied CVs.. I have a hunch Rob is using the 2 CVs as convoy escorts for his first real run of convoys to Oz. Maybe I can get a CV battle out of him Once this tour is done, CV Group 3 will retire to Japan for repairs. Nothing is hurt bad, but the CVs have 6-10 sys damage from wear and tear and need some yard time...

CV Group 2 (in Japan) is nearly fully repaired. Only 1 CV has any damage left (4 sys) and 1 BB (1 sys). They will most likely head west once repaired to support operations in the Burma - once the Straights of Malacaa is cleared - which I believe Rob may be mining ? Or at least he is mining the bases in Sumatra (Medan, Bankha) as I have spotted several allied subs in the straights, but they never leave the southern end - so they are mining something, just not sure what. I will send MSWs ahead of any ships passing through the straights just in case.

My Sallies are back on the line at Rangoon after several days of R&R. They will commence nightly bombing of Akyab airfield once more. If nothing is there, they will be directed against the other airfields within range - Manadaly, Pagan, etc... My LR bombers are back at Bangkok where they will rest before their bombing raids on more British / Indian bases. I want to raid Ceylon, but the range is to great for torps and for fighter escorts. So that may wait until CV Group 2 passes through the straights.

An allied AO sunk this turn from previous damage as well. Nice to know my subs can kill merchies effiecently.

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13 February 1942 - 1/11/2005 3:46:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Another day and damn did nothing happen - ok somethings did, but nothing much of any importance.

I offloaded most of the reinforcements at Rabaul (minus the 1 AP which made an emergency stop at Admiralty Island to drop off its troops). Some coastal guns fired on the TF but nothing was hit. In the 2 phases, the entire load of troops was offloaded along with most of the supplies. Another day will see the rest offloaded and the TF heading home for Truk.

I bombed Akyab during the night. Of 3 groups (over 80 bombers) only 33 Sallies took part in the raid - 2 Sallies were shot down (2 more lost to ops) and 2 damaged. They scored 1 airbase and 8 runway hits and claim 1 Catalina destroyed.

Since nothing much was found at Akyab, the Sallies have been directed at Pagan airfield and will bomb there for a few nights - providing there is something there to hit. If not, we will move on to another airfield.

Rob bombed Rangoon again from his secure base at Dacca. 9 B-17s and 12 Liberators showed up to contend with the 24 Oscars I had in the air. No enemy planes were shot down (came in at 30k+ feet), but 4 B-17s and 2 Liberators were damaged. Luckily being so high, they hit nothing.

My baby CV TF sailed past Macassar and hammered the air strip just to be safe. 1 Kate was damaged. They claimed 1 Beaufort destroyed, 18 men, 1 gun along with 5 airbase, 1 supply and 21 runway hits.

The chinese air force showed up again today - this time over the heated battle against the 21st Chinese Corps. 9 fighters and 46 bombers hit my men there claiming 161 men and 2 guns damaged. 1 bomber was damaged from AA fire.

My own bombing of the 21st Corps was weak, claiming only 37 men disabled.

My Shock attack at Brunei was repulse Losses were equal on both sides and the last fort was destroyed. Hopefully this turn's Shock Attack will take the place - and hopefully it won't be completely destroyed... I need that oil.

Air and arty attacks on Singapore claim 47 men.

My Shock attack at Rabaul was repulsed with heavy losses - depsite reinforcements. Over 400 men were wounded or killed to only 14 enemy losses. I have ordered the units to conduct arty strikes for the next couple turns to rest, then will try again. The fort level 3 is killing me. I will try to find some engineers (if any are close by) and bring them in to help with that.

Not much else happened, except for an allied AK sinking near PM. I believe it was one that I damaged on the Gili Gili raid.

CV Group 1 refueled at Nauru Island (met by a replenishment TF) and is now heading south at full speed since my subs south of Java have spotted 2 allied TFs full of APs.. They are probably not APs but AKs full of supply, but either way they are worth killing, since they are only 2 weeks from OZ and I'm trying to starve OZ as much as possible so I can invade northern and western Oz in 6 months or so.

CV group 3 failed to rendevous with its replenishment TF (ended up 1 hex apart) so they are rescheduled to meet a few hexes SE of their current position - might as well move closer to their destination before refueling.

I hope to catch his merchie TFs heading for OZ between my two CV groups - maybe even his CVs if they are there.. With 2 CV TFs he may decide to let the merchies all sink and save his CVs (if they are even there).

Back home repairs are coming along great on my CV and BBs, as well as the first several upgraded DDs are all repaired now. As soon as the Soryu is finished repairing (4 sys left I think) they will regroup and head west.

A new sub arrived last turn - with a scout plane. I have dispatched this sub to the north pacific, between the Kurils and Marcus Island to perform perimeter searches just incase Rob gets ballzy and tries to raid Japan. I have been worried about this since turn 2 as its a very real possibility - especially if you pull a lot of air assets out of japan for use elsewhere. I still have tons of air units in Japan, but am beginning to pull them out, so I want the extra security of possibly spotting any attack a couple turns away so I can react.

In 5 days the Junyo arrives This will give me lots of CVs at Japan, and I can then relieve the CVs in the South Pacific so they can return home for some R&R.

I have tons of units in Tokyo, as well as in china and Burma recieving replacements, and my Manpower is still slowly increasing, which is good. My HI is also increasing by a couple hundred points each turn. I could activate some more Mitsu engine factories but would rather save the HI for later in the game.

My first TF of oil will dock at Kagashima next turn - 16K oil along with 21K resources will be quickly offloaded and my damaged ships sent to repair yards. This TF has come all the way from Balikpapin...

That is about it for now... I am thinking of a CV raid on Ceylon in the future, as well as landings in norther OZ to disrupt his industries and any plans he might have. I have a feeling northern Oz is weakly defended and will be for some time. What do you guys think ?

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14 February 1942 - 1/11/2005 9:22:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		The night started with 38 Sallies bombing Pagan airfield. They must have been drunk or something, as they only scored 1 Runway hit. They should have done better, so I'm guessing it was weather related.

Several ASW and sub attacks go off for both sides, but nothing is hit.

Rob bombs my troops moving north from Sian. 18 Hudson Is, 12 Blenheim Is, 35 Blenheim IVs and 13 P-40Es attack and hit 110 men and 6 guns. I have very little CAP over them (I forgot to station some) but some from Sian gave them a little help. In the battles 5 of my 6 Nates were shot down by the P-40s. 4 Blenheim IVs are damaged.

A B-17 raid came in against my troops assaulting Rabaul. 22 B-17s from PM attacked from 5000 feet scoring some good hits against my CD unit. 104 men and 3 guns are reported damaged. 1 Catalina was destroyed (accompanied raid) and 3 B-17s were damaged.

The Chinese Air Force showed up again over the battle against the 21st Chinese Corp. 9 fighters and 43 bombers littered the area with bombs claiming 60 japanese and 4 guns. A single chinese bomber was damaged.

A moment later my air force showed up over the same hex attacking chinese troops. The raid inflicted 47 enemy casualties.

My bombers at Balikpapin bombed troops fleeing Samarinda again. They claim 138 allied men and 1 gun disabled with no losses of their own.

My air raid struck Rabaul with 89 Bombers (Nells and Betties) flying from Truk and escorted by 18 zeros. They hit the Base Force on Rabaul causing 182 men, 2 guns and 2 vehicles in casualties. 1 Nell was lost, and 3 other planes damaged.

Air raids on other chinese troops inflict 81 troops in casualties.

A lucky bombing raid of Dutch Torpedo Bombers from Koepang lands a bomb on an IJN ASW DD. The ship is heavily damaged but will make port easily and will be repaired.

My Shock Attack at Brunei captured the base, driving the allies NE into the jungle. The base is damaged with 1 manpower and 29 oil damaged. Supplies are already on the way to repair these. Also, 10 TKs (size 9k) are already docked and loading the oil Rob left for me. Over 100k worth of oil is sitting in Brunei waiting for shipment back to Japan.

My sub commandos have captured Kai Island, completing the conquest of all 3 small islands North of Oz. The troops are now on their way back to Kendari for some R&R.

Rob landed a couple hundred men on Baker Island retaking it. I didn't spot any ships approaching so he either used subs or a fast transport TF. Either way it doesn't matter as troops loaded up at Kwajelein and are heading to take the island back, supported by a surface TF.

CV Group 3 has to head back to Truk or Admiralty Island for fuel, as the damn escorts of the replenishment TF drank a large portion of the fuel it was carrying. The CV TF has enough fuel to reach a friendly base and refuel, but my plan of trapping enemy TFs between my two CV TFs is no longer possible. It will take at least a week for the CVs to reach base, refuel and return to the Noumea area.

CV Group 1 has just refueled and is racing S-SW to catch the TFs being trailed by my subs. Replishment TFs are streaming south to refuel them after the battle.

The AP damaged by an allied sub a few days ago finally succumbs to the damages and sinks in port at Admiralty Island - luckily all troops and supplies were offloaded in time.

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Question - 1/11/2005 11:47:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		What do you guys think my chances of taking Midway at this stage of the game are ?

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