Alikchi2
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Alright, I'm back! Time for a last-three-days update. 1/24/42-1/26/42 India/Burma: My Blenheims and B-17s have been cheerfully bombing 33rd Division and Rahaeng airfield against no opposition until today. Cruft put 16 Nates up to defend Rahaeng today, and my Blenheims and Buffalos got fairly beat up again. The Fortresses got through okay though, and even took down a few Nates with their wing guns.. China: Interesting action here. 22,000 Japanese have begun to attack an equal number of Chinese at Linfen, on the road to Sian and slightly north of Kaifeng. I believe he is attempting to cut off the attacking units at Kaifeng, but so far he has had no success. A Japanese deliberate attack failed today with heavy casualties. Still, there are a lot of units coming up behind - I'd better finish up at Kaifeng quick.. Linfen needs reinforcements. Kaifeng looks like it just might be finished quickly. After two days of bombarding, my Chinese deliberate attacked again today. The forts are down to 1 from an original 4. Tomorrow I shock attack. If it succeeds, I have the base; if it fails, I fall back to cover Sian and Linfen. In the south, I'm considering using the units at Changsha offensively... we'll see. It's a 3000 assault point army. I just need to pick a target, right? Malaya: Kuala Lumpur fell. :( So much for a standstill! Heavy air attacks and consistent bombardments forced my troops to retreat to Malacca, where there are absolutely zero supplies. They've all been badly beat up - down to like 50 assault points - and I expect them to fall at the first shock attack. Kuantan looks better. My Hudsons are gaining lots of experience flying in supplies to them, actually. Still, it's not enough. Roughly 150 assault points there - about equivalent to the Mixed Brigade besieging them. At Johore Bahru is the only strong force left in Malaya - Aussies, Brits, Malayans and Indians equivalent to 280 assault points, behind level 5 forts. Just today we had our first air action in a while - I had saved two AKs in Singapore harbor to pull out an RAF base force once it arrived. Today 25 Nells and 20 Zeroes from Kuching arrived in an attempt to sink them both. 27 Buffalos and 10 Hurricanes rose up to meet them - the Hurricanes flown in just the turn before from the decks of CV Formidable. The Buffys did okay; the Aussies shot down two Zeroes! Most of the others fled and the Aussies paid for it with several shot down. They're still ready to fight but the morale of my other two squads are in the toilet. A Hurricane brought down a Nell, and others were destroyed by flak, but they were still able to deliver 3 torpedoes to AK Hermion, which sunk immediately. One hit AK Palawan - roughly 20 sys and 12 float damage, should be okay. Still, he sunk a ship and hurt Singapore's air defence badly. Speaking of, I won't evacuate the fighters until it's absolutely necessary. I plan to keep them around to fly CAP over my ground troops. The Philippines: Besides Kuala Lumpur, my other bastion, Clark Field, fell today. I was heavily outnumbered - 69,000 versus 27,000 - and the troops were exhausted. Even worse, they retreated to Bataan, not Clark!! This means essentially that they are doomed, as Bataan, like Malacaa, has zero supplies. None. He'll be able to clean them out pretty quickly. Manila still looks strong, though. DEI: Well, things are moving here. Tarakan fell (of course), and his Nells and BEtties are perky and eager, as detailed in the Malaya section. Pontianak was deliberate attacked today, brought the forts down to 1.. Stuff is arriving in-theatre, though. 19th KGVO Tank Regiment, with Valentine IIIs and Humber armored cars, has completed unloading at Tjilitjap and will join the Dutch mobile reserve at Bandoeng for the defence of Java. Soerabaja's A-24 Dauntlesses are repairing quickly, and my P-39 pilots are training up. In addition, Formidable dropped off a squadron of Hurricanes at Palembang before turning back towards Columbo. Palembang's Marines started receving artillery today, as well! Things are going up. Every day Singapore stands is a day longer before he can launch his offensive against southern Sumatra and Java, so yay. The eastern DEI is much more weak and I feel that he'll take Timor early to prevent me from turning into a "fortress" a la last game (although I don't plan to do this.) SWPAC: Shortlands has been mined and my Hudsons at Rabaul have actually hit something! An APD, I believe. I think it's the first time a Hudson has actually hit a moving ship in the entire war. Go Aussies! Kavieng fell, and the Independent Company defending it is badly beat up. It will succumb to lack of supplies, sadly. SOPAC: More bombardments at Suva by the South Seas Detachment, supported by the aircraft of the Kido Butai. Yawn.. At Noumea my brigade and base force are fully ashore and establishing themselves. I have P-39s in Auckland repairing (after a long trip by boat) which will shortly fly in. PBYs will follow. Subs have taken a nasty toll in the last few days.. my tankers and transports out of Panama have been mostly unescorted - no DDs were available. So far I've lost one AK, one TK, and one AK badly damaged. CENTPAC: Minelaying operations, supply shifting.. I want this theatre to be so perfectly defended and glamourously equipped that I don't have to worry about it anymore. ====== That's it!
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