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IJNAF elite A6M2 Zero unit Chitose Ku S-1 or its detachments or division(s)

3 (42.9%)

a IJAAF Ki-43 unit in Indochina, to be used in China/East Indies(mostly)

1 (14.3%)

a IJAAF Ki-43 unit in Burma(at least initially)

3 (42.9%)

Total Members Voted: 7

Voting closed: May 04, 2014, 08:49:03 am

[Sheb]

I would not want to land anywhere but the top of that thing.

IIRC, the idea was that you could use the top deck for landings while launching from the bottom otwo decks, sped in ups operation. The multiple decks also allows you to scramble plane faster.

[Erkki]

February 8 1942


China: IJAAF and IJNAF bombers score some good hits today.

Burma: RAF Blenheims hit Prome again but lose 3 of their number to defending Hayabusas. I'm not sure why the Allies dont use their fighters... They should have some with range to escort or sweep. IJ bombers hit well.

DEI: Samarinda falls! Just 1 out of the 100 oil well points is damaged. Some Dutch fighters get destroyed on the ground. A Dutch sub attacks the unloading fleet but only managed to get depth charged itself. For some reasons even Catalinas try to attack the fleet but miss - they get away as the carriers had been moved away already. Boela(small oil port) invaded in the Eastern DEI.

At Lautem, he paratrooper operation doesnt go quite as planned: 44 AV worth of troops gets lifted for the loss of 6 transport planes but the troops dont manage to secure Lautem. They'll be waiting for reinforcements now.

Ground combat at Lautem (72,115)
 
Japanese Shock attack
 
Attacking force 544 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 41
 
Defending force 744 troops, 42 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 2
 
Japanese adjusted assault: 10
 
Allied adjusted defense: 11
 
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1)
 
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-), disruption(-)
 
Japanese ground losses:
      71 casualties reported
         Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
         Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
         Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
 
Allied ground losses:
      22 casualties reported
         Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
         Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
         Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
      Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled)
      Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
 
Assaulting units:
    1st Para Assault Div /1
 
Defending units:
    2nd KNIL AA Battalion
    Lautem Base Force

Ki-43s from Palembang sweep Batavia and shoot down 2 B-339s to no loss.


South Pacific: The IJ force at Port Moresby was let to rest for a week before attacking again today. This time its a success!!

Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130)
 
Japanese Deliberate attack
 
Attacking force 16313 troops, 212 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 461
 
Defending force 6887 troops, 66 guns, 39 vehicles, Assault Value = 92
 
Japanese adjusted assault: 241
 
Allied adjusted defense: 59
 
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1)
 
Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Moresby !!!
 
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), morale(-)
 experience(-)
Attacker:
 
Japanese ground losses:
      205 casualties reported
         Squads: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled
         Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
         Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
 
Allied ground losses:
      2966 casualties reported
         Squads: 25 destroyed, 17 disabled
         Non Combat: 207 destroyed, 6 disabled
         Engineers: 34 destroyed, 0 disabled
      Guns lost 59 (55 destroyed, 4 disabled)
      Vehicles lost 31 (31 destroyed, 0 disabled)
      Units retreated 4
      Units destroyed 1
 
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
 
Assaulting units:
    53rd Division
    1st China Assault Division
    34th Field AA Battalion
    21st Fld AA Gun Co
 
Defending units:
    30th Australian Brigade
    Port Moresby Brigade
    Port Moresby Coastal Gun Battalion
    14th RAAF Base Force
    15th RAAF Base Force


Banzai!!!!!




North Pacific: CarDiv III sights nothing to attack but Catalinas keep tracking it.

Submarines: Yesterday when AMC Nosiro sunk the submarine I-23 was in the adjacent hex. I gave her the order to sail where Nosiro sunk and then head directly towards Pearl. The Japanese fleet boats are very fast and she caught up with the enemy force.

Sub attack near Lahaina  at 197,96
 
Japanese Ships
      SS I-23
 
Allied Ships
      DD Benham
      DD Lamson
      DD Drayton
 
SS I-23 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Benham
I-23 diving deep ....

ASW attack near Lahaina  at 195,97
 
Japanese Ships
      SS I-23
 
Allied Ships
      DD Benham, Torpedo hits 1,  heavy damage
      DD Lamson
 
SS I-23 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Benham
DD Lamson fails to find sub, continues to search...

Banzai! I-23 only has 2 torpedoes left now but since she has an E14Y floatplane she'll stay in the area as she can help finding targets for the other subs. Interestingly DD Benham was smoking before she was hit - could be damage from high speed run... Or perhaps from a collision?

[Sheb]

What happened to the surviving Port Moresby forces? Did they surrender, or were did the flee to the jungle? Also, I just found out that Akagi et al. had a water-cooling system for their smokestack. Hence the water falling out of them and my thinking they were pumps of some kind.

[Erkki]

What happened to the surviving Port Moresby forces? Did they surrender, or were did the flee to the jungle? Also, I just found out that Akagi et al. had a water-cooling system for their smokestack. Hence the water falling out of them and my thinking they were pumps of some kind.

Yeah the survivors fled NW along the the coast, towards the village or town of Terapo that is 150 miles away. They are most probably very short on supplies as IJ captured some 5000 tons. IJN 7th Independent Special Naval Landing Force Company is already 44 miles from Terapo,  struggling to cross the Owen Stanleys. It landed at Salamaua some weeks ago for this special mission.

[Sheb]

Pity you're not playing allies, you could tell awesome stories about the fate of those troops.

[Erkki]

They're on a tropical swamp on the equator with wounded and with little to no supplies. Imagine the scenario in DF... I'll let them starve now.

[Mephansteras]

If this were DF they'd dig under the aquifer and arise a year or two later as an unstoppable force clad in impenetrable armor.

[Erkki]

If this were DF they'd dig under the aquifer and arise a year or two later as an unstoppable force clad in impenetrable armor.

How about without a pick. 


edit: here the map again. Look at China now!

[Sheb]

Duh, destroy the wagon, craft a training axe, raze the forest to construct a hut and then trade *random jungle veggies roast¨* next autumn to buy half of the UK.

[Erkki]

February 9 1942


China: the experimental attack near Sian with an infantry brigade and the newly arrived tanks goes with mixed results: the infantry unit gets whopping 1:93 odds but some Chinese squads get disabled still with no tanks lost. They have no AT weapons here.

Near Nanyang, the pocket gets reduced again:

Ground combat at 86,46 (near Nanyang)
 
Japanese Deliberate attack
 
Attacking force 46279 troops, 425 guns, 332 vehicles, Assault Value = 1487
 
Defending force 32654 troops, 214 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 299
 
Japanese adjusted assault: 49
 
Allied adjusted defense: 77
 
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2
 
Combat modifiers
Defender: morale(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:
 
Japanese ground losses:
      161 casualties reported
         Squads: 0 destroyed, 44 disabled
         Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
         Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
 
Allied ground losses:
      1369 casualties reported
         Squads: 42 destroyed, 70 disabled
         Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 9 disabled
         Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
 
Assaulting units:
    37th Division
    13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
    40th Division
    12th Tank Regiment
    15th Tank Regiment
    15th Division
    87th Infantry Regiment
    China Expeditionary Army
    4th Mortar Battalion
 
Defending units:
    85th Chinese Corps
    29th Chinese Corps
    13th Chinese Corps
    7th Chinese Corps
    84th Chinese Corps
    7th New Chinese Corps
    21st Group Army
    3rd Group Army
    12th Chinese Corps
    31st Group Army
    48th Chinese Corps

I'll attempt to smash this pocket in 4 days.

Also IJA will start moving the heavy artillery from Canton to first Shanghai on ships and then to Sian front. I have just one artillery unit here and I really want to play the war of supply attrition with the Chinese. Also more arty is already underway from Changsha sector where it had been sitting idle. Should have started moving the arty units in Canton area as soon as Hong Kong fell - it will take at least 15 days for them to arrive to the front.


Burma: IJNAF and IJAAF bombers bomb the retreating British. Lots of attacks go after the surviving defenders of Pegu who have been retreated twice, now near Toungoo... The last attack of the day meets AVG's H81s and 11 G4M1 bombers are lost for all reasons with 5 or 6 crews. They probably flew from Akyab and were drawn as leaking/alerted CAP to this hex. Losses were quick replaced with two mouse clicks... A luxury that probably wont last for more than half a year at most.

Malaya: 2 recon units enter Singapore hex before the rest of the army and get smashed pretty hard... Oops! The good news however is that the forts level and defending AV are revealed: only level 3 and 450 AV. The advancing IJ force should have easily enough force to secure the city quick

DEI: troops start boarding ships at Ambon and Kendari for Timor landings! I hope to land on Java by the end of the month.

South Pacific: A small USN task force at Luganville, and another one with 2 ships reported seems to be approaching Tarawa, now 120 nm away... They are either pickets, a bombardment force, destroyer sweeps or aviation support ships that will attempt to disband at some of the islands still held by the Allies nearby.

Submarines: E14Y sights another large merchant or transport convoy approaching Hawaii. 6 subs vectored in!

[Anvilfolk]

I don't think I get the numbers for the first combat there. You have no negative modifiers. The enemy has three negative modifiers. You have more of everything. And yet, the odds are quite strongly in his favour. Why is that? Terrain or something? Fort values? At least you're chipping away at him. How long can this continue?


Also, what do you do with the subs? Space them a few hexes apart trying to create a net?

[Erkki]

I don't think I get the numbers for the first combat there. You have no negative modifiers. The enemy has three negative modifiers. You have more of everything. And yet, the odds are quite strongly in his favour. Why is that? Terrain or something? Fort values? At least you're chipping away at him. How long can this continue?


Also, what do you do with the subs? Space them a few hexes apart trying to create a net?

Only the tank unit attacked, the rest of the force provided only artillery fire and counter-fire.  Some of the infantry units here are down to 20% disabled units so I'll only do a full deliberate attack once the reinforcements have arrived. With them, the AV should be over 2000 with extra firepower provided by tanks and medium artillery.

What I do with subs is a hush hush.  I'm pretty sure that most players dont deploy them the way I do unless everyone else also doesnt reveal it in their AARs. But in general the trick is to keep them unspotted(away from air patrol bases) because spotted subs dont get to attack as much and because the enemy can go around them. Yet they need to be on the enemy's routes and actively look for prey. Japan's unique floatplane-carrying subs help a lot when it comes to finding the routes and coordinating attacks against individual enemy TFs.

Its still pretty difficult though because unlike Japanese fuel, oil and resource convoys from Dutch East Indies and China to Japan, the Allied convoys carrying supplies, troops and oil to bases and oil to Australia can be almost anywhere. Theres a lot of sea to cover!

[Anvilfolk]

Yeah! I guess what I was wondering was how much a sub would actually move in order to engage. I did some Battle of the Coral Sea scenarios a week or so ago, and I don't think any subs moved from one hex to another to engage enemy TFs. They just stayed put, and often wouldn't engage even if a TF passed through there.

Presumably this distance to engage would be the principal variable in how you position your subs to cordon off an area.

[Erkki]

Yeah! I guess what I was wondering was how much a sub would actually move in order to engage. I did some Battle of the Coral Sea scenarios a week or so ago, and I don't think any subs moved from one hex to another to engage enemy TFs. They just stayed put, and often wouldn't engage even if a TF passed through there.

Presumably this distance to engage would be the principal variable in how you position your subs to cordon off an area.

Yeah, a 40 nm hex is big. What effects sub attack frequency is how much time they spend in the same hex with target, how well detected they themselves are, how large and what type the target TF(s) is, target speed vs. sub speed(positioning), crew exp, captain, target detection level. At least those. So to get the most attacks the subs needs to spend time in same hex with slow, large TFs while it is itself unsighted. Thats why they get to attack merchies much more than warships.

[Anvilfolk]

Gotcha! Thanks for the info