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[timferius]

I'm going to sig that.

Pearl Harbor 2: PEARL HARDER

DAMN! You beat me to it.

Now, let's blow some capitalist pig ass up! Or whatever it was the Japanese called the Americans.

Finally, a place where people appreciate my genuis! I have to say, I'm quite proud of that one, makes me smile every time I read it. Almost enough to bring a tear to a man's eye, to see it fought over like this.

[Erkki]

June 18th

Burma: Infantry easily breaks through the Allied lines and advances towards Chiang Mai - paratroopers jump in tomorrow, cutting off the retreating enemy! 7th infantry division now unloading at Bangkok, 33rd inf div 100% ready at Pisanuloke. We should be able to rail in 2 100% ready divisions to Chiang Mai in less than a week, to seriously threaten the enemy's flanks, forcing him to retreat and probably still cutting off approximately 2 divisions' worth of his troops in the jungles. I'm expecting the enemy to move in now more aircraft, so I have ordered strikes to Rangoon.

New Guinea: The expected P-39 attack doesnt materialize, so I'm transferring the fighters back to Kavieng. In 2 days we send a convoy from Rabaul to Shortlands(Southern Bougainville), it has a second infantry regiment and 2 aviation support battalions we will use to build an airbase.

Timor Sea: I forgot the battleships refueled... So today afternoon they're only halfway in. Damn! They dont spot any Allied search aircraft(nor have the 2 submarines we have in the area seen planes for weeks) so I bet their air units are all stood down. Battleships will now commence a night bombardment followed by air attacks by 54 G4M1s. Zeros and Ki-43 providing escort and LRCAP.

EDIT: Battleship Division II follows full 24 hours behind the BatDiv I - depending on what the first division finds, they can either continue going in and bombard, or pull back.

[Sheb]

Ahah, we're bock on the offensive. A short, tactical one to be sure, but it's good to break the stalemate.

[Zrk2]

This is good, finally some action for my Kongo.

[Erkki]

The turn is finally back! Tension rising...

[Erkki]

June 19th

Timor Sea:

...didnt go anywhere near as planned. For some reason, the BatDiv I has only moved 1 hex, and BatDiv II has now caught it... I'm still going in, though. I'm not sure what happened overnight, except had allowed refueling escorts if needed...

G4M1s bombing Darwin find minimal AAA defenses, hit approximately 20 aircraft, but destroying (as confirmed) just 2 of them: a P-39D and an L-18 Lodestar. Lots of damaged bombers and dive bombers reported, so the operation is still a go.

Burma:

Paradrops dont work quite as they were supposed to, either: half of the 2nd Raiders jumps in but fails to dislodge the defenders(purely my fault, I knew the transport planes' capacity wasnt enough, but also the unit had wrong operational status), however losses are small. Bomber strikes dont fly because of bad weather. All bombers ordered to hit Chiang Mai tomorrow, rest of the 2nd Raiders will be dropped in.

New Guinea: looks like the enemy has opened a new air field closer than Buna and Port Moresby, at Finschafen. Tomorrow, a group of Zeroes sweeps it, then 120 bombers strike it with a second Zero unit escorting. A6M2-Ns sweep Gasmata hoping to find some fighters flying CAP...

Other news: a US submarine sinks a transport and hits another near Kavieng(Japanese ASW vessels doing nothing, again), a new DD leaves the shipyards at Nagoya, an ASW G3M2 unit is transferred to Truk(to protect Carrier Division I as well as in and outgoing traffic, supply and fuel convoys mainly), and in China a Japanese regiment utterly crushes 3 already severely weakened Chinese Corps, the Japanese unit suffering practically no losses, throwing the Chinese back in the woods...

[Sheb]

Wow didn't went as expected. But then, in war you should expect things not to go as expected.

[Zrk2]

'In war every plan is perfect until the battle begins.' -Some novel I read

[thobal]

'In war every plan is perfect until the battle begins.' -Some novel I read

It's actually*: "No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy's main strength" (or "no plan survives contact with the enemy").
- Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

*Well, it's actually something in German, but that's not important right now.

[Erkki]

To boost the morale... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS12isLjS5w

Hilarious song and some great footage. Most of it must be from some Japanese war time propaganda film... See especially the explosions late in the film, good stuff, better than what the Hollywood did. 

[Sheb]

Let's create the New Great Asia!

[Erkki]

June 20th


Timor Sea:

So it happens that the whole raid is complete waste of precious ships and fuel. Both divisions bombard, but engage the coastal defense batteries instead of the city itself or air field. They do destroy or disable just about every single battery but killing approximately 300 men and 40 guns wasnt worth this... On the top of it all, Yamashiro receives a couple of 155mm hits in the weakly armored superstructure and while the damage is light, to get her 100% ready again she needs to be dry docked. Bah.

Thanks to the failing bombardments, the air raids meet over 30 P-39s, and we lose 9 G4M1s and 6 Ki-43s to pathetic 2 P-39s (+2 possibles) and 7 runway hits and damage some parked bombers.


Burma:

the rest of the 2nd Raiders has now been moved in, and after day of Japanese bomber strikes the Allies counter attack(what seems to be an Australian armoured regiment!!) - the paratroopers stand their ground and the 3 AT guns do well. Tomorrow the transport planes will start dropping in supplies.

Up the road from Pegu, the Allies seem to already have reinforcements coming in... But ours are also advancing up the rail road. From the looks of it, I dont think the Allies will be able to dislodge the 2nd Raiders before our infantry arrives, and once the railroad connection is cleared we will rail in the 20,000 troops of 33rd and 7th infantry divisions.


New Guinea: P-39s from Finschafen strafe Japanese troops at Medang, achieving nothing. After that, 80 Japanese bombers with Zero escorts hit their air field... They score, reported, 55 runway hits, 30 facility hits and torch 4 planes: at least 1 P-39 and a Catalina Also over 15 planes are reported at least damaged. There are 22 fighters and over 40 unidentified planes spotted, so we are going to repeat these strikes tomorrow, but with heavy fighter sweeps as the enemy most likely will CAP from Buna. There was no AAA fire so the raids will go in at a pretty low altitude in order to score more hits.

[Deadmeat1471]

*Declares his lurker status again*


I'm going to have to scroll through 20 pages of this and catch up, but as its Erkki, its totally worth it 

[Erkki]

*Declares his lurker status again*


I'm going to have to scroll through 20 pages of this and catch up, but as its Erkki, its totally worth it 

Since the Battle of Gilberts, not much really. Some hilariously one sided air battles and 2 carriers raids, the other that almost caught the Prince of Wales.

Have nearly all of the Indonesia now, getting Port Moresby would be coup dé grace but I have no resources to do that yet. At the moment I have begun a new offensive in Burma with my 2 reinforcement divisions, in hopes of getting to Rangoon at least. China front is going well, for now, but theres still a lot of work left before I can stop the offensives.

[Erkki]

June 21st

Burma:

Allied reinforcements reach Chiang Mai, but fail to dislodge the 2nd Raiders, despite of our bombers not flying today. 12 Hurricanes fly a ground support mission, achieving nothing, and the half a dozen Ki-43s flying CAP shot down 3 Hurricanes and damage some more, but lose 3 of their own number as well, plus 2 more as written off.

7th Inf Div supported by an armored regiment starts it march up the railroad... This is going to be more messy than intended, not the least because I should have flown recon to check for possible enemy reinforcements, but so far, I have no doubt that we are going to win this one. In the tactical sense at least.


New Guinea air war:

Allies refuse to fly their fighters, so 80 Zeroes find just thin air and clouds, missing all the action: 50 4-engined heavy bombers strike Kavieng's port, sinking 2 transports that were already hit by submarines. Genzan Ku S-1 supported by Rabaul's Zeroes manage to shoot down as many as 5 bombers, AAA claiming the 6th kill. HQ crew estimated the enemy to have lost 2 or 3 more as written off or crashed due damage or as OPS.

30 Japanese G3M2s hit Finschafen, torching 3 P-39s and closing the air field. Some more planes are hit, and the field facilities are probably so damaged that the whole place will be down for a month.

Our losses today are 3 Zeroes (1 pilot WIA) and 5 Ki-43s(2 KIA, 2 MIA) to 3+ Hurricanes, 3+ P-39s, 6+ heavy bombers + possible non-combat ops losses.