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[Erkki]

2 Torps in the Enterprise? How likely is she to sink from that?

70-80% that she did right away. No fires spotted so there might have been only little damage accumulating later, if the holes werent enough.

Note, British light cruiser Enterprise, not USN CV-6 Enterprise.   

[Burnt Pies]

heh, just re-read that and noticed it was CL rather than CV.

[Journier]

yea my bombers are within range, and have max range set, im so confused.

I remember reading about the monsoon, what part of the year is the monsoon for the india area? does that keep all flights from flying all the time during that period?

checking weather theres thunderstorms in that section of map so i bet april- some other month is monsoon time...

definately monsoon season, I am the worst offensive planner in the history of wargaming lol, 200 bombers sitting there waiting out the monsoon.

[Sheb]

Nice. I wonder how he'll react to that Carrier Division sitting off Rangoon. Send in the british carrier? Subs?

Also, when you say the ally landed Guadalcanal, did they invaded it with an amphiious assault? I don't even remember you taking it.

[Erkki]

Nice. I wonder how he'll react to that Carrier Division sitting off Rangoon. Send in the british carrier? Subs?

Also, when you say the ally landed Guadalcanal, did they invaded it with an amphiious assault? I don't even remember you taking it.

Unfortunately they were there first... They are also reinforcing Buna and Lae. Theres a coastal defense fortress unit heading to Rabaul, I'm turning the area into a fortress... As it is it seems we cannot take Port Moresby or the rest of the Southern New Guinea before amphibious bonus runs out, but we can make keeping those areas very costly to the enemy. In 4 days they have lost P-40 reinforcements of 3 months worth and about 1 month's worth of P-39s. Thats 2 months of fighter replacements to them, and who knows how many pilots.

[Sheb]

So we're slowly reaching our maximum expansion then?

[Erkki]

So we're slowly reaching our maximum expansion then?

Pretty much. I dont think 15 days is enough to load troops from Manila and reach Port Moresby. I'm seriously considering about sending them to Timor or reinforce Burma.

[Erkki]

April 12th

Crap weather in Burma, troops start loading onto transports at Manila.

16 B-17s and 21 B-26s raid Rabaul. For the 4th time the radar controlled heavy AAA scores 0 hits, 8 planes are lost to bombs, 2 more as ops, and the 29 Zeroes CAPing manage to shoot down just 1 B-27 and 1 B-26.

[Erkki]

April 13th:

China: Northern front reopened: 2 Japanese divisions, their flank supported by 2 separate regiments, push 2 Chinese Corps easily into Anking. Aerial recce says there are only few reinforcements they can get there in time: easy pickings! Another attack is opened from Sian to NW, target being Lanchow and its oil fields.

Burma: Heavy fighting over Rangoon. 6 Zeroes and 5 Ki-43s are lost, but the enemy lost at least 2 Hurricanes and 10 P-40s, similar numbers as damaged(and possibly destroyed or written off).

Java: we'll test Soerebaja's defenses again tomorrow.

AV Akitsushima arrives! This support ship has catapults and can operate 4 aircraft, as well as support facilities and crew to maintain 22 float planes. It will be sent first to Sapporo, and from there to the Northern Kuriles, where it will operate search planes(brand new H8K flying boats) and some float Zeroes, A6M2-Ns. Production is still low, but 9 are already in operational service, both new units still going through training near Tokyo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_seaplane_tender_Akitsushima

Edit: can maintain 4 single-engine float plane. H6K and H8K are both 4-engined, and will use the whole capacity. She can operate 22 more only in a port or at anchorage.

[Journier]

oh man, i was about to grab all my AV's i have laying around and go on a big ocean voyage with all my float planes until you edited

do they work while disbanded into a port? or do they have to be sitting at the base in a tf?

[Erkki]

oh man, i was about to grab all my AV's i have laying around and go on a big ocean voyage with all my float planes until you edited

do they work while disbanded into a port? or do they have to be sitting at the base in a tf?

As far as I know they are like AS, AR, ARD, AKE: in docked TF or disbanded.

[Erkki]

April 13th

Standard ground action, + CL Glasgow was hit by G4Ms near Rangoon, and a transport ship from the same convoy sunk.

The British units that infiltrated behind lines in Burma are now being cut off, and probably destroyed with a week... Not much they can do to save those.

[Journier]

im starting to get a feel for this game now, I just had a carrier battle and shokaku and Kaga both got mangled in the fight. Luckily Kwajalein island was nearby with like 400 naval support there. (2 hex's so 88 miles away? or 92?)

sent them both pier side with the rest of my carrier fleet flying cover,

Shokaku had 90 floatation damage before she made it to port (she started with 65 and it slowly built up over the 2 day travel!) , put her in critical repairs pier side, and within 3 days she was down to 60 float dmg phew.

really didnt expect her to make it back.

Kaga, well kaga reached 87 float dmg, but shes alot harder to repair or something, after 6 days  shes down to 66 but she seems safe from sinking thankfully.

Now im wondering when she is gonna be "safe" to travel back to the home islands to get fully repaired? is 50 float dmg a good number to wait till shes repaired for?

However whenever i do this with transport ships, those fuckers are as good as sunk, damn unarmored transport ships, out of all the transport ships that ive lost to like 40 float dmg etc, the few that make it to port sink within a few days Out of the probably 15-20 that ive sent back to a port for repairs when damaged badly, ive only managed to save 4 to live another day.

but to sum up, that was some of the most "intense" fun ive had, sinking enemy carriers then limping my horribly broken carriers back home before they sink

[Erkki]

Ryujo just reached Truk yesterday... Floatation damage rose from 38 to 42 during the Kwajalein-Truk leap, but now back at 36. The remaining is major and cant be fixed, as the ARD at Truk is too small. Next step is Guam, and up the island chain to Kure Yards. 

She was hit now 36 days ago, hope to get her to Kure Yards before end of April, back in action by late May or early June. Thats 3 months out for a single Mk. 14 torpedo hit. I was fully expecting her to sink, though.

EDIT:

I've think I've decided what to do with the 14th Army (that is now being loaded onto transports at Manila). 50% of infantry will invade Koepang, one regiment goes to reinforce Java as does an armour regiment, every single piece of artillery is moved to Burma with the rest of the infantry.

Koepang in Timor is the last major Allied naval and air base left in the Dutch East Indies, the rest are unoccupied or can be invaded with paratroopers any time later.

3 Divisions worth of Marines and an extra infantry regiment from Celebes will be moved to New Guinea. More engineer and construction units are already on their way from Honshu. We must remain realistic in what more we may gain and hold, no "victory disease" here! New Britain, Admiralty Islands and northern New Guinea and northern Solomons Chain are being built up, reinforced, and fortified. Rabaul is the centre of this base group. 2 new size 45 Zero units are on their way to the area, and a new G4M unit will fly in as soon as as there is a big enough base available.

The purpose of that base cluster is to stop the future Allied advances into the Dutch East Indies via the Northern coast of New Guinea as well as to keep the Allied submarine, naval and air bases as far as possible. Bonus points for making the Allied fuel and supply convoys from USA to go around the G4M1's range , and spend 4-5 days more at the sea. Since Allies have no carrier force direct invasion to the DEI from, say, Darwin or Port Moresby, is out of question. They cannot provide any air support other than long range 4 engine bombers, before they have secured an airfield at location, which will take at least 2 days, 2 days of 300 G4Ms attacking would be ugly.

Allies seem to be building up Port Moresby and Southern Solomons. I'm not entirely sure what the transport TF with that combined P-40 & Wildcat CAP did near Lae, recce says there arent even 2,000 troops, and it had too many big ships to be an evacuation party. Did they reinforce another nearby base? Did they land what, a divisions worth of infantry, in the jungle?

My Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere defensive plans have been altered from the ones I had on day 1, in both good and bad, and I will include a map later today. Feel free to comment, give suggestions or ask questions!

[Erkki]

April 14th

Greatest action is 6 x B-26s attacking Rabaul, 5 are shot down and the last hit twice. B-17s strike Madang as well, minor damage, 6 fatalities. Hugely efficient!

Heres the map of the Perimeter, marked are also the major routes of fuel and oil convoys back to Home Islands as well as major known Allied naval and air bases and their supply routes.

Spoiler: The Perimeter of the Greater South East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere (click to show/hide)