Once Again into the Breach - Mike (J) vs. tc464 (A)

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Thanks Zulu. Unfortunately, my Dad passed away in 1982. He didn't talk much about his experience; just a few funny stories. I did get a copy of the unit history a few years back and I have all of the letters he wrote my Mom while he was away. I'm in the process of mapping out where he was and what he did during the war. It's pretty fascinating to read the unit history and his letters at the same time. Two very different perspectives.
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Thanks Zulu. Unfortunately, my Dad passed away in 1982. He didn't talk much about his experience; just a few funny stories. I did get a copy of the unit history a few years back and I have all of the letters he wrote my Mom while he was away. I'm in the process of mapping out where he was and what he did during the war. It's pretty fascinating to read the unit history and his letters at the same time. Two very different perspectives.
Thanks Zulu. Unfortunately, my Dad passed away in 1982. He didn't talk much about his experience; just a few funny stories. I did get a copy of the unit history a few years back and I have all of the letters he wrote my Mom while he was away. I'm in the process of mapping out where he was and what he did during the war. It's pretty fascinating to read the unit history and his letters at the same time. Two very different perspectives.

A noble task. Our only hope as a civilization lies in our ability to limit the mistakes of our fathers. (Women don't make mistakes, you can ask my wife.) When I perused my dads photo albums, he had an AgFa, I found out he was dating a little number in Hawaii (at 16) who sure does'nt resemble mom! Especially when you consider she was 6 at the time. LOL. Sorry for hijack, I look forward to reading your AAR and glad it can continue.
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8 Feb 42

Sub War

Something very interesting happened here. I still have 3x fleet subs operating in the water between Sydney and New Zealand. I've been considering moving them when the I-169 found a nice sized xAK and put a torpedo into her. Ok, I'll take it. She was unescorted. Later in the day, she found her again and pumped 2 more torpedoes into her and down she went. Ok, that's even nicer. WHen I reviewed the plane losses, I saw 14x B-26s destroyed on the ground. Were they on the ship? Banzai! A whole squadron of planes and pilots went swimming!

5 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

SE Fleet

Some engineers finally landed at Shortland Island. I'll build up the airfield first.

More air to air combat over Pt. Moresby. At a cost of 1 Zero and 1 pilot, I shot down 7x P-40Es. My intel shows 5 P-40Es remaining. Overall, I'm showing 79 P-40E losses. That would just about equal his replacements so far (35 per month). Gotta keep killing them off!

China

I attacked the surrounded Chinese troops SE of Sinyang. The 2:1 odds were meaningless since the enemy troops have nowhere to retreat to and are not in a base. They will have to die slowly. I suspect they don't have much supply and they are in the clear. Anyway, my losses were 430(0) to 595(14) Chinese losses, but there were a lot of Chinese disablements. That should speed things up. I'm not attacking tomorrow due to shortage of supplies. I'll give my troops a day to get more then attack again.

Burma

Rangoon was liberated today in a 4:1 DA. Only the Burma Division (what's left of it anyhow) and a base force survived and retreated up the road! Losses were 440(6) for me and 3042(378) Allies. Two small units were destroyed and the Burma Division took a beating. I'll surround them and kill them off. The infrastructure was somewhat damaged, but most of the damaged stuff isn't anything I care about. Here's the result:

Manpower: 2(1) - no repairs
Resources: 18(2)- I can live with this
Refinery: 176(24) - no big deal. I'm not refining anything anyway. The oil will flow south.
LI: 36(4) - no repairs

In addition, I captured 9800 oil, 14k fuel and 3800 resources. Unfortunately, there was no supply. Five HDMLs were scuttled in port. Man are they useful ships! I'm moving 2x Ro class subs to the Bay of Bengal. They will sail out of Rangoon.

I moved an Oscar Sentai to Taung Gyi ( airfield level 1) for CAP. It's building to level two.

Malaya

Another DA of Singapore will happen tomorrow.

SRA

I took Semarang in a 35:1 DA. Losses were 162(22) Dutch to no Japanese and I pushed out the base force. The main invasion force will be concentrated and will move in over the next couple of days. Semarang's infrastructure was intact: Manpower 1(1), Resources 20(0) and LI 20(0).

I'm going to pull the para SNLF out of Palembang to Tobali tomorrow. Then I'm using it to paradrop on Madioen. I have a detection level of 9/10 and see 9 fighters and 8 auxiliary craft but no troops! That would be a great coup!

I finally took Kuching. [:D]

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I turned off the C5M2 factory for awhile. There are 20 in the pool.

The Kawai detachment was withdrawn. The pilots all were very good and were added to the pool. I have 32 fighter pilots in the reserve currently.

My TRACOM is gaining strength. The IJA has 4 pilots while the IJN is up to 30.
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Yes, those ground losses were his ship going down with the B-26 tied to the deck. . He can buy them back, but like everybody knows, PP are scarce regardless of what side your playing.

I don't remember when and how often, by some of the air withdrawl for the Allies has the planes going back into the pool. I'll remember soon as I've start a PBEM game vs DivePac (Des) using Reluctant Admiral 4.0. I'm back playing the Allies, so I have to remember all these small details. He is a big fan of your economic system. [&o] He gets 17 heavy CVs vs Allies 32. It should be a challenge.

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I totally forgot about the unit being destroyed! That's wonderful. I suspect it'll cost 80 PPs (16x5) to buy back. That probably won't happen for awhile. He probably doesn't have any decent bombers to use to fill it out anyway.

Are you and/or Des going to do an AAR?
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9 Feb 42

Sub War


The R0-64, one of the line of subs off Pt. Moresby found the PG Moresby, put a torpedo into her and sank her. There's also an AM out there gunning for my subs there. He's having as much luck against my subs as I'm having against his.

5 Fleet

Nothing.

4 Fleet

Nothing.

SE Fleet

Ted brought a squadron of P-39Ds to reinforce the remains of the P-40E squadron. 4x P-40Es and 15x P-39Ds rose against 9x Zeros. At a cost of 1 Zero shot down (plus a Zero op loss plus a WIA pilot) I shot down 2x P-39s and a P-40. The second wave of 16 Zeros ran into 6x P-39s and 3x P-40s and shot down 2 and 1 respectively for no loss. Six for the price of 1! Banzai!

China

The units that attacked the surrounded Chinese troops yesterday got more supply and will attack again tomorrow.

Burma

33 British bombers (Hudsons and Blenheim I & IVs) flew against one of my infantry regiments. Four Oscars arrived for CAP and shot down a single Blenheim I. [8|] Fortunately, they didn't do much damage, just some disruption.

Malaya

A DA against Singapore made a little more headway today. The 1:1 attack reduced the fort from 2 to 1. I lost 4496(28) to 2312(86) Brits. We're getting there.

SRA

I landed at Oosthaven with 4 Division and 3x independent engineer regiments. The 4 Division will attack tomorrow. I'm saving the engineers for Palembang.

MKB found an AG in Batavia harbor and sank her.

I did a DA at Kendari getting a 3:1 and reducing the fort from 2 to 1. I'll attack again tomorrow.

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Reinforcement: Misawa Ku K-1 - 13 Air Flotilla - another training daitai.....
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I totally forgot about the unit being destroyed! That's wonderful. I suspect it'll cost 80 PPs (16x5) to buy back. That probably won't happen for awhile. He probably doesn't have any decent bombers to use to fill it out anyway.

Are you and/or Des going to do an AAR?


the pp won't be as much a problem as the fact that as the Allied you don't even have enough bombers to fill all available squadrons, let alone rebuild a destroyed one.
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Really enjoying this AAR Mike.
It is PACKED with useful information, hints & tips, and strategy pointers for all us JFB's.
A great insight into the mind of an admired player.
Keep up the good work!![8D]
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Empire, thanks. I really appreciate that. Sometimes I feel like I'm just rambling on. [:D]

10 Feb 42

Sub War

All those shots against those DDs and it finally paid off. The I-17 launched a couple at the DD Hughes off the coast of Hawaii and one hit! Amazing! She reportedly went down.

5 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

SE Fleet

Another good day over Pt. Moresby. In the first of two sweeps, 16x Zeros met 4x P-40Es and 16x P-39Ds. Another swirling dogfight cost us 2x Zeros and their pilots against a P-40 and 4x P-39s shot down. Later, 8x Zeros arrived over Pt. Moresby meeting 7x P-39s. They shot down 5 of the P-39s for no loss. Banzai!

China

Another attack of the 5x surrounded Chinese Corps netted 4:1 odds and killed off 2 of the 5 Chinese units. Losses were 411(15) Chinese to 128(1) Japanese. Most of the Chinese Corps were remnants of previous battles.

Burma

Nothing new to report.

Malaya

Nothing new to report.

SRA

Lots going on here. The second wave of the Semarang invasion force (the rest of 21 Division, most of 20 Division, 16 Army HQ, a JAAF AF Bn, 2x tank regiments and some engineers.) will land tomorrow. The invasion of Loemadjang (on the southwestern coast of Java) will land in 2 days. It's got 2x tank regiments and a JAAF AF Bn. Loemadjang has a ready made level 4 airfield. The armor will clear out the bases south of Soerabaja.

The CL Sumatra took 4 more 250 kg bombs (and a 60 kg bomb) destroying another 6" gun mount. Poor ship. I'm almost feeling sorry for her.

Kendari was attacked again and just missed taking it by a few AV. The 2:1 attack hit level 1 forts and eliminated them. I'll take it tomorrow.

Oosthaven fell to a 149:1 attack. [:D] Losses were 26(0) Japanese to 285(25) Dutch. The base force retreated up the road. I'll chase them and move toward Palembang.

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Reinforcements: 39 JNAF AF Unit - Southern Army, 3 Independent Heavy Artillery Bn (was destroyed at Bataan)

Rabaul's airfield finally reached level 6. On to level 7....
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How's Soryu doing at Truk?
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Soryu is 4-5 days out of Tokyo. One of Ted's mistakes (in my opinion) is to not use the "useless" US fleet subs. I haven't seen a single one in the interior of my territory. I'm confident Soryu won't run into anything on her voyage (but I still have her heavily escorted.
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Tell Ted I'll take over his sub fleet placement. Now that I'm playing the 'evil empire' I have a better feel of where subs need to go. (Insert evil laughter here)
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Don't even think about it. [:-] [:D]
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A quicky for the Emperor, I've never run the IJ side, whats the max tonnage you can fix east of the HI? (aside from Manila)
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Not much unless you use support ships, and they're very limited. In the Pacific, there are no repair yards other than the small ARD at Truk. You have to patch up all the minor damage and sail it to the Home Islands for complete repairs.
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Yes, I whine about the Allies long trip back to the repair yards but they have it a lot better than the Japanese in that respect. Plus they are less likely to sink on the way home....
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Yes, I whine about the Allies long trip back to the repair yards but they have it a lot better than the Japanese in that respect. Plus they are less likely to sink on the way home....

Ain't that the truth! Actually, if you take precautions, you can usually move damaged ships back pretty safely. You need to repair all minor damage and move them at cruise speed.

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11 Feb 42

Sub War

Another good day. The Ro-68 caught the Australian xAP Neptuna a couple hexes south of Pt. Moresby and put 3 torpedoes and a few shells into her. Down she went along with the troops she was carrying.

5 Fleet

The airfield at Adak reached level 3 today. Still no planes there however but an Emily detachment is arriving as a reinforcement soon and will most likely head there. I may move the Emily detachment to the central Pacific and move a Mavis unit from the central Pacific to Adak.

It’s odd but I haven’t seen any Allied activity up here for a long time. I spotted an AVD near Cold Bay on 14 Jan 42 but that’s about it. Nothing at all since then. No ships, no recon, nothing. Another change to Ted’s strategy from our old games.

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report. In a few days, I get 5 or so Naval Guard units. I can finally begin to garrison some of the more important islands. I wish they had an engineer component as part of their structure.

SE Fleet

No planes flew today. Actually, no planes were lost by any means on either side today. Really weird.

Truk is very close to getting the port to level 7. After that happens, I’ll move out most of the engineers to other bases to begin the necessary build up. I want to create a network of supporting airfields so Ted won’t really know where my air strength is stationed. Right now, all I have is Rabaul, Lae and Gasmata and am finally beginning to work on Shortland Island.

China

Nothing new to report.

Malaya

Nothing new to report.

Burma

The 33 Division and an artillery regiment caught the fleeing former Rangoon garrison and beat them up some more. The 6:1 DA caused 2117(223) losses to the Burma Division and a base force while inflicting 213(1) Japanese casualties. There can’t be much left of those guys.

Philippines

Still air and ground bombardment each day. I’ve noticed that the damage being done each day is slowly increasing while the damage to my guns is decreasing. I do check my artillery units each day and set them to defend if their available strength goes below 90%. I don’t want any more destroyed by counter battery fire.

The 16 Division is cleaning up the Allied units on the islands south of the Philippines. Three more to go then it’ll go to the Philippines and I’ll begin the assaults.

SRA

The Java invasion is proceeding nicely. I hope to capture a couple dozen Dutch planes on the ground tomorrow with my air assault. Also, the 2x tank regiments and JAAF AF Bn will land tomorrow on the SW side of the island as well. At Semarang, the main invasion fleet arrived but no one landed yet. I had the TFs still set to “do not unload”. Figures. They’ll land tomorrow.

The Java invasion force (4 Division and 3x independent engineer regiments) are chasing the former Oosthaven garrison north. The 4 Division is doing all the attacking though. I’m saving the engineers for the actual DA on Palembang. I really want to get that place intact. The enemy garrison of Palembang is pretty small; just a couple thousand troops. I’m going to begin air bombardment of them to soften them up for the attack, which should happen in a week or so (hopefully). That’ll also give me some Intel on what is there.

Kendari finally fell to a 6:1 SA. Losses were 37(1) Japanese to 229(49) Dutch. The Dutch remnants ran down the road. I’m chasing them down with 2x SNLFs to kill them off.

I dropped off a load of mines at Perth and Darwin, just to be social. Actually, when the sub dropped the mines at Darwin, she spotted a CL TF in port. MKB has just replenished at Balikpapan and is headed down there to pay a visit and hopefully sink a few ships. It’ll get only 1 or 2 licks in due to the shortage of torpedoes on the carriers (18 each on Shoho and Zuiho and 6 on Hosho). The Shoho and Zuiho each carry 9 Kates and the Hosho carries only 6 Kates.

These are the first sub placed mines I’ve placed since the beginning of the war. By this time last game, I was just about out of sub mines. I’m being much more cautious with my mines this game. I’ll eventually place mines in important ports that Ted is likely to send subs to visit. My mines had pretty good luck against his subs last game and I hope to repeat that feat. I am also being very cautious using my other mines. So far, I have place some at Rabaul. I hope to be able to place a few at some ports at the front line. I’m thinking the central Pacific might be good. We’ll see…..

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Reinforcement: 42 IF Chutai (12x Ki-36), 1 Air Division – It’s based in Hokkaido and will train IJA naval search. Most of my training units are set at 5k feet and 0 range. This will be one of the rare units that will actually have its range set to >0. It’ll double as a real naval search unit. Currently, I don’t have any naval search in that region.

Just a short update on movement of stuff to the Home Islands. If you recall, I need to move, at a minimum, 240k fuel, 100k oil and 1041k resources to the Home Islands from outside Japan. Here’s the current tally:

81,200 fuel
4,200 oil
474,045 resources

It looks like I’ll exceed the resource requirement but I won’t make either the oil or fuel requirement. To be honest, I don’t expect to make the liquid requirement until I take Palembang. I expect to take Palembang this month.

I expect to take Singapore this month as well. With Palembang and Singapore secured, the flow of fuel and oil will begin in earnest. Most of my fast TKs (15+ kts) are at Cam Ranh Bay waiting for those two events to happen.

In about 2 weeks, I have 3x fleet subs and the Nisshin arriving as reinforcements, all within a few days’ time. That will free up 130+ naval ship points. I’ll be able to accelerate two more CVs. Banzai! Right now I have 3x CVs and 5x DDs accelerated.

Last game I used my midget subs a lot early in the war. I haven’t done that this game. I’m still searching for Ted’s SLOC from the US to Australia. I did notice that Noumea increased its airfield and port a day or two ago. I suspect that will become a major port for him. I may send some midget subs there to check the place out. I’m going to try something different this game. Instead of just sending them in to be lost without doing anything, I’m going to send the midget TF (mother sub + midget) to 1 hex outside the port and then create new TFs with just the midgets to sail them into the port and sit there. We’ll see if that works.

Concerning Ted’s SLOC, tomorrow I’m going to send Glen carrying subs to every level 2+ port in the Pacific to check them out. Right now I have them patrolling between what I thought were likely ports and the US West Coast (close to the ports) with absolutely no success. It’s getting frustrating. The only places I have any success are off Hawaii and off San Francisco. Right now I don’t have any subs on the West Coast because they are headed back to port to replenish. I allocated only 2 subs to that mission. I had meant to replace them before they headed back to port but damage to several subs prevented me from having any available to send out in time. The West Coast is so darn far from Kwajalein that it takes forever to get the subs there. It takes 2 subs allocated full time for every one stationed there, and that’s assuming they don’t get damaged.

The other issue with subs is that when one gets damaged it usually ends up heading back to the Home Islands for complete repairs. The AS does not have the capability to repair any major damage, which sucks. Only the AR will repair major damage, and only if the total is less than 6. That is usually the case if a sub gets hit by a DC and doesn’t sink. I still only have 2x ARs, one at Rabaul and the other at Balikpapan (or maybe Davao, can’t remember). I can’t convert any more until Jun 42 and it takes forever to do the conversion (6 or 12 months, can’t remember off hand). I plan on converting 6 more (Husimi class), but won’t see them until 1943. Until then, I live with 2, as all Japanese players must.

The Nisshin brings up another decision I must make. There are 4x CS ships the Japanese player has (Chitose, Chiyoda, Mizuho and Nisshin) that can either remain as a CS or be converted into a CVL. The CS is a wonderful, if slow, ship that can provide ASW and Naval Search support to (M)KB. Each has ~24 capacity. If converted to a CVL, its capacity is increased to 30. So, you can have ~100 floatplanes or 120 carrier fighter/strike aircraft. With the premature demise of the Hiryu, I’ll most likely convert all 4 to CVLs. That’ll give me an additional 84 Zeros and 36 Kates. Together, they make a nice little MKB that can support KB or perform little raids in areas where I know the Allied carriers aren’t. If I do that, I’ll keep Tone, Chikuma and a CL with them for 11 floatplanes for naval search. That’s not a lot but it would have to do. Another option is to convert 3 and keep 1 CS to sail with them. That would give me a TF of 63 Zeros, 27 Kates, 12 naval search floatplanes and 12 ASW floatplanes. That might be a better alternative. Then I could keep Tone and Chikuma with KB and attach Tenryu, Tatsuta and a CL to them, mainly for AA support. (By the way, the Tenryu and Tatsuta just completed their first upgrades a few days ago.) With the current MKB of 56 Zeros and 24 Kates, that would be a nice little raiding force. 119 Zeros and 51 Kates – Not bad.
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12 Feb 42

Sub War

Nothing much happened today. Ted has a few AMs off Pt. Moresby sparring with my subs. No damage on either side.

5 Fleet

Still nothing to be seen but Anchorage is building up. Sending a sub up there to investigate.

4 Fleet

Nothing new to report.

SE Fleet

More planes littering the countryside around Pt. Moresby; mainly Allied. In two sweeps, 4x P-40Es and 4x P-39Ds were shot down at a cost of 2x Zeros and 2 pilots missing. In addition, 4 more P-39Ds were op losses.

I landed at Milne Bay and will take it tomorrow.

China

The 10 Group Army was destroyed one hex west of Hangchow. That force will move west to invest and take Chuhsien.

I attacked the 3 surrounded Corps 2 hexes NE of Sinyang and whittled them down more, causing 748(24) casualties while taking 98(0) losses. Soon.

Burma

A DA just east of Taung Gyi by 2x tank regiments caused 259(1) Brit casualties for no loss. They'll rest a day while getting some supply.

Singapore

Another DA of Singapore is scheduled for tomorrow.

SRA

Ahh, the fun stuff for last!

A brigade of the 21 Division moved to Djokjakarta and will make an attempt to take it tomorrow. If successful, it'll cut the island in half.

The landing at Loemadjang (SW part of Java) landed without a hitch. It'll take the undefended base tomorrow.

Finally, the Yokosuka 1 SNLF paradropped onto Madioen, where I knew there were some Dutch planes. What I didn't know was that there were a lot of Dutch planes and no ground troops. [X(] I captured the following:

10x 75A-7 Hawk
13x B339
21x CW-21B Demon
13x L-18 Lodestar

Banzai!

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The Java invasion force (4 Division and 3x independent engineer regiments) are chasing the former Oosthaven garrison north. The 4 Division is doing all the attacking though. I’m saving the engineers for the actual DA on Palembang. I really want to get that place intact. The enemy garrison of Palembang is pretty small; just a couple thousand troops. I’m going to begin air bombardment of them to soften them up for the attack, which should happen in a week or so (hopefully). That’ll also give me some Intel on what is there.

Oosthaven - If you can afford it, I would place some engineers here to expand the port. You will have two months of built up fuel at Palembang to get out. [X(] I would use some of your small (1250 capacity) TKs set to CS convoy to and from Batavia. For defense, I would mine Merak and place 2 AMC to tend to the minefield.

Ted's SLOC - I would look at an increase in port size at Christmas, Pago Pago, and Suva first. Then Vava'u (largest potential port in So Pacific - 6) before looking over at Society Island group. One trick for the Allies is to build up one of these ports to be your fuel hub and use "Do Not Refuel" to not suck up some of that fuel that was just unloaded (or use the Minimal Refuel option to get back to WC).
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