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Close relative of the jackalope.
Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
Close relative of the jackalope.
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
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Is that a sqoose?
or perhaps a murril
Beat me to it.
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
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Can i ask what the VP swing was in the turn following this?
The 30th July one? if u have gotten it yet
I find that some things tracker is lacking behind in 1 day with. Wondered if this was another of those cases.
Rasmus
This is the Tracker VP screen after the most current movie.
VPs are somewhat of a briar patch given that FOW makes ships move on and off the Sunk rolls, and base building multipliers happen off-stage unless one goes digging. I just trust the math in the game and in Tracker. The big initial battle of Chungking was a good lesson for me in tempering emotional reactions to a big win with how they actually move the VP needle.
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
Situation at Eniwetok
Just a screenie to show the submarine deployments around Eniwetok. Intel received yesterday that a piece of an ID is aboard ship headed there. Most of these subs are repositioning to surround the island, or to interdict the W-E route from Truk/Ponape. Some are S-boats with fish that actually work.
Eniwetok has Forts 3 + 68% with two Seabee units digging like crazy. It has 53,000 supply. Unfortunately, combat power is lacking. Only pieces of two para units, and a frag of the combat engineers mostly over on Roi-Namur. The only good news is it's not overstacked, while a landing force will be. US forces are about 5800 men.
Just a screenie to show the submarine deployments around Eniwetok. Intel received yesterday that a piece of an ID is aboard ship headed there. Most of these subs are repositioning to surround the island, or to interdict the W-E route from Truk/Ponape. Some are S-boats with fish that actually work.
Eniwetok has Forts 3 + 68% with two Seabee units digging like crazy. It has 53,000 supply. Unfortunately, combat power is lacking. Only pieces of two para units, and a frag of the combat engineers mostly over on Roi-Namur. The only good news is it's not overstacked, while a landing force will be. US forces are about 5800 men.
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July 30, 1942
Locked, Not Yet Cocked
1) The Big Stack marches fast. It has reached the standing stack one hex north of Pegu on the road. This is what's in the combined stack. It will march on the objective immediately.
2) Air battles over Rangoon. The Allies get a set of bombing missions in with 9 escorts, a luxury. Tojos and Zeros on CAP. One plane lost each side (1 Tojo, 1 Hudson) and one AF hit with several enemy planes damaged. Then a strato-sweep of three P-38s tangles with the Tojos, downing one for no losses. A second, larger bombing mission attrits the Dinahs at Rangoon, does minor damage to runways, and costs three bombers.
Allied troop bombing is lighter than recently, with several IJA bombers lost and less than 50 casualties. Port Blair gets a heavy strike, but the AF is cleaned out right now except for Beauforts. One is damaged.
The battle for Rangoon will start in the next couple of days. I have no good read on how it will go. I think I have enough to take Pegu, and not to take Rangoon if he can continue to get supply in by sea. I have no good answer for that right now. My air forces are just not up to it, nor are most of the subs. But I could be way off base.
3) SS KIX hits a very large xAP passing Balikpapan. Don't know where bound for, but I suspect whatever is onboard will participate in the siege at Soerbaja. That base goes to Forts 6 (finally) and will now focus on supply accumulation.
4) Minor bombing at Chungking, but not what I would expect. Supply there goes down to 420 and stays there for two days. Organic is 400/day and LI is still producing while Resources last (about 100,000). Transports from Ledo should be carrying 50% loads, but none has been delivered for two days. I must not understand that rule.
5) As mentioned up-thread, intel received that a portion of an ID is bound for Eniwetok. A USMC Buffalo unit, the last on the map, is snuck onto Eniwetok as a trap. But Japan almost never fails to sweep when bombing, and this time is no exception. Zeroes come first and one fighter each side is downed. There are no bombers today.
6) Powder kept dry at Rabaul. Av support is coming ashore and AF is at Level 5 + 8%. I have had some "apparent" luck in AI games with 4E coordination by putting all at a base under same HQ, so I spend a little PP today to get all the Forts under Eleventh AF HQ coverage. Superstition? The Forts continue to repair. When I can fly them together on Truk they should be about 30 planes. Ships come in and out of Truk like a highway, so timing is important.
7) Word in reports that BB Kongo was sunk on May 21 in battle that cost POW. Had thought it was Haruna. I'll take Kongo.
8) Japan attacks at Tavoy, dropping forts to zero but not taking the base. The three Chinese LCUs near Moulmein are near attack position; Tavoy is of less importance since Japan began running supply to Rangoon at sea.
Ground combat at Tavoy (54,60)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5775 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 204
Defending force 1729 troops, 13 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 48
Japanese adjusted assault: 163
Allied adjusted defense: 58
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
177 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Defending units:
26th Indian Brigade
9) Building:
Johnston Island expands fortifications to size 4
Mandalay expands airfield to size 6
Gorakhpur expands airfield to size 3
Sydney expands fortifications to size 6
Christchurch expands fortifications to size 4
Soerabaja expands fortifications to size 6
No Night Bombing Today
Locked, Not Yet Cocked
1) The Big Stack marches fast. It has reached the standing stack one hex north of Pegu on the road. This is what's in the combined stack. It will march on the objective immediately.
2) Air battles over Rangoon. The Allies get a set of bombing missions in with 9 escorts, a luxury. Tojos and Zeros on CAP. One plane lost each side (1 Tojo, 1 Hudson) and one AF hit with several enemy planes damaged. Then a strato-sweep of three P-38s tangles with the Tojos, downing one for no losses. A second, larger bombing mission attrits the Dinahs at Rangoon, does minor damage to runways, and costs three bombers.
Allied troop bombing is lighter than recently, with several IJA bombers lost and less than 50 casualties. Port Blair gets a heavy strike, but the AF is cleaned out right now except for Beauforts. One is damaged.
The battle for Rangoon will start in the next couple of days. I have no good read on how it will go. I think I have enough to take Pegu, and not to take Rangoon if he can continue to get supply in by sea. I have no good answer for that right now. My air forces are just not up to it, nor are most of the subs. But I could be way off base.
3) SS KIX hits a very large xAP passing Balikpapan. Don't know where bound for, but I suspect whatever is onboard will participate in the siege at Soerbaja. That base goes to Forts 6 (finally) and will now focus on supply accumulation.
4) Minor bombing at Chungking, but not what I would expect. Supply there goes down to 420 and stays there for two days. Organic is 400/day and LI is still producing while Resources last (about 100,000). Transports from Ledo should be carrying 50% loads, but none has been delivered for two days. I must not understand that rule.
5) As mentioned up-thread, intel received that a portion of an ID is bound for Eniwetok. A USMC Buffalo unit, the last on the map, is snuck onto Eniwetok as a trap. But Japan almost never fails to sweep when bombing, and this time is no exception. Zeroes come first and one fighter each side is downed. There are no bombers today.
6) Powder kept dry at Rabaul. Av support is coming ashore and AF is at Level 5 + 8%. I have had some "apparent" luck in AI games with 4E coordination by putting all at a base under same HQ, so I spend a little PP today to get all the Forts under Eleventh AF HQ coverage. Superstition? The Forts continue to repair. When I can fly them together on Truk they should be about 30 planes. Ships come in and out of Truk like a highway, so timing is important.
7) Word in reports that BB Kongo was sunk on May 21 in battle that cost POW. Had thought it was Haruna. I'll take Kongo.
8) Japan attacks at Tavoy, dropping forts to zero but not taking the base. The three Chinese LCUs near Moulmein are near attack position; Tavoy is of less importance since Japan began running supply to Rangoon at sea.
Ground combat at Tavoy (54,60)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5775 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 204
Defending force 1729 troops, 13 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 48
Japanese adjusted assault: 163
Allied adjusted defense: 58
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1)
Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
91 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
177 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Defending units:
26th Indian Brigade
9) Building:
Johnston Island expands fortifications to size 4
Mandalay expands airfield to size 6
Gorakhpur expands airfield to size 3
Sydney expands fortifications to size 6
Christchurch expands fortifications to size 4
Soerabaja expands fortifications to size 6
No Night Bombing Today
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
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What is going on, are you drawing up a cunning deception plan?
This is GREAT! MooseandSquirrel! Somebody has way too much time on Photoshop.
I have the next movie in house and will watch it now. The game schedule has evolved as Mike's work has gone to a compressed week. We won't have turns on Monday-Wed. most of the time, and the weekends will be crowded. This is one reason I started a second game with Cliff/Lokasenna; his schedule is more even every day. I'm not AARing that game and so far neither is he. Good thing as he is kicking me all over the map. [:)]
This game with Mike will continue to be daily AARed and has a very different flavor. It's interesting keeping the two straight in my head, but that's good for my mental health I'm told.
I'm thinking of opening an irregular thread once I come up with a clever title...
RE: Tracker VPs - The total seems to be imported directly from the in-game totals, which I trust. However I've noticed that Tracker's sunk ships VPs can wildly differ from the in-game VPs, as well as from what I suspect is reality. I don't trust Tracker's sunk ships list in the slightest. If anything, it's a detriment to my information IMO. The air losses and LCU losses also appear to be taken straight from the in-game screens, which seem to be nearly 100% if not 100% accurate, even through FOW.
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
July 31, 1942
Intel Confirmed
1) Sub action, including confirmation of the ID frag loaded for Eniwetok.
--S-40 duds on a nice xAK near Donggala. So long as Soerbaja is open the fuel from Balikpapan is vulnerable.
--Tarpon duds on a huge xAK due north of Sapporo. TMs ordered to re-routine all fish.
--Trigger duds on a passing amphib TF a hex from Marcus I. The vector and the presence of an LSD are solid evidence this is the landing force for Eniwetok.
Sub attack near Marcus Island at 118,86
Japanese Ships
AMC Nosiro Maru
LSD Shinshu Maru
xAP Huzi Maru
DD Murakumo
Allied Ships
SS Trigger
-- In the harbor at Toyohara, Dutch Harbor-based S-44 takes two hits, one penetrating. In the afternoon she sinks one tormentor, PB Aso Maru #7
--The supply lifeline from Calcutta to Chittagong, feeding the whole Rangoon effort, is penetrated by I-16. DD Foxhound, with early-war ASW excellence, hits twice, one penetrating.
2) Heavy bombing efforts on Soerbaja and PBang. Soerbaja is now buttoned up, supply going to the storehouses and engineers fully devoted to fixing emerging damage. PBang has snuck up into the 30%s on the next Fort level, but it is slow going. The red stack at Benk. continues to sit.
3) Allied escorted bombers hit Rangoon AF again, doing light damage. Recon shows 8% damage before this. The only goal is supply burn and perhaps some degradation of 2E operations on the stack outside the city. Focus will shift to Pegu in the next few days.
Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
A6M3 Zero x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 22
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 13
Allied aircraft
Mohawk IV x 8
B-24D Liberator x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 3
B-26B Marauder x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Mohawk IV: 1 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Runway hits 2
--Japanese bombing of the stack is definitely less effective than several days ago. Fatigue must be a factor now, as well as accumulated damage from AA. Troops losses are about 100 plus five guns. About 20 bombers are damaged or destroyed. In one sweep a single P-38 takes on the Tojos, downs one, and gets away.
4) Eniwetok gets swept, but the Buffalos have mostly returned to Wake. The Seabees dig.
5) Chungking again is tickled by air strikes. Don't know his thinking here right now. I'm blind out in the countryside. More troops could be coming, or the stack might just be resting.
6) Example air strike on secured Soerbaja. Not a good ROI to me.
Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 25
G3M2 Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 31
Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 7 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged
No Allied losses
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1
7) The B-17s at Rabaul continue to rest and repair. Re-counted and full strike will be more like 48 planes. Some are 15-17 days out on repair; won't wait for them. Have daily search and recon of Truk from Rabaul. It's a highway.
8) Japan persists at Tavoy and the base falls. The defenders retreat north. They will march to join the Chinese, but may be caught from behind. Overall the Tavoy foray was a mistake at this phase of the war.
Ground combat at Tavoy (54,60)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5725 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 199
Defending force 1599 troops, 13 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 28
Japanese adjusted assault: 172
Allied adjusted defense: 37
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tavoy !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)
Japanese ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
442 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (18 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Defending units:
26th Indian Brigade
9) Building:
Dutch Harbor expands fortifications to size 6
Canton Island expands port to size 3
Agra expands airfield to size 3
Goa expands fortifications to size 3
Karachi expands port to size 7
Luganville expands fortifications to size 1
Kalemyo expands airfield to size 1
10) Interesting color commentary. Sometimes I just like the messages the game gives if you read the text reports:
--6 x DC-2 transporting supplies to Chungking (Hey! The rule does work from Ledo!)8 x DC-3 transporting supplies to Chungking
5 x C-33 transporting supplies to Chungking
8 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
17 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
14 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
11 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
--VMF-111 attains carrier trained status on Lexington (Ooh Rah!!)
--Pilot Lane M. is reported as having been found (Must now pay his gambling debts.)
--Accelerated training for 5 Chinese pilots from month-cycle 8
Accelerated training for 3 Soviet pilots from month-cycle 10 (This from ten pilots in TRACOM)
--No.12 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18 (Yay! How about some $%@* planes to fill out!?) [:)]
No.23 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18
No.24 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18
No.25 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18
8th PRS converting to size 16 from 13
9th PRS converting to size 16 from 13
71st OG/17th OS converting to size 12 from 13
69th OG/31st OS converting to size 12 from 13
86th OS converting to size 12 from 13
71st OG/110th OS converting to size 16 from 13
69th OG/115th OS converting to size 12 from 13
70th OG/116th OS converting to size 12 from 13
70th OG/123rd OS converting to size 16 from 13
3rd BG/13th BS converting to size 16 from 13
28th CG/21st BS converting to size 12 from 8
5th BG/23rd BS converting to size 12 from 8
11th BG/26th BS converting to size 12 from 8
30th BG/27th BS converting to size 12 from 8
5th BG/31st BS converting to size 12 from 8
28th CG/36th BS converting to size 12 from 8
30th BG/38th BS converting to size 12 from 8
11th BG/42nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
41st BG/46th BS converting to size 16 from 13
41st BG/47th BS converting to size 16 from 13
41st BG/48th BS converting to size 16 from 13
58th BS converting to size 16 from 13
38th BG/70th BS converting to size 16 from 13
5th BG/72nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
28th CG/73rd BS converting to size 16 from 13
42nd BG/75th BS converting to size 16 from 13
28th CG/77th BS converting to size 16 from 13
3rd BG/89th BS converting to size 16 from 13
11th BG/98th BS converting to size 12 from 8
307th BG/370th BS converting to size 12 from 8
307th BG/371st BS converting to size 12 from 8
307th BG/372nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/373rd BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/374th BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/375th BS converting to size 12 from 8
42nd BG/390th BS converting to size 16 from 13
30th BG/392nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
5th BG/394th BS converting to size 12 from 8
41st BG/396th BS converting to size 16 from 13
28th CG/404th BS converting to size 12 from 8
28th CG/406th BS converting to size 16 from 13
22nd BG/408th BS converting to size 16 from 13
307th BG/424th BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/425th BS converting to size 12 from 8
11th BG/431st BG converting to size 12 from 8
--Unit '159th Mot Infantry' changes name to '159th(Sep) Infantry' ("New stationary for the General! Stat!")
Unit '3rd Burma Rifles' changes name to '1st Burma'
Unit '4th Burma Rifles' changes name to '2nd Burma'
Unit '6th Burma Rifles' changes name to '3rd Burma'
Unit '10th Burma Rifles' changes name to '5th Burma'
Unit '1st Burma' changes name to '39th Indian'
No Night Bombing Today
Intel Confirmed
1) Sub action, including confirmation of the ID frag loaded for Eniwetok.
--S-40 duds on a nice xAK near Donggala. So long as Soerbaja is open the fuel from Balikpapan is vulnerable.
--Tarpon duds on a huge xAK due north of Sapporo. TMs ordered to re-routine all fish.
--Trigger duds on a passing amphib TF a hex from Marcus I. The vector and the presence of an LSD are solid evidence this is the landing force for Eniwetok.
Sub attack near Marcus Island at 118,86
Japanese Ships
AMC Nosiro Maru
LSD Shinshu Maru
xAP Huzi Maru
DD Murakumo
Allied Ships
SS Trigger
-- In the harbor at Toyohara, Dutch Harbor-based S-44 takes two hits, one penetrating. In the afternoon she sinks one tormentor, PB Aso Maru #7
--The supply lifeline from Calcutta to Chittagong, feeding the whole Rangoon effort, is penetrated by I-16. DD Foxhound, with early-war ASW excellence, hits twice, one penetrating.
2) Heavy bombing efforts on Soerbaja and PBang. Soerbaja is now buttoned up, supply going to the storehouses and engineers fully devoted to fixing emerging damage. PBang has snuck up into the 30%s on the next Fort level, but it is slow going. The red stack at Benk. continues to sit.
3) Allied escorted bombers hit Rangoon AF again, doing light damage. Recon shows 8% damage before this. The only goal is supply burn and perhaps some degradation of 2E operations on the stack outside the city. Focus will shift to Pegu in the next few days.
Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
A6M3 Zero x 4
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 22
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 13
Allied aircraft
Mohawk IV x 8
B-24D Liberator x 3
B-25C Mitchell x 3
B-26B Marauder x 3
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Mohawk IV: 1 destroyed
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Runway hits 2
--Japanese bombing of the stack is definitely less effective than several days ago. Fatigue must be a factor now, as well as accumulated damage from AA. Troops losses are about 100 plus five guns. About 20 bombers are damaged or destroyed. In one sweep a single P-38 takes on the Tojos, downs one, and gets away.
4) Eniwetok gets swept, but the Buffalos have mostly returned to Wake. The Seabees dig.
5) Chungking again is tickled by air strikes. Don't know his thinking here right now. I'm blind out in the countryside. More troops could be coming, or the stack might just be resting.
6) Example air strike on secured Soerbaja. Not a good ROI to me.
Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104
Weather in hex: Severe storms
Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 25
G3M2 Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 31
Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 7 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed by flak
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged
No Allied losses
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1
7) The B-17s at Rabaul continue to rest and repair. Re-counted and full strike will be more like 48 planes. Some are 15-17 days out on repair; won't wait for them. Have daily search and recon of Truk from Rabaul. It's a highway.
8) Japan persists at Tavoy and the base falls. The defenders retreat north. They will march to join the Chinese, but may be caught from behind. Overall the Tavoy foray was a mistake at this phase of the war.
Ground combat at Tavoy (54,60)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 5725 troops, 37 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 199
Defending force 1599 troops, 13 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 28
Japanese adjusted assault: 172
Allied adjusted defense: 37
Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0)
Japanese forces CAPTURE Tavoy !!!
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)
Japanese ground losses:
67 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Allied ground losses:
442 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (18 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 1
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
Assaulting units:
19th Ind.Mixed Brigade
Defending units:
26th Indian Brigade
9) Building:
Dutch Harbor expands fortifications to size 6
Canton Island expands port to size 3
Agra expands airfield to size 3
Goa expands fortifications to size 3
Karachi expands port to size 7
Luganville expands fortifications to size 1
Kalemyo expands airfield to size 1
10) Interesting color commentary. Sometimes I just like the messages the game gives if you read the text reports:
--6 x DC-2 transporting supplies to Chungking (Hey! The rule does work from Ledo!)8 x DC-3 transporting supplies to Chungking
5 x C-33 transporting supplies to Chungking
8 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
17 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
14 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
11 x C-47 Skytrain transporting supplies to Chungking
--VMF-111 attains carrier trained status on Lexington (Ooh Rah!!)
--Pilot Lane M. is reported as having been found (Must now pay his gambling debts.)
--Accelerated training for 5 Chinese pilots from month-cycle 8
Accelerated training for 3 Soviet pilots from month-cycle 10 (This from ten pilots in TRACOM)
--No.12 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18 (Yay! How about some $%@* planes to fill out!?) [:)]
No.23 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18
No.24 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18
No.25 Sqn RAAF converting to size 12 from 18
8th PRS converting to size 16 from 13
9th PRS converting to size 16 from 13
71st OG/17th OS converting to size 12 from 13
69th OG/31st OS converting to size 12 from 13
86th OS converting to size 12 from 13
71st OG/110th OS converting to size 16 from 13
69th OG/115th OS converting to size 12 from 13
70th OG/116th OS converting to size 12 from 13
70th OG/123rd OS converting to size 16 from 13
3rd BG/13th BS converting to size 16 from 13
28th CG/21st BS converting to size 12 from 8
5th BG/23rd BS converting to size 12 from 8
11th BG/26th BS converting to size 12 from 8
30th BG/27th BS converting to size 12 from 8
5th BG/31st BS converting to size 12 from 8
28th CG/36th BS converting to size 12 from 8
30th BG/38th BS converting to size 12 from 8
11th BG/42nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
41st BG/46th BS converting to size 16 from 13
41st BG/47th BS converting to size 16 from 13
41st BG/48th BS converting to size 16 from 13
58th BS converting to size 16 from 13
38th BG/70th BS converting to size 16 from 13
5th BG/72nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
28th CG/73rd BS converting to size 16 from 13
42nd BG/75th BS converting to size 16 from 13
28th CG/77th BS converting to size 16 from 13
3rd BG/89th BS converting to size 16 from 13
11th BG/98th BS converting to size 12 from 8
307th BG/370th BS converting to size 12 from 8
307th BG/371st BS converting to size 12 from 8
307th BG/372nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/373rd BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/374th BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/375th BS converting to size 12 from 8
42nd BG/390th BS converting to size 16 from 13
30th BG/392nd BS converting to size 12 from 8
5th BG/394th BS converting to size 12 from 8
41st BG/396th BS converting to size 16 from 13
28th CG/404th BS converting to size 12 from 8
28th CG/406th BS converting to size 16 from 13
22nd BG/408th BS converting to size 16 from 13
307th BG/424th BS converting to size 12 from 8
308th BG/425th BS converting to size 12 from 8
11th BG/431st BG converting to size 12 from 8
--Unit '159th Mot Infantry' changes name to '159th(Sep) Infantry' ("New stationary for the General! Stat!")
Unit '3rd Burma Rifles' changes name to '1st Burma'
Unit '4th Burma Rifles' changes name to '2nd Burma'
Unit '6th Burma Rifles' changes name to '3rd Burma'
Unit '10th Burma Rifles' changes name to '5th Burma'
Unit '1st Burma' changes name to '39th Indian'
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
August 1, 1942
Japan Strikes First
Playing the AI, I always thought that August 1 was an important date. Some think 1/1/43, but by the first of August I usually felt as if I had recovered the momentum lost on 12/7 and could credibly defend myself everywhere even if major campaigns were too hard. This game has gone far differently than any AI game, but in it I feel as if the wheels are back on the bus, even a little in the air war. I'm about to start getting P-38s in usable numbers, and a month from the P-40K. Today I saw my first Zero M3 models, but even so the air war isn't as hopeless as it was 60 days ago. Here and there I'm able to afford a bit of escort for bombers, which helps accuracy a great deal.
1) Mostly the turn was troop attack after troop attack, and AF attack after AF attack. I won't detail them; they were in the usual places with the usual results. Japan is steadily drawing ahead in the loss ratio, and a lot are 2Es, with the HI implications of that. At Rangoon three P-38s faced over 25 sweepers including Tojos and new model Zeroes. Two were lost, but they downed a couple of their own. Three Liberators try to bomb Rangoon port after recon showed merchants disbanded there. Two are lost for some port damage. Three B-17s do the same from Chittagong and score minor damage for one Fort lost.
2) Two PTs from Soerbaja sortie on Banjo. where a large transport TF was sighted. No hits, but the TF is forced to get underway and the attack provides a solid DL for follow-on air strikes with everything at Soerbaja capable of hitting ships. Two 500 lbs bombs are put into a large xAP and sunk ship noises heard. The LCU lost looks like a base unit of some kind.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 11,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Nowaki
DMS W-19
DMS W-20
xAP Kamakura Maru
xAP Argentina Maru
xAP Hakusan Maru
E Uruyame
DMS Taneko
Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-15
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Banjoewangi at 57,107
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 2
Allied aircraft
Beaufort V x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort V: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAP Argentina Maru
xAP Kamakura Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
Japanese ground losses:
174 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Banjoewangi at 57,107
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 1
Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9
P-38E Lightning x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed by flak
Japanese Ships
xAP Hakusan Maru
xAP Kamakura Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAP Argentina Maru
Japanese ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3) To mix it up I put a full squadron of Cats at Rabaul on max range torpedo naval. Too far, as CAP at Truk intercepts and shoots one down, but I plan to do this sometimes at shorter range to close the gaps north of Rabaul. The B-17s are almost ready to fly.
4) ASW action at Eniwetok by an IJN TF sitting in the harbor waiting for the landing. Nothing hit. More subs are now local to Eniwetok. The landing will be tomorrow or the next day. Netty strikes shifted to anti-troop today from AF/supply attacks. Very minor damage and 5 casualties.
Perch shoots at the biggest AO I've ever seen near Roi-Namur, and duds. Three AOs in TF headed west.
5) At the end of the day it looks like Japan decides that all the massive troop bombing at Rangoon must have taken those guys out of the war. There is no indication at all that Japan sees what's approaching Pegu. Instead it attacks the Rangoon stack, gets bad odds, burns up a lot of supply, and sets the table for Pegu in two days most likely.
Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 73263 troops, 920 guns, 1617 vehicles, Assault Value = 3237
Defending force 90099 troops, 954 guns, 1200 vehicles, Assault Value = 3283
Japanese adjusted assault: 1780
Allied adjusted defense: 6009
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
10390 casualties reported
Squads: 76 destroyed, 613 disabled
Non Combat: 57 destroyed, 69 disabled
Engineers: 68 destroyed, 59 disabled
Guns lost 57 (16 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 100 (9 destroyed, 91 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
2576 casualties reported
Squads: 71 destroyed, 163 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 25 (4 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Vehicles lost 45 (37 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
7th RTA Division
55th Engineer Regiment
I./143rd Infantry Battalion
112th Infantry Regiment
22nd Recon Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
7th Ind.Tank Brigade
5th Amphibious Brigade
Guards Tank Division
6th Tank Regiment
17th Indpt Guards Regiment
3rd RTA Division
21st Division
2nd RTA Division
4th Division
4th RTA Division
27th Electric Engineer Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
II./143rd Infantry Battalion
3rd Militia Regiment
56th Const Co
28th Field AA Machinecannon Company
40th Field AA Battalion
22nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Field AF Construction Battalion
3rd Army
55th Field AA Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
4th RF Gun Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
57th Field AA Battalion
7th JAAF Base Force
30th Fld AA Gun Co
15th Army
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
46th Road Const Co
26th Air Flotilla
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
15th JAAF AF Bn
4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
47th Road Const Co
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
23rd Field AA Machinecannon Company
91st JAAF AF Bn
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
29th JAAF AF Coy
Defending units:
2nd Hyder Lancers Regiment
60th Chinese Corps
150th RAC Regiment
23rd Indian Division
45th Recce Regiment
54th Chinese Corps
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
23rd British Brigade
16th British Brigade
14th British Brigade
7th Indian Division
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
24th Chinese Corps
75th Indian Brigade
20th Indian Division
26th Indian Division
7th Australian Division
95th Chinese Corps
AHQ Bengal
107th RAF Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
No Night Bombing Today
Japan Strikes First
Playing the AI, I always thought that August 1 was an important date. Some think 1/1/43, but by the first of August I usually felt as if I had recovered the momentum lost on 12/7 and could credibly defend myself everywhere even if major campaigns were too hard. This game has gone far differently than any AI game, but in it I feel as if the wheels are back on the bus, even a little in the air war. I'm about to start getting P-38s in usable numbers, and a month from the P-40K. Today I saw my first Zero M3 models, but even so the air war isn't as hopeless as it was 60 days ago. Here and there I'm able to afford a bit of escort for bombers, which helps accuracy a great deal.
1) Mostly the turn was troop attack after troop attack, and AF attack after AF attack. I won't detail them; they were in the usual places with the usual results. Japan is steadily drawing ahead in the loss ratio, and a lot are 2Es, with the HI implications of that. At Rangoon three P-38s faced over 25 sweepers including Tojos and new model Zeroes. Two were lost, but they downed a couple of their own. Three Liberators try to bomb Rangoon port after recon showed merchants disbanded there. Two are lost for some port damage. Three B-17s do the same from Chittagong and score minor damage for one Fort lost.
2) Two PTs from Soerbaja sortie on Banjo. where a large transport TF was sighted. No hits, but the TF is forced to get underway and the attack provides a solid DL for follow-on air strikes with everything at Soerbaja capable of hitting ships. Two 500 lbs bombs are put into a large xAP and sunk ship noises heard. The LCU lost looks like a base unit of some kind.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 11,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Nowaki
DMS W-19
DMS W-20
xAP Kamakura Maru
xAP Argentina Maru
xAP Hakusan Maru
E Uruyame
DMS Taneko
Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-15
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Banjoewangi at 57,107
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 2
Allied aircraft
Beaufort V x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort V: 2 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAP Argentina Maru
xAP Kamakura Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
Japanese ground losses:
174 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 24 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Banjoewangi at 57,107
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 1
Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 9
P-38E Lightning x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed by flak
Japanese Ships
xAP Hakusan Maru
xAP Kamakura Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAP Argentina Maru
Japanese ground losses:
103 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 11 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 100 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3) To mix it up I put a full squadron of Cats at Rabaul on max range torpedo naval. Too far, as CAP at Truk intercepts and shoots one down, but I plan to do this sometimes at shorter range to close the gaps north of Rabaul. The B-17s are almost ready to fly.
4) ASW action at Eniwetok by an IJN TF sitting in the harbor waiting for the landing. Nothing hit. More subs are now local to Eniwetok. The landing will be tomorrow or the next day. Netty strikes shifted to anti-troop today from AF/supply attacks. Very minor damage and 5 casualties.
Perch shoots at the biggest AO I've ever seen near Roi-Namur, and duds. Three AOs in TF headed west.
5) At the end of the day it looks like Japan decides that all the massive troop bombing at Rangoon must have taken those guys out of the war. There is no indication at all that Japan sees what's approaching Pegu. Instead it attacks the Rangoon stack, gets bad odds, burns up a lot of supply, and sets the table for Pegu in two days most likely.
Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 73263 troops, 920 guns, 1617 vehicles, Assault Value = 3237
Defending force 90099 troops, 954 guns, 1200 vehicles, Assault Value = 3283
Japanese adjusted assault: 1780
Allied adjusted defense: 6009
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
10390 casualties reported
Squads: 76 destroyed, 613 disabled
Non Combat: 57 destroyed, 69 disabled
Engineers: 68 destroyed, 59 disabled
Guns lost 57 (16 destroyed, 41 disabled)
Vehicles lost 100 (9 destroyed, 91 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
2576 casualties reported
Squads: 71 destroyed, 163 disabled
Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 28 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 25 (4 destroyed, 21 disabled)
Vehicles lost 45 (37 destroyed, 8 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
7th RTA Division
55th Engineer Regiment
I./143rd Infantry Battalion
112th Infantry Regiment
22nd Recon Regiment
Imperial Guards Division
7th Ind.Tank Brigade
5th Amphibious Brigade
Guards Tank Division
6th Tank Regiment
17th Indpt Guards Regiment
3rd RTA Division
21st Division
2nd RTA Division
4th Division
4th RTA Division
27th Electric Engineer Regiment
14th Tank Regiment
II./143rd Infantry Battalion
3rd Militia Regiment
56th Const Co
28th Field AA Machinecannon Company
40th Field AA Battalion
22nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
9th Field AF Construction Battalion
3rd Army
55th Field AA Battalion
21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
4th RF Gun Battalion
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
57th Field AA Battalion
7th JAAF Base Force
30th Fld AA Gun Co
15th Army
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
46th Road Const Co
26th Air Flotilla
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
15th JAAF AF Bn
4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
47th Road Const Co
55th Mountain Gun Regiment
4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
23rd Field AA Machinecannon Company
91st JAAF AF Bn
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
29th JAAF AF Coy
Defending units:
2nd Hyder Lancers Regiment
60th Chinese Corps
150th RAC Regiment
23rd Indian Division
45th Recce Regiment
54th Chinese Corps
16th Light Cavalry Regiment
23rd British Brigade
16th British Brigade
14th British Brigade
7th Indian Division
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
24th Chinese Corps
75th Indian Brigade
20th Indian Division
26th Indian Division
7th Australian Division
95th Chinese Corps
AHQ Bengal
107th RAF Base Force
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
August 2, 1942
Pegu Stack Is Seen
1) Up north, Dutch Harbor sub squadron continues to harass as S-44 puts a fish into xAK Nissan Maru north of Wakkanai.
2) Dense subs around Eniwetok spar with incoming TFs. Drum encounters this one, but misses with four torpedoes. This could be a bombardment group for Eniwetok, Wake, or Roi-Namur, or a support SAG.
ASW attack near Eniwetok at 124,107
Japanese Ships
DD Ikazuchi
BB Yamashiro
BB Mutsu
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CS Nisshin
DD Suzukaze
DD Usugumo
DD Fubuki
Allied Ships
SS Drum
3) Guardfish attacks a previously unseen landing force. The one with the LSD is not sighted today.
Sub attack near Eniwetok at 126,109
Japanese Ships
xAP Manzyu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Sakito Maru
xAP Naminoue Maru
xAP Huso Maru
xAP Kanzyu Maru
xAP Mizuho Maru
xAK Nako Maru
xAK Kashii Maru
xAK Sydney Maru
DD Shikinami
Allied Ships
SS Guardfish
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
4) Eniwetok is swept multiple times (no CAP) and 2Es troop bomb again. 18 casualties. Forts are about 20% from leveling; the Seabees are making 8% per day. It'll be close.
5) The ghosts of SNAGGLEPUSS make me smile a little. A dedicated TF lands on Bikini, taking 192 casualties in the landing. All that's there are a few Support squads of Paras; all the shooters were withdrawn. There's no supply. Japan uses two DDs and an xAK to land 88th Naval Guard unit that will need on-going supply again. The base falls to the Shock attack; 44 men surrender. I guess Mike likes a tidy island chain. [:)]
6) At Rangoon a 25-ship bombardment group blasts away from the harbor on the Allied stack. 25 total casualties ashore. I think this force has been there all along, which means it's re-arming from Rangoon supply. A lot of shells for not much.
7) The Pegu-bound stack is attacked three times with medium-size 2E raids. About 100 casualties. It's marching in Combat so there's no mode knock. At the start of the turn it was 18 miles from the objective.
A force of about 500 AV is moving independently down the road parallel to the main road from Toungoo. It could cross the river to threaten Chiang Mai or move to secure the hexside north of Pegu on the road once the stack moves into the city. I'm leaning toward the latter.
8) Two Soerbaja PTs move to Banjo to attack the TF still unloading. Battle is declined, but the PTs run into this on the way home. Akagi/Kaga datum re-established. I think these guys are headed to the IO to support Rangoon. Today Wasp is fully repaired at Colombo, and two RN carriers are almost well. Another RN BB (Valiant) has joined the fleet there, and the CAs are nearly ready.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Pamekasan at 58,106, Range 24,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CV Kaga
CV Akagi
CS Chitose
BB Hiei
BB Ise
CA Atago
CA Chokai
DD Tanikaze
DD Minegumo
DD Asagumo
DD Suresushio
Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-15
9) Many AOs seen in Truk harbor and unknown number of ships disbanded, so the B-17s are ordered to go. The raid is fairly successful. Two B-17s are lost on the way home. The ARD hit is perhaps the most significant. I think it's the only yard between the Marshalls and the HI for major flooding repair.
Morning Air attack on Truk , at 112,108
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 25
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 7 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Shinkoku Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Ashigara, Bomb hits 2
xAK Nittai Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
ARD Dublon ARD, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS I-168, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
Port hits 2
Night Bombing
--three B-26 attacks on Rangoon AF do not fly
Pegu Stack Is Seen
1) Up north, Dutch Harbor sub squadron continues to harass as S-44 puts a fish into xAK Nissan Maru north of Wakkanai.
2) Dense subs around Eniwetok spar with incoming TFs. Drum encounters this one, but misses with four torpedoes. This could be a bombardment group for Eniwetok, Wake, or Roi-Namur, or a support SAG.
ASW attack near Eniwetok at 124,107
Japanese Ships
DD Ikazuchi
BB Yamashiro
BB Mutsu
CA Kinugasa
CA Aoba
CS Nisshin
DD Suzukaze
DD Usugumo
DD Fubuki
Allied Ships
SS Drum
3) Guardfish attacks a previously unseen landing force. The one with the LSD is not sighted today.
Sub attack near Eniwetok at 126,109
Japanese Ships
xAP Manzyu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Sakito Maru
xAP Naminoue Maru
xAP Huso Maru
xAP Kanzyu Maru
xAP Mizuho Maru
xAK Nako Maru
xAK Kashii Maru
xAK Sydney Maru
DD Shikinami
Allied Ships
SS Guardfish
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
4) Eniwetok is swept multiple times (no CAP) and 2Es troop bomb again. 18 casualties. Forts are about 20% from leveling; the Seabees are making 8% per day. It'll be close.
5) The ghosts of SNAGGLEPUSS make me smile a little. A dedicated TF lands on Bikini, taking 192 casualties in the landing. All that's there are a few Support squads of Paras; all the shooters were withdrawn. There's no supply. Japan uses two DDs and an xAK to land 88th Naval Guard unit that will need on-going supply again. The base falls to the Shock attack; 44 men surrender. I guess Mike likes a tidy island chain. [:)]
6) At Rangoon a 25-ship bombardment group blasts away from the harbor on the Allied stack. 25 total casualties ashore. I think this force has been there all along, which means it's re-arming from Rangoon supply. A lot of shells for not much.
7) The Pegu-bound stack is attacked three times with medium-size 2E raids. About 100 casualties. It's marching in Combat so there's no mode knock. At the start of the turn it was 18 miles from the objective.
A force of about 500 AV is moving independently down the road parallel to the main road from Toungoo. It could cross the river to threaten Chiang Mai or move to secure the hexside north of Pegu on the road once the stack moves into the city. I'm leaning toward the latter.
8) Two Soerbaja PTs move to Banjo to attack the TF still unloading. Battle is declined, but the PTs run into this on the way home. Akagi/Kaga datum re-established. I think these guys are headed to the IO to support Rangoon. Today Wasp is fully repaired at Colombo, and two RN carriers are almost well. Another RN BB (Valiant) has joined the fleet there, and the CAs are nearly ready.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Pamekasan at 58,106, Range 24,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CV Kaga
CV Akagi
CS Chitose
BB Hiei
BB Ise
CA Atago
CA Chokai
DD Tanikaze
DD Minegumo
DD Asagumo
DD Suresushio
Allied Ships
PT TM-10
PT TM-15
9) Many AOs seen in Truk harbor and unknown number of ships disbanded, so the B-17s are ordered to go. The raid is fairly successful. Two B-17s are lost on the way home. The ARD hit is perhaps the most significant. I think it's the only yard between the Marshalls and the HI for major flooding repair.
Morning Air attack on Truk , at 112,108
Weather in hex: Heavy cloud
Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 30
Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 25
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 7 damaged
Japanese Ships
xAK Shinkoku Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Ashigara, Bomb hits 2
xAK Nittai Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
ARD Dublon ARD, Bomb hits 1, on fire
SS I-168, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
Port hits 2
Night Bombing
--three B-26 attacks on Rangoon AF do not fly
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
August 3, 1942
The Rock of Eniwetok
Mike's work schedule is playing havoc with the game. We got in a turn. Today he is off to a training evolution and we may not get another until next week. My other game is hurtling along (already in January 1942) so I'm getting my AE fix. But this one has a lot of interesting things about to happen.
1) Marshalls. Busy, busy. In the night phase the landings at Eniwetok begin. As expected from intel it's at least a big piece of the 52 ID. With a combat engineer unit. Japanese casualties seem to indicate poor prep. This will factor in later. There is no heavy bombardment. Perhaps he thinks the bombing did enough.
Pre-Invasion action off Eniwetok (127,108)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
143 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Shikinami
AMC Saigon Maru
Japanese ground losses:
164 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
--And the second wave
Amphibious Assault at Eniwetok (127,108)
TF 47 troops unloading over beach at Eniwetok, 127,108
Japanese ground losses:
1187 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 97 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 39 (0 destroyed, 39 disabled)
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 52nd Div /5
18 troops of a IJA Engineer Squad accidentally lost during unload of 8th Engr Rgt
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 52nd Div /13
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 52nd Div /13
--USS Wahoo, my favorite sub right now, shoots four and misses at the beach. Subs are pretty thick here. Dolphin attack sin the PM and takes light damage.
--CD fire kicks in
Invasion Support action off Eniwetok (127,108)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
69 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Amatsukaze
AMC Saigon Maru
DD Shikinami
Japanese ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
--During the day phases light air hits the island, but accomplishes little.
Morning Air attack on 148th Infantry Regiment, at 127,108 (Eniwetok)
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
G3M2 Nell x 17
No Japanese losses
--PM unload meets CD as well
Invasion Support action off Eniwetok (127,108)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
131 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AMC Saigon Maru
DD Shikinami
Japanese ground losses:
118 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
--The Shock attack is an utter disaster for Japan. Maybe the worst ratio I've ever seen. Forts are a huge factor; they did not reach Level 4 for this turn. They were at 98%. The AV on the island is tiny; really just pieces of the para units and less than half the regiment, much of which is on Roi-Namur, trapped. As above, I think prep was low, and fatigue from ship time might have also been a factor. But the attack is bad for Japan.
Ground combat at Eniwetok (127,108)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 6922 troops, 94 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 262
Defending force 4894 troops, 67 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 119
Japanese adjusted assault: 0
Allied adjusted defense: 88
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), supply(-)
Japanese ground losses:
8829 casualties reported
Squads: 251 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 60 disabled
Engineers: 68 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 86 (86 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
52nd Division
8th Engr Rgt /1
Defending units:
148th Infantry Regiment
1st USMC Parachute Battalion
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
3rd USMC Parachute Battalion
804th Engineer Aviation Battalion
3rd USN Naval Construction Battalion
33rd Aviation Base Force
7th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2) SNAGGLEPUSS remnants
--Another nice action in a ratio sense. Four fat xAKs unload at dot base Ailinglaplap south of Kwajalein. It was held by 45 men with light sub-delivered supplies. Japan loses 210 men in the landing, and 120 more in the Shock attack by Sasebo 8th SNLF.
3) Japan has for sure seen the Pegu force coming now. Franitc levels of heavy bombing cost about 450 casualties. I hope they're there tomorrow. A typical attack:
Afternoon Air attack on 15th/1st Punjab Battalion, at 56,52 , near Pegu
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14
Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 2
Hurricane IIb Trop x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed
No Allied losses
Allied ground losses:
98 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
4) Rangoon is bombarded again by the "harbor horde". Mostly DDs. Allied casualties 35 men.
5) The Akagi/Kaga TF hangs around near Soerbaja. It is approached by PTs again, but no shooting.
6) Ten B-17s from Rabaul hit Truk, but the ships have been cleared out and only a few port hits are recorded. Fairly heavy CAP.
7) Building:
Eniwetok expands fortifications to size 4
Johnston Island expands port to size 2
Ledo expands airfield to size 6
8) Confirmation on one CVE sunk in the June 20th battle in the Marshalls. Hosho (?) I think.
Night Bombing
Night Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
Wellington Ic x 3
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington Ic: 2 damaged
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed by flak
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Wellington Ic bombing from 1000 feet
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 1000 feet
City Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb
I am going to suspend posting Night Bombing results for now. I think I have made my point that they are not overpowered, at least in 1942 with small numbers of planes. They rarely do enough non-Manpower damage to justify the missions.
The Rock of Eniwetok
Mike's work schedule is playing havoc with the game. We got in a turn. Today he is off to a training evolution and we may not get another until next week. My other game is hurtling along (already in January 1942) so I'm getting my AE fix. But this one has a lot of interesting things about to happen.
1) Marshalls. Busy, busy. In the night phase the landings at Eniwetok begin. As expected from intel it's at least a big piece of the 52 ID. With a combat engineer unit. Japanese casualties seem to indicate poor prep. This will factor in later. There is no heavy bombardment. Perhaps he thinks the bombing did enough.
Pre-Invasion action off Eniwetok (127,108)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
143 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Shikinami
AMC Saigon Maru
Japanese ground losses:
164 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
--And the second wave
Amphibious Assault at Eniwetok (127,108)
TF 47 troops unloading over beach at Eniwetok, 127,108
Japanese ground losses:
1187 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 97 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 39 (0 destroyed, 39 disabled)
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 52nd Div /5
18 troops of a IJA Engineer Squad accidentally lost during unload of 8th Engr Rgt
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 52nd Div /13
17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 52nd Div /13
--USS Wahoo, my favorite sub right now, shoots four and misses at the beach. Subs are pretty thick here. Dolphin attack sin the PM and takes light damage.
--CD fire kicks in
Invasion Support action off Eniwetok (127,108)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
69 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
DD Amatsukaze
AMC Saigon Maru
DD Shikinami
Japanese ground losses:
52 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
--During the day phases light air hits the island, but accomplishes little.
Morning Air attack on 148th Infantry Regiment, at 127,108 (Eniwetok)
Weather in hex: Heavy rain
Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 7
G3M2 Nell x 17
No Japanese losses
--PM unload meets CD as well
Invasion Support action off Eniwetok (127,108)
Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force
131 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
AMC Saigon Maru
DD Shikinami
Japanese ground losses:
118 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
--The Shock attack is an utter disaster for Japan. Maybe the worst ratio I've ever seen. Forts are a huge factor; they did not reach Level 4 for this turn. They were at 98%. The AV on the island is tiny; really just pieces of the para units and less than half the regiment, much of which is on Roi-Namur, trapped. As above, I think prep was low, and fatigue from ship time might have also been a factor. But the attack is bad for Japan.
Ground combat at Eniwetok (127,108)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 6922 troops, 94 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 262
Defending force 4894 troops, 67 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 119
Japanese adjusted assault: 0
Allied adjusted defense: 88
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), supply(-)
Japanese ground losses:
8829 casualties reported
Squads: 251 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 60 disabled
Engineers: 68 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 86 (86 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Assaulting units:
52nd Division
8th Engr Rgt /1
Defending units:
148th Infantry Regiment
1st USMC Parachute Battalion
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
3rd USMC Parachute Battalion
804th Engineer Aviation Battalion
3rd USN Naval Construction Battalion
33rd Aviation Base Force
7th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2) SNAGGLEPUSS remnants
--Another nice action in a ratio sense. Four fat xAKs unload at dot base Ailinglaplap south of Kwajalein. It was held by 45 men with light sub-delivered supplies. Japan loses 210 men in the landing, and 120 more in the Shock attack by Sasebo 8th SNLF.
3) Japan has for sure seen the Pegu force coming now. Franitc levels of heavy bombing cost about 450 casualties. I hope they're there tomorrow. A typical attack:
Afternoon Air attack on 15th/1st Punjab Battalion, at 56,52 , near Pegu
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes
Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14
Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 2
Hurricane IIb Trop x 1
Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed
No Allied losses
Allied ground losses:
98 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
4) Rangoon is bombarded again by the "harbor horde". Mostly DDs. Allied casualties 35 men.
5) The Akagi/Kaga TF hangs around near Soerbaja. It is approached by PTs again, but no shooting.
6) Ten B-17s from Rabaul hit Truk, but the ships have been cleared out and only a few port hits are recorded. Fairly heavy CAP.
7) Building:
Eniwetok expands fortifications to size 4
Johnston Island expands port to size 2
Ledo expands airfield to size 6
8) Confirmation on one CVE sunk in the June 20th battle in the Marshalls. Hosho (?) I think.
Night Bombing
Night Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes
Allied aircraft
Wellington Ic x 3
Allied aircraft losses
Wellington Ic: 2 damaged
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed by flak
Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Wellington Ic bombing from 1000 feet
City Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
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Night Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53
Weather in hex: Light rain
Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes
Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 3
Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 1000 feet
City Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb
I am going to suspend posting Night Bombing results for now. I think I have made my point that they are not overpowered, at least in 1942 with small numbers of planes. They rarely do enough non-Manpower damage to justify the missions.
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Atoll landings as the Japanese are bad mojo. Atolls are nasty, nasty business and I wouldn´t want to try it not having the allied specialised shipping. In my DBB game my opponent has wrecked two good IDs against Tarawa held by a Marine RGT! [:'(]
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[quote]ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58
--USS Wahoo, my favorite sub right now, shoots four and misses at the beach. Subs are pretty thick here. Dolphin attack sin the PM and takes light damage.
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Moose,
If you have never had an opportunity to read this:
http://www.amazon.com/Bravest-Man-Richa ... e+uss+tang
I highly recommend it.
O'Kane was the exec on Wahoo, I believe under Kennedy(? not certain) Wahoo's first skipper and then under Mush Morton before he took command of Tang.
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ORIGINAL: JocMeister
Atoll landings as the Japanese are bad mojo. Atolls are nasty, nasty business and I wouldn´t want to try it not having the allied specialised shipping. In my DBB game my opponent has wrecked two good IDs against Tarawa held by a Marine RGT! [:'(]
I have 1st and 2nd USMC Divisions prepped 100% for Kwaj. I would have gone there after Roi-Namur if SNAGGLEPUSS had not gotten such a heavy response. With arty, engineers, and BB bombardment. Even then it would have been a blood-bath without LSTs/APAs/AKAs. Almost glad things went down like they did.
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Thanks for the reference. I had not heard of this book. I read O'Kane's autobiography, "Clear The Bridge" long ago (and still have it.) It is pretty dry and written more for a submariner reader audience. This one sounds more general market. I dimly recall he made one (?) patrol with Morton's predecessor, an undistinguished skipper, and only came into his own under Morton's tutelage. One very important detail in their teamwork made O'Kane the CO he later became. Morton believed that the XO should act as Approach Officer on the scope while the CO ran the whole boat's efforts from the conning tower. He saw the AO's role as more mechanical--taking observations--while the CO should fight the ship and not just the fire-control party. Thus O'Kane had several patrols'-worth of scope time by the time be became a CO. He did not follow Morton's philosophy when he had command.
There's a great quote in one of the reviews of the book which illustrates why so many pre-war COs failed in wartime patrols. O'Kane said:
"It's a big ocean. You don't have to find the enemy if you don't want to."
A big reason I like Wahoo is its name is one of the two names for my undergraduate sports teams. [:)] When USS Bluegill appears it takes over the spot as that was my dad's boat in her later, Guppy phase. I spent many happy hours as a small child running around on her at the pier in Pearl Harbor, including one memorable Christmas in the forward TR with a diesel-smelling torpedoman dressed as Santa and me straddling a Mk 14 warshot with my fat little legs.
There's a great quote in one of the reviews of the book which illustrates why so many pre-war COs failed in wartime patrols. O'Kane said:
"It's a big ocean. You don't have to find the enemy if you don't want to."
A big reason I like Wahoo is its name is one of the two names for my undergraduate sports teams. [:)] When USS Bluegill appears it takes over the spot as that was my dad's boat in her later, Guppy phase. I spent many happy hours as a small child running around on her at the pier in Pearl Harbor, including one memorable Christmas in the forward TR with a diesel-smelling torpedoman dressed as Santa and me straddling a Mk 14 warshot with my fat little legs.
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RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
If you have a photo you can scan and post that would be great to see. [8D]including one memorable Christmas in the forward TR with a diesel-smelling torpedoman dressed as Santa and me straddling a Mk 14 warshot
(In fact, I bet it would go viral across the Internet.)
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ORIGINAL: witpqs
If you have a photo you can scan and post that would be great to see. [8D]including one memorable Christmas in the forward TR with a diesel-smelling torpedoman dressed as Santa and me straddling a Mk 14 warshot
(In fact, I bet it would go viral across the Internet.)
It would break the Internet. [:)]
No photos that I know about. We were poor people in those days. Few photos of the two oldest kids exist. My sister? Yeah, she got albums full. [:'(]
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This is from a few years before. Christmas morning 1959 I think. My dad had duty the night before, but he was a good sport I'm told. At least I was not immediately destroyed, to quote Ralpie Red Ryder BB Gun.
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August 4, 1942
"Thank you, sir! May I have another!?"
Movie email arrives with Mike grousing a lot about Eniwetok. I sent a sympathetic reply, but I'm sure it doesn't help much. I see his AAR is getting responses from very good players, which helps more. Aside from the tactical considerations of prep, forts, bombardment, and successive shock attacks is the bigger question of "why Eniwetok?" I can't do much there for at least six months. It is under a strong air umbrella from Kwaj, Roi-Namur, and Ponape. It's an irritant at best. It was going to be a fulcrum base for further operations in the Marshalls, but the loss of three carriers and lack of air assets has ended that plan for now. Why not let it rot? Especially when PBang and Soerbaja need to be taken real soon now?
1) Japan continues to unload at Eniwetok, losing about 300 more men in the surf and to up to 153 shore guns shooting at landing craft. The LCUs still are only the 52nd ID and a combat engineer unit. Forts went to 4 at the end of the last turn, so the Shock attack is a terrible sight for Japan. The combat engineers evaporate, making further operations on the Forts a no-go. The US did not counter-attack except a bombardment which showed it was the engineers which were destroyed. Will keep the powder dry as the AV is very fragile. Forts work for now.
Ground combat at Eniwetok (127,108)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 4171 troops, 49 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Defending force 4890 troops, 67 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 119
Japanese adjusted assault: 0
Allied adjusted defense: 125
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 4)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
1957 casualties reported
Squads: 35 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 49 destroyed, 117 disabled
Engineers: 37 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
52nd Division
8th Engineer Regiment
Defending units:
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
1st USMC Parachute Battalion
148th Infantry Regiment
3rd USMC Parachute Battalion
33rd Aviation Base Force
3rd USN Naval Construction Battalion
804th Engineer Aviation Battalion
7th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2) Japan does a gotcha at Eniwetok though. Two CMs are seen and sub-attacked leaving. USS Tautog hits one in the harbor, doing 38 float damage. Turnabout time: PB Kyo Maru #10 also hits one of its own mines. Will need to pull the subs outside for now. The island won't need re-supply for weeks unless a sustained air campaign is waged.
3) Twin PTs from Soerbaja attack the Akagi/Kaga TF SE of there again. No hits, but this is an odd place to park two fleet carriers. USS Shark shoots at Kaga and misses as well.
4) The Pegu stack is bombed for about 400 casualties. It should reach Pegu next turn and will attack immediately. The Rangoon stack also takes some hits.
Allied 2Es hit the defenders at Pegu. Several B-26s are lost for two dozen casualties.
5) One of three Chinese corps makes Moulmein and a battle ensues. The Chinese hang in there. The other two are at least four days away, so this solo effort might not hold. The Allies have solid intel of what's at Moulmein now. It is a fairly substantial force.
Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 24575 troops, 206 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 663
Defending force 5891 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 257
Japanese adjusted assault: 825
Allied adjusted defense: 77
Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
380 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1126 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 108 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Assaulting units:
13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
57th Division
50th Field AA Battalion
3rd Provisional Base Force
22nd Field AA Machinecannon Company
1st Provisional Base Force
Defending units:
55th Chinese Corps
"Thank you, sir! May I have another!?"
Movie email arrives with Mike grousing a lot about Eniwetok. I sent a sympathetic reply, but I'm sure it doesn't help much. I see his AAR is getting responses from very good players, which helps more. Aside from the tactical considerations of prep, forts, bombardment, and successive shock attacks is the bigger question of "why Eniwetok?" I can't do much there for at least six months. It is under a strong air umbrella from Kwaj, Roi-Namur, and Ponape. It's an irritant at best. It was going to be a fulcrum base for further operations in the Marshalls, but the loss of three carriers and lack of air assets has ended that plan for now. Why not let it rot? Especially when PBang and Soerbaja need to be taken real soon now?
1) Japan continues to unload at Eniwetok, losing about 300 more men in the surf and to up to 153 shore guns shooting at landing craft. The LCUs still are only the 52nd ID and a combat engineer unit. Forts went to 4 at the end of the last turn, so the Shock attack is a terrible sight for Japan. The combat engineers evaporate, making further operations on the Forts a no-go. The US did not counter-attack except a bombardment which showed it was the engineers which were destroyed. Will keep the powder dry as the AV is very fragile. Forts work for now.
Ground combat at Eniwetok (127,108)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 4171 troops, 49 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40
Defending force 4890 troops, 67 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 119
Japanese adjusted assault: 0
Allied adjusted defense: 125
Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 4)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)
Japanese ground losses:
1957 casualties reported
Squads: 35 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 49 destroyed, 117 disabled
Engineers: 37 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1
Assaulting units:
52nd Division
8th Engineer Regiment
Defending units:
102nd Combat Engineer Regiment
1st USMC Parachute Battalion
148th Infantry Regiment
3rd USMC Parachute Battalion
33rd Aviation Base Force
3rd USN Naval Construction Battalion
804th Engineer Aviation Battalion
7th USN Naval Construction Battalion
2) Japan does a gotcha at Eniwetok though. Two CMs are seen and sub-attacked leaving. USS Tautog hits one in the harbor, doing 38 float damage. Turnabout time: PB Kyo Maru #10 also hits one of its own mines. Will need to pull the subs outside for now. The island won't need re-supply for weeks unless a sustained air campaign is waged.
3) Twin PTs from Soerbaja attack the Akagi/Kaga TF SE of there again. No hits, but this is an odd place to park two fleet carriers. USS Shark shoots at Kaga and misses as well.
4) The Pegu stack is bombed for about 400 casualties. It should reach Pegu next turn and will attack immediately. The Rangoon stack also takes some hits.
Allied 2Es hit the defenders at Pegu. Several B-26s are lost for two dozen casualties.
5) One of three Chinese corps makes Moulmein and a battle ensues. The Chinese hang in there. The other two are at least four days away, so this solo effort might not hold. The Allies have solid intel of what's at Moulmein now. It is a fairly substantial force.
Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55)
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 24575 troops, 206 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 663
Defending force 5891 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 257
Japanese adjusted assault: 825
Allied adjusted defense: 77
Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+)
Japanese ground losses:
380 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Allied ground losses:
1126 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 108 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled
Guns lost 27 (2 destroyed, 25 disabled)
Assaulting units:
13th Ind.Mixed Brigade
57th Division
50th Field AA Battalion
3rd Provisional Base Force
22nd Field AA Machinecannon Company
1st Provisional Base Force
Defending units:
55th Chinese Corps
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August 5, 1942
Bloody Day
I wanted to see what would happen if the Chinese were devoted to Burma. I'm seeing. Let's call it a learning experience.
1) Burma first, although not the only interesting sector today. The Big Stack reaches Pegu overnight and is ordered to attack. Supply is all good, nearly full. Fatigue averages in the mid-20s, higher than I would like, but the bombing rate doesn't allow for a lot of hanging around. (Today over 1000 casualties from bombing.) I considered futzing around with Reserve settings and decided not to. Also considered a shock, but I have no idea of Forts, and the stack is very short of everything except Chinese infantry and HQs. So we go.
Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 172120 troops, 1241 guns, 194 vehicles, Assault Value = 7082
Defending force 67600 troops, 637 guns, 185 vehicles, Assault Value = 2259
Allied adjusted assault: 2094
Japanese adjusted defense: 3136
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2764 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 226 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 62 disabled
Guns lost 45 (3 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (3 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
23130 casualties reported
Squads: 326 destroyed, 1595 disabled
Non Combat: 186 destroyed, 181 disabled
Engineers: 27 destroyed, 149 disabled
Guns lost 87 (43 destroyed, 44 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (3 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Assaulting units:
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
82nd Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
7th New Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
15th/1st Punjab Battalion
30th Chinese Corps
39th Indian Division
254th Armoured Brigade
50th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
17th Indian Division
69th Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
83rd Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
46th Indian Brigade
5th Chinese Corps
20th Group Army
Red Chinese Army
4th War Area
7th Group Army
24th Group Army
12th Group Army
33rd Group Army
34th Group Army
Defending units:
4th Guards Division
9th Division
12th Division
6th Guards Division
5th Guards Division
48th Road Const Co
55th Const Co
I'll look at the LCU details and see who got the most hurt. The odds weren't that bad, but my lack of engineers is a problem. The question of whether to rest runs both ways. The biggest question is . . . do I Shock now that I know the Forts level and so many squads are disabled on the Japanese side? He's got no independent arty, few engineers, and most importantly no HQs, although the ones in Rangoon bleed over. Decisions . . .
2) The Allied air force was mostly grounded today to heal up and build pools. They are slowly coming back with increased production as the year moves to late-summer. Soerbaja's supply is hurting and I will have to move a lot of air out to conserve. It will need to get by on Forts 6. I really am using the shipyard a lot, and will be even more after today.
3) Near Soerbaja there are major surface battles all night and day. The naval force based at Cocos was shifted east out of sight from Java, and swings north to attack the TFs hanging around in the bight east of Soerbaja. There has been a MKB sighted, plus the Akagi/Kaga TF, as well as various surface sightings that sometimes read as BBs and sometimes not. The initial battle is at night. Long Lances take one of my CAs, but Maya takes some penetrating hits, and at least one Japanese DD will probably be lost.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 8,000 Yards
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed
Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Kitakami, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Oi, Shell hits 1
DD Inazuma, Shell hits 1
DD Isonami, Shell hits 3
Allied Ships
CA Indianapolis, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CA Exeter, Shell hits 1
CL Newcastle
CL Concord, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Hughes, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Walke
DD Ralph Talbot
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Express
DD Fortune, Shell hits 2
DD Nizam
The forces retire, but a lone IJN DD is encountered and gets in a lucky torpedo shot.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 4,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Newcastle
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Ralph Talbot, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam
The good guys meet another ASW force and nothing happens.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 26,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
PB Toshi Maru #3
PB Tama Maru #8
PB Sonan Maru #5
SC Ch 13
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Newcastle
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam
After sunrise, revenge is exacted.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 14,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Newcastle
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam
The carriers, pretty far to the east, get in their licks:
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Pamekasan at 58,106
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
B5N2 Kate x 17
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
Allied Ships
CL Newcastle, Bomb hits 4
CA Exeter, Bomb hits 1
Rounding out the day, another main fleet action adds to the damage all around.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 20,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 2
CL Kitakami
CL Oi
DD Inazuma, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Isonami
Allied Ships
CA Exeter, Shell hits 4, on fire
CL Newcastle, Shell hits 2
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam, Shell hits 1
4) In the Marshalls . . .
--SS Silversides hits a mine at Eniwetok
--A squadron of P-40s is snuck onto Eniwetok from Wake, as well as one of SBDs. The latter do not fly on the unloading transports in the harbor, but the P-40s account for themselves well. In multiple raids:
--Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 19
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged
No Allied losses
--Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
--Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
5) Marshalls on land.
--Japan attacks the crouched refugees on Roi-Namur. The fight is intense, but the Allies are wiped out by combat and sttrition.
Ground combat at Roi-Namur (132,114)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 4714 troops, 36 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 189
Defending force 3800 troops, 12 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 57
Japanese adjusted assault: 50
Allied adjusted defense: 24
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1405 casualties reported
Squads: 57 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 18 (9 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2869 casualties reported
Squads: 117 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 337 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 78 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 74 (74 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 3
--US forces on Eniwetok bombard the 52nd Division. It is extinguished.
Ground combat at Eniwetok (127,108)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1516 troops, 64 guns, 59 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Defending force 2478 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2
Japanese ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
52nd Division Wiped Out at Eniwetok by attrition!!!
6) Finally, a large transport TF is encountered near P. Princessa. It is large enough to be a division, and is on a vector for southern Sumatra, or possibly Batavia.
Sub attack near Balabac at 71,82
Japanese Ships
xAP Miike Maru
xAP Ural Maru
xAP Koan Maru
xAP Kamo Maru
xAP Takatiho Maru
xAP Horai Maru
xAP Buenos Aires Maru
xAP Rakuyo Maru
xAP Terukuni Maru
xAK Ryoyo Maru
DMS Uruko
Allied Ships
SS Pompano, hits 1
Bloody Day
I wanted to see what would happen if the Chinese were devoted to Burma. I'm seeing. Let's call it a learning experience.
1) Burma first, although not the only interesting sector today. The Big Stack reaches Pegu overnight and is ordered to attack. Supply is all good, nearly full. Fatigue averages in the mid-20s, higher than I would like, but the bombing rate doesn't allow for a lot of hanging around. (Today over 1000 casualties from bombing.) I considered futzing around with Reserve settings and decided not to. Also considered a shock, but I have no idea of Forts, and the stack is very short of everything except Chinese infantry and HQs. So we go.
Ground combat at Pegu (55,53)
Allied Deliberate attack
Attacking force 172120 troops, 1241 guns, 194 vehicles, Assault Value = 7082
Defending force 67600 troops, 637 guns, 185 vehicles, Assault Value = 2259
Allied adjusted assault: 2094
Japanese adjusted defense: 3136
Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3)
Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), preparation(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
2764 casualties reported
Squads: 8 destroyed, 226 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 33 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 62 disabled
Guns lost 45 (3 destroyed, 42 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (3 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
23130 casualties reported
Squads: 326 destroyed, 1595 disabled
Non Combat: 186 destroyed, 181 disabled
Engineers: 27 destroyed, 149 disabled
Guns lost 87 (43 destroyed, 44 disabled)
Vehicles lost 27 (3 destroyed, 24 disabled)
Assaulting units:
5th Chinese Cavalry Corps
82nd Chinese Corps
89th Chinese Corps
71st Chinese Corps
56th Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
90th Chinese Corps
42nd Chinese Corps
7th New Chinese Corps
85th Chinese Corps
8th New Chinese Corps
15th/1st Punjab Battalion
30th Chinese Corps
39th Indian Division
254th Armoured Brigade
50th Chinese Corps
76th Chinese Corps
84th Chinese Corps
3rd New Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
12th Chinese Corps
15th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Cavalry Corps
53rd Chinese Corps
17th Indian Division
69th Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
98th Chinese Corps
83rd Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
87th Chinese Corps
46th Indian Brigade
5th Chinese Corps
20th Group Army
Red Chinese Army
4th War Area
7th Group Army
24th Group Army
12th Group Army
33rd Group Army
34th Group Army
Defending units:
4th Guards Division
9th Division
12th Division
6th Guards Division
5th Guards Division
48th Road Const Co
55th Const Co
I'll look at the LCU details and see who got the most hurt. The odds weren't that bad, but my lack of engineers is a problem. The question of whether to rest runs both ways. The biggest question is . . . do I Shock now that I know the Forts level and so many squads are disabled on the Japanese side? He's got no independent arty, few engineers, and most importantly no HQs, although the ones in Rangoon bleed over. Decisions . . .
2) The Allied air force was mostly grounded today to heal up and build pools. They are slowly coming back with increased production as the year moves to late-summer. Soerbaja's supply is hurting and I will have to move a lot of air out to conserve. It will need to get by on Forts 6. I really am using the shipyard a lot, and will be even more after today.
3) Near Soerbaja there are major surface battles all night and day. The naval force based at Cocos was shifted east out of sight from Java, and swings north to attack the TFs hanging around in the bight east of Soerbaja. There has been a MKB sighted, plus the Akagi/Kaga TF, as well as various surface sightings that sometimes read as BBs and sometimes not. The initial battle is at night. Long Lances take one of my CAs, but Maya takes some penetrating hits, and at least one Japanese DD will probably be lost.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 8,000 Yards
Allied aircraft
no flights
Allied aircraft losses
SOC-1 Seagull: 2 destroyed
Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Kitakami, Shell hits 2, on fire
CL Oi, Shell hits 1
DD Inazuma, Shell hits 1
DD Isonami, Shell hits 3
Allied Ships
CA Indianapolis, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk
CA Exeter, Shell hits 1
CL Newcastle
CL Concord, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Hughes, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Walke
DD Ralph Talbot
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Express
DD Fortune, Shell hits 2
DD Nizam
The forces retire, but a lone IJN DD is encountered and gets in a lucky torpedo shot.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 4,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Newcastle
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Ralph Talbot, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam
The good guys meet another ASW force and nothing happens.
Night Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 26,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
PB Toshi Maru #3
PB Tama Maru #8
PB Sonan Maru #5
SC Ch 13
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Newcastle
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam
After sunrise, revenge is exacted.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 14,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
DD Karukaya, Shell hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
Allied Ships
CA Exeter
CL Newcastle
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam
The carriers, pretty far to the east, get in their licks:
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Pamekasan at 58,106
Weather in hex: Overcast
Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
B5N2 Kate x 17
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed by flak
Allied Ships
CL Newcastle, Bomb hits 4
CA Exeter, Bomb hits 1
Rounding out the day, another main fleet action adds to the damage all around.
Day Time Surface Combat, near Banjoewangi at 57,107, Range 20,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 2
CL Kitakami
CL Oi
DD Inazuma, Shell hits 4, on fire
DD Isonami
Allied Ships
CA Exeter, Shell hits 4, on fire
CL Newcastle, Shell hits 2
CL Concord
DD Hughes
DD Walke
DD Craven
DD Stewart
DD Encounter, Shell hits 1, heavy damage
DD Express
DD Fortune
DD Nizam, Shell hits 1
4) In the Marshalls . . .
--SS Silversides hits a mine at Eniwetok
--A squadron of P-40s is snuck onto Eniwetok from Wake, as well as one of SBDs. The latter do not fly on the unloading transports in the harbor, but the P-40s account for themselves well. In multiple raids:
--Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 19
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
G3M2 Nell: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged
No Allied losses
--Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 11
Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
--Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 6
No Japanese losses
Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
5) Marshalls on land.
--Japan attacks the crouched refugees on Roi-Namur. The fight is intense, but the Allies are wiped out by combat and sttrition.
Ground combat at Roi-Namur (132,114)
Japanese Deliberate attack
Attacking force 4714 troops, 36 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 189
Defending force 3800 troops, 12 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 57
Japanese adjusted assault: 50
Allied adjusted defense: 24
Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1
Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:
Japanese ground losses:
1405 casualties reported
Squads: 57 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 18 (9 destroyed, 9 disabled)
Allied ground losses:
2869 casualties reported
Squads: 117 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 337 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 78 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 74 (74 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 3
--US forces on Eniwetok bombard the 52nd Division. It is extinguished.
Ground combat at Eniwetok (127,108)
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 1516 troops, 64 guns, 59 vehicles, Assault Value = 122
Defending force 2478 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2
Japanese ground losses:
198 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
52nd Division Wiped Out at Eniwetok by attrition!!!
6) Finally, a large transport TF is encountered near P. Princessa. It is large enough to be a division, and is on a vector for southern Sumatra, or possibly Batavia.
Sub attack near Balabac at 71,82
Japanese Ships
xAP Miike Maru
xAP Ural Maru
xAP Koan Maru
xAP Kamo Maru
xAP Takatiho Maru
xAP Horai Maru
xAP Buenos Aires Maru
xAP Rakuyo Maru
xAP Terukuni Maru
xAK Ryoyo Maru
DMS Uruko
Allied Ships
SS Pompano, hits 1
The Moose
RE: Nothing Up My Sleeve: Magical Moose Tricks--Bullwinkle58 vs.1EyedJacks
I would expect a shock attack to be suicide.
You have disabled only about 10% of his AV. If you shock attack you expect about double the losses in the fire phase. Based on the last turns attack that means 2700 squads or so. So you might just achieve a 1:1 and drop forts a level but with a gutted army.
Unless, last turn was just a bad roll and the next attack would be much better...
You have disabled only about 10% of his AV. If you shock attack you expect about double the losses in the fire phase. Based on the last turns attack that means 2700 squads or so. So you might just achieve a 1:1 and drop forts a level but with a gutted army.
Unless, last turn was just a bad roll and the next attack would be much better...