Psych Ops: BTS "Lite" NY59Giants (A) vs John 3rd (J)

[witpqs]

PT boats are a crap shoot. When they get something it's a bonus. [:)]

[BBfanboy]

I think you have answered your own previous question re: what to do about FT TFs ... well done![:D]

[DOCUP]

Its about time.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: ny59giants


Note - John and I know each other well, so it will be who can go against norms and make the other pay for it. For now, its not me. [:D]

Huh. Sounds like you're doing well enough. Hitting any of the invasions or invasion shipping hurts Japan at this stage as you know. If you throw off the schedule for a certain base or area, it has a ripple throughout the rest of the SRA. You're only goal is to slow things and take a tithe against his conquests. You're seemingly doing a good job of that.

After reading a bit about this part of the war your Manado strike is really similar to a few B-17 hits on Japanese shipping parked forward ready for the next invasion. The accounts stated that early on there was no CAP up in bases like Davao but huge fleets of Japanese invasion shipping tied together and easy pickings even from height for the fortress crews.

[ny59giants]

Date: '41 Dec 24 & 25
Back to normal style updates, but with two day intervals

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings: none

CVs:
Japan -
KB-1: I think she is operating east of Marshalls
KB-2: depleted after failed 2nd attack on Pearl, has gone back to Kwajalien and/or Truk to replenish and fill out air groups
KB-3: last seen moving west along northern shores of New Guinea; maybe went to Truk
KB-4: still operating out of CRB area
CVEs: supported Midway invasion, just spotted 8 east of Midway going to?? Maybe to try raiding shipping moving to and from Hawaii

Allies -
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne are leaving Darwin after drinking up the last fuel there. Heading west to met Force Z and CVL Hermes that is nearing Cocos Island after repairs.
CV Saratoga - at Vancouver replenishing (Seattle is still suffering to maintain adequate supplies and fuel as American economy has about 1/2 of it disabled/damaged). CV Yorktown and CVL King's Mountain will join her in NoPac

Subs:
Gudgeon misses transports at Christmas Island (Line Island group)

Surface Action:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 68,116, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Fumizuki
DD Nagatsuki
DD Harukaze, Shell hits 1
DD Hatakaze, Shell hits 2, heavy fires

Allied Ships
CL Marblehead
CL Boise
DD Barker
DD Bulmer
DD John D. Edwards
DD John D. Ford
CL Dallas
DD John Barry
DD Mayrant
DD Stockton


Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 32% moonlight: 8,000 yards

I was hoping for better results, but Japan still owns the night.

India: - troops moving to positions in preparations for possible invasion in early '42. Most of the airgroups from Malaya are now safely here resting, filling out, and starting to train pilots.

Burma: - no troops left below Toungoo

Malaya:
Singapore - forts will never get above 2 and my limited Assault Value is 417 with daily bombings (newest version of BTS Lite now has a small battalion in each of the newer bases from DBB to make para drops less likely).
Port Swettenham - 11th Indian ID escape route to Kuala Lumpur now open as small battalion crossed over while troops are bombed
Temuloh -

China: Cease Fire until January '42 except for Hong Kong

Philippines: empty Laoag changes hands
Manila - about 30 bombers keep me from building any forts; most troops have retreated here.
Clark - just over 10 Sally hit the nearly empty base
Bataan - nuisance raid of just 8 Lily; 2x PBY groups flying troops out to Jolo
Cebu -
Cagayan - 8 Lily support his troops (1st Kure Assault Division & 8th Tank); failed attack 60:84

Borneo:

Sumatra:

Java:
Merak -
Batavia - sweeps of empty skies by 12 Zeros to be followed by small strikes of Nell and Betty to hit the small warships. 1 HDML sunk.

SRA:
Ambon - small sweep by Zeros
Kendari - small sweep by Zeros

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - Unfortunately, I'm using the bases in the Marquesas Island group again. [:(] The first time was in my brief game vs Big Bad Wolf using RA mod before he went MIA last May. This base now has 3 AVDs supplying 18 Aviation Support for a small PBY group (6 planes). Meanwhile, 3 of 5 TF worth of empty transports are south of these islands headed for Panama and eventually USA. Better to be safe than feed John's ego when it comes to sinking transports. [:D]

North Pacific: CV Saratoga back to Vancouver for replenishment.

Australia: 31 B-17s from 7th BG have made it into Sydney via Pago Pago and Auckland. If Pago Pago falls, then this air bridge for the 4e bombers will be cut off.

Engineers:

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
I'm going to try to go through each theater with screen shots and comments to show what has and may happen. First up...
Malaya - John was aggressive with his 1st Raiding Rgt from day 1 to be followed up by multiple division landing at Mersing. This prevented the reformed 11th Indian Division from getting into Singapore and forming the main resistance there. I don't think I can hold into '42. [:(]

[ny59giants]

Date: '41 Dec 26 & 27


Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings: Attu (FT); Samarinda (FT - 4 Ind Mix Rgt); Canton

CVs:
Japan -
KB-1:
KB-2:
KB-3:
KB-4:
CVEs: disappeared headed east away from Midway

Allies -
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne are now to west of Koepang....lurking [;)]
CV Saratoga - leaving Vancouver

Subs:
Gudgeon hit x1 at Christmas Island
KXVII hit x1 at Mersing
Plunger misses on a big, fat, juicy AO at Christmas [:(]

Surface Action: on 27th...

Day Time Surface Combat, near Balikpapan at 65,97, Range 15,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CL Naka
CL Isuzu, Shell hits 5, on fire
CL Natori, Shell hits 1
CL Abukuma, Shell hits 1
DD Ikazuchi
DD Inazuma
DD Fubuki, Shell hits 2, heavy fires
DD Shinonome
DD Usugumo
DD Shirakumo
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki, Shell hits 2

Allied Ships
CL Java, Shell hits 1
CL Tromp
CL Danae, Shell hits 1
CL Durban
DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 2
DD Kortenaer, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Evertsen
DD Witte de With
DD Van Nes
DD Banckert, Shell hits 2
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 2, on fire

Reduced visibility due to Rain
Maximum visibility in Rain: 15,000 yards

Inconclusive....

India: -

Burma: - no troops left below Toungoo

Malaya:
Singapore - John is using his Tojos to escort in over 30 Lily/Sally
Port Swettenham -

Ground combat at Port Swettenham (48,79)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 15812 troops, 144 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 522

Defending force 7587 troops, 64 guns, 40 vehicles, Assault Value = 162

Japanese adjusted assault: 214

Allied adjusted defense: 19

Japanese assault odds: 11 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: op mode(-), leaders(-), disruption(-), preparation(-)
morale(-), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
395 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 42 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Units pursuing 3

Allied ground losses:
1182 casualties reported
Squads: 59 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 133 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 2 disabled
Guns lost 10 (10 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 7 (7 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 5

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
15th Nav Gd /1
Bandasan SNLF
1st Raiding Regiment
4th Division
91st Naval Guard Unit
55th Div /1
25th JNAF AF Unit /1
96th JAAF AF Bn /1

Defending units:
11th Indian Division..now disorganized after repeated bombings for days
1st Hyderabad Battalion
3/16th Punjab Battalion
110th RAF Adv Base Force
5/2nd Punjab Battalion

Taiping - Sentai of Oscars sweep

China: Cease Fire until January '42 except for Hong Kong

Philippines:
Manila - Zero sweeps before 1e bombers arrive
Clark - shock attack by 65th Bde takes near empty base
Bataan - less than 10 Lily
Cebu -
Cagayan - less than 10 lily bomb troops

Borneo:

Sumatra:

Java:
Merak -
Batavia - After Zero sweeps, over 30 Bettys are needed to sink 1 AMc

SRA:
Ambon -
Kendari -

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - 6 PBYs flying NavS from here. Nothing spotted yet...

North Pacific: CV Saratoga leaves Vancouver after replenishment.

Australia:

Empty bases: Lahat, Dagua, Tugegarao, Victoria point all become Japan's

Engineers:
Tacoma P6; Karachi F3; Madras F3; Adelaide F3;

Intel:
Elements of both 1st Saebo and 1st China Divisions are loading on transports for Christmas Island. "IF" this is actually true, then John has bigger plans afoot for the SE Pacific which may mean he wants total control of it.
5 Ind Eng Rgt loaded for Wyndham.

Notes/Plans:
I'm going to try to go through each theater with screen shots and comments to show what has and may happen. Second up....
Luzon - A general retreat into Manila with some troops that I don't want to waste supplies on into Bataan. I used PBYs to air transport 4th Marine and 33rd Rgt to Jolo. Most of the Marines are now at Balikpapan.

[ny59giants]

Date: '41 Dec 28 & 29
Sea battle off Balikpapan AND shock attack at Singapore

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings:Naga, Legaspi & Antimonan with 33rd ID; Ternate (FT)

CVs:
Japan - [X(]
KB-1: MIA
KB-2: MIA
KB-3: MIA
KB-4: MIA
CVEs: MIA

Allies -
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne are now to NW from Koepang to south of Java (14 SW of Soerabaja)....lurking and unspotted [;)]
CV Saratoga - south of Prince Rupert

Subs:
One just NW of Pearl
Two off Los Angeles and San Diego area (I-5 & ??)
KXIII sinks an xAKL at Miri with guns
KVIII tangles with FT (4 CAs & 4 DDs) at Ternate without success

Surface Action:

Night Time Surface Combat, near Donggala at 67,97, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
DD Arashio, Shell hits 2
DD Minazuki, Shell hits 1, and is sunk

Allied Ships
CL Java
CL Tromp
CL Danae, Shell hits 5
CL Durban, Shell hits 1
DD Piet Hein
DD Kortenaer
DD Evertsen
DD Witte de With
DD Van Nes
DD Banckert
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 1, on fire

Low visibility due to Thunderstorms with 75% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 75% moonlight: 2,000 yards

OK, I'll take sinking a DD.

Night Time Surface Combat, near Donggala at 67,97, Range 1,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso, Shell hits 1
BB Yamashiro
CL Naka
CL Natori, Shell hits 5, on fire
CL Abukuma
DD Michishio
DD Ikazuchi
DD Inazuma
DD Shinonome
DD Usugumo
DD Shirakumo, Shell hits 3
DD Shirayuki

Allied Ships
CL Java, Shell hits 1
CL Tromp
CL Danae, Shell hits 2
CL Durban, Shell hits 16, and is sunk
DD Piet Hein, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
DD Kortenaer
DD Evertsen
DD Witte de With, Shell hits 2
DD Van Nes
DD Banckert, Shell hits 1, on fire
DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk

Low visibility due to Thunderstorms with 75% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 75% moonlight: 2,000 yards

Looks like I stayed one day too long patrolling off Balikpapan as 14" shells take out my CL. [:(]

India: -

Burma: -

Malaya:
Singapore - light bombing attacks on AF; shock on 29th;

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 56521 troops, 567 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 1709

Defending force 30966 troops, 398 guns, 212 vehicles, Assault Value = 448

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 946

Allied adjusted defense: 481

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
4908 casualties reported
Squads: 15 destroyed, 306 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 42 disabled
Guns lost 23 (2 destroyed, 21 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3054 casualties reported
Squads: 67 destroyed, 119 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 62 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 81 (9 destroyed, 72 disabled)
Vehicles lost 18 (2 destroyed, 16 disabled)

Assaulting units:
18th Division
5th Division
21st Division
55th Division
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Mortar Battalion
5th Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
SSVF Brigade
2nd Gordons Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
27th Australian Brigade
2/17 Dogra Battalion
2nd Malay Battalion
1st Malay Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
1st Manchester Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
112th RAF Adv Base Force
11 Battery/3 HAA
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
Malayan Air Wing
Singapore Fortress
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
Malaya Army
111th RAF Adv Base Force
Singapore Base Force
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
29 Battery/3 HAA
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
III Indian Corps
5th Field Regiment

Not going to last long here after John rest his troops for a few days.

Kuala Lumpur - dozen Lily
Taiping - Sentai of Oscars sweep

China: Cease Fire until January '42

Philippines:
Manila -
Bataan - almost 70 1e and 2e bombers hit AF
Cebu -
Cagayan -

Borneo:

Sumatra:

Java:
Merak - 13 Betty sink 1 AMc
Batavia - I focused one day too long on 100% training for fighters here as 18 Zeros escort in 37 Betty & 19 Nell = 30b, 16s, 73r. [:-]

SRA:
Ambon -
Kendari -
Ternate - falls quickly 22:1

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - 6 PBYs flying NavS from here. Still nothing...

North Pacific:

Australia:

Empty bases: Samarinda, Naga, Atimonan all become Japan's

Engineers: Pearl P8; Port Augusta P2; Changteh AF2;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
I'm going to try to go through each theater with screen shots and comments to show what has and may happen. Third up....
Sumatra & Java: I have troops where they will end up on Java. Batavia got the most and I hope the light urban helps. Soerabaja is repairing ships to get back into action. Meanwhile, The DS is headed here as TFs seem to be assembling at Palembang for invasion of Merak and/or Kalidjati. CVL Hermes stops in java to refuel before joining DS.

[ny59giants]

Date: '41 Dec 30 & 31
Siege warfare
A2A battle over Batavia

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings: Penrhyn Island (FT)

CVs:
Japan -
KB-1: MIA
KB-2: MIA
KB-3: MIA
KB-4: MIA
CVEs: MIA

Allies -
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne are now
CV Saratoga - returning to port to re-size air groups on 1st

Subs:
Grayling uses deck guns vs xAK at Adak; Gar gets 2 shells hits the next day
I-175 is 1 NE of Pearl; my DDs cannot hit her with depth charges
I-23 sends only 2 TT towards Sara 4 hexes south of Coal Harbour, but they miss!! [X(] The next day she is trailing the TF again, but send 6 TT towards CA Rome and they all miss...thankfully
I-5 misses transport coming from Pago Pago just outside of San Fran

Surface Action:
7 PT Boats vs 7 DDs at Samarinda in daytime. No Hits!?! They try again the next day off Balikpapan at night and again no hits.
My SC TF (2 CLs & 6 DDs) patrolling from Cold Bay to Dutch Harbor reacts to single xAK at Umnak and quickly sinks her

India: -

Burma: - evac proceeding

Malaya:
Singapore - light bombing attacks on AF (less than 30 bombers); daily ground bb
Kuala Lumpur - less than 10 Lily
Taiping -

China: Cease Fire until January '42

Philippines:
Manila - almost 45 bombers hit AF on 31st
Bataan - almost 70 1e and 2e bombers hit AF on 30th
Cebu -
Cagayan -

Borneo:

Sumatra:

Java:
Merak - 3Z, 2 Os, 6V sink 2 AMc
Batavia - 12 Zeros sweep, then Oscars with Betty & Nell hit AF, followed by 6 more Zeros. My Dutch and American fighters (43) lose 7 for 4 of his (need to have some attrition here as the DS is south of Java and I need these air groups weakened).
Soerabaja -

SRA:
Ambon -
Kendari -

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - 6 PBYs flying NavS from here. Still nothing...
Penrhyn Island -

Ground combat at Penrhyn Island (168,159)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 792 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43

Defending force 1026 troops, 6 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 3

Allied adjusted defense: 7

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0)

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
104 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Assaulting units:
53rd Naval Guard Unit

Defending units:
3rd Port Maint Engineer Battalion

North Pacific:

Australia:

Empty bases:

Engineers: Dutch Harbor F2; Pearl F3; Suva F3; Cocanada F2; Raipur F2; Saingtan AF2;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
I'm going to try to go through each theater with screen shots and comments to show what has and may happen. Fourth up....
Central Pacific: There are still at least two TFs at Christmas and Intel reports more troops loading transports for this base. So, i expect more expansion efforts here. I have DS off southern Java while Saratoga is now back to Vancouver to resize air groups with Yorktown doing the same now at San Diego. For some reason, Johnson Island is still mine.

[ny59giants]

Date: '42 Jan 1 & 2
Singapore still holds, but for how long??
A2A battle over Batavia continue

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings: Malden Island (FT)

CVs:
Japan - all have been MIA for some time, where are they?? [&:]
KB-1: MIA
KB-2: MIA
KB-3: MIA
KB-4: MIA
CVEs: MIA

Allies -
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne are now joined by CVL Hermes. They are two hexes out from Soerabaja where they will refuel and I'll reorganize TF composition. Air groups should also re-size. The weather has been mostly "Severe Storms" which has helped my ships remain undetected.
CV Saratoga - back at Vancouver to re-size air groups
CV Yorktown & CVL King's Mountain - able to escape San Diego without being attacked by 1 of 3 subs he has there.

Subs:
RO-64 sinks an xAKL south of Mindanao that was disbanded in port and trying to escape.
I-20 sinks a PC off San Diego that was part of three ship ASW TF

Sub attack near Christmas Island at 174,141

Japanese Ships
xAK Tensin Maru
PB Takuna Maru #7
TK San Ramon Maru
xAK Yosida Maru #3
xAK Tomitu Maru
xAK Kozui Maru
DD Yunagi
DD Asanagi

Allied Ships
SS Dolphin, hits 5 (damaged enough to be forced to return to Pearl)

SS Dolphin launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Tensin Maru

Cuttlefish gets a few shell hits on XAK at Amchitka

Surface Action:
2 xAKLs are sunk by 2 CAs and 3 DDs near Morotai

India: -

Burma: - evac proceeding

Malaya:
Singapore - light bombing attacks on AF (less than 30 bombers); daily ground bb
Ulan Melintang -
Kuala Lumpur - less than 10 Lily

Ground combat at Kuala Lumpur (49,79)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 13636 troops, 107 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 451

Defending force 10962 troops, 69 guns, 49 vehicles, Assault Value = 167

Japanese adjusted assault: 370

Allied adjusted defense: 105

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Kuala Lumpur !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
234 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4112 casualties reported
Squads: 120 destroyed, 6 disabled
Non Combat: 271 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 29 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 41 (41 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 43 (43 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 11
Units destroyed 1

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
Bandasan SNLF
4th Division
1st Tank Regiment
15th Nav Gd /1

Defending units:
11th Indian Division
1st Mysore Battalion
22nd Indian Brigade
1st Hyderabad Battalion
109th RN Base Force
3/16th Punjab Battalion
110th RAF Adv Base Force
3rd HK&S Light AA Regiment
1st ISF Base Force
223 Group RAF
2nd ISF Base Force
5/2nd Punjab Battalion

Taiping -

Ground combat at Taiping (49,75)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 13216 troops, 104 guns, 54 vehicles, Assault Value = 418

Defending force 4645 troops, 38 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 134

Japanese adjusted assault: 420

Allied adjusted defense: 39

Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Taiping !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-)
Attacker: leaders(+)

Japanese ground losses:
59 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Allied ground losses:
2845 casualties reported
Squads: 109 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 129 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 13 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 30 (30 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units retreated 2
Units destroyed 2

Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
Imperial Guards Division

Defending units:
FMSV Brigade
3rd SSVF Battalion
8th Indian Brigade
3rd ISF Base Force

Only two bases in middle left besides Singapore.

China: Cease Fire ends!!
Yenan - over 70 Lily & Sally hit HQ unit SE of base on 2nd proceeding the assault by two divisions (37 & 41)
Kukong - 25 bombers
Kanhsien - 21 Ida

Philippines:
Manila - 60 bombers cause little AF damage on 1st;
Bataan -
Cebu -
Cagayan - 8 Lily on 'milk run' [:D]

Borneo:

Sumatra:
Oosthaven - 21 Ind Mix Bde easily defeats Dutch BF to capture base.
Benkoelen - 124 Inf Rgt easily beats up the survivors of Palembang and takes base

Java:
Merak -
Batavia - quiet 1st, but on 2nd... bombers first and then two sweeps by 27 Zeros total

Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 13
G3M2 Nell x 51
G4M1 Betty x 24
Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 25

Allied aircraft
B-339D x 16
75A-7 Hawk x 8
P-40B Warhawk x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 4 destroyed, 6 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
Ki-43-Ib Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
AS Janssens, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
xAKL Sibolga, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
AMc Digoel, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AG Pangkor, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
AMc Djampea, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAKL Siberoet, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage
AMc Endeh, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Port hits 22
Port fuel hits 3
Port supply hits 7

These are all coming from Palembang. It makes me a little leary of involving the DS off Java with 75 Betty & Nell around when he invades.

Soerabaja -

SRA:
Ambon -
Kendari -

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - 6 PBYs flying NavS from here. Still nothing...
Penrhyn Island -

North Pacific:

Australia:

Empty bases: Malden Island

Engineers: San Fran F4; Pago Pago F3; Bundaberg AF2; Prince rupert P5; Lahaina F3; Manila F2 (John diverted bombers to Clark and now Bataan to allow this to happen); Kalgoorlie F2;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
I'm going to try to go through each theater with screen shots and comments to show what has and may happen. Fifth up....
North China: I was able to move back from the plain to the woods, rough, and jungle hexes. If I did one thing wrong it was around Yenan. But, I think I have enough there to hold. BFs from up north will leap frog each other to get the short legged fighters down to Lanchow and beyond.

[ny59giants]

Date: '42 Jan 3 & 4

KB FOUND!!

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings: Lae (FT); Penrhyn;

CVs:
Japan -
KB: 25 SW of San Fran

Allies:
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne, and Hermes. At Soerabaja refueling for both days and TFs reorganized.
CV Saratoga - back at Vancouver to re-size air groups
CV Yorktown & CVL King's Mountain - headed for Seattle

Subs:
Plunger @ Christmas, Tuna @ Canton, and Trout @ Midway CANNOT hit anything!! [:(]
I-9 is hit once by 3 DDs at 1 west of Victoria (sub blockade of Puget Sound)
I-6 hit once off San Diego, but she was able to get 4 TT hits on an xAK coming from Panama

Surface Action:

Day Time Surface Combat, near Eureka at 198,84, Range 26,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CV Amagi
CV Hiryu
CV Soryu
CV Shokaku
CV Zuikaku
BC Hiei
BC Kirishima
BC Ishitaka
BC Kawachi
CA Niitaka
CA Suzuka
CL Tokoro
CL Shirbetsu
DD Akizuki
DD Teruzuki
DD Susuzuki
DD Hatsuzuki
DD Yugumo
DD Akigumo
DD Kagero
DD Urakaze

Allied Ships
PC Pulaski
xAK Alabaman
xAK Alaskan
xAK Arkansan
xAK Canadian
xAK Minnesotan
xAK Ohioan
xAK Charles H Cramp, Shell hits 1, on fire
xAK Julia Luckenbach
xAK Walter Luckenbach

Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards

India: -

Burma: - evac proceeding

Malaya:
Singapore - bombing attacks on AF (about 70 bombers); deliberate on 3rd gets John angry again... 380:583
Ulan Melintang - the battered 11th Indian is hit SE of base by 15 Lily

China:
Yenan -
3rd - over 20 Sally;
4th - increased to over 60 bombers on 4th
Wuchow - 9 Ann
Kukong - 19 Sonia
Kanhsien - 21 Ida
Ichang -

Ground combat at Ichang (83,48)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 66895 troops, 352 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2059

Defending force 20666 troops, 124 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 673

Allied adjusted assault: 1760

Japanese adjusted defense: 982

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+)

Japanese ground losses:
1510 casualties reported
Squads: 14 destroyed, 100 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 28 disabled
Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
4239 casualties reported
Squads: 90 destroyed, 323 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 46 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled
Guns lost 32 (2 destroyed, 30 disabled)

Assaulting units:
8th Chinese Corps
32nd Chinese Corps
2nd Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
67th Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
68th Chinese Corps
75th Chinese Corps
26th Group Army

Defending units:
11th RGC Temp. Division
8th Ind Engineer Regiment
2nd Ind Engineer Regiment
34th Division
13th RGC Temp. Division

Philippines:
Manila - 50 bombers cause little AF damage;
Bataan -
Cebu -
Cagayan -

Borneo:
Balikpapan - surprising results...0 AV for Japan

Ground combat at Balikpapan (64,97)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 3717 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98

Defending force 4623 troops, 70 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 152

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 69

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99 (fort level 2)

Combat modifiers
Defender: preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-)

Japanese ground losses:
1171 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 120 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled

Allied ground losses:
38 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Assaulting units:
4th Ind.Mixed Regiment

Defending units:
VI KNIL Battalion
I Samarinda Cdo
4th Marine Regiment (air transported from Luzon via Jolo)
II Samarinda Cdo
Balikpapan Defenses
Balikpapan MLD Base Force
1e-VLG-I Sup Afd

Sumatra:

Java:
Merak -
Batavia -
3rd - 14Z, 18 Os (Oscars), 18Z all sweep empty skies
4th - 16Z, 8V miss the PT boats
Soerabaja -

SRA:
Ambon -
Kendari -

New Guinea/Solomons:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Mussau Island at 104,118

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Allied aircraft
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 13

Allied aircraft losses
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 5 damaged
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 1 destroyed by flak

Japanese Ships
CA Chishima
CL Furutaka
CL Yura
CA Miyako

My best non-CV bases DB group is still not trained up enough to hit these nibble warships on 3rd. I had moved this group to Rabaul for a hit and run attack.

Central Pacific:

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - 6 PBYs flying NavS from here. Still nothing...
Penrhyn Island -

North Pacific:

Australia:

Empty bases:

Engineers:Bremerton P7; Astoria P3; Palmerton North AF2

Intel:
2nd & 56th ID BOTH at Christmas Island (looks like John has serious plans for South Pacific area)

Notes/Plans:
Screen shot shows part of KB 25 hexes SW of San Fran. I was a little surprised, but then again I'm playing John 3rd. My TF is 9 xAKs (Transmarine Class) and PC. Two small Cargo TF are going between San Fran and Pearl on a northern and southern course.

[BBfanboy]

Nibble warships? MMMMMM. Are they Chocolate? [:'(]


Are you going to scatter that convoy or hope KB ignores it and goes hunting for bigger game?

[ny59giants]

Date: '42 Jan 5 & 6
While KB is away, the Allied DS makes her move towards....
SS Thresher hits transports at...

Key: TT = Torpedo; bb = ground bombardment; c = casualties; b = base hits; s = supply hits; r = runway hits; p = port hits; f = fuel hits; AV = Assault Value; DC = Depth Charged; (*) = destroyed aircraft; If odds are bold, they are the Allies; BG = Bomber Group of 48 planes (4 x 12 bomber squadrons); FG fighter group = 25 fighter planes if American

Landings: Fanning Island (1st China Assault Div); Beaufort

CVs:
Japan -
KB: 19 SW of San Fran
CVL/CVEs: 4 east of Ternate

Allies:
Death Star (DS) - CVs Lexington & Enterprise; CVLs Charlotte, Jacksonville, Wellington, Melbourne, and Hermes. Leave Soerabaja headed for Makassar Straits
CV Saratoga & Yorktown, CVL King's Mountain - at Seattle

Subs:

Sub attack near Victoria at 208,51

Japanese Ships
SS I-23

Allied Ships
CVL King's Mountain, Torpedo hits 1
DD Hughes
DD Clark
DD Walke
DD O'Brien
DD Russell

SS I-23 launches 6 torpedoes at CVL King's Mountain

Now in Seattle's shipyard for repairs (20 days only)

Porpoise sinks CM Tenryu at Lae
Thresher gets TT hits at Fanning Island on THREE separate xAKs, but has too many "hits, no explosion" messages. None are heard to sink. [:(]

Surface Action:
BC Kongo & Haruna with 3 DDs sink ALL the Cargo TF that ran into KB yesterday in 5 separate battles as I has broken up the TF and ordered Full Speed runs for Pearl (this is part of another TF that wasn't with mega-KB)

India: -

Burma: - evac proceeding as trains unload at Katha for march through jungle to Imphal

Malaya:
Ulan Melintang - Imp Gds ID pushes defenders 1 NE of base back into base on 5th; 4th ID pushes all but 11th Indian into base from SE on 6th;
Singapore -
5th - 54 bombers;

Ground combat at Singapore (50,84)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 52750 troops, 564 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 1325

Defending force 29823 troops, 389 guns, 208 vehicles, Assault Value = 252

Japanese adjusted assault: 629

Allied adjusted defense: 383

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
2799 casualties reported
Squads: 13 destroyed, 202 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled

Allied ground losses:
3129 casualties reported
Squads: 108 destroyed, 63 disabled
Non Combat: 33 destroyed, 135 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 12 disabled
Guns lost 103 (52 destroyed, 51 disabled)
Vehicles lost 17 (2 destroyed, 15 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
21st Division
18th Division
5th Division
55th Division
3rd Mortar Battalion
3rd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
3rd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
18th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
1st Malay Battalion
22nd Australian Brigade
2nd Gordons Battalion
27th Australian Brigade
1st Manchester Battalion
2nd Malay Battalion
2nd Loyal Battalion
2/17 Dogra Battalion
2nd Argylls Battalion
Malaya Army
22nd Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
112th RAF Adv Base Force
11 Battery/3 HAA
III Indian Corps
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment
1st HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
29 Battery/3 HAA
SSVF Brigade
AHQ Far East
Singapore Base Force
1st Indian Heavy AA Regiment
Malayan Air Wing
2nd HK&S Heavy AA Regiment
111th RAF Adv Base Force
Singapore Fortress
24th NZ Pioneer Coy
5th Field Regiment

John reported frustration on his forces to overwhelm the limited defenders here. For me, just more delays to help defenses in other places.

6th - over 55 bombers hit base and troops; ground bb

China:
Yenan -
5th - 1 SW of base sees over 60 Lily/Sally hit troops
6th -
Wuchow - 9 Ann
Kukong - 19 Sonia
Kanhsien - 21 Ida
Changsha - 18 Oscars with 18 1e bombers
Ichang -

Philippines:
Manila - 35 bombers cause little AF damage;
Batangas - 33rd ID wipes out small BF; Manila is now alone;
Cebu -
Cagayan -

Ground combat at Cagayan (79,89)

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 20667 troops, 206 guns, 125 vehicles, Assault Value = 682

Defending force 8079 troops, 31 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 218

Japanese adjusted assault: 467

Allied adjusted defense: 53

Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Cagayan !!!

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
317 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 30 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled

Allied ground losses:
9856 casualties reported
Squads: 356 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 190 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 7 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 38 (38 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 8

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment
16th Division
1st Kure Assault Division

Defending units:
101st PA Infantry Division
3rd Constabulary Regiment
2nd PA Infantry Regiment
Agusan Constab Battalion
Mindanao Force
Del Monte AAF Base Force
205th Base Sqdn
305th Base Sqdn

Borneo:
Balikpapan -

Sumatra:

Java:
Merak -
Batavia -
5th - 13Z, 8 V = 2 HDML sunk;
6th -
Soerabaja -

SRA:
Ambon -
Kendari -

New Guinea/Solomons:

Central Pacific:
Fanning Island - the small NZ LCU is quickly wiped out

South Pacific:
Nuka Hiva - 6 PBYs flying NavS from here. Still nothing...
Penrhyn Island -

North Pacific:

Australia:

Empty bases: Lae (now has 16 fighters and 11 FP/Patrol)

Engineers: Hobart AF5; Chungking AF6;

Intel:

Notes/Plans:
Allied DS: ordered to end next turn 3 hexes south of Tarakan in shallow hex. Force Z (2 BB/BC & 8 DDs) ordered to go to Full Speed along with 3 American CLs & 8 DDs into base to attack 2 SC TF there. Meanwhile, what appears to be the remaining Japanese flattops are spotted east of Ternate. The question for me is what bases have Air HQs to project his Nells and Bettys. I would say Palembang as I've seen 75 of them at Batavia. See screen shot.

KB - seems to be headed for someplace in California from San Fran to San Diego.

USA - Seattle now has 230 fighters while Tacoma has 75. CVL King's Mtn is there repairing while CV Sara and Yorktown get rid of minor system damage. Part of me hopes that the successful sub attack off Victoria tempts John to try to sink those CVs. He probably has a glen equipped sub off coast. Loaded TKs and AOs ran from LA to safety of Panama.

[ny59giants]

Free Jap Troops:

Luzon: 33, 38, & 48 ID along with 65 Bde
Mindanao: 16 ID
Malaya: Imp Gds, 4, 5, 18, 21, 55 ID
Balikpapan: 4 Ind Mix Bde
Sumatra: 21 Ind Mix Bde

Per Intel reports: 2 & 56 ID at Christmas Island

If you haven't read John's AAR, where will he be going with his troops for phase two and beyond?? Right now, I say South Pacific.

[Lowpe]

Should be fireworks tomorrow!

[ny59giants]

Fireworks!!

Morning Air attack on TF, near Tarakan at 67,91

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Allied aircraft
Fulmar II x 5
Swordfish I x 12
F2A-3 Buffalo x 26
F4F-3A Wildcat x 13
F4F-3 Wildcat x 5
SBD-2 Dauntless x 60
SBD-1 Dauntless x 6
SBD-3 Dauntless x 18
TBD-1 Devastator x 30
F2A-3 Buffalo x 8
Swordfish II x 12

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-2 Dauntless: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Myoko, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires
DD Sagiri
CA Maya, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Shirayuki
CA Ashigara, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Kisaragi
DD Nagatsuki
DD Mutsuki
DD Yamagumo
DD Shirakumo, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Usugumo
DD Shinonome, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
DD Ikazuchi
DD Matsukaze
DD Fumizuki

No CAs present in PM Phase... [&:]

Somehow, I messed up BOTh my SC TF that were suppose to head here.

Cursor shows 13 ships disbanded in port. Part 2 to follow.

[Lowpe]

The cruisers that still are afloat are disbanded in port. Probably all of them.

Where are the torpedo hits?[&:]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

The cruisers that still are afloat are disbanded in port. Probably all of them.

Where are the torpedo hits?[&:]

Torpedo hits, from Devastators in Jan/42 ?! Yeah, I know there were 12 Swordfish but they would have found the flak pretty daunting.

[BBfanboy]

KB headed somewhere between SFO and SD? I wouldn't put it past John III to try hit the aircraft industries in LA ...

[Lowpe]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

The cruisers that still are afloat are disbanded in port. Probably all of them.

Where are the torpedo hits?[&:]

Torpedo hits, from Devastators in Jan/42 ?! Yeah, I know there were 12 Swordfish but they would have found the flak pretty daunting.

I would have sent the Swordfish in with torpedoes. I have always had great success with them, especially in this case with no enemy fighters present although this Japanese TF is a a little bigger than I normally see.

[ny59giants]

I didn't get a turn back from John yet. Somehow I messed up with two SC TF that were to end their turn at Tarakan. My new orders have the two American BCs with 8 DDs and a newly formed TF with 4 CAs and 6 DDs both bombarding the base. If any planes were flown in, they will be damaged and hopefully those 16" guns can find any damaged CAs. If not, then DS planes will have a chance in the PM phase as they move one hex closer. Force Z will move to join the CV/CVLs and the 3 American CLs will stand guard outside the base.