Monday Night Montage (ex-Moose Crossings) - (J) vs. Bullwinkle/Obvert (A)

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RE: (J) vs. Obvert (A) - Monday Night Montage

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December 10, 1944

I was hoping to hold out a little longer here. There's just too much - I didn't grind the Allies down enough at Davao. I almost got there in time to stall them a week or more longer than it took (IIRC).

I could use more supplies here, but it's not dire. Either he'll take the base before supplies are an issue, or he delays as long as I wanted to delay him anyway and supplies do become an issue for the garrison.

Some of these units have fragments at Manila.

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Ground combat at Cagayan (79,89)

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 4152 troops, 404 guns, 248 vehicles, Assault Value = 2521

Defending force 57298 troops, 494 guns, 123 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412

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

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

Assaulting units:
2/4th Armoured Regiment
4th USMC Tank Battalion
763rd Tank Battalion
3rd NZ Armoured Sqn
77th Infantry Division
CenPac Amphib Tank Brigade
2nd Marine Division
2nd USMC Tank Battalion
5th Australian Division
30th Australian Brigade
194th Tank Battalion
5th Marine Division
1st Regiment
27th Australian Brigade
XI Corps Artillery
5th USMC Field Artillery Battalion
X Corps Artillery
8th USMC Field Artillery Battalion
223rd USN Base Force
251st Field Artillery Battalion
I Australian Corps
181st Field Artillery Regiment
XIV Corps Artillery
IX Corps Artillery

209th Field Artillery Battalion
249th Field Artillery Battalion
4th Field Artillery Battalion
1st RAA Jungle Regiment

Defending units:
3rd Guards Division
1st Sasebo SNLF Coy
117th Division
83rd Infantry Brigade
50th Ind.Mixed Brigade
6th South Seas Det.
10th Ind.Mixed Regiment
84th Infantry Brigade
10th Ind.Infantry Brigade
12th Ind.Mixed Regiment
36th Ind.Mixed Brigade
5th Amphibious Brigade
103rd Div /1
14th Div /1
82nd JAAF AF Bn
50th JNAF AF Unit
41st Ind. Engineer Regiment
180th JAAF AF Bn
52nd Const Co
37th JNAF AF Unit
46th Const Co
4th Air Div /1
16th Field AF Construction Battalion
45th JNAF AF Unit
34th Road Const Co
21th JNAF AF Unit
32nd Special Base Force
7th Ind. Field Artillery Battalion
131st Naval Const Bn /1

Unfortunately these divisions are all in OK shape (maybe some others at Davao recuperating?). Note the high number of huge ART units. This is the bulk of the independent US Army artillery, I think.
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December 10, 1944

Two important construction projects complete on the same day.

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December 10, 1944

Glide Ramping

I promise to try to stay away from lots of industry posts, but these are the things that drive lots of strategic decisions (like not to waste a bunch of pilots on maybe a few dozen thousand more Oil at best, if successful).

First, what my stockpiles and daily production looks like on this particular turn (prior to loading in the next one). You can see that I pretty heavily reduced HI production already, by about 1450, last turn.

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December 11, 1944

The recon levels are somewhat concerning, so I'm trying to remember if I've seen any paratroop units around. More importantly, which bases may actually be vulnerable and if they are, how bad is it if they fall? Would it be temporary of permanent?

The central Chinese valley and the major mountain bases are defended just fine. I'm more concerned about paratroop attacks on Tuyun, Vientiane (an RGC brigade is on the way), and Luangprabang. Lao Cai, Hanoi, and Haiphong somewhat.

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December 11, 1944

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December 11, 1944

Last one for the night.

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December 11, 1944

Well, I was hoping to get more than 1 turn in this week, but alas! Just the one. Here're the updates.

He continues his scattershot bombing of various resources/industry that, in December 1944, I don't really care about given my time horizon of early 1946. I have 6M+ supply in the bank, 3M HI, and enough Oil in Japan to maintain current production levels (of +10K supplies/day in Japan, at least) for 5 of the 16 months that I need to hold out for. Fuel is slightly more than that, although when I run out of Oil I may drastically amp up my "glide" to retain Fuel for fleet uses. We'll see. It will depend on how much fleet I have left, and how useful it might actually be.

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December 11, 1944

What I assumed to be a small Fletcher-class TF (5 ships spotted, 2 CA/3 DD) turns out to be a larger bombardment TF. They sink about 80 VPs' worth of TKs/PBs/SCs outside Palembang on the way in (they didn't make it to the port and disband before interdiction).

This could have been much worse. This leaves enough CAP around to perform pretty well during the daylight raids.

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December 11, 1944

Fast forward to daylight happenings.

Big raids at Miri and Brunei, plus a minor one at Jesselton that gets some of my Emily transports that I neglected for a couple of turns.

Honestly, given that Balikpapan and Tarakan are in enemy hands, I've considered anything else I can get out of Miri and Brunei to be a bonus. Both are basically empty. More "stuff" is at Palembang on a daily basis now.

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December 11, 1944

Just another example of his scattershot approach in China. When he starts targeting Formosa, we'll talk.

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December 11, 1944

A trade I'll always take. I don't think the sub is sunk, but maybe she sinks on the way home.

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December 11, 1944

Some furballs over Palembang today is the bulk of the aerial action. We basically traded up slightly. Even a 1:1 trade is a win for us. Just 1.5 months into the P-51D production, over 1 month of it has been destroyed (I do think this screen is slightly overcounting). I'd like to have more of the British Thunderbolts downed, but so it goes.

My Frank-r losses are already approaching high levels.

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Yep, 1600 is a bunch ...
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Didn't you had mines to protect Palembang?
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Didn't you had mines to protect Palembang?

There are mines there, but they've been previously detected. I laid mines when I could in November, and I'm laying the last of my Type 93's (for the time being, the pool is now empty) there in the next day or two. Also sending in a few more via sub that will take longer to get there as they're coming from farther away.

It's not so much about protecting the Oil or anything, it's about providing a deterrent from runs like this while I am still flying planes over the airfield, which is itself a play for points and to wear down Allied aircraft pools even further, if I can.
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Yep, 1600 is a bunch ...

I'm not sure, but I think until recently the Jake losses were even higher [:D]. Important to note that only 200 Frank-a lost; I really didn't have it operational for very long or during heavy combat before getting the Frank-r.

I'm pretty sure the P-47D2 and P-47D25 pools are shot through, though.
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Yep, 1600 is a bunch ...

I'm not sure, but I think until recently the Jake losses were even higher [:D]. Important to note that only 200 Frank-a lost; I really didn't have it operational for very long or during heavy combat before getting the Frank-r.

I'm pretty sure the P-47D2 and P-47D25 pools are shot through, though.

If true, then it is 'coin' well spent ...
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Didn't you had mines to protect Palembang?

There are mines there, but they've been previously detected. I laid mines when I could in November, and I'm laying the last of my Type 93's (for the time being, the pool is now empty) there in the next day or two. Also sending in a few more via sub that will take longer to get there as they're coming from farther away.

It's not so much about protecting the Oil or anything, it's about providing a deterrent from runs like this while I am still flying planes over the airfield, which is itself a play for points and to wear down Allied aircraft pools even further, if I can.

Thanks. I missed the mine icon yesterday. In my experience there is need a big amount to affect a bombardment TF.
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Well, I was hoping to have 2 turns' worth of stuff to post, but I went to run the turn I got back from Erik over the weekend and it wants his password. At this point in the day, I'm assuming I won't be receiving an updated/closed out turn from him as it's after midnight his time. So to this week's single turn snapshots...

December 12, 1944

Landings begin at Toboali. The writing has been on the wall for Palembang for a while, but the prospect of the large island of Bangka going Allied is not appealing and will hasten the timetable for the fall of Singapore vs. if he'd just taken Palembang and the base SW of it. I would be able to interdict or harass landings at Pontianak or Singkawang reasonably well, but Toboali is just a few hexes too far for non-KB forces.

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December 12, 1944

The Allies finally have planes on naval attack in this area. Down to dregs of Fuel and Oil from Borneo in any case, but I would have been able to haul another 50K out with this TF in another turn or two. Oh well. It was worth the risk.

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