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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Each TF unloads in the order: Troops, light equipment, heavy equipment, supplies. If you want supplies to hit the beach concurrent with the troops, keep them in a separate TF.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Each TF unloads in the order: Troops, light equipment, heavy equipment, supplies. If you want supplies to hit the beach concurrent with the troops, keep them in a separate TF.

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Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) on 31st

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 73664 troops, 586 guns, 123 vehicles, Assault Value = 2322

Defending force 14135 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 470

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2

Japanese adjusted assault: 1169

Allied adjusted defense: 814

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2

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

Japanese ground losses:
3735 casualties reported
Squads: 64 destroyed, 218 disabled
Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 19 disabled
Guns lost 19 (6 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
627 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 59 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Assaulting units:
17th Ind.Mixed Brigade
35th Division
27th Division
15th Division
110th Division
36th Division

Defending units:
100th Chinese Corps
25th Group Army

This long by-passed and isolated base is able to hold up vs five divisions. Wow!!

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Ground combat at 61,150 (near Esperance) on 30th

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 3276 troops, 15 guns, 330 vehicles, Assault Value = 190

Defending force 2403 troops, 37 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 3

Japanese adjusted assault: 121

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 121 to 1

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

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
3334 casualties reported
Squads: 44 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 144 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 42 (42 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 23 (23 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
2nd Tank Regiment
8th Tank Regiment
16th Engineer Regiment
7th Ind.Tank Brigade

Defending units:
4th Australian Division

The end comes to the 4th Div. The decision on whether to spend the PP to buy it back and rebuild will be decided in a few days after I see if Nick will try to take the rest of Australia.

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

What you say sounds plausible too - each ship will unload X amount of stuff during each phase and will not stop just because other ships haven't finished the other stuff yet. If that is the case then other considerations for TF make-up come in to play: if the enemy has CD guns, do you need to keep them together so the CD guns get only one crack at the TF before the troops land? Do you keep them together so embedded cruisers/BBs suppress the enemy fire? Or do you split them up so the APs can depart as soon as they finish unloading while the larger xAKs full of tanks take their 3 days to unload?
Back to the supply question - I know the separate TF idea will work, I will have to try the embedded "supply only" xAKs to see if that works too.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs

Remember that after they themselves unload, ships with some sort of amphibious ability (like APA, AKA, AP, AK, LST, LCI, etc. etc.) help other ship in the same TF to unload. This simulates them using their organic landing craft (or maybe for smaller vessels the ship itself) to go ferry cargo for the ships still unloading.

So, what and when to break out is something to consider based on the circumstances.

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I'm relatively new to AE (not WITP) but I have noticed that you can't change a fully-loaded transport TF into an amphib TF. Haven't tried embedding fully-loaded transports into amphib TFs but you might not be able to. Do you have time to unload & re-load them as amphibs? Not sure if it would be an issue but it might be.

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Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) on 3rd

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 71057 troops, 581 guns, 123 vehicles, Assault Value = 2113

Defending force 13746 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 421

Japanese adjusted assault: 640

Allied adjusted defense: 1366

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

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

Japanese ground losses:
3444 casualties reported
Squads: 62 destroyed, 287 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 35 disabled
Engineers: 10 destroyed, 25 disabled
Guns lost 26 (6 destroyed, 20 disabled)
Vehicles lost 4 (3 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
273 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Assaulting units:
35th Division
110th Division
15th Division
27th Division
17th Ind.Mixed Brigade
36th Division

Defending units:
100th Chinese Corps
25th Group Army

Still standing tall.

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Ground combat at 80,161 (near Broken Hill) on 4th

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 546 troops, 0 guns, 123 vehicles, Assault Value = 200

Defending force 43264 troops, 762 guns, 993 vehicles, Assault Value = 1278

Japanese adjusted assault: 0

Allied adjusted defense: 887

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 99

Combat modifiers
Defender: experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
Vehicles lost 99 (76 destroyed, 23 disabled) OUCH!!
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
5th Tank Regiment
6th Tank Regiment
4th Tank Regiment
10th Tank Regiment
1st Tank Regiment
3rd Tank Regiment
5th Guards Cav Regiment

Defending units:
Americal Infantry Division
762nd Tank Battalion
6th Australian Division
3rd Motor Brigade
763rd Tank Battalion
2/5th Armoured Regiment
2/4th Armoured Regiment
6th Aus Cav Brigade
7th RAAF Base Force
30th Base Group
202nd Coast AA Regiment
134th Field Artillery Battalion
Northern Territory Corps
208th Coast AA Regiment
204th Coast AA Regiment
109th Anti Tank Regiment
2nd US Naval Construction Battalion

I've learned my lesson about trying to retreat in Move Mode when this close to his large stacks. Especially, when I know he likes to send out his tanks to attack ahead of the infantry.

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Ground combat at 62,150 (near Esperance) on 4th

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 768 troops, 0 guns, 138 vehicles, Assault Value = 76

Defending force 287 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Japanese adjusted assault: 76

Allied adjusted defense: 1

Japanese assault odds: 76 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Allied ground losses:
289 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Units destroyed 1

Assaulting units:
8th Tank Regiment
2nd Tank Regiment

Defending units:
12th RAAF Base Force

The last of the retreating forces from western Australia is destroyed.

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Morning Air attack on Noumea , at 115,160

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 18

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 72 Nice to see them go in as one big group!!
LB-30 Liberator x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CM Okinoshima, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
AKE Tokiwa Maru, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
AD Shintoku Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS I-7, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage
PB Shinko Maru #5, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Sinko Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AS Rio de Janiero Maru, Bomb hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage
AGP Kofuku Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Ikunta Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire
AG Mamiya, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2

This is his second lesson....don't leave ships disbanded in a port within 4e bomber range of a size 5 AF or larger (in my other game as Japan, I learned this at Rabaul by B-24s from Cooktown). 75 of 100 went in this strike.

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Morning Air attack on Noumea , at 115,160

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 6 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 1 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 12

Allied aircraft
LB-30 Liberator x 4

No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
PB Sinko Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Ikunta Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
AD Shintoku Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
ACM Shonan Maru #8, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
CM Okinoshima, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AGP Kofuku Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

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

Port hits 3

So much for all those support ships stationed here.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Eddie - My Giants haven't looked to good since the 49ers game, but a win is a win. This Sunday's game vs the Steelers will be tough.

It looks like my opponent, Olorin, may have not understood that just moving a unit below the Brisbane line would trigger Emergency Reinforcements. I told him he had triggered them weeks ago. So, I now expect a concentrated effort to take most of the rest of southern Australia in the next few days.

First counter-invasion is about 6 or 7 days away.

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

Hopefully, I can help other Allied players with at least the logistical battle that must be fought and won.

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OT - I see your from Boston. I was born in Burlington, VT but am a "Damn Yankee" lost in the South for 20 plus years.

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OT - I see your from Boston. I was born in Burlington, VT but am a "Damn Yankee" lost in the South for 20 plus years.

You're from Burlington but yet you're a NY Giants fan? Egads! After 2007 & 2011 I'm convinced Eli Manning is the spawn of Satan. Or maybe even worse - he's probably a JFB!

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Your need to get the fuel away from the USA as much as possible as fuel shortages can kill you later.

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Ground combat at Alice Springs (74,143) on 6th

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 884 troops, 4 guns, 39 vehicles, Assault Value = 38

Defending force 4164 troops, 17 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 119

Japanese adjusted assault: 6

Allied adjusted defense: 237

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 39 (fort level 3)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+)
Attacker: leaders(-)

Japanese ground losses:
191 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 25 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

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

Assaulting units:
16th Recon Regiment

Defending units:
2/2nd Ind Coy
Prajoda Garrison Battalion
19th Australian Battalion
4th RAAF Base Force

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AS Rio de Janiero Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Ikunta Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage

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SS I-7, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
PB Sinko Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage

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Japanese Ships
AS Rio de Janiero Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Sinko Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AG Mamiya, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Ikunta Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage

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Japanese Ships
PB Sinko Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
PB Ikunta Maru, and is sunk

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Morning Air attack on Melbourne , at 82,170

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 25 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-49-Ia Helen x 52
Ki-49-IIa Helen x 21

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49-Ia Helen: 2 damaged
Ki-49-Ia Helen: 1 destroyed by flak
Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
xAKL Wear, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires
xAKL Lorinna, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
CL Dauntless, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CMc Bangkalen, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AMc Djombang, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
SS S-43, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAKL Ngakuta, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Junee, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Mulcra, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Pelton Bank, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AS Janssens, Bomb hits 1, on fire
ACM Kangaroo, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAKL Pulganbar, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CMc Soemenep, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AM Lithgow, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Noora, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
SS Trout, Bomb hits 1
AMc Ciska, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAKL Mulubinda, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAKL Schouten, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Bunbury, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
AMc Kawi, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
xAKL Argus, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AMc Holland, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk

Repair Shipyard hits 1
Port hits 8
Port fuel hits 2

I had my few fighters based here on 100% training. An oversight, but a bad habit I've had since playing this game for over 7 years....too much focus on training pilots, at times.