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quote:We won the battle of Milne Bay in the end, I don't see any reason we can't repeat that success here. He's going to get more aircraft, better aircraft, more ships coming out of the US, less penalty on pilot quality. Oh, and don't forget bonks and going to soonish start turning into booms.
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Cimber posted:Oh, and don't forget bonks and going to soonish start turning into booms. The USN submarine spigot is on at this point, too. Even in vanilla this is right about where the allies start getting just enormous numbers of fleet boats to flood the entire western pacific with.
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Gort posted:Anything that can be done about that? Massive, infrequent convoys with every ASW asset you can find? Restricting supply to specific channels only? Abandonment of hard-to-supply bases? ASW improves for Japan in June of 43 but fundamentally: no
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Japan just doesn't have the US option of dumping 100k supplies at a base and forgetting about it at the rest of the war.
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Gort posted:Anything that can be done about that? Massive, infrequent convoys with every ASW asset you can find? Restricting supply to specific channels only? Abandonment of hard-to-supply bases? Dedicated asw air squadrons, manually route convoys away from subs they spot. E: also what pharnakes is already doing, hold the forward submarine bases so the subs base further back and spend less time on station. Basing out of pearl instead of midway is hundreds of miles of steaming through an empty wasteland per boat. uPen fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jan 14, 2022 |
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Yes, we've had this one already, but I shouldn't have posted it until today, go back to https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3952093&perpage=40&pagenumber=71#post520678572 for a new one.  Bonk.  I’m very happy to be back to bonks.  Preemptive RIP for the Oscar.  Let’s hope the flak is up to it.  We do have quite a lot here.  RO-61 redeems herself after yesterday.  Nice find to randomly encounter on her way home for fuel.  Sweeping   Much better.  And there’s no opposition for the Nells.  They slow both, and hit decently besides.  Not all the Hellens managed to stay together today.  Not even one supply hit though   But wave two has it.  And so does wave three!  Nothing from the Anns today.  Definitely not getting a supply hit at Calcutta then.   I really don’t understand this game sometimes. Frequently, in fact.  They’re still ground attacking at Broome.  The Havocs are back, this time attacking our armour moving north.  Trimed them a bit.  One to one at least.  And now the USMC.  Vindicators are easy prey.  At this rate we might actually have Calcutta betean down to 200AV by the time we are ready to attack properly.  Down, down, down at Jamshedpur too.  Quiet at Benares.  And Ranchi.  And Bangalore.  All quiet on the western front.  The paratroopers plant the flag at Gove, a task for which you need a gun, apparently.   Another quiet one.  Shame the Havocs came in before the Vindicators.  It’s something.  We’re unloaded at Christmas Island, and with 75 engineer points here should make rapid progress.  The first armoured regiment is back at Katherine. With well over 1k assault here now, I’m not in any way worried about losing Katherine.  Uhhh, very quiet today? v0v, it’s all just ticking along really.
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Do you have all pilots equally good at low attack and normal ground attack, or do you find the altitude bonus overrides skill that much? I'd think pilots at say 70 Grd and 40-50 lowGrd would be more effective at 7k than 5k, that is, to stay just above the 6k cutoff so they use the right skill, but I haven't tested it.
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  Come on!! Maybe if I hold my breath they will do something!!!  This is one of our actual good submarine hunters.    But it comes to nothing. Oh well, she probably needs to go straight back for repairs at least.  Woosh.  We really need those good escorts. Currently we have about eight of them in our entire fleet I think.  Sweeping over their advance.  Got our free Lightning.  No CAP at Jamshedpur, what a surprise.  The navy has chosen to bomb slightly diferently.  At least there’s no LRCAP here   I need to review the orders here to make sure everything is protected by the sweep.  No CAP Calcutta.  Here come the bombers for Jamshedpur.  A steady supply burn is good.  Of course, spikes are good too.  That’s a nice amount of hits today.  The Anns take advantage of the sweep anyway.  And so do the rest of the army planes. Something very strange is going on here.  Calcutta.  No supply hits today.  But it’s probably not really very significant if we do or don’t at this point.  Some late Sallies get a few nice hits in.  They’re bombing our landings at Gove!  One through  Ahahahahhaha. Feeling super smug about that LRCAP right now.  Broome.  Two Broomes today.  This looks rougher at Gove. Still, only the Vindicators had any chance against the ships.  And they’re not even trying to bomb the ships.  If they had come in first and challenged the CAP we might not be so happy.  Whatever.  You had your chance, and you blew it.  Calcutta.  Quieter at Jamshedpur too.  But Ranchi is not blank for a change.  Neither is Bangalore.  Akyab of course, is. Not like 15:1 odds are enough or anything.   A day with no losses to submarines is a good one.  Squelching those Vindicators so neatly is extremely satisfying.  No ships lost.  Say hello to our latest! Unfortunately she doesn’t come with airgroups, but we can probably work something out using Ryujo’s rebuilt groups, and the names are close enough.  Unfortunately Ryujo’s air groups are dispersed all over the map doing various things, because I never thought we’d want them on a carrier again  And the strike group is providing critical ASW from Soerabaja.  These guys will do though, they haven’t been trained in anything special so we’re not wasting anything. Although I suppose we could just use Ryuho as a glorified CVE with the ASW trained Ryujo pilots, her speed is more CVE appropriate  But I think we will have her in a more frontline role, operating with Junyo and Hiyo. Using 1/3rd of Ryujo’s fighter group restricts her to operating only nine fighters, which is rather lighter than I’d like but will do for now. We’ll resize the Mabels to fill the rest once I’ve taken the Zeros back off, that was me experimenting what happens if you more a restricted command air group onto a carrier, and apparently the answer is it becomes independent, so that’s a fun trick to know  Also at Yokohama today, a new coastal submarine. Infact with these two no longer taking resources, we can for the moment leave Shinnano on accelerated construction indefinitely   And we lay down a small minesweeper at Tokyo, which we will manage to complete in a mere eleven days.  Work starts on converting another AR at Singapore.  Pearl Harbour is expanded to its maximum possible size.  Getting close! And the 22nd will be in Calcutta tomorrow.   We’re cutting the main road into Bangalore.  No point hanging about, we might as well get straight into building the airfield. I have no doubt this is just going to turn into the next Milne Bay as he tries to prevent us building a functional base, but with naval support on hand we should come out ahead sooner rather than later.  After their failure to disrupt our landings at Gove by air, I feel they might try by sea. And there’s also what looks very like an attempt to get a convoy into the Gulf of Carpentaria to investigate. It’s almost certainly operating under continual land base LRCAP, so I don’t want to send the Nells at it, but now that we’ve just devastated their naval strike in the area we can operate our own surface ships in the day without too much concern.  With the dangers from the Vindicators now past, for the moment anyway, we’ll give the Zero pilots a rest.  We’re bringing the bombers down to 5k, and focusing our wrath on the eastern division that is trying to march cross country. I feel this would be the most annoying for Alikchi, since without roads and in combat mode they will be slowed to a crawl even in open country.  We will send spare aviation engineers from Samarinda down to Umboi Island. Samarinda is no longer needed as an active base for the next year at least (hopefully!).
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Pharnakes posted:Using 1/3rd of Ryujo’s fighter group restricts her to operating only nine fighters, which is rather lighter than I’d like but will do for now. We’ll resize the Mabels to fill the rest once I’ve taken the Zeros back off, that was me experimenting what happens if you more a restricted command air group onto a carrier, and apparently the answer is it becomes independent, so that’s a fun trick to know You can use this with Chitose/Chiyoda to go around and turn every floatplane unit on the map into a size 27 independent squadron, it's pretty nuts if gamey.
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Magni posted:4 Skytrains lost to ops in a day. He's absolutely airdropping supplies to those two americna divisions marching on Daly Waters/Katherine. I wonder if putting your own LRCAP over them to beat off the allied CAP and gently caress with the transports some more could be feasible. I wonder if he's airdropping supplies on the encircled base in India that starts with a J?
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  Bonk.  Type 2 depth charges?!?!    Nope.  The Dutch are back at Benares.  To no effect.  I really don’t think the Wirraway is optimal for a night bomber.  Or the Vengeance either for that matter.  Our active patrol of good subchasers has caught KXVI.  Go on.  gently caress her up!  Flat as a pancake, please.    We didn’t prove the kill by forcing her up, but it’s pretty likely I think, we were right on top of her hitting nearly every salvo, then she just disappeared.  Brushy brushy.  Now the Anns are being stupid in Australia.  We got away with it, but any other waves might not do so well.  Some Sallies come in, and are fine. The next wave is definitely going to get caught though  Our retreating 40th sees some action for the first time in a while.  In these conditions it’s harassment only.  He’s really hitting the poor Broome garrison quite hard  Must be planning, something surely.  They are persisting in bombing Gove.  Even if a few Vindicators do turn up, we have the cruisers here as bait now.  No Vindicators yet.  Sweeping over their 32nd.  Got a Lightning, but at a price today.  The Nells at least are on target.  Rather mediocre result with the 5k bombing.  And the Hellens are no better.  Calcutta continues.  Jamshedpur is dropping like a stone.  Ranchi goes quiet again.  But Bangalore doesn’t. It’s weird, I don’t see that he’s brought in any new artillery or anything.    Still very quiet.  A trickle from both sides.  We’re claiming Ark Royal, but I don’t see any reason to believe that.  Intel claims she went down at Busselton itself then, but I can’t think of any reason why he would have sent her there. Intel posted:Previous report of sinking of BC Australia incorrect. Intelligence reports ship is still in service Well, I was never totally convinced, but of course they might well change their minds again anyway.  We undertake another pair of Standard A tanker conversions at Soerabaja.  Hiryu is the latest to receive the A6M3a.  The army gets a new Sentai of medium bombers. I think we will just have them train for the moment, things are mostly under control.  The though that there’s no point having Hellens training in Japan while Sallys are fighting on the front lines does prompt me to upgrade one of the Sentais still using the Sally in Australia.  The submarines are accumulating in the Solomon Sea again. Fine by me really, every submarine here is one that isn't in the China Seas or around the home Islands.  Tomorrow. Tomorrow the 2nd Army HQ will be in Howrah. And do you know what that means?   It means we’re getting this party properly started at Calcutta.  All available bombers will be out and poudin’. Just how much good this will do in the face of their heavy fortifications remains to be seen, but I’m not sending bomber effort anywhere else when something this critical is happening.  We need to free up our elite armour that is currently holding Benares for renewed offensives, so the 32nd divisions after a bit of rest from fighting the 25th Indian, is marching up to Benares.  As will the 16th Infantry Regiment.  I can’t believe it’s come to this, but there you go, we’re bombarding Akyab.  And of course if we’re doing that we will attack on the ground as well. I’d send air support if it wasn’t for the fact the place is essentially one giant flak installation.  We’re going to go and raid shipping around Mornington Island. I thought about sprinting in for a night battle, but the moon is down to 50% and I don’t think it’s really necessary. Instead we will take the full two phases to arrive, fight a day battle then sprint home tomorrow night before he can move in torpedo bombers.
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Pharnakes posted:We need to free up our elite armour that is currently holding Benares for renewed offensives, so the 32nd divisions after a bit of rest from fighting the 25th Indian, is marching up to Benares. quote:renewed offensives BANZAI 
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Gort posted:Anything that can be done about that? Massive, infrequent convoys with every ASW asset you can find? Restricting supply to specific channels only? Abandonment of hard-to-supply bases? We're already doing most things right, as can be evidenced by our very light losses to submarines so far. I have been getting a little complacent in usually using the default automatic routes generated, but there isn't really much more I can do other than abandon shipping lanes entirely, which is in now way justified by the current level of attrition to submarines. aphid_licker posted:We've been getting a steady trickle of offscreen sub claims off patrol aircraft, not to the tune of five a month tho I don't think Yeah, we are way ahead on submarine kills compared to reality, with over 50 claimed, and probably a good 80-90% of those are genuine. Alchenar posted:Japan just doesn't have the US option of dumping 100k supplies at a base and forgetting about it at the rest of the war. In this mod actually we kind of do, but it doesn't work for front line bases due to supply hits, and whilst we could dump a poo poo ton into all our forward basses, we can't afford to keep doing that if and when the supplies get blown up, as the Allies can. Caconym posted:Do you have all pilots equally good at low attack and normal ground attack, or do you find the altitude bonus overrides skill that much? Contrary to the manual and almost all documentation to be found, the cutoff for low vs normal altitude is 1k/2k, 100ft is strafing/skip bombing, 1k feet is low Nav/ground and everything 2k and up is normal bombing. Pirate Radar posted:Wiki says Chitose’s IRL conversion from a CS to a CVL took about a year. Are you expecting it to last about that long in game as well? Base ingame time is 300 days, which will usually end up being extended by a bit due to accidents, so pretty close. tatankatonk posted:Will Alikchi ever be able to divert large quantities of equipment and men to India to drive the Japanese out? Or is all the flood of materiel starting in 1943 necessary for Pacific operations I mean my entire gambit is to make him panic enough about India that he sends the men who launched the Guadalcanal and Solomon's campaign to India instead. If he cuts his losses and abandons India in favour of pushing the Pacific then we will have to scramble to strip India and bulk up our eastern defences, but we're now getting to the IRL end of the Guadalcanal campaign with no sign of an attack, and we are dug in hard here, so we should have plenty time to respond and reinforce if and when the attack does come. Cimber posted:I wonder if he's airdropping supplies on the encircled base in India that starts with a J? That would be an operation on the scale of the German attempt to supply Stalingrad if so, there simply aren't enough transport planes in the entire theatre to make that work. Far more likely he's doing it in Australia, but I'm not going to interfere because we don't really have a spare sentai to interfere with, and I think he'll end up taking overall more losses to attrition in running the operation than if we challenged him for one day and then he stops. Never interrupt your opponent when he is making a mistake after all. Kylaer posted:BANZAI Always.
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  gently caress you Akyab.  Eat poo poo.  We make a surprising focus on the troops rather than the airport or the town.  Fortresses at Katherine.  Plane seeking bombs!  Our escorts are paying attention and force Shark down before she can attack.  But that’s all they can do.  Well, could have been far worse.  Warhawks as well as Lightnings in the their LRCAP today.  Not that they really seem to get involved.  So it goes.  Perfect conditions for us over their 32nd today.  And we’re really starting to do some damage.  I wonder when they will turn around to march all the way back to Normanton.  In the meantime we can keep hurting them.  A large raid for Gove today.  But little effect.  Not as if Hudsons would be any better.  Quite a strong effect at Broome though!  Maybe he really is going to paradrop here?  And some Havocs for Gove.  They’re bombing our motorised artillery.  Very rude to slow us like that.  At least they don’t do actual damage   Just in case.  And here comes the tactical support.  They’re inflicting casualties????   I’m really feeling pretty drat good about Calcutta now.  It would be nice to have it over soon. Here it comes   That went far better than I’d ever anticipated the first assault on Calcutta going.  It’ll be your turn soon!  And Akyab.  That did it.  Look at all that backline stuff going down  Just a crying shame WitP has no representation of use of captured equipment.  Even Ranchi goes well.  And Bangalore as well as it ever goes.   We’re going to take Calcutta!!!!!!!!!!!!  A rather quieter day in the air.  And at sea. I don’t think I heard KXVI actually going down, but v0v.  New carrier! Even if she is just a CVE. She will stay in port and train in anticipation of being needed for ASW patrols soon.  A far less exciting ship is begun at Osaka.  Speaking of carriers, it is now December, and Nishin enters the yards at Singapore for conversion to a CVL.  Kind of sorry to see her go, but we do have several almost as good replacements, so I think it’s the right decision.  Her slower near sister Mizuho is also converting.  This one is much less of a tough decision, a 22kt seaplane tender is of pretty dubious utility really, whereas once finished as a CVL she will be capable of 24kts, enough to be a tough CVE, or perhaps to operate with Junyo & Hiyo.  And at Rabaul we get the other half of the anti bomber test unit, this time using the 37mm armed Nick.  We’ve definitely done something, we can tell because of the fuel burnt, but I wasn’t expecting them to make it all the way back, and they must have found nothing?? Which, to be fair, there’s nothing reported today. All very weird.  Anyway, we’re one third of the way towards getting a basic airstrip up.  The poor garrison unit at Broome is really in pretty rough shape. Morale remains excellent though  Wait. That’s two thirds of the men I’d earmarked for assaulting Calcutta I’ve forgotten to actually move into the hex. lmao   That’s another full division freed up. They won’t make it in time for Calcutta, but there’s always Jamshedpur.  Maybe theses guys will get there in time to do something though  I feel like we probably got pretty lucky at Calcutta today, so we’re going to resume bombardments for one day while we wait for the rest to arrive.  Just going to bomb these last holdouts a bit to make sure we catch them after we cross the Brahmaputra.  After taking the main rail line into Bangalore, we’re going to probe north. With the fall of Calcutta imminent, I really want to start ramping up the pressure in India. It’s high time Alikchi started panicking and sending every available GI to fight in India,which so far he has seemed very resistant to doing.  We’ll pick up a spare AF unit from Balikpapan for Gove. By the time they get down there it should be nearly ready.  We’re launching an operation to sweep the (currently purely hypothetical) mines at Tarawa. This will of course require carrier cover, because DMSs don’t grow on trees, but currently the Kido is at Kwajalein atoll, so they won’t need to leave for a few days.
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November has been, I think, a good month. Steady progress in India, the crippling of the Royal Navy’s Eastern Fleet, and mostly holding our own elsewhere. More on that later though, let’s start with air losses to date.            A very good month for us in the air, looking at totals from last month we have lost 442 to all causes compared to their 752. This is about as good as it will ever get for us though, we have our new models in full production and mostly filling out of front line units, they, with the exception of a handful of Spitfires, don’t. It’s interesting to note that we’ve still lost almost twice as many A6M2s as A6M3s, despite the M3 being in production since April. Of course, the M2 has remained in service with the fleet until very recently, but it does show the insane intensity of the opening months.  Dramatic gains in India then. In the north we have destroyed an Indian division and a British brigade, in the south our renewed offensive has undone the last couple months' losses and then some, with us now threatening Bangalore. And most significantly, in the east we have finally secured Bengal and are only days away from taking Calcutta.  Once we have taken Calcutta we shall move on to Jamshedpur, and after that its on to Raipur, from where we will punch through the centre of India to Nagpur and beyond. At some point US troops are going to show up in numbers to stop us, but that was the whole reason we came here in the first place, so that’s not a bad thing.  In Australia we have seen the massive back and forth swings typical of desert campaigns in the age of the tank, currently we are in the down slope side of the cycle, but with the fortifications at Katherine I’m sure we can pull an El Alamein if it comes down to that. Conversely further east New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomons have been very quiet, apart from the odd bombing raid on Lunga and our attempt to sink the USN “carriers” at Cairns. Plans here are to develop Gove in the west and Umboi Island in the east, to allow for ferrying of single engined planes between the two theatres, thereby massively increasing our flexibility in deploying our fighters. We should also really take advantage of the fact that Finschhafen has auto flipped to us to launch an overland attack on Lae. They don’t have that much stuff there, and little to no prospect of resupply.
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Holy cow, he's gone through a thousand warhawks
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I've gotta ask, does the Brits/Indians get any boosts at all to help them on the ground in these adjustments? It seems like just tossing everything in China at them is leading to them just getting snowballed to death, presuming their replacements as are anemic as they are in vanilla.
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Thank you for drawing on the map, that really helps as I'm trying to keep track of what's happening where. It looks like there's some Allied unit downriver from Ledu, are you pursuing them with somebody? If a remnant unit can go around recapturing stuff you've taken, that'd be rather annoying
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Are you going to take the remaining Dutch bases in the Eastern DEI?
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aphid_licker posted:Gotta admit I expected more guys in Calcutta The sea plane tenders were and remain a critical part of our carrier forces and the reason one of our carriers is equivalent to one of the USN's, despite being smaller. The seaplane tenders allow us to dedicate all of our planes to fighting, whilst the USN without similar capability must either rely purely on Catalinas from land bases or send a portion of their bombers out as search. Our new generation of seaplane tenders are slighly smaller than the previous, but are still vital additions to the fleet. Broken Box posted:If you did that well with a third of your force actually present Calcutta is seriously hosed. I was expecting to see hundreds of dead engineer squads to take down fortifications, and they were barely scratched. Hell, same. I wonder if maybe Fort William, which I'm pretty sure starts with milita as it's squads, was never upgraded. Cimber posted:Early post today! Kylaer posted:Thank you for drawing on the map, that really helps as I'm trying to keep track of what's happening where. It looks like there's some Allied unit downriver from Ledu, are you pursuing them with somebody? If a remnant unit can go around recapturing stuff you've taken, that'd be rather annoying The extremely annoying remnant who's been in the area since we landed and after chilling in the Naga hills for a few months reemerged in October to take Kohima. As you can see today we are bombing them and this will hopefully slow them enough for us to catch up and hit them again. Not that I have any faith they will surrender or anything. aphid_licker posted:Holy cow, he's gone through a thousand warhawks I mean that's not even three a day. The war's been going on for a while now Nick Esasky posted:I've gotta ask, does the Brits/Indians get any boosts at all to help them on the ground in these adjustments? It seems like just tossing everything in China at them is leading to them just getting snowballed to death, presuming their replacements as are anemic as they are in vanilla. They get some more device reinforcements if not on map units, but mostly it's just actually really easy to invade India in WitP. It's not like I've stripped China to the bone or anything, we now have around 9k total AV present in India, and we launched the invasion with less than 3. I could have easily found that much men for an invasion in vanilla, and have in fact myself taken a far worse invasion than I have managed this time in scen 1, saved only by my opponent getting overconfident and attacking Delhi. zetamind2000 posted:Are you going to take the remaining Dutch bases in the Eastern DEI? New Guinea has neither resources nor airfields close to anything we would care about (Milne Bay aside) so is best just ignored.
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