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Cimber
Feb 3, 2014

Tuna-Fish posted:

Do I understand right that Tone is now withdrawing at 4 hexes a turn, and won't even make home, but has to meet oilers somewhere along the route? Kinda oof, but if those tankers were good enough, maybe worth the risk?

I'm not sure how many AO's the IJN has, but Tone can also replenish from other ships in its task force if it needed too. The replenish at sea without AOs in hex will just average out all the fuel equally among each other. That can be useful when escorting cargo ships with DDs that have only a 4K range. (If you remember that is)

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Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



No bonk.




:rip:




RO-101 runs away from a landing craft, of all things.




A couple of Mitchells up in the night.




Half loads :laffo:




101 is back.




Splat.




A spitfire up over Jodhpur, again.




It doesn’t go our way, this time.




No CAP over Ajmer, good good.




The first sweep hits our LRCAP at Gasmata.




Could be worse.




Half the Nells arrive at Ajmer.




One Mitchell, I’ll take it. Hopefully the next wave gets another.




:ughh:

Looks like I forgot to change the target of the other group.




A small wave of Hellens over Gwalior.




Not much flak left, then.




:ohdear:




The Anns escape, revealing this to be the final more or less intact regiment of the 31st Armoured.




The Hellens can really start bringing hell down on him now.




First wave in over our carriers.




All but one Avenger down.




:byewhore:




That’s the good stuff.




Wave two seems to be using some kind of cloaking device.




But our brave pilots are not deterred, and again only one strike plane survives.




We only manage to damage it this time.




Going excellently so far.




Two stragglers wander into Gasmata and get hosed up.




Here comes the pain train at Gove.




I’m sure it’ll get worse.




Not that it really makes much difference, the airstrip is entirely unfunctional.




And with still an uncomfortable number of planes stuck there.




Mili, where we have also established a CAP trap.




Not that Mitchells need to care overly much.




One to one is a good trade, though.




Nothing to be done but grin and bear it.




And they’re running out of valid targets, at least.




The heavies are being escorted into Mili.




:sickos:




Tennant Creek.




Where we hit everything except the parked aeroplanes :allears:




:argh:




This is just ridiculous.




Interesting, I was expecting the Dutch to still go to Gasmata, but it seems they are on naval strike too.




Well, whatever, it’s all grist for the Ace mill.




If this is what we can do with massed naval AA, think what it’s going to be like for us trying to sink stuff with LBA in ‘45 :gonk:




In the meantime this is how we delay the inevitable day when air superiority switches to him.




They’ve found two Avengers from somewhere for a PM strike.




They cut and run after we chew up the escort.




Makin.




Anything that isn’t infrastructure bombing is 100% fine by me.




The USMC’s oldest, escorted by their newest.




Well that was a waste of Corsairs.




We’re only on level three now, I doubt we will ever manage to fully fortify Makin, but I’m happy to try if he isn’t going to oppose it.




More invisible, presumably Beauforts.




No, it’s the Dutch again. I’ve no idea why the sprites aren’t showing properly.




They should know how this goes by now.




A nice bit of everything.




It looks like he’s LRCAPing Gove then.

Since we’re not trying to operate from the base that doesn’t really change anything.




Back to somewhere where we’re winning, please.




Like so.




Hasn’t really removed any significant combat power from the board, but that’s a nice chunk of AA dead.




A good day at Bangalore.




The paras arrive at Nander.




It goes a little rough, but at least we’re over the river now.







A busy day!





We’ve got that many Avengers already?

No wonder he hasn’t managed to hit a critical mass with them.




Still being coy about those tankers.




A solid new cargo ship at Fukuoka.




The other AA unit from Milne Bay is repurchasable today.



Radio Detection posted:

Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107).

Radio transmissions detected at Alliford Bay (199,46).

Radio transmissions detected at San Luis Obispo (221,75).

Radio transmissions detected at March Field (225,75).

Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107).

Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Cooktown (92,137).
Someone at Pearl seems to have a lot to say today :laugh:




Shooting fish in a barrel.




So far Tone is unspotted.







Sadly we won’t be able to cut off this last regiment of the 31st armoured, but we do still have the opportunity to catch them in an unfair fight and defeat them in detail.




The Anns are shifted to Bhopal, from where they will be investigating this concentration to the north of Indore.




The 37th Division is complete again, and shipping out for the north.




I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this before, but we’re going to bomb out Karachi’s industry. The 40 tons of supply the heavy industry is making per day here is utterly irrelevant on the scale of combat we are engaging in, I’m more hoping that he has forgotten to turn off repairs. Every point of industry repaired is one thousand supply burnt.




We’ve made our point (that Alikchi can’t just leave squadrons on naval attack), and can now head for the Gilberts, after a stop in Rabaul for fuel and new Zero airframes.




That was a successful CAP trap at Mili, but now we have to stand the CAP down, and we might end up regretting it yet if we can’t get these Zeros repaired and evacuated before he bombs them all on the ground.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Our DDs have been caught, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.




We have no ammo and they can’t hit poo poo and overall not much happens.

Anything that draws the pursuit away from Tone is excellent, though.




:ughh:




Now he definitely knows we’ve split her off.




The storms allow her to break contact again, though.




RO-101 decides to be sensible about engaging landing craft tonight.




Or not.




Meanwhile RO-102 has been caught.




Well I didn’t expect that!

:rip:




Sweep is the first in at Gove today. Good job I didn’t decide to try a LRCAP.




Heavy storms at Ajmer today.




But we nab a Mitchell despite that.




It seems maybe splitting the strike by accident yesterday has achieved something, with an Hurricane over Jodhpur.




Who we make short work of.




Clear skies over Karachi.




Three hits on the heavy industry, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to three points damaged.




Delhi. A strong showing from us.




And we carry through.




Anns doing their usual recon by bomb.




A brigade backed up by a regiment is a serious threat to Indore, but we have a whole division in the area chasing them down. As long as we can keep them suppressed with the Anns so our infantry can out manoeuvre them we don’t need to panic.




Here come the bomb trucks at Gove.




Nothing so far.




I’m sure this won’t last :v:




Mili first, though.




Mili doesn’t even have a port!




It did not last.




I really need to think about increasing production of the Ki-44IIb with the 40mm cannons some more.




Some of these are flying half loads for whatever reason. I don’t know why, it’s not like he’s short on large airfields in this part of the world.




A recon gets hit at Mili.




And then an Emily?

He’s having very good luck with bombing patrol craft these last couple days, normally they’re all but impossible to hit.




This might not go well.




This did not go well.




Late sweep at Ajmer but no harm done.




This might go better.




This did go better, if only just.




There’s a little stray CAP over Agra.




At these odds we slaughter them.




Over his tanks today there is only a lone Hurricane.




Who doesn’t last long. He must have pulled all the CAP back to Delhi for today, or maybe it got pulled back by the game because we swept there first.




USMC time at Makin.




They do love the smell of uhh, amatol in the afternoon?




Eventually we’ll get around to bating these guys with the carriers too.




Not all their bombers flew to Gove this morning, then.




Apparently there’s still lots more to come.




RO-101 manages to evade No. 383.




Quiet at Bangalore.







Nothing very dramatic today, and Tone is still afloat, for now.





Gove aside, we are doing just fine in the air.




The gently caress? Where’s RO-102?




I did not know it was possible for a sub to survive the “slips beneath the waves event”. She’s even in for reasonable odds of getting back to Darwin, I’d say.




A new LST at Nagoya.




Yokohama lays down one of these tiny one month freighters.




As does Osaka.




At Ahmadabad the last of our reserves are gathering. Once the 1st Recon Battalion arrives tomorrow, we will have 500AV ish of motorised and light mechanised troops. This should be enough to take Jodphur and march across the Thar desert to Karachi, although I doubt it will be enough to take Karachi.

Still, once we have Karachi besieged the naval blockade will no longer be needed, which will free up considerable assets for us.







I’m not quite sure where his tanks went, I suppose on the good road network here they managed a double move and ended up in Delhi?

Anyway, I think we’ll push south and cut Agra off from the bulk of his troops in Delhi.

The lack of a frontline/supply line mechanic in WitP is going to make for some pretty stupid manoeuvre warfare on the good roads around Delhi over the next few weeks I think, but we should have a pretty unassailable advantage in armour now, even if we’ve missed our chance to bushwhack the last regiment of the 31st armoured.




Well, we’ve done the heavy industry pretty well, we’ll try the light industry next and see if anything gets repaired.




Karachi is now also the highest concentration of aeroplanes on the field, apart from Delhi, so we’ll send the Nells here too.




We still actually have quite a few airframes at Gove, and really no hope of flying them out. I don’t know why I didn’t think of going to pick them up with ships before, but we’ll do it now, and in the process we can bring in AA and more engineers.

I had been keeping the carriers back at Darwin, thinking once the other three were ready at the east end of the Torres strait, we’d bring the Donryus back into the Pacific. Those three are now needed elsewhere, so there’s no particular time pressure for the Donryus to be ready, they can do some escort work in the meantime.




And of course we won’t pass up an opportunity to go and bombard Groote Eylandt.




Tone is spotted now, and there’s probably not much hope, but if we turn south in the night we might just slip her away.




Our carriers are heading north from Rabaul. If Tone can make it to the vicinity of Wake then she’ll be safe, and if not maybe we can at least turn the tables on some hunters.

wedgekree
Feb 20, 2013
Presuming you lose Tone (it seems unlikely she'll get away) is what she sunk a good exchange or not?

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009

Cimber posted:

Are all these units being nuked going to auto reform in the next 120 days and be redeployable?

Some will be, but a lot of the Indian units might be permanently restricted, which can't be reformed. Even the ones that do reform though will do so as empty shells, and the bottleneck for the allies is devices and squads to put in units, not units themselves. Especailly for the British. So defacto they are out of the game, pretty much.




Tuna-Fish posted:

The N1K has about twice the power of a Zero, at substantially less than twice the weight.

Which is also why when you realize that your mainline fighter is getting a bit underpowered and obsolete, you take the floats off and suddenly you have a very good replacement. If you can manufacture enough of the better engines, of course.



Do I understand right that Tone is now withdrawing at 4 hexes a turn, and won't even make home, but has to meet oilers somewhere along the route? Kinda oof, but if those tankers were good enough, maybe worth the risk?

No, shes moving at the normal warship cruise speed of 15kts, which equates to 4.5 hexes per half turn, which is rounded down then rounded up. So she'll move 4 in the night phase then 5 in the day phase.




Cimber posted:

I'm not sure how many AO's the IJN has, but Tone can also replenish from other ships in its task force if it needed too. The replenish at sea without AOs in hex will just average out all the fuel equally among each other. That can be useful when escorting cargo ships with DDs that have only a 4K range. (If you remember that is)

No need to remember, they'll do that automatically. The only reason you need to do it manually is the day before anticipated contact so you don't end up refueling when you should be moving.




wedgekree posted:

Presuming you lose Tone (it seems unlikely she'll get away) is what she sunk a good exchange or not?

I'd say it's about a breakeven for two large tankers and an oiler, but remember this is Tone's third sucessful excursion, so overall she has had a good war and if this is her final voyage she will have overall made a very useful contribution. The period when these kind of tactics are even possible is rapidly closing also, normally it would have closed long ago but we've beaten up Alikchi's carriers so sucessfuly that I thought it worth a shot. Even just one CVE on patrol would have been enough to at least force Tone back if not outright sink her. So, use her or lose her, and she's done well.




wedgekree posted:

What's the point of him having made Dehli into a level 9 airfield? There a mis-click there and allocation of building? He forget to set it off or something? He doesn't even seem to have a ton of planes based out of there.

A better question for Alikchi, but I'm guessing either just because he could, or to allow the stockpilling of massive amounts of supplies. You need a total of 8 levels of facilites (airfield + port) to prevent decay of supplies over certain limits, and pushing to 9 will also reduce the damage we can inflict with supply hits by airfield bombing, representing increased dispersion of supplies. It also means increased dispersion of aeroplanes parked on the ground, making it much harder to suppress them.




wedgekree posted:

Nice job breaking two brigades there! Hopefully those freed up units can be moved around to keep up the aggression as they recover! And how do you think Alichi's plane pools nad supplies in India are doing?

Plane pools are global, but I'm getting the impression Alikchi has removed the majority of his squadrons from India by disbanding them. British airpools are also pretty empty, but I'm quite sure the US pools are anything but. He seems to be down to a single squadron of P-40s in India though, or maybe two at the most, so that won't help him all that much. Supplies, I'm working on the assumption has at least a million stocked in Delhi, but I could be off by a factor of 10 in either direction :v: There's really absolutely no way to know, until it gets so low ground units start taking supply (-) penalites. Until then it's just wild speculation based on gut feeling interpretations of his behaviour.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Amberjack is still hanging around in the channel between New Britain and New Ireland.




She bottoms out, but even our most modern destroyers are unable to prosecute.




RO-107 has been caught to the west.




Oh. Ohhh. Hello Hood!




:sweatdrop:




:negative:

Please be empty, please be empty…




She is. But that’s far from a guarantee of survival.




Scarcely revenge.




Libertys and their 300 tons of fuel :allears:




Not really needed I don’t think, but it’s nice to be sure.




No CAP at Gwalior.




A bit more up at Agra today, though.




Hopefully we killed more than that.




And he’s put CAP up at Ajmer.




He only has fifty or sixty fighters left in India I think, so every loss is really going to hurt.




No sign of the LRCAP over Gove today.




The land based air hits Karachi first.




That’s nice.




Jodhpur. He guessed the CAPs wrong today.




But we miss the Spitfire.




Still something over Ajmer as our stragglers arrive.




That’s the stuff.




And now the CVL’s turn at Karachi.




Only two hits to the light industry. We shall have to see what damage that actually did.




We hit Delhi in force.




Hurricanes are having a bad day.




The Hellens arrive over Gwalior.




Good effect on target.




He’s back to bombing Umboi.




Just when we’d almost repaired it.




poo poo weather over Gove, thank you.




Misses so far.




Long may it last.




It costs far more to suppress an airfield than it does to repair it. But of course he has the logistics to sustain that cost.




Until relatively recently he probably couldn’t have the supply base in Australia for this sort of an effort.




Severe storms in the Central Pacific, too.




Minimal damage.




I’m really liking that he’s flying with half loads. It can’t be due to small airfields, it must be due to range, which in turn means he will take an ops loses penalty, which is about the only way we can hope to kill these fuckers at the moment.




Storms my rear end!




And no cover over Maloelap.




Not that they do much damage.




We don’t have any parked aircraft to destroy here anyway.




It’s a busy day though.




Makin is also covered by the storms.




And one Dauntless gets catastrophically unlucky.




Avengers come in later.




Some Liberators have left Gove until the afternoon, when the weather has cleared.




Next time get out of bed with the rest :argh:




A typical day at Bangalore.







Well Tone didn’t get attacked, that’s good.





A decent chunk out of his remaining fighter pool in India.




We’d need to sink a lot more than a Liberty a day to keep the yank away, but whatever, it’s something.




A useful addition to our merchant fleet.




Much more exciting, a new Marine fighter unit arrives. Of course, a new unit isn’t much use if we don’t have any aeroplanes to issue them with, but there’s a particular reason I want more fighter Hikotais soon. Around July and August we will need all of them we can get.




Moradabad auto flips to us. Slightly annoying since now we need to find a garrison for here :v:




Sadly it seems like Alikchi has got repairs for the industry switched off.




Tone’s jink south has so far paid off :ohdear:




Well there’s definitely something about to go down in the Gilberts. At least our three carriers will be in good position to respond after dealing with the Tone situation.

The problem is they lack heavy escorts, as all our battlewagons are either in the Arabian sea or at Darwin. This means I won’t dare to be as aggressive with them as I might like, for fear of his modern fast BBs making a dash on us.




I-176 has been whacked good by one of his ASW patrol planes. Very far from fatal damage, thankfully.




And Tsurumi is very much in for a chance too.







Our mechanised column sets out from Ahmedabad tonight. They will meet up with the SNLF who have been holding the crossroads east of Jodhpur for the last couple months, and then together march into the Thar.




I’m going to mix things up a bit and have the navy bomb these guys in strength.

I’m liking how Alikchi is putting up lots of little CAPs around the place we can sweep for easy kills, so anything to encourage him to keep doing that is good.




You know what? We’re under too much time pressure with the carriers, and our fuel logistics are in good shape at the moment. We can afford a sprint, as long as we send the oilers out to refuel them on their way south to the Gilberts.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Woosh.




#Regrets




Ouch.




RO-68 doesn’t even get a shot off.




loving RAN and your good depth charges. Although it seems the USN has finally got around to it as well.




Owie.




:rip:




She’s not going down lightly though!




Even gets some deck gun shots on target.




Still, there’s only one way that can end.




Although again she hasn’t actually sunk yet.




Puffer takes a swipe at the bombardment fleet.




But despite being in shallow water we don’t even land a single hit.




Bombardments at Makin tonight.




A whole lot of noise for not much damage.




A DD is a bit more ominous though…




And yes, this is an invasion.




We are unprepared here with around 50 AV and level three forts, I doubt we hold.




Oh dear, what’s happened to Aurthur Middleton? :laugh:




I-30 avoids a follow up.




Our submarines are really enjoying poking the bear today.




At least this reminds Alikchi that yes I can put submarines all the way over to the east edge of the map if I want to.




Nothing over Agra.




Wave one at Delhi.




A promising start.




Gasmata is being swept today.




:negative:




I knew he was going to do that, but trusted the sweep. Never trust the sweep!




:allears:




It’s something I suppose.




Jodhpur is still contested.




Rather too well…




Ajmer too.




At least we didn’t lose one.




Light industry again.




Wait, what are the carriers doing over here?




Wave two for Delhi.




Not as good.




And what the gently caress are the Hellens doing here?




I think the unit they were targeted on must have been wiped out entirely?

I hope the rest of them aren’t going to do something moronic.




One last sweep of Delhi.




At least the main sweeps came in before those Hellens.




Clear for the Anns too, now.




Although one still manages to eat a flak burst.




Well this Sentai did as ordered.




As did this.




The Venturas are back in the air.




A bit rough.




All his bombers are out to play today.




Aggravating but ultimately not really relevant.




And the storms are giving us a bit of a free pass anyway.




Although it will disrupt our plans a bit with units falling out of formation as they are forced into combat mode.




This must be every bomber he still has.




I suppose I have been a bit complacent with CAP.




I don’t know why the hell he would think I’d risk CAP at Lae.




Not just sweep at Gasmata then.




But very little damage from this wave.




That’s a lot of Mitchells.




And a lot of damage.




Gove. The carriers are providing cover.




But we all know how Zeros fare against heavy bombers.




Poorly, if you haven’t been taking notes.




We might do better with Mitchells.




A little.




This is going to drain our replenished carrier groups very fast I fear.




One to one isn’t bad.




But they just don’t stop.




One for none! Hopefully.




He must be confident if he isn’t even using his LBA to support the jar heads on Makin.




Mili is going to be next, but I need to find another couple months to finish fortifications.




We’re getting pretty worn down at Gove.




At least he shouldn’t really have any naval strike tasked.




And it’s only going to get worse from here on out.




No Zeros lost this wave!




And of course there’s sweep too :negative:




Where are those loving battlewagons. They were supposed to bombard Groote Eylandt in the night.




I can’t wait to have a month or two of not dealing with Spitfire VIIIs.




Still some CAP up over Ajmer as our proper sweep turns up.




But it escapes.




Speaking of proper sweeps here comes the main effort at Gove.




We didn’t stand a chance.




:argh:




At least we didn’t lose one.




Wait, it’s two days later and he’s already got ten Avengers airworthy in this squadron :negative:




Being at war with the US MIC sucks.




The USMC are supporting their boots.




But the weather makes it pretty irrelevant.




Have we seen peak AV from him at Bangalore?




We have level three forts, but :ohdear:




It wasn’t enough.




Not even close.







gently caress me what a day.





Not quite as lopsided in the air as I feared, and six Liberators is nice. Those Nells though :negative:




Today’s trauma has caused Intel to completely lose the plot :allears:




On the other hand,




Kure completes a new submarine.




And Yokohama launches a large tanker.




Meanwhile Sendai shipyards do their best to contribute to the war effort :eng99:




Work starts on I-54, due from Maizaru on the 25th of March.




And at Fukuoka a new tanker is started, also due for the 25th of March, since they have the same durability.




And the army raises another Construction Battalion.




We will of course buy today’s losses straight back.




RO-68 hasn’t even felt the need to interrupt her patrol??

I appreciate the dedication, but I think I’m going to overwrite that.




I-30 is in much better shape.




Taiyru has a particularly brutal time of it.




Gwalior has been abandoned to us without a fight.




Tone has been spotted again which is very disappointing, but she’s probably just going to have to do the best she can by herself now.




Our carriers have entirely bigger fish to fry. Or then again, do they? He’s pulled off a successful one day invasion, meaning there isn’t necessarily much there to catch with our carriers.




I don’t know why the battleships didn’t bombard Groote Eylandt, they were setup to do so. Let’s just hope they’ll do it tonight.







Time for our tanks to be on the move again. We will cross the Ganges to the west of Agra and cut the rail to Delhi.




Flipping Gwalior will cost us an extra day, which is annoying, but our tanks are hopefully in a good position to prevent a successful retreat to join his main effort at Delhi.




I think we are ready for our first direct attempt on Delhi. Let’s just pray the sweeps go in first, but I’m sure they won’t :allears:




We need some area CAP up. WitPs inability to model an air war as anything other than discrete and isolated battles in individual hexes really starts to break down in this kind of situation, but there’s nothing we can do about that.




And at Bhopal too. That should cover most of what we need.




I’m not quite sure how I ended up sending the CVLs back to Bombay, but we’ve still got plenty of fuel so we’ll turn around again.




Shoho and Kuroho are short on aviation fuel though, so since they’re halfway there we’ll send them back to Bombay.




Irritatingly only one of the cargo ships has managed to fully unload at Gove, meaning only one is available to load aircraft. Still, that means we can crane the eight remaining Nicks aboard her, which is over a week’s worth of production for us.




We’ve already lost half the Zeros off the carriers, but I think we have to brave it out one more day. If the battlewagons would just bombard Groote to suppress the sweep that would be really nice.




Tone is going to turn south again, which will hopefully buy her another day or two. The carriers are going to stand on, so this also brings her closer to them.




The destroyers have enough fuel left to jink north and hopefully confuse the pursuit of Tone.

Pharnakes fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Apr 13, 2024

mercenarynuker
Sep 10, 2008

Intel has brought us the Allies agricultural schedules. It seems they are having maintenance issues, now is the time to strike!

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009
lmao, how the hell did that get in there.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Intel reports that the Tokyo Bay cattle herd is at Tokyo Bay

habeasdorkus
Nov 3, 2013

Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.
Aww, drat, didn't get here fast enough for the hot agricultural goss that was slipped into the update by IJA spies trying to make the IJN look bad.

The IJA must be winning all the arguments back at high command given their ability to conquer not only all of SE Asia but also create a Japanese Raj in roughly two years. Meanwhile the IJN has done well but is actively being pushed back in the Gilbert and Marshall islands area. Pretty soon there's gonna be a law saying the Navy only gets brown rice, which will have the unintended result of actually improving their performance a bit.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



The USN’s new ASW capabilities don’t always apply, thankfully.



loving finally, thank you.




:geno:




Well they did stay on target, I don’t know why they didn’t kill any aircraft. Hopefully it’s chewed the runway up enough that sweep can’t fly.




We open the airphase with a sweep of Delhi, exactly what we needed.




Well not exactly what we needed :v:

I’ll take the sweep having come in before the bombers though, regardless of the result.




No CAP here today.




Praise the sun, a second sweep has hit the Delhi before the strike.




Now we’re in business.




And a third :vince:




Everyone counts.




It doesn’t even matter that the Hellens have hosed up and missed their escorts.

Shame about the weather though.




Well. That's dramatically better than I was expecting.




And here comes the second wave, with the escorts.




Hell yes! Between the weather and the dispersion on such a large airfield I wasn’t hoping for much.




:getin:




You should always let one live, so he can go home and tell the rest.




He mises, of course.




Or not :v:




I know that’s probably two days worth of Dauntless production, but I’m happy all the same.




Gasmata.




The Aussies have been given some Mitchells it seems.




They’re just as horrible as the US piloted versions.




He’s thinking about it.




Maybe the heavies aren’t coming to Gove today? That would be nice.




The men at Gasmata might feel differently.




At least some are coming to Gove.




But we should have decent flak here now, sixteen of our modern 88mm guns.




Well, they didn’t hit anything?




Again.




We aren’t getting away with it are we :negative:




Mili.




RIP Kosei, you lasted a lot longer than I expected you too, and now we have ground mechanics present you can retire in glory anyway.




Oh!




:sickos:




Darwin is rapidly becoming the heavy bomber’s nightmare. The, I don’t know, Essen was it, of the East.




An attack on the airstrip at Mili does no damage.




And neither does the second wave.




Maloelap is targeted too.




Minor damage.




Clean over Delhi.




But we’ve found a little lose dirt to sweep up over Ajmer.




Yes please.




And we’re getting a PM sweep of Delhi. Absolutely textbook coordination from the airforce today.




We might have just destroyed 20% or so of his remaining fighters.




And it’s not over yet!




Booooo.




poo poo weather for the Anns, but then they're only here for the sake of harassment.




Unsurprisingly they all miss.




Tarawa.




Minimal damage.




I wish I knew if he intended to land here or is just going to try and bypass. I strongly suspect the latter, so we’ll need a plan to punish him for that.




Our tank fist is across the Ganges again, and has caught another favourable engagement by the looks of it.




:vince:




Favourable is right!




We have a relatively good day at Bangalore, even.







I’m officially rating today as a good day. Maybe even a great day.





I’ve still got it :smug:




RO-68 did not make it. Not hugely surprising.




Down to one squadron of fighters at Delhi? :getin:




It seems the reason we did no damage at Groote Eylandt is because Alikchi moved the aeroplanes away. A bit annoying that our battleships lost a day for no reason, but at least it has had the desired effect of shutting down the sweeps of Gove.




One truck left on the convoy. One! Just push the loving thing over the side :argh:




Koesi is toast, but nevermind, it took him long enough to hit her.




Tone’s turn to the south has once again allowed her to evade pursuit, but it has come at the cost of being well within the spotting radius of Catalinas at Midway. This time her luck probably has run out.







With the flag planted over Gwalior, we are free to push towards Agra with the main infantry effort.




It’s not a particularly big airfield, but it’s ideal for us to base some CAP out of. It also came with free level three forts, which is nice.




The tanks meanwhile are now solidly behind his lines. They will continue their hook to the south now, while the first regiment of the Guards tank pushes into the western outskirts.

In two days time the 32nd division will be across the Ganges also, and can hold the road against any attempted supporting attacks from Delhi.




Thanks to the Navy’s treacherous refusal to unload that last army truck, we have to abandon the last remaining Tojo to its fate. We’ve saved eleven airframes though, worth having.




She’s probably lost anyway, but we’ll turn south again and pray he’s got all his naval bombers in the South Pacific at the moment.

He almost certainly doesn’t :(

The Sandman
Jun 23, 2013

Okay!

So, I've, like, designed a really sweet attack plan that I'm calling Attack Plan Ded Moroz, like "Deadmau5!"

WUB!
So two things.

First, what's the plan once India is done?

Second, why did Intel suddenly decide the West Virginia sank?

mercenarynuker
Sep 10, 2008

The Sandman posted:

Second, why did Intel suddenly decide the West Virginia sank?

If you guess the same thing every day, eventually you may be right!

Akratic Method
Mar 9, 2013

It's going to pay off eventually--I'm sure of it.

Any day now.

The Sandman posted:

Second, why did Intel suddenly decide the West Virginia sank?

Intel is super into drugs, is the thing.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



:argh:




Far too many submarines around Darwin still.




He’s shifted more CAP to Ajmer?




Welp.




Still clear for the Anns.




Jodhpur.




Cost of doing business.




On time sweep at Delhi again.




A dramatic reduction compared to yesterday.




Ann time.




And they do some damage too.




Tone has survived the night, and the day, naval phases, but will she weather the air phase?




They have torpedoes, and Tone is no easy target for torpedoes.




To be honest they’d have probably been better with bombs.




Oh, and he’s got the Catalinas out too?




:ohdear:




:sweatdrop:




A brief interlude for bombing Gasmata.




Not much left here to bomb at the moment.




But he’s not short on effort for it.




Mili is covered by storms today.




They still get an Emily somehow.




And that’s it for today, apparently. Our secondary tank stack crosses towards Agra.




And smashes them.




Alikchi really needed to consolidate all these spread out units a long time ago. I hope it’s too late now.




Bangalore is quiet.







Well, somehow Tone is still alive?




That’s basically all the drama you’re getting today, though.




Koesi burnt out. Should have scuttled her really, but what’s 1 VP.




Another Yoshino is commissioned at Sasebo. Three more to come!




At Shanghai a new aviation support battalion is mustered.




It’s deeply annoying to have Yamahagi Maru hit, but I don’t think it actually interferes with her ability to act as a repair ship :v:

We’ll find out when she gets to Darwin anyway.




I don’t think there can be an :ohdear: big enough.




The KB is so close though… And has fuel for a sprint? And the oilers are right there? I think there’s the shapings of a rescue operation here.







*chanting in extremely childish voice* I know where your bombers are, I know where your bombers are!




If Delhi isn't worth bombing at the moment, I’m going to bring a hammer down on whatever this is outside Agra. We only have some very light recon units moving to complete the encirclement, and if they are to win any kind of fight we need to have thoroughly suppressed the enemy first.




We’re recovered enough to push again here.




Our artillery train has arrived at Allahabad, and can now rail to the front.




Anyone who can’t make 31 knots has to fall out, and we also shed Taiho & Mogami as they have the lowest fuel. This is actually a good thing though, as we’re being pretty reckless with the Shokakus, and we may well come to be dependent on Taiho having fuel for flight ops to cover the other two :v:




Operation Better than Bismark is a go! We’ll show those stupid Germans how you rescue a surface raider.

And he can’t see us coming! He must realise the carriers are coming this way, but he couldn’t see us yesterday either, so hopefully he’s not expecting the carriers to arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest.




Tone will make one desperate last zag north with the last of her fuel. If she’s still alive in 24 hours it doesn’t matter anyway, she’ll be securely under the umbrella and can be refuelled in a couple days when the oilers catch up.




And we’ll turn the destroyers south in the vague hopes of confusing the issue.




Chuho departs on her maiden voyage for Truk, but she won’t arrive in time for the current excitement.

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014
If i recall correctly, all aux ships won't work if they have more than 10 system damage. Your AR might just be a yard queen instead.

Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!
Repair ship, fix thyself :hmmyes:

MeatloafCat
Apr 10, 2007
I can't think of anything to put here.
Could you send a slightly larger repair ship to repair the repair ship?

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014
Yeah, he could, though he's got 16 points of major float damage no repair ship can fix regardless. Not sure if repairing only the system damage and keepin the float damage will allow it to function or not. Either way, that sub attack was pretty annoying and it's likely the AR is going to have to go to Singapore for a few months instead of being useful in Darwin.

It's funny, but it's often small things like this that can swing a campaign one way or the other.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Pharnakes posted:




Of course, you can’t really have too many escorts, however poo poo. What we really can’t have enough of though is random peasants conscripted and handed a shovel. This is one of the good engineering units even, with some heavy machinery.

Unlike the allies with their hordes of Seabees (and hordes of bulldozers for the SeaBees to drive), we really struggle to get enough engineering points. And fortifications are the only way for our poor obsolete infantry to be anything but cannon fodder for marines with flamethrowers and machineguns.
American here: One of my grandfathers served in the Army, the other already had 2 kids before Pearl Harbor so he was allowed to stay out of the service. Instead he kept working at International Harvester as they went into the war effort, and farming equipment is pretty close to construction equipment and bulldozers / earth movers, so his stuff may have gone to the SeaBees. IH did build a bunch of stuff for the war, including torpedoes!

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
Also, this is an odd question but it's also about gameplay so here goes:
The IJA and IJN both flew Zeros of various types for the duration of the way. Also the IJA and IJN hated the poo poo out of each other. During the war, were any pilot groups / sentais sent from Army to Navy and vice versa?
Can you re-create that in game? Would there be any penalties for sending an Army sentai trained to land on stationary runways going to a Navy unit and having to land on moving runways?

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

CannonFodder posted:

Also, this is an odd question but it's also about gameplay so here goes:
The IJA and IJN both flew Zeros of various types for the duration of the way. Also the IJA and IJN hated the poo poo out of each other. During the war, were any pilot groups / sentais sent from Army to Navy and vice versa?
Can you re-create that in game? Would there be any penalties for sending an Army sentai trained to land on stationary runways going to a Navy unit and having to land on moving runways?

The IJA never flew the Zero.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench

Jobbo_Fett posted:

The IJA never flew the Zero.

Why is the Zero flying in India in this game? Marine units?

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

CannonFodder posted:

Why is the Zero flying in India in this game? Marine units?

Its just Pharnakes taking an IJNAF squadron and using it in India. A really good example to look at is the G3M/Nell bomber squadron photo at the bottom of the most recent update, compared to the subsequent shot of the Helens. The Nells are marked Navy, the Helens Army.

To my knowledge, the IJA and IJN never gave the other their planes for testing or combat purposes and neither side had any pilot exchanges. Perhaps theres an exception somewhere, but in no way would it have been the general rule

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Its just Pharnakes taking an IJNAF squadron and using it in India. A really good example to look at is the G3M/Nell bomber squadron photo at the bottom of the most recent update, compared to the subsequent shot of the Helens. The Nells are marked Navy, the Helens Army.

To my knowledge, the IJA and IJN never gave the other their planes for testing or combat purposes and neither side had any pilot exchanges. Perhaps theres an exception somewhere, but in no way would it have been the general rule

Ki-15 (IJA)/C5M(IJN) Babs reconnaissance plane is the only one that comes to mind, but even that had variants, and are represented in-game as different planes, needing different factories.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Caconym posted:

Ki-15 (IJA)/C5M(IJN) Babs reconnaissance plane is the only one that comes to mind, but even that had variants, and are represented in-game as different planes, needing different factories.

Its important to note that the C5M exists because the IJNAF goes to Mitsubishi and just orders the aircraft with modifications to fit the IJN's logistics (and because "their engines are better", etc etc) rather than it being explicit tech sharing between the two factions.

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014
The IJA's biggest worry during the war was the IJN.

CannonFodder
Jan 26, 2001

Passion’s Wrench
Thank you everyone for the clarification. I never looked close enough to notice that Nells are Navy and Helens are Army. I just see Pharnakes say "I'm bombing this location" and just go with it.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009

habeasdorkus posted:

Aww, drat, didn't get here fast enough for the hot agricultural goss that was slipped into the update by IJA spies trying to make the IJN look bad.

The IJA must be winning all the arguments back at high command given their ability to conquer not only all of SE Asia but also create a Japanese Raj in roughly two years. Meanwhile the IJN has done well but is actively being pushed back in the Gilbert and Marshall islands area. Pretty soon there's gonna be a law saying the Navy only gets brown rice, which will have the unintended result of actually improving their performance a bit.

It's very much a joint effort in India, there's no way the army alone would have gained air superiority. The Zero is supperior to the Oscar which was the mainstay of the Army until August or so, and although the Tojo is better still, it lacks the range and thus alot of the tacitcal and strategic flexibility of the Zero. Also the IJAAF just simply isn't big enough to have got the job done by themselves.



The Sandman posted:

So two things.

First, what's the plan once India is done?

Second, why did Intel suddenly decide the West Virginia sank?

Once India is done we will fortify the poo poo out of the key defensible cities (paticuarly Bombay and Calctutta with their heavy urban 4x modifiers, and stip the garrison to the bone to fight like hell over the Phliipines, Australia and New Britiain. The Marshalls may or may not have fallen by then, but there simply isn't enough room in the Marshalls to really deploy the army, and the army airforce planes mostly lack the range to be useful in Centeral Pacific opperations.



Cimber posted:

If i recall correctly, all aux ships won't work if they have more than 10 system damage. Your AR might just be a yard queen instead.

Well, there's no yards at Darwin for her to be queen of, or else we wouldn't have needed her in the first place :v:



MeatloafCat posted:

Could you send a slightly larger repair ship to repair the repair ship?

The system damage will be repaired pierside no problem, even in a level one port with no naval support it would eventually get fixed. The flooding damage is only repairable with drydocks, and we don't get any floating drydocks, those are an allied toy only. Well, actually we do have one small one that can repair submarines and destroyers at Truk, but I would never risk redploying her, even if she was big enough for this job, which she isn't.



CannonFodder posted:

American here: One of my grandfathers served in the Army, the other already had 2 kids before Pearl Harbor so he was allowed to stay out of the service. Instead he kept working at International Harvester as they went into the war effort, and farming equipment is pretty close to construction equipment and bulldozers / earth movers, so his stuff may have gone to the SeaBees. IH did build a bunch of stuff for the war, including torpedoes!

Ohhh, so he's to thank for all the bonks then.



CannonFodder posted:

Also, this is an odd question but it's also about gameplay so here goes:
The IJA and IJN both flew Zeros of various types for the duration of the way. Also the IJA and IJN hated the poo poo out of each other. During the war, were any pilot groups / sentais sent from Army to Navy and vice versa?
Can you re-create that in game? Would there be any penalties for sending an Army sentai trained to land on stationary runways going to a Navy unit and having to land on moving runways?

The army has no carrier capable aircaraft. Carrier capable but not carrier trained marine sentais can be placed on carriers, but they do take significantly worse OPs losses until they are carrier trained, which takes 90 days. In the context of a very large battle though a few extra OPs losses is often pretty irelevant, so that's a very valid tactic, albiet more one the allies to to rely on than we do.



CannonFodder posted:

Why is the Zero flying in India in this game? Marine units?

Marine units, yes. The IJN land based air forces are very nearly as large as the IJAAF.



CannonFodder posted:

Thank you everyone for the clarification. I never looked close enough to notice that Nells are Navy and Helens are Army. I just see Pharnakes say "I'm bombing this location" and just go with it.

Anything that is LetterNumberLetterNumber(-Letter) is a navy plane, Ki-XX is an army plane.

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Splat.




Been a while since we had any trouble up here.




Clear again for our harassment.

And, more importantly, no naval battles!




Aerial battles though!




That we’re winning handily.




A second wave.




Resistance really has all but collapsed.




Clear for the Hellens over Agra.




And clear for the Nells at Lahore.




Good stuff.




Cramped into a level one “airfield” with no flak covering them, these heavy bombers are just sitting ducks.




One last Warhawk over Delhi.




Height is life, if anything even more in WitP than reality.




And he survives to face our next wave.




Slippery little bugger.




There's a lone Hurricane as the Hellens close in.




And poo poo weather.




They did their job though.




As do the Anns.




OK, it looks like we are up against a significant quantity of men here. That is going to be problematic for our attempts to surround Agra.




He’s trying some bombing??




They don’t manage to get any bombs off.




Gasmata will not be so lucky.




Although the weather shields us from the worst of it.




Not much real damage, but we will be pushing disruption up.




Clear over Delhi now.




But still some CAP over Ajmer.




Nice results in the air so far today.




And we get a PM sweep of Delhi too, very good.




Looking pretty thin there.




And now Jodhpur.




I still hate his Spitfire VIIIs. All five or so of them left :argh:




Our CVs haven’t flown a strike yet, but the USMC have found something.




OK, it’s the destroyers.




They’d have to get bloody lucky to land a hit there. That must be Tone to the north west, so she’s potentially going to take a raid from the Catalinas but is otherwise safe.




But he’s using Mitchells for naval strike in the Central Pacific first.




And they hit something?




I wonder if they just got lucky there, or if he has trained some army pilots in naval bombing?




Crossing the Chambel between Gwalior and Agra. We are facing more opposition than I thought, but it should be OK with no defensive terrain.




It was OK.




Minus supply. Now that is interesting, but I’m not going to read too much into it yet.




Quiet at Bangalore.




And we attack at Nander too.




No longer one sided as it used to be.







I can’t believe we did it :sweatdrop:




That's a comfortable ratio, and seven Liberators is very nice.




Two irrelevant little xAKLs, but no Tone!!





I-55 is laid down at Sasebo, due for the 27th of April.




And a medium tanker at Osaka, for the 8th of December.




Yamahagi Maru is indeed still in business, despite having a few holds flooded.




This stack to the south of Agra is now the main issue to deal with. We’ve got them caught in the open and separated from Delhi, if we can crush them before he can link them up that’s hopefully going to give us an advantage that can be snowballed into a victory in the India campaign.




I was kind of hoping we’d catch that battlecruiser with the carriers, that would have been the perfect end to the episode, but I’m hardly going to complain. We’ve got no fuel to hang around anyway, and he has spotted the carriers so I’m sure he’ll vacate the area pronto as well.







Tone can turn south again for the final time. She has fuel for one more day, which will take her to exactly the same hex that the oilers can reach in one day. It’s almost like I planned this :allears: I didn’t plan any of it.




Which is also exactly right for Taiho to rejoin.




We’re going to push south along this rail line with a recon regiment. They can’t really fight but their presence should make the hex invalid for retreating into, and prevent or at least delay any attempt to link up with the troops at Jaipur.




Now that the 32nd division is on the right bank of the Ganges, we can take all of our tanks and rebuild the guards tank division in Agra. I want our infantry to march on more or less undistracted to Delhi, fighting in the open plains here is what our tanks are for.




So the 32nd will advance until contact. I think they can probably take whatever this is, if they don’t retreat into Delhi, but they’ll probably have to wait for the rest of the infantry to catch up before moving into Delhi proper.

All together we have about 3k AV of infantry marching forwards, but currently a bit scattered, and around 800AV of armoured units in support. There’s another two divisions of infantry worth 700 AV who will rail in over the next week or so. All in all I think it’s enough, he’s currently in two large and three or four smaller deployments, if I can just leverage what I’m pretty sure is both air and tank supremacy to keep him divided I’m confident of winning.




I think we can say his remaining airforces are adequately suppressed, and we can focus all our bombing effort on these guys, army and navy.




The Yamatos came all the way from Truk to Karachi for one bombardment, and now they’re going back.

Not my strongest organisational moment :eng99:

wedgekree
Feb 20, 2013
Going good places in India. And yay! Tone and the DD's seem to have survived!

Minus all the oil expended in getting the CV's over there, etc.

But no major damage and she could even be useful again!

Seeming air supremacy in India shall be nice! You think that you'll have to seige Dehli or not? Or gonna recon via bombardment once get troops in position?

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



Cruisers are back at Mili.




And the coastal guns give as good as they get.




A successful defence.




Ohh.

Surely he’s not invading here now??




A less successful defence.




Would have been a whole lot worse without the guns, though.




RO-67 wooshes a Dutch destroyer.




Escorting what I hope is empties from Makin.




No CAP here today.




And a fairly reduced presence over Delhi.




No claims, sadly.




Maybe with wave two?




Nope.




The Navy is on CAS duty too today.




They don’t do a great job, considering the open terrain.




And the second wave eats flak.




Spits at Jodhpur, as usual.




:cripes:




Ajmer should go better.




Yes please.




The CAP is all gone at Delhi.




But we aren’t bombing there today.




The army does distinctly better than the navy.




Tarawa.




Ground bombing, yes please.




Gasmata is still the focus in the middle of the map.




A light raid to start the day.




Oh, he’s trying bombers in India again.




The CAP is spread pretty thin.




A trade I’ll take, all the same.




This should be a slaughter.




We still let one through, though.




Well, it’s only one and the weather is bad, so not a big deal.




Some more Mitchells for Gasmata.




Even more Mitchells for Gasmata.




And again, naval strike in the Marshall area.




It looks like they are trained.




Only xAKLs, but it’s enough to make me think about deploying CVs here. Avengers and especially Dauntlesses are easy enough to shoot up, but Mitchells are another matter entirely.




Something at Bangalore, technically.




Again at Nander.




We are going to require reinforcements before we can crack it, it seems.







A pretty quiet day. Except for whatever is brewing in the Central Pacific.





Not a good ratio, but I don’t really care.




Katsura Maru is still afloat then.




This month the Navy receives a very solid if not overly exciting new model of the Jill. More speed, range and climb is nice, but it’s the reduction in service rating to one that really makes it worth it.




The army raises a regiment of lovely mountain guns in the north of Japan.




And another engineer battalion at Tokyo.




Saigon gets an aviation battalion, which is nice because they don’t need to catch a ship from the Home Islands.




The various ships damaged one way or another during Carpenter are in hand at Singapore. 132 days for Junyo, the only one to have really taken significant damage.




85% forts at Tarawa, and the battleships have returned to Tabiteuea. Except that can’t be right, it’s too far from Mili to Tabiteuea. The actual culprits must either be unspotted or misidentified.




Mili, as you might expect, is fairly well turned over, and the coastal defence unit heavily disrupted, but not massively damaged.




Eniwetok reaches level five fortifications, although we have no real garrison here yet.




Interesting, he’s built a port at Makin before an airstrip.




And they are expanding the strip at Jacobabad. This is presumably his next fall back point for what’s left of the airforce.




Tone can now definitely be declared to be safe, or as safe as any ship can be during wartime. And she’s come out of the whole adventure with, four systems damage!




Some of the carriers are refuelled, but the oilers have run out of time to complete the job. This will mean we only cover a short distance tomorrow as we will have to stop and finish refuelling.




Yeah, I think we might scuttle Katsura Maru.




We’re not quite ready to move the significant units out of India, but I really do want the Army to start building a presence in the Pacific. There’s still one or two more divisions we can afford to buy out of the China Expeditionary Army, so we will.







The Guards Tank division is whole again, and will push south west from Agra to reinforce the fairly paltry amount of troops we have here.




If the 4th Guards also turn south west from their current position, then we can hopefully trap Alikchi’s forces here.




Meanwhile the 32nd Division will turn their full wrath on whatever has pushed up the road from Delhi.



Since we don’t really know what we’re dealing with, I think it’s a good idea to turn on the air support tap.




We will also send one Hellen unit to bomb this unit still on the road to Delhi, to delay them in case they are also matching east.




Actually, we’ve got the 43rd Division nearly at Rabaul, and without carrier cover we can’t distribute them to Gasmata and Umboi anyway. So instead we can turn them around to Truk and have the 43rd for the Marshalls and use the 35th for New Britain when they arrive in a few weeks.




And we will start loading a heavy coast gun unit into an amphibious TF. As soon as the carriers are in position we will drop them at Tarawa. They also come with a nice amount of heavy flak.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry


This has me curious about WitP's design, calling its capabilities 1xF-mounted Early Engine. Like, is it Early Engine vis-a-vis later models of the aircraft?

uPen
Jan 25, 2010

Zu Rodina!
I think that's just the mod they're running which simplifies engines so you don't need to build Mitsubishi type 13 vs Mitsubishi type 45 engine factories.

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

Jobbo_Fett posted:



This has me curious about WitP's design, calling its capabilities 1xF-mounted Early Engine. Like, is it Early Engine vis-a-vis later models of the aircraft?

Stock witpae has like 20 different japanese aircraft engines. Some are widely used, some not so much. Sometimes the same plane family suddenly starts using a new engine on the next model, so gently caress you if you didn't pay attention and planned ahead, no new planes for you until you scale up engine production.
There's also a research bonus for new plane models if you have more than 500 of the right engines in the pool, so you _better_ have a massive excel sheet planning all of this out in advance, including how many supplies you are willing to burn on factory retooling.

Caconym fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Apr 24, 2024

Caconym
Feb 12, 2013

Quote still isn't edit.

wedgekree
Feb 20, 2013
Looks like India's going to turn into another seige of the last few big cities Alikchi has left presuming things go on schedule. In that case, are you going to leave blocking forces there and leave the artillery train there the next six/seven months?

Pharnakes
Aug 14, 2009



What a target to gently caress up on :argh:




Delhi.




Even is a win for us.




No CAP on the road to the south.




And all clear over Delhi by the second wave.




Gasmata.




I’m sure that’s just a teaser.




A much larger wave, but doesn’t do that much more damage.




The spoiling attack.




An infantry regiment, that should delay them for today if they were moving.




A small sweep of Ajmer.




Gets the job done though.




Tarawa time.




Pretty minor today.




This is new, bombing Alinglaplap.




Annoying.




Maloelap.




I’d say it’s bombed flat, but the Marshalls aren’t exactly known for their elevation changes anyway.




Really, much less flat than when they started.




New P-40s have been issued at Jodhpur?




I’m sure we have the Spitfires to blame for this, though.




Ohh, are you?




We should smash these guys nicely.




Honestly, I don’t know what the hell Alikchi is thinking, still sending out these lone regiments.




We are the clear winners, but hardly a bloodless victory.




Best result we’ve had at Bangalore in months.




I thought I called these off?




It looks like I forgot to order the tanks off, but the attack goes better than any of the others where the infantry was involved.




Just a raider battalion, so far.







OK, a few annoyances there.




How’d we manage to lose so many Nells when they didn’t bloody do anything??




Somebody lost a sub, and we didn’t, so I’ll take that.




Nagoya launches a nice tanker.




Ebon is a (0),(0) base, so whatever, he can have it. We can’t possibly fight over every little sandbank.




The carriers are fully fueled now, but will still only manage a half move this turn after that.




As hoped, Alikci has moved into the hex south west of Agra, and with the Guards Tank in there he can’t hope to break out. Sadly it looks like only one regiment has done so, and at least two more are moving south west instead of north west into the pocket. Still, we’ll take it.




Donryu receives Jills to replace her Kates today.







So we need to capitalise on our pocket here, minor as it might be. We now have two infantry divisions and a bunch of artillery in Agra, so they will shock attack tomorrow. Alikci maintains only one hex side, to the south, meaning that is the only valid line of retreat.




This means we can afford to have our armour on pursuit, which will result in them moving most if not all of the way into the next hex when the enemy retreats, thereby sealing the pocket held by the guards tank.




The 37th division has arrived from the south, and is going to deploy to the north west of Delhi.




We’ll drop the aerial hammer on the defenders of Agra tomorrow. It’s not like we need the CAS to win, but if we really gently caress them up in the airphase some of them might outright surrender. Of course, if they all surrender, then our pursuit plan won’t work :v:




The navy will act in support of the Guards Tank. They also don’t really need the help, but there’s a chance Alikchi might attack here if he thinks I just have a recon battalion or two in the hex, and if so heavy CAS would really gently caress that up.




If he’s going to make his stand at Jodhpur, that’s OK, we can play that game.

We need air superiority in four or five days time, when our ground troops arrive.




We are pulling our first Sentai out of India for redeployment, the supremely elite 251KuS-1.




Unlike Ebon, Alinglaplap is large enough to boast potentially a size five airfield, the largest in the Marshalls. We absolutely must fight over it, if it takes just semi permanently parking the KB in the Marshalls to buy enough time for the engineers then so be it.




It would be a shame if these disorganised fools on Ebon got heavily bombed tomorrow before they can recover any of their overturned AA guns.




And as for what a tragedy it would be if they got paradropped a few days later. Unthinkable, really.

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Kylaer
Aug 4, 2007
I'm SURE walking around in a respirator at all times in an (even more) OPEN BIDENing society is definitely not a recipe for disaster and anyone that's not cool with getting harassed by CHUDs are cave dwellers. I've got good brain!
Airdrop counterattack on a meaningless speck of nowhere? Banzai :getin:

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