As the KB will be heading to Truk for a couple of days. They will be ready in a week, and will depart for Midway and a possible strike on Wake. Saratoga and Yorktown are in Pearl repairing travel sys damage. It will proceed to Albany and form up with the Hermes and Indomitable. Lex chilled in New Zeeland for 8-10 days, then headed to Hobart, Oz, when the KB left. Will it phase him or will he continue full bore to Sian? How well is Pz paying attention to China? (so far, I'd say pretty well) I'm going this to stick a poker in the hornets nest and see what happens. If Canton is relatively weak, I'll be moving more troops in. It will shut down production and we'll see what happens. I've 300AV entering Canton in a couple of days. India: Deigo Garcia was pretty much open and undefended and invaded and lost and that sucks that I didn't pay attention to it this early because I wasn't thinking of such a far flung invasion.Ĭhina: The main push is on to Sian, secondary push along the dirt road to it's went to Ankayng (?sp?). Time to send a unit there and wipe it out. A jap para unit landed at Shwebo behind Mandalay. It's time to pull back to Mandalay and see what happens. I rolled a bad die roll it seems on every Brit Air Group reinforcement, because I have no air and won't for a while. 1 P39 and (1) P400 arrives at Perth in 4 days.īurma: Rangoon assaulted by those units Panzer just spoke of, and it quickly falls. Oz, Perth: The 17th Aus Brigade has landed at Albany. heading to the 2nd line of defense, Alice Springs. Oz, Darwin: A full retreat is on from the Darwin region. so it's a matter of milk runs because their inf and tank units do NOT have any worthwhile AA. But then again, the Japs are not covered with any AA units or any CAP. B17 units wreck havoc on all Jap units in open terrain. The full retreat is on from North East Oz - all heading to Bourke. Charters Towers repels a few piecemeal tank attacks, then is given the order to retreat as Jap forces close to encircle the units. Paras/Tanks drive inland to undefended bases. Oz, East Coast: Multiple landings on East Coast above Brisbane, covered by KB. 100 AV at Christmas, Palmyra, Midway, Johnston, Pago Pago, Suva. Pacific: Tabietau (sp) in the Gilberts/Marshalls (can't remember which) falls. And that was the end of my strategic offensive in Australia. So the units from Java and PI went to Burma instead of Australia. All of the clear-terrain must be cleared before the onset of the Monsoon season in 42. Burma is important to clear before the RAF arrives in force and the allies get a chance to dig in. I had only about one division in Burma, and I was desperately falling short of my objectives there. However at that point in time, my invasion of Burma had stalled badly. When I had finished mopping up Java and Bataan, I had roughly 3k AV to committ elsewhere. There was one more aspect to the desicion to abandon the Australia-operation. And instead of fighting at the very end of a very long supply chain in range of your B17s (who have proven to be absolutely devastating in the ground-attack role, I think I have had 3-4 units totally shredded by ground attacks by your heavies), I decided to go over to the defensive in central Australia, effectively halting the drive to capture all of it. I had 3+ divisions moving down the dirt roads from Darwin towards Alice Springs, but by the time I got to AS, you had managed to reinforce it too heavily. The east coast defences of yours melted away rather quickly, but I didnt want to go south of Brisbane before having enough forces to try to complete the conquest.īut then a too large part of my invasion force was stuck in bad terrain. This to build a buffer for Port Moresby/Solomons. Originally I wanted to just force you to split your forces in Australia rather than concentrate everything around Darwin, but as the battle continued I figured I could take all of the east coast aswell. I thought you had massed too much troops around Darwin so I thought the east coast was lightly defended. The east-coast offensive really grew out of an opportunity I saw around the Darwin invasion. The Darwin/Port Hedland front is absolutely essential for the Japs, otherwise the first allied counterattacks will hit the southern DEI in early 43. I would have opened up my AAR for you aswell, but I have detailed my convoy routes and my ASW-strategy in one of the first posts, so I really cant since those are still in effect.Īs you can see, I decided on Australia. Really interesting to see the other side like this, albeit with a delay of 5-6 months.
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