12 October 1942
Luganville Invasion
We tried to raid the cruiser group near Ndeni with 12 B-26s and 14 P-38Fs--and these P-38s are acting as bombers, not fighter escorts. There were 10 fighters on CAP over the cruisers, which was good enough to shoot down 1 P-38. We got 2 of the Oscars. Another P-38 was lost to flak over the target, and we didn't get any hits. It looks like the P-38s didn't even drop any bombs. So checking the database now, and yes, the drop tanks use the same hardpoints as the bombs, so by giving them the drop tanks they needed to reach the target I precluded them from having a bombload. And apparently they didn't feel like strafing. Now I know.
Reinforcements
7th Marine Defense Battalion arrives at San Francisco
272/273rd Bty 80th AT Gun Regiment arrives at Aden
------------
13 October 1942
Japan
Off the coast of Kyushu, the USS Growler made me with this game had a tactical layer like Falcon4 that would let me jump into the sub and take over. It encountered a light cargo ship escorted by a PB, and put a torpedo into the PB. Great! But instead of waiting for the PB to go down and then killing the now-unproptected AKL, it just scittered off. BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!
China
The enemy sent 3 Sonia light bombers to hit the troops that just took Sinyang from them. They went unescorted. Well, we had 6 P-40s there, they shot all 3 bombers down. Unfortunately, probably because they were chasing that group down, they missed a second group of 6 planes. Their 50kg bombs did nothing to our troops, protected in the base and by terrain.
Luganville invasion
I meant to turn these raids off, but forgot. The B-26s tried to hit the cruisers again. We lost 4. No hits.
Our marines attacked and brought down the forts to Level 1, 205 enemy casualties to our 48. It's almost over.
Malaya
Looks like its finally the end for Singapore. Two tank regiments crossed the channel. The enemy took heavy casualties, but my troops have very little fight in them, and there will be more troops right behind them.
Burma
Our reserve forces have finally caught up with one of the last paratrooper units in western Burma. We've probed them and found them to be vastly inferior in number to our forces. Shock attack tomorrow.
Reinforcements and Refits
SS Nautilus beginning refit in shipyard at Brisbane
SC-646 arrives at Los Angeles
No.62 Sqn RAF arrives at Aden
42nd USN Naval Construction Battalion arrives at Port Hueneme
6th Australian Division arrives at Sydney
25th Australian Brigade arrives at Sydney
--The Aussie army units will be great some day, but they're empty commands being reformed and I have very few troops available to assign to them to rebuild the units.
__________________
|