PBEM - WW II - sid level against japan-AI

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Thanks Smellymummy got it safe and sound thanks.

Will have to play it a little later not enough time right now

[ChrisiusMaximus]

December 1941

Friends Allies!!

We are at war, and facing a truly deadly foe. We in the Commonwealth have switched our research to Advanced flight, as we feel the long range bombers will be of great use in the battles ahead.

quite a task to switch production this turn, making sure we have plenty of barracks towns to churn out veteran reinforcements, so to a programme of Airports is being built in the mainland of Australia.

Be aware our Brothers in the Netherlands, Jap has Marines already, and can and will launch amphibious attacks on your island colonies!! You know our feelings on disolving your government at this stage, and we would expect to see your holdings come under fire by air sea and even land! Good luck Sir you will need it, only this month Jap has landed a force of 3 paratroopers outside one of our towns, threatening to cut off singapore. We have sent you a supply of Iron.

China we commend you and pray for your people in the coming struggle, we witnessed the Jap attack and destroy one of your Guerilla units operating in commonwealth territory, though you will be proud to know they wasted one Infantry unit in their efforts. Only killing your brave troops with a tank assault on their dug in positions. Your boys held fast and died with honour. We will pass any research we get imediately to your people, though we too have had to turn down our tech spending a little to help get our economy on track.

We managed to seek and destroy a Jap sub lurking off the Singapore coast and our brave Airmen destroyed the oil fields near Saigon. For now Jap has no oil, and will likely be seeking to invade where this resource can be found. It is imperative that we are successful in denying access to oil from Jap at all costs!

America, welcome to the war, please pass on our deepest condolences to the families of all your personal killed or injured in the attack on Pearl Harbour. Be assured that the Commonwealth will fight shoulder to Shoulder with you to defeat this common foe. If America can share in any way its vast wealth with us we would be able to put those resources to good use, namely gold.

Here ends our report, God bless and protect you all in the month ahead.

[sabrewolf]

baaaad! i can't move any of my starting units! only the workers i just built!
i knew we couldn't do the first turn, but the second one too? any idea what could have gone wrong?

if i can't play in the next round either, maybe a restart would do

[Redboy]

Actually as of the end of this turn all but one Jap Carrier, one Cruiser, and a destroyer, is sunk. I lost too many capital ships doing it, but at least we'll never see them again. Still waiting for amphibius warfair to start cranking out marines to help you blokes out. My plan is simple- Island hop all the way to japan. I am trying to hold the last island I have in the south pacific, but I dont think I can do it. At least for long the japs have landed a small force, but the naval task force destroyed the transport and escorts. Good luck to you all and may god be with us.

President Redboy

PS Sorry about the lateness of the turn, I worked really late today.

[Redboy]

and about the gold, I am afraid I splurged my savings on an airport on midway to bring up reinforcements for the island hoping. I will halp out as much as I can, but I fear most must goto China as they are going to be bearing the brunt of the Japanese agression. Technology will be shared freely with my nations valiant allies as well as any resorces I have to give.

Thankyou
and have a fair goodnight

President Redboy

[smellymummy]

first attack on kaifeng went by great. destroyed the newest conscripted defense units, the veteran ones and got the japanese army (of one tank) down to 1 hp. nanking on the other hand I only managed to pillage and damage units, at the cost of a conscript infantry

more units have made it to the south front, and i'm fortifying mainly near the hanoi area. I've also have 2 infantry and 1 guerilla on their way to pillage indochina

also coming up in february 1942, two new bombers and 4 fresh veteran MG battlions.

turn sent

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Hotmail seems to be having problems, can you resend to ChrisBennett8 TA aol TOD com

[ChrisiusMaximus]

At last turn sent, sorry for the delays Ivee had real problems receiving email with hotmail. Saves have been turning up days late!

Anyway my aol addy is working fine so please send all save etc there for now, thanks.

Not a great lot to report, managed to kill two Jap paratroopers and badly injure the third, also badly damaged a Jap BB, offshore of Saigon, and its DD escort slightly damaged. Jap did not move them at the turn end as far as I can tell so anyone who has assets in that area will likely be able to bag a BB and a DD.

Jap attacked our closest city to him on the Singapore paninsular, but suffered a badly mauled Nippon inf and lost a light tank for his efforts, with no losses to the garrison.

we continue to build up our economy and infrastructure in Australia, Airports are key to our success in reinforcing our many outposts.

[sabrewolf]

dear allies!

because of some idiot who started a revolution because he thought it was a good time to get rid of our king right now, the country has fallen into anarchy. no one is building anything, the officers are getting drunk and not teaching new recruits and the workers are working half heartedly!

at least all regional warlords and self-proclaimed leaders have agreed to let the public vote democratically, but it's still going to take 4 months until the president and parliament is in power.

fortunatly, our allies have sent us luxuries and natural resources!

many of our soldiers are eagerly awaiting combat! they've heard of friends being killed by ze evil germanz back in europe and want to give revenge by attacking an evil ally of the nazis: the chinese-women-raping-raw-fish-eaters called japanese. but the former leaders of the netherlands weren't prepared! they had sent all those soldiers to the tropical islands in oceania but forgot to give the soldiers means to transport themselves to the location where the action takes place. only a single transport ship was dispatched but was parked in a city far away from the japanese. it will take 2 more months until the first dutchmen can go and retake the island our allies from the commonwealth had lost to the japanese paratroopers.

the only fighting that took place was 1 (!) cruiser ship that tried to sink a japanese ship but got sunk to the bottom of the indochinese sea. other battleships and submarines have placed themselves to take out rogue japanese ships but the numbers are pityful! no wonder the old leaders were overthrown! they should have listened to the generals!

as soon as our people get out into democracy, we shall rush-build lots of transport ships and send troops as defence to drive the japanese from the island! meanwhile the researchers will then probably concentrate on theoretical physics as this can lead to a potential change in the war: the invention of the so called fission bomb which promises to be very effective! but our researchers are flexible. if our allies prefer us to invent something else, the dutch will comply. it's been embarrassing enough, how useless we have been so far so we will to anything to make our friends less unhappy!

[smellymummy]

china suffered minor casualties at kaifeng. japanese are reinforcing the city with drafts, and my initial momentum of attack is now lost. I'll be reinforcing with more artillery and bombers asap. If we can manage to kill a few million people, at least the japanese won't be able to draft anymore

otherwise things we're quite calm in feb. no visible sign of any attacks, and that is good

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Battle for the Skies

Dear Allies:

The Commonwealth saw much varied action this month, our pilots have been slugging it out with with Jap in the skies over the sea in the Saigon/Singapore theatre.

Well we managed to shoot down three Zero's we took heavy losses also, namely 1 Bomber wing and three fighter squadrons. These losses will be a long time being replaced, as our focus at this time is the rush building of Airports and the reinforcing of our far flung colonies with veteran trained Anzac units.

On land we had mixed results too, we killed outright a Jap paratroop regiment that had survived in the hills during the last month, but lost one green anzac unit to a redline Jap Nippon inf brigade. We did however destroy said Jap unit with a second Infantry charge with fresh troops flown into Singapore last month. Again though the wily Japs countered at the end of the month and took out the victorious troops!

In a further move High command ordered the 6th & 9th Artillery batteries to move behind enemy lines, and dig in on hill 48 NNW of Bangkok, with the intent of shelling the Jap held stronghold and the surrounding infrastructure next month. We also sent in 2 Vet Anzac brigades and a MG Battallion from the Rangoon Garrison to form a defensive screen around the emplaced guns.

Our Naval elements faired much better, though with some help with the survivng air units at Singapore. You may remember we reported the position of three Jap naval units last month, well to our surprise Jap stayed put leaving these already damaged vessels at our mercy.

As stated some of our flyboys got through and made hits on these Jap boats, leaving their DD Hayashio listing heavily to Portside, an irresistable target for our BB Prince of Wales, whose guns made short work of sending her to the bottom, then with an outstading sweeping manouvre the DD Tenedos rammed and punctured a massive hole in the side of the Jap BB Kongo, who went down like a stone in seconds. Needless to say our DD was badly damaged in this action and will need time in drydock before seeing further action, but her commander Captain Staines has been recomended to the Admiralty for promotion.

Further naval action saw our submariners getting in on the action, after BB Repulse blasted the Jap transport, with a full spread the SS Storm went in for the kill. Needless to say her torpedoes swam true and the transport went down fast. And finally our DD Encounter made a dash to Kudat and succesfully sunk a further Jap transport.

I would imagine several high ranking Jap Naval officers will be expected to fall on their swords after this fiasco

Commonwealth out!

[sabrewolf]

1942.03 sent to redboy


no action really this turn.
transport ship is coming closer to drop off some infantry on davao, a city that was lost by the americans. if that is successful, palao will be the next target.

playing as netherlands btw isn't very interesting... no wonder it was disabled by default

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Id say China is the best one to play for imediate action, but as the Commonwealth there is huge potential to become very strong.

This is the first time Ive played this scenario as the Commonwealth, and so far its a blast.

Hope things hot up for you soon sabre, is there any stuff you need ? Ill check if I can send you any lux res etc next time )

[sabrewolf]

nope, i've got no problem with happiness thanks to 2 unconnected luxuries (which are connected now) and a gift from one of you. and except iron (which someone else gave me ) i had all resources.

what sucks is the position (no land bridge to the mainland) and the lack of transport capacity. however, i just found out that my cruisers can carry 1 unit... interesting.

CM, thanks for your offer, but the only thing you can give me is a strong whack on the head for going into revolution (i completely forgot it's only 40 turns )...

[Redboy]

Greetings allies, friends,

The Japanese Fleet that cowardly attacked Pearl Harbour.... has been destroyed. All remaining elements have been sunk in the battle of midway with light losses to several Wildcat Squadrons. Massive reinforcements have been airlifed to our remaining cities in Asia with the hopes of retaking lost land and attacking Japan Directly.

Good Luck and God Speed
President Redboy

PS Amphibious Assault for all next turn