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June 24th

Burma: 2nd Raiders finally gets attrited. Tomorrow we will have cut Chiang Mai from supplies, other than what they can bring through 120 nautical miles of mountainous rain forest.

China: more local victories... During the past week the Chinese must have lost perhaps 2 months' worth of infantry squads alone, while all our losses are quickly replaceable.

Java: Merak in the northernmost tip of the island falls to the Japanese, in the south, the big stack of surviving Dutch units is pushed to the extreme southernmost peninsula. They will be dealth with within a week. 

Other news: The USN destroyer DD Blue is now confirmed to have been sunk by IJN carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku at Luganville during the Fiji-Espiritu Santo raid 3 weeks ago.

2 new aircraft enter production in 4 weeks. These are the new, armored Ki-49 "Donryu" bomber and the A6M3a, A6M3's carrier capable version. (Dont let the arrival dates in the Tracker screenshots confuse you, A6M3a enters production by July 20th or 21st, Ki-49 earlier, first week of July).

As you can see, the Ki-49 is considerably better choice if any fighter opposition or AAA is expected(as its faster, has more guns and especially armor)... It also has slightly better range, and shares the same engine with the Ki-44 fighter that we will begin to product in August. The Ki-21-IIa will stay in production for at least a couple of months more.


The A6M3a has nice range, even longer than M2, and while speed drops marginally from M3, the maneuverability is higher by 1 and is so its still overall easily the better fighter. It also uses a better type of 20mm cannons, and is carrier capable. The M2 will be phased from production and front-line use ASAP, as the M3a enters mass production. There are some 600 Zeroes in operational squadrons so the conversion will take some time... Comparison with M2 below.


edit: fixed screenshots..

June 23rd

Burma: 2nd Raiders barely holding... The enemy brought a whole tank regiment. They have the firepower but they sunk in rocky jungle. Despite rated 27:1 odds they didnt break the crack paratroopers!

Air war:

Our bombers(50% of them, actually) fly today over Burma. Estimated damage to enemy is only minor, however...

4 P-400 Airacobras hit Moulmein's port: the sole Ki-43 guided to intercept damages 2, and the AAA 2 more. They achieve nothing. Now what was this?!?

Our air attack on Buna is a success: there are only 12 P-40Bs, probably from Port Moresby, patrolling. At least 6 of them are shot down with 5 damaged(3 heavy damage, so likely kills), we losing 4 Zeroes and 3 pilots, all reasonably low trained, and from the unit that was assigned to escort the bombers(as opposed to sweeping ahead). The runway and facilities damage is probably fixed quick, but we also got 5 Hudsons as confirmed and at least damaged 30-ish planes more.

B-17s hit Manus island in all their might. Even as low as 8,000ft against no AAA fire, all 40 of them score only 10 hits in port facilities and supply dumps. I know that flying an offensive sortie with a B-17 means using 6 tons of supply... So he used 240 tons of supplies, + maybe 100 for aircraft maintenance, to bomb perhaps 5 tons of mine. I hope he lost a bomber or 2 for operational reasons... 

In Actionpaints, my militia commander is one bad ass looking, and behaving, Dwarf... Unlike his fighting pair Dumed, he doesnt like one-shotting in the head with his silver mace, but instead makes sure he hits every single body part, bone, joint and organ, keeping the target alive and conscious as long as possible. He doesnt have many kills yet(only 13 I think, vs. 30+ of some of my spear equipped soldiers) but every kill is exponentially more pain.

Double braids ftw...

So we might actually end up with Rangoon? Are we still blockading it?

Yes, we're still blockading Rangoon. During the last month he only sent one 3-ship suicide convoy, that was sunk before it unloaded a single tea bag...

I'm hoping to get Rangoon(in 1,5 to 2 months), but it might prove impossible. At the least I'm hoping to force him to retreat locally, push the front forward and deny him Chiang Mai he can now supply via paved roads... And once its ours, it can be supplied via rail from Bangkok.


June 22nd


China: Japanese troops open a new supply road to the North: 90,000 Japanese troops assault over a river in mountainous terrain against what is(/now was) a full Chinese corps: Chinese losses are over 5,000, and this unit lost almost all of its equipment and probably over 99% of its strength for the cost of just 100 Japanese troops. The Chinese were forced to retreat in the forests, across a river, and suffered even more losses. This battle is a tactical victory that opened us the path into the central Chinese plains, and we now directly threaten the Chinese captal, Chunking.



Burma: 2nd Raiders fights gallantly against the superior enemy! The last still working AT gun's crew destroys a British tank today. Reinforcements are still a week from arriving... 7 Hurricanes try to achieve local air superiority, but Ki-43s shoot 3 of them down(+ at least heavily damaging 2 Hurricanes more) to no Japanese loss.


South Pacific: Japanese submarine finds an Allied convoy off Fiji:

      DD Aaron Ward
      BB North Carolina
      CA Minneapolis
      CA Louisville
      CA Northampton
      CA Indianapolis
      CL Nashville
      CL Helena
      CL St. Louis
      CLAA San Juan
      CLAA Atlanta
      DD Gilmer
      DD Worden
      DD Hull

Well well.. OK. Looks like the Indianapolis survived the torpedo hit it suffered 3 months ago, and is now back in action. Also Japanese SignInt finally confirms the CV Enterprise to be still afloat, as I though... That still makes 3 confirmed CV kills: Lexington, Saratoga and Yorktown. I am csure that the Prince of Wales is still in the area, as are probably the British carriers and the surviving American ones, at least the Hornet. The Imperial Strategic HQ is unsure if the Wasp, that left the Mediterranean 2 months ago, has yet made it to the Pacific.

This indicident confirms the enemy to be reinforcing the area, possibly in preparations of an amphibious operation somewhere in the Solomons, or even Gilberts... I'm not going to react, even as Carrier Division I now at Truk might be able to catch this force, but I have decided to not, yet, upgrade the Shokaku, but instead reform the original "Big Six": Kaga, Shoho and Zuiho with heavy escorts will depart Singapore for Truk this evening, and the already loaded replenishment oilers now spread around the Indonesia will be moved to either Truk or Hollandia on the northern coast of New Guinea, to keep them safe from enemy submarines.

Zuikaku's upgrade is ready in 7 days, and she'll be back at Truk by July 15th. The Carrier Divisions I and II will then have 6 fleet CVs and 2 CVLs, and we are again ready to hit the enemy, hit him hard.

June 21st

Burma:

Allied reinforcements reach Chiang Mai, but fail to dislodge the 2nd Raiders, despite of our bombers not flying today. 12 Hurricanes fly a ground support mission, achieving nothing, and the half a dozen Ki-43s flying CAP shot down 3 Hurricanes and damage some more, but lose 3 of their own number as well, plus 2 more as written off.

7th Inf Div supported by an armored regiment starts it march up the railroad... This is going to be more messy than intended, not the least because I should have flown recon to check for possible enemy reinforcements, but so far, I have no doubt that we are going to win this one. In the tactical sense at least.


New Guinea air war:

Allies refuse to fly their fighters, so 80 Zeroes find just thin air and clouds, missing all the action: 50 4-engined heavy bombers strike Kavieng's port, sinking 2 transports that were already hit by submarines. Genzan Ku S-1 supported by Rabaul's Zeroes manage to shoot down as many as 5 bombers, AAA claiming the 6th kill. HQ crew estimated the enemy to have lost 2 or 3 more as written off or crashed due damage or as OPS.

30 Japanese G3M2s hit Finschafen, torching 3 P-39s and closing the air field. Some more planes are hit, and the field facilities are probably so damaged that the whole place will be down for a month.

Our losses today are 3 Zeroes (1 pilot WIA) and 5 Ki-43s(2 KIA, 2 MIA) to 3+ Hurricanes, 3+ P-39s, 6+ heavy bombers + possible non-combat ops losses.

*Declares his lurker status again*


I'm going to have to scroll through 20 pages of this and catch up, but as its Erkki, its totally worth it 

Since the Battle of Gilberts, not much really. Some hilariously one sided air battles and 2 carriers raids, the other that almost caught the Prince of Wales.

Have nearly all of the Indonesia now, getting Port Moresby would be coup dé grace but I have no resources to do that yet. At the moment I have begun a new offensive in Burma with my 2 reinforcement divisions, in hopes of getting to Rangoon at least. China front is going well, for now, but theres still a lot of work left before I can stop the offensives.

Last I heard a creature like a dragon won't use a breath attack or webbing on a creature unless they can path to the creature. If that is still true, B is still possible, but it will require a bit of dwarven mechanical engineering to do.

EDIT: The wiki page for Giant Cave Spiders has a silk farming design that could probably be weaponized for your needs.

Also, constructions don't burn.  The walls could be wood and no harm would come to it.  I think only grass spreads fire in the way you are thinking.  However, your target goblins' corpses and gear WILL burn, and do so for some time.  If a dwarf picks up any of it they will also catch fire and can spread the fire that way.

c sounds foolproof, I see nothing that could go wrong with that, other than the usual stuff.  Just make sure the bridge is fire safe (or to be sure magma safe) because unlike walls bridges can catch fire/melt.  There's also a chance for trolls to destroy that bridge, so be careful with them around and have a backup method to get into the room without pissing off Ms. Dragon so you could rebuild the bridge if needed.

RGR. Regarding path to target creature... Would having a path through a closed floor hatch(on a higher z level to prevent dragon from destroying it) work?

And on the bridge protecting the dragon: I'll probably have 1-tile moat before it so the trolls cant reach it, and all the targets will be minimum 3 hex away. Diorite bridge should work(right?), as my embark has no iron but my 34 strong military now wears all bronze & steel so after the next ambush/siege I should have the reserves. In the case of a burning goblin dying over a bridge, I'll build all 3 bridges out of iron...

The opposite wall will possibly have a 4th bridge covering a crossbow bunker in the case she needs backup... I dont like using weapon or cage traps.