ChezDaJez
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Joined: 11/12/2004 From: Chehalis, WA Status: offline
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This occurred during my Scen 15 (Lemur's) PBEM game against Tristanjohn. There have been some terrific air battles in and near Rangoon. I have been trying to attack the remenants of his surface fleet there after a IJN BB (Kongo, Haruna) force surprised a Brit BB (POW, Revenge, Repulse) force that had been bombarding Moulmein. I assigned all the air power I could muster (4 Sally sqds, 3 Betty sqds, 3 A6M2 sqds) in Tavoy to a primary mission of Naval Attack and secondary mission of port attack. All my bombers went in as individual squadrons. The Sally squadrons had 25+ bombers in each and the Betty squadrons ranged from 15-25 bombers in each. The Zeros were beat up having 10-18 aircraft in them. Two A6M2 squadrons had morale in the 30-40 range. Only one escort flew, the other two probably failed a morale check (I assume). The thing that got me was after the first attack (which was escorted) all the other units went in alone with each attack having fewer and fewer aircraft. I got my butt kicked hard losing 51 bombers and fighters in the process. Here are the combat reports: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 15 Ki-21 Sally x 26 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 38 P-40B Tomahawk x 24 I-153c x 20 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 29 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-21 Sally: 11 destroyed, 8 damaged Allied aircraft losses Buffalo I: 9 destroyed, 4 damaged P-40B Tomahawk: 5 destroyed, 3 damaged I-153c: 10 destroyed Allied Ships AK Empire Hope, Bomb hits 1, on fire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 15 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 20 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses Buffalo I: 2 damaged P-40B Tomahawk: 1 damaged I-153c: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 27 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 14 destroyed, 15 damaged Allied aircraft losses Buffalo I: 2 damaged I-153c: 2 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 13 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 5 destroyed, 6 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses I-153c: 2 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 11 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 5 destroyed, 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses Buffalo I: 2 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 8 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 5 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 5 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 32 P-40B Tomahawk x 22 I-153c x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 Ki-21 Sally x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 8 destroyed Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 1 damaged I-153c: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Empire Rennie -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 4 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses I-153c: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 5 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 8 destroyed, 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 18 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 I-153c x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Their morale used to be pretty good except for 2 of Zero squadrons. Now all are in the toilet. I loaded a later scenario and attempted to reproduce the results and found that more often than not, bombers assigned a secondary mission flew as individual squadrons regardless of whether an escort was available or not and successive strikes got smaller and smaller. When naval attack ONLY was selected all the bombers flew as one group with escort. I was able to duplicate it several times but not every time. Anybody else seen this? Comments. Seems like the game got confused or something. Chez
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Ret Navy AWCS (1972-1998) VP-5, Jacksonville, Fl 1973-78 ASW Ops Center, Rota, Spain 1978-81 VP-40, Mt View, Ca 1981-87 Patrol Wing 10, Mt View, CA 1987-90 ASW Ops Center, Adak, Ak 1990-92 NRD Seattle 1992-96 VP-46, Whidbey Isl, Wa 1996-98
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