SqzMyLemon
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Joined: 10/30/2009 From: Alberta, Canada Status: offline
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Jan. 19/42 Update: Wow, can this AAR get any duller? An extremely quiet turn as the slothlike advance of Imperial forces continues. Sub Ops: Absolutely nothing happened, no attacks whatsover, all was quiet under the ocean. The Philippines: Baybay: Smeulders launched a night time sneak attack of 6 PT's catching a small escorted transport fleet in the harbour, but not docked. The xAK Yae Maru was torpedoed and sunk, as was the DMS W-1. 1 PT boat, the Q-112 was hit and sunk by a 12.7cm shell from one of my DD escorts. Visibility was down to 2000 yds due to only 7% moonlight, yet the PT's were spotted at 2000 yds and the combat report did not indicate the Allies had achieved any surprise. Overall I was very disappointed in the outcome. My total force amounted to 2 DD's, 2 PB's, 1 DMS and 5 xAK's. The loss of the above mentioned ships, plus the damaging of 3 xAK's to the Allied loss of only 1 PT boat was discouraging. Two attempted daylight attacks by the same group of PT's were evaded. All DD's in the area are converging to wipe out this force of PT boats. Luzon: Another 62 bomber ground attack mission over Bataan resulted in 0 Allied casualties. I don't get this at all. Does anyone know why bombing Bataan is so ineffective? The Celebes: Smeulders informed me by e-mail, when he sent his next turn, to not get excited about the sighting of the Houston, as he was moving it to safer waters. That being said, my planned night time surface raid at Kendari never materialized anyway, I am still 2 hexes shy of Kendari. I had the ships set to direct movement, absolute threat tolerance, and full speed, the slowest ship (the BB) was still at 25kts, yet they didn't reach Kendari. Am I not doing something right in setting this up, or was the distance from Gorontola to Kendari too far to go in one night time naval movement phase at full speed? At least I did find out that the Allies have no naval air units at Kendari and Ambon possibly, as no day time raids were launched at my TF. China: Another attack on the small Chinese force of 5 guns at 88,47 resulted in the loss of 14 Japanese troops to 0 Chinese. All that was achieved was the retreating of the Chinese unit. Again, I don't get this, my force was 1459 troops attacking a force of 5 guns and all I do is get a retreat and incur 14 casualties? Mind you, I was still in "move" mode during a Shock attack, but would the penalty be that severe? A screen of the attempted raid on Kendari to visualize how far my TF went follows.
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