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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/13/2010 2:32:43 PM   
castor troy


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Status: offline 		These are today´s airlosses. We claim a nice number of enemy carrier based ac, I was more than surprised that we only saw a total of 137 carrier based aircraft attacking our freighters at PM. No strikes from Rabaul, no strikes from Gasmata. Really amazing. I would throw in the kitchen sink in this situation to do as much damage as possible.






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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/14/2010 2:35:03 PM   
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ASW attack near Diamond Harbour at 53,40

Japanese Ships
SS I-160

Allied Ships
AM Oudh



SS I-160 is sighted by escort
I-160 bottoming out ....
AM Oudh fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Oudh fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Oudh fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Oudh fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Oudh fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

supply convoy to Akyab is running over a sub...

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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 37



Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 8
P-39D Airacobra x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 54


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 8 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
No.30 Sqn RAAF with Beaufighter Ic (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
49th FG/7th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 23000.
Raid is overhead
49th FG/8th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
11 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 26000.
Raid is overhead
49th FG/9th FS with P-40E Warhawk (3 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
14 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 20000.
Raid is overhead
8th FG/36th FS with P-39D Airacobra (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
11 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 21000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
58th FG/68th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 20000.
Raid is overhead

Rainer has moved Tojos to BUNA! Buna? The base that is nuked on and on and now there are fighters there being able to fly an offensive mission? What? Either the Japanese engineers make very good use of their Korean slave labour or they found some other way to fix a completely trashed level 4 airfield in no time. This is making it even more surprising to me that Rainer hasn´t really intervened with my PM invasion when he could use a level 4 airfield just two hexes away. Anyway, the feared Tojos came in and shot up some of our fighters until the fight completely changed direction and the Tojos were shredded and in the end we get a 3:1 A2A as it seems many of the damaged Tojos were lost.

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Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 44 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4



Allied aircraft
Beaufighter Ic x 3
P-39D Airacobra x 5
P-40E Warhawk x 11


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



CAP engaged:
No.30 Sqn RAAF with Beaufighter Ic (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 56 minutes
49th FG/7th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes
49th FG/8th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes
49th FG/9th FS with P-40E Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
8th FG/36th FS with P-39D Airacobra (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes
58th FG/68th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes

not that the Tojos would come in as one strike...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 63
B-17F Fortress x 15
B-24D Liberator x 20


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Airbase hits 20
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 63

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

the same day, we sent another strike to Buna to "keep" it closed, just to find out today that it wasn´t even closed...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

the second strike pack torches a Tojo on the ground... if the airfield isn´t closed now then I don´t know... but I bet when we fly another strike tomorrow, all the fighters will be already flown out again, from the "closed" airfield...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 3 damaged



Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet

we´ve also set the Milne Bay fighters at Milne Bay to sweep Buna (before the bombers) but just because the fighters are four times closer to Buna than the bombers that are coming from Australia, the bombers went in first, to see the fighters coming in after the bombers... but hey, my fighter squadrons are of course also coming in one by one... loool, everything is working so fine, just like in the fantasy theories that are made public...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep two...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 20000 feet

sweep three...







the usual three nav search aircraft are also lost of course, two Catalinas and a Hudson III... 70% search, normal range

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/14/2010 3:32:26 PM   
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ASW attack near Phuket at 48,70

Japanese Ships
DD Kuroshio
CA Ashigara
CA Nachi
CA Haguro
DD Hayashio
DD Yukikaze
DD Michishio
DD Oshio
DD Asashio
DD Hagikaze

Allied Ships
SS KX



SS KX launches 2 torpedoes at DD Kuroshio
KX diving deep ....
DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Oshio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Asashio attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hagikaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Michishio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Asashio attacking submerged sub ....
DD Asashio attacking submerged sub ....
DD Asashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Asashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

dud

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ASW attack near Lingga at 51,88

Japanese Ships
xAK Tosei Maru
xAK Neikai Maru
PB Fukuei Maru

Allied Ships
SS O20



SS O20 is sighted by escort
O20 bottoming out ....
PB Fukuei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukuei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukuei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukuei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukuei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 28
SC Ch 30

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto is located by SC Ch 28
SC Ch 30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 30 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 30 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 30 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 30 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

all DCs dropped for not even a near miss...

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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 30
SC Ch 28

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 30
Peto diving deep ....
SC Ch 28 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 28 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 28 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 28 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 28 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and then a some duds...

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ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 51,86

Japanese Ships
PB Yokae Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVII



SS KXVII is sighted by escort
KXVII bottoming out ....
PB Yokae Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yokae Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yokae Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yokae Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yokae Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 51,86

Japanese Ships
PB Kantori Maru

Allied Ships
SS KXVII



SS KXVII is sighted by escort
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Submarine attack near Rabaul at 106,124

Japanese Ships
PB Shoei Maru, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS S-32



SS S-32 is sighted by PB Shoei Maru
SS S-32 launches 4 torpedoes

we miss the heavily damaged PB, not the first time IIRC...

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 117,51

Japanese Ships
xAK Amagi Maru
xAK Ishikari Maru
PB Yamabato Maru

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale is sighted by escort
Whale diving deep ....
PB Yamabato Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yamabato Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Milne Bay at 101,134

Japanese Ships
SS RO-64, hits 4

Allied Ships
DD Jupiter
DD Express



SS RO-64 is located by DD Jupiter
RO-64 diving deep ....
DD Jupiter fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
SS RO-64 eludes DD Express by diving deep
Escort abandons search for sub

sent out the British ASW TF again and we immedietely see some success... the RO class sub lurking around Milne Bay takes a hit and three near misses... I estimate the number of IJN subs operating between Milne Bay, Port Moresby and my Australian bases to 6-10. At least 5 or 6 are spotted daily... will try to keep my British destroyers out on ASW duty as this is the only weapon that can really clear an area of enemy subs...

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Sub attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
xAK Gozan Maru
xAK Samarang Maru
PB Teshio Maru

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Gozan Maru
Peto diving deep ....
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

PLOINK

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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 16



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 40
B-17F Fortress x 5
B-24D Liberator x 12


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 94

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
2 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

completely wrecked the airfield yesterday, there should now be at least a 10-15 Tojos left there... but they aren´t... hey, that´s great, damaging the airfield again beyond 100% but that doesn´t stop the enemy from flying out his fighters... zzz

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 21
B-17F Fortress x 11
B-24D Liberator x 7


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 67

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 10


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged



Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 8


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

over 200 hits on the airfield alone today, there´s still an airfield symbol but not one enemy ac was damaged or destroyed... OMG, how is this working... not one of the Tojos should have been able to fly out yesterday, let alone the fact that the damaged ones were instantly repaired AND flew out... holy grail... got quite a number of the beloved strike packs today...

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Sub attack near Rabaul at 106,124

Japanese Ships
PB Shoei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS S-32



SS S-32 launches 4 torpedoes

Shoei Maru is blown up...

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ASW attack near Milne Bay at 101,134

Japanese Ships
SS RO-67, hits 5, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Jupiter
DD Express



SS RO-67 is sighted by escort
DD Jupiter attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
SS RO-67 eludes DD Express by hugging bottom
DD Express cannot establish contact with SS RO-67
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Jupiter fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

after damaging RO-64 earlier today, we now heavily damaged RO-67... the Brits really know how to deal with subs... not surprisingly though, the DDs run out of depth charges again, have been ordered back to replenish and go out on a hunt again... damaged subs mean nothing though if they aren´t sunk, it´s just a waste of fuel and depth charges as they will be repaired in no time... all you gain is the transit time of the subs but if they would be low on fuel already to be forced to retire anyway then you´ve gained nothing...

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/14/2010 3:56:20 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: castor troy

Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet

we´ve also set the Milne Bay fighters at Milne Bay to sweep Buna (before the bombers) but just because the fighters are four times closer to Buna than the bombers that are coming from Australia, the bombers went in first, to see the fighters coming in after the bombers... but hey, my fighter squadrons are of course also coming in one by one... loool, everything is working so fine, just like in the fantasy theories that are made public...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep two...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 20000 feet

sweep three...




How about trying to set your fighter sweeps targeting one enemy airbase to the same altitude? Could help with (but not guarantee) coordinated sweeps (apart from other helpful trivia like having them all assigned to the same Air HQ and having this Air HQ present at the base were your strikes originate and basing the air groups that are supposed to do a coordinated sweep at the same base).

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ASW attack near Truk at 111,110

Japanese Ships
PB Toshi Maru #3
PB Shuko Maru #5
PB Sonan Maru #5

Allied Ships
SS Stingray



SS Stingray is located by PB Toshi Maru #3
Stingray diving deep ....
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

probably an ASW TF but we´re not afraid of such IJN ASW efforts...

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ASW attack near Truk at 110,111

Japanese Ships
PB Sonan Maru #5
PB Shuko Maru #5

Allied Ships
SS Stingray



SS Stingray is located by PB Sonan Maru #5
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Milne Bay at 98,139

Japanese Ships
SS I-173

Allied Ships
DD Stuart
DD Jupiter



SS I-173 is located by DD Stuart
I-173 diving deep ....
DD Jupiter fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Night Time Surface Combat, near Milne Bay at 101,133, Range 8,000 Yards
Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Atago
CA Chokai
DD Fubuki
DD Usugumo
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Sagiri

Allied Ships
PT-24
PT-25
PT-26
PT-27



Reduced sighting due to 17% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 17% moonlight: 9,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 6,000 yards
PT-27 engages CA Chokai at 6,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-27 at 6,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
CA Takao engages PT-27 at 4,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-24 at 4,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-24 at 4,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-27 at 4,000 yards
Range increases to 6,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-24 at 6,000 yards
Range increases to 9,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-27 at 9,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-24 at 9,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-27 at 9,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-24 at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
CA Atago engages PT-27 at 12,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-27 at 12,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-27 at 12,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-25 at 12,000 yards
Task forces break off...

hmm... what´s that? A bombardment TF? A SC TF that was ordered to intercept my DDs that could be expected to head to Milne Bay? Don´t know...

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ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 51,86

Japanese Ships
DD Ikazuchi
DD Harukaze
DD Satsuki

Allied Ships
SS O20, hits 4, heavy damage



SS O20 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Ikazuchi
O20 bottoming out ....
DD Harukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

O20 is in sinking condition...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Milne Bay at 101,133, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Atago
CA Chokai
DD Fubuki
DD Usugumo
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Sagiri

Allied Ships
PT-59
PT-60
PT-61
PT-115



Reduced sighting due to 28% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 28% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
Aihara V. crosses the 'T'
Range closes to 7,000 yards
CA Atago engages PT-115 at 7,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-115 at 7,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-115 at 7,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-115 at 7,000 yards
Range increases to 8,000 yards
CA Takao engages PT-115 at 8,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-115 at 8,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-59 at 8,000 yards
Range increases to 9,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-115 at 12,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-59 at 12,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-59 at 12,000 yards
Task forces break off...

then the rest of my PTs engage the enemy... better say, the enemy engages my PTs as they are surprised again and again... but hitting a PT at night at 8.000+ yards is a near impossible task...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Milne Bay at 101,133, Range 8,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Atago
CA Chokai
DD Fubuki
DD Usugumo
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Sagiri

Allied Ships
PT-117
PT-119
PT-122
PT-123



Reduced sighting due to 28% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 28% moonlight: 8,000 yards
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards
Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
PT-122 engages CA Chokai at 3,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-122 at 3,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-117 at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 5,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-117 at 5,000 yards
PT-123 engages DD Hatsuyuki at 5,000 yards
PT-123 engages DD Shirayuki at 5,000 yards
Strehle, W.M. orders Allied TF to disengage
Range increases to 8,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-123 at 8,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-123 at 8,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-123 at 8,000 yards
Range increases to 11,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-123 at 11,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-119 at 11,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-123 at 11,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-119 at 11,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-117 at 11,000 yards
Task forces break off...

having a 9 or 10 detection level at Milne Bay, I now expect to see another nuke...

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ASW attack near Truk at 110,112

Japanese Ships
PB Shuko Maru #5
PB Sonan Maru #5

Allied Ships
SS Stingray



SS Stingray launches 4 torpedoes at PB Shuko Maru #5
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Day Time Surface Combat, near Normanby Island at 102,133, Range 20,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Atago
CA Chokai
DD Fubuki
DD Usugumo
DD Shirayuki
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Sagiri

Allied Ships
PT-24, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-25
PT-26, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-27, Shell hits 1, and is sunk



Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions: 30,000 yards
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 20,000 yards
Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 20,000 yards
Range closes to 16,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-27 at 16,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-24 at 16,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-27 at 16,000 yards
Berardi, R.L. orders Allied TF to disengage
Range closes to 13,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-27 at 13,000 yards
CA Atago engages PT-27 at 13,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-24 at 13,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-24 at 13,000 yards
PT-27 sunk by DD Shirayuki at 13,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-25 at 13,000 yards
Berardi, R.L. orders Allied TF to disengage
Range increases to 15,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-25 at 15,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-24 at 15,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-24 at 15,000 yards
Range increases to 16,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-25 at 16,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-25 at 16,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-24 at 16,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-25 at 16,000 yards
Range closes to 15,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-26 at 15,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-26 at 15,000 yards
Range increases to 16,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-24 at 16,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-25 at 16,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-26 at 16,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-26 at 16,000 yards
Berardi, R.L. orders Allied TF to disengage
Range closes to 15,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-26 at 15,000 yards
CA Atago engages PT-26 at 15,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-26 at 15,000 yards
PT-24 sunk by DD Usugumo at 15,000 yards
Range increases to 16,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-26 at 16,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-26 at 16,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-26 at 16,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-25 at 16,000 yards
Range increases to 17,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-26 at 17,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-25 at 17,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-25 at 17,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-25 at 17,000 yards
Range increases to 18,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-26 at 18,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-25 at 18,000 yards
Range increases to 19,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-26 at 19,000 yards
CA Atago engages PT-26 at 19,000 yards
DD Sagiri engages PT-26 at 19,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-26 at 19,000 yards
DD Usugumo engages PT-25 at 19,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-26 at 19,000 yards
Range increases to 20,000 yards
CA Chokai engages PT-25 at 20,000 yards
DD Fubuki engages PT-26 at 20,000 yards
PT-26 sunk by CA Takao at 20,000 yards
DD Hatsuyuki engages PT-25 at 20,000 yards
CA Atago engages PT-25 at 20,000 yards
DD Shirayuki engages PT-25 at 20,000 yards
Berardi, R.L. orders Allied TF to disengage
Range increases to 26,000 yards
Task forces break off...

but the nuke didn´t happen so it was a surface combat sweep... this is one of the PT TFs that retreated out of the hex and now with the bullet prove mid ocean intercept routine the PT TF is in the way of the retreating cruiser task force... hitting PTs at 15.000 yards in daylight is no problem obviously... three of them are obliberated...

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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Samarang Maru
PB Teshio Maru

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Samarang Maru
Haddock diving deep ....
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

one and a halve dozen of my subs are operating around Japan now, with Adak being their homeport they can stay quite a while on station and usually should run out of torps now before they run out of fuel...

duds...

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ASW attack near Umboi Island at 100,125

Japanese Ships
DD Naganami
DD Natsushio
DD Hatsukaze
DD Oyashio
DD Kagero

Allied Ships
SS KXV, hits 5


SS KXV is sighted by escort
DD Natsushio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hatsukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Oyashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kagero fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hatsukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hatsukaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Hatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Hatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

next sub out of action, not in sinking condition though...

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Sub attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
PB Taikei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock launches 6 torpedoes at PB Taikei Maru
Haddock diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection

Haddock blows up a single PB... I really wonder what those single PB TFs are... we´ve encountered quite a lot of them recently...

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Sub attack near Shortlands at 111,130

Japanese Ships
PB Shotoku Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS S-34



SS S-34 launches 4 torpedoes
Sub escapes detection

one of these TFs is destroyed in the Solomons... I´m happy about every escort we sink, I´ve got no clue how many the IJN has in AE though as I´ve never looked at the Japanese side... I guess I even know less about the numbers of enemy ships than my real life counterparts did...

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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 9
B-24D Liberator x 4
B-26 Marauder x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 6 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 3 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami
CA Mikuma
CA Kumano



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

WTH? What kind of surprise is this?

all missed...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 30


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 14 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Mogami
CA Kumano
DD Harusame



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

again...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 4 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Mikuma



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

and again...


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 4


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

and again...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 11
B-17F Fortress x 9
B-24D Liberator x 19
B-26 Marauder x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17F Fortress: 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 5 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
DD Suzukaze
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
DD Harusame
CA Mogami



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
5 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

and again...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 8
B-26 Marauder x 33


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 9 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mogami
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Mikuma



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
9 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
6 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

and again...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Portland Roads at 93,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-26 Marauder x 13


Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 6 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

and again...

so much about what my level bombers are able to do against enemy shipping... nothing... all those level bomber crews got navbomb skill between 65 and 70 as this is the only thing they are trained in but does that help? Not even a single hit on the enemy is quite a joke IMO, considering that nearly 150 bombers attacked and even more so when you consider that we had something like 1000 x 500lb bombs dropped... 1000 bombs for not one hit? How reasonable would that be compared to real life. Give me a 1% hit rate of the bombs dropped and I would get 10 hits on the enemy. No, give me a 0.5% hit rate and I would have 5 hits. Ahh, I wouldn´t complain if I would get at least two hits out 1000 bombs dropped but NO hits? Who´s serious?

I was told that the hr about 4Es not allowed on nav attack below 10.000ft wouldn´t be needed in AE and that´s obviously true. But would they have hit something at 6.000ft? Guess not, that´s the alt my medium bombers were attacking from... no hits, nada. A negative loop IMO. Heavy cloud can even be considered one of the good weather types, there´s light rain, heavy rain, severe storms and thunderstorms that would be worse. With only clear sky and overcast being better, this would be the third best weather you can get. If only clear sky enables you to hit something (if THAT´S the reason) then someone should get the never working weather model in WITP or AE working as you don´t have bad weather in the Pacific 350 days a year. I´m no amused so to say, but I find it quite impressing to have this cruiser TF in this position... pretty much looks like a raid, a very bold one, considering that I´ve got 200 highly skilled bombers (that are completely useless) and more or less the whole US Navy in this area.

One thing to think about, take 150 Betties/Nells and let them attack three cruisers... I bet the last 50 bombers wouldn´t find something to bomb or torp...







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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet

we´ve also set the Milne Bay fighters at Milne Bay to sweep Buna (before the bombers) but just because the fighters are four times closer to Buna than the bombers that are coming from Australia, the bombers went in first, to see the fighters coming in after the bombers... but hey, my fighter squadrons are of course also coming in one by one... loool, everything is working so fine, just like in the fantasy theories that are made public...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep two...

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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 20000 feet

sweep three...




How about trying to set your fighter sweeps targeting one enemy airbase to the same altitude? Could help with (but not guarantee) coordinated sweeps (apart from other helpful trivia like having them all assigned to the same Air HQ and having this Air HQ present at the base were your strikes originate and basing the air groups that are supposed to do a coordinated sweep at the same base).




I´ve done this on and on but gave up on it. I´m now trying it doing the other way, hoping to get a "uncoordination" within the squadrons I´ve set to attack, hoping to see more fighters at the same time over the target. But the result is just the same. I´m aware about the altitude factor.

I´ve not got those squadrons assigned to the same air HQ and won´t spend more pps on it (got halve a dozen squadrons in India set to the "right" air HQ) as it hasn´t worked for me in my AI test game. It also doesn´t help me out of India (neither the altitude, nor the air HQ), so in fact I gave up on trying anything else to be honest. The try to get a major fubar uncoordination I´ve tried recently was the last attempt. Other than that I can´t do anything.

My "testing" only showed experience as a factor (means 70+), but I´ve only been able to do this using the editor but that´s not possible in this PBEM anymore. Even in my AI game, generell experience of 70+ didn´t even lead to mostly "coordinated" attacks, it just made it better. A rough guess would still be that in 3 or 4 out of 5 times I won´t get two squadrons with 32 or 50 aircraft launch from the same base and arrive over the same target at the same time. But without the 70+ experience, it only works 1 out of 40 times it seems. But that´s just my experience and my opponent´s one of course, as you can see in this AAR, he just can´t do it any better than me. It´s no bug, it´s a feature. strike packs...

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Sub attack near Cairns at 93,140

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33

Allied Ships
DD Hammann
BB Warspite
BC Repulse
CL Mauritius
DD Morris
DD Walke
DD O'Brien
DD Russell



SS RO-33 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Hammann
DD Morris fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Walke fails to find sub and abandons search
DD O'Brien fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Russell fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub


one of my surface combat TFs that is covering my carriers is attacked by an enemy sub... like most of the time, the IJN sub isn´t able to hit one of the destroyers, our DDs weren´t able to locate the sub...

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Sub attack near Nagoya at 109,63

Japanese Ships
TK Oyashima Maru
PB Daiya Maru

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



SS Albacore launches 6 torpedoes at TK Oyashima Maru
Albacore diving deep ....
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Daiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

unfortunetely duds...

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Sub attack near Atka Island at 164,53

Japanese Ships
SS I-34

Allied Ships
AM Kelowna
xAK Admiral Y. Williams
xAK Steel Worker
AM Quatsino



SS I-34 launches 6 torpedoes at AM Kelowna
AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

got a small convoy going to Adak, luckily the escort is attacked and missed...

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Sub attack near Palmyra at 173,127

Japanese Ships
SS I-20

Allied Ships
xAKL White Wing, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
AM Matai



SS I-20 launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL White Wing
I-20 diving deep ....
AM Matai fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Matai fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Matai fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Matai fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Matai fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

not so in this case... the fuel loaden freighter sinks like a stone...

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-2
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-14

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale is sighted by escort
Whale diving deep ....
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Cooktown at 96,138

Japanese Ships
SS I-17

Allied Ships
DD Mahan
DD Perkins
DD Cushing



SS I-17 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Mahan
I-17 diving deep ....
DD Perkins attacking submerged sub ....
DD Cushing fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Perkins attacking submerged sub ....
DD Perkins is out of ASW ammo
DD Perkins is out of ASW ammo
DD Perkins fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

dud luck... Perkins drops all her depth charges for not even a single near miss...

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Morning Air attack on Balikpapan Base Force, at 64,96

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 7 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Rainer ordered to destroy one of the very few remaining (wrecked) Dutch units on Borneo...

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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 16



No Japanese losses



Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Sub attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13
SC CHa-2
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-14

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-13
Peto diving deep ....
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 attacking submerged sub ....
SC CHa-14 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-14 is out of ASW ammo
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

still not afraid of ASW TFs made up of PBs or SCs... we scored duds as usual so no reason for the sub chasers to be afraid of our subs...

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ASW attack near Tanegashima at 105,68

Japanese Ships
PB Takuna Maru #7

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon



SS Sturgeon is sighted by escort
PB Takuna Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takuna Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Tanegashima at 102,63

Japanese Ships
xAK Shinryu Maru
xAK Sinsei Maru
PB Myoken Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tambor



SS Tambor launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Shinryu Maru
Tambor diving deep ....
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

lots of subs around Northern Japan to take on the enemy resource convoys... duds on a freighter...

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Sub attack near Sagigik Island at 165,53

Japanese Ships
SS I-28

Allied Ships
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DMS Dorsey



SS I-28 launches 6 torpedoes at CL Detroit
I-28 diving deep ....
DMS Dorsey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Dorsey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Dorsey fails to find sub, continues to search...
DMS Dorsey attacking submerged sub ....
DMS Dorsey cannot establish contact with SS I-28
DMS Dorsey fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

stupid me once again... this sub was spotted sitting in the direct path to Adak and I´ve got two CLs being escorted by six DMS moving there and I was just too lazy to change their heading to avoid the sub... we run over it and a CL is in sinking condition now... 65 flt damage, being disbanded into Adak´s port. Even though Adak will be a level 8 port (aren´t you amazed what a short time it took me to build it to level 8?) I guess Detroit will be stuck there forever as I can´t repair any major flt damage there...

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Sub attack near Palm Island at 94,143

Japanese Ships
SS RO-33, hits 13, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Stuart
DD Jupiter
DD Express



SS RO-33 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Stuart
DD Jupiter fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
SS RO-33 eludes ASW attack from DD Express
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express loses contact with SS RO-33
SS RO-33 eludes DD Express by hugging bottom
SS RO-33 eludes ASW attack from DD Express
Underwater explosion, debris and oil appear on surface!
Escort abandons search for sub

four British destroyers sent out again, especially DD Express once more proves it´s ability to threaten subs... the sub is hit by depth charges several times and is reported sunk and I´m sure it is... the sub missed with it´s attack... will send some more British subs down to Australia and will replace them with US DDs for escort duty in India... will use the British DDs for dedicated ASW TFs...

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ASW attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13
SC CHa-14
SC CHa-18

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock is located by SC CHa-13
Haddock diving deep ....
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Sapporo at 119,49

Japanese Ships
E Ishigaki
DMS Teiko
DD Sanae
E Omae

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock is located by E Ishigaki
Haddock diving deep ....
DD Sanae attacking submerged sub ....
SS Haddock eludes DD Sanae by diving deep
DD Sanae cannot reach attack position over SS Haddock
DD Sanae cannot reach attack position over SS Haddock
E Omae attacking submerged sub ....
DD Sanae fails to find sub and abandons search
E Omae fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Omae fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Omae attacking submerged sub ....
E Omae attacking submerged sub ....
E Omae is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Samarinda KNIL Battalion, at 64,96

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 69
B-17F Fortress x 6
B-24D Liberator x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 49

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

Why am I not surprised to encounter this same fighter unit on and on over every base around Lae? Oh well, it´s only bad news for the Zeroes if they meet our undestructable bombers...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9
B-17F Fortress x 12


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12
B-17F Fortress x 9


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

Lae should be at 100% damage again... also don´t know how much supply the bases around Lae got left, can´t be much IMO after constant bombing and no (spotted) TFs going there for months...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 9


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 7


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 340 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28

Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0

Allied adjusted assault: 23

Japanese adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 23 to 1 (fort level 0)

Allied forces CAPTURE Horn Island !!!

Combat modifiers
Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-)



Assaulting units:
2nd USMC Parachute Bn /199


Paradrop on Horn Island, this time the recon was right, the base was empty... this is the island West of Port Moresby...

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Sub attack near Kuroshima at 99,61

Japanese Ships
PB Odatsuki Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
PB Tatsumi Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tambor



SS Tambor launches 4 torpedoes at PB Odatsuki Maru
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

one exploding torp would have been enough but I won´t complain... finally a working salvo...

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ASW attack near Kuroshima at 99,61

Japanese Ships
PB Tatsumi Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides, hits 1



SS Silversides is located by PB Tatsumi Maru
PB Tatsumi Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tatsumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

near miss, no danger...

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Sub attack near Cooktown at 95,136

Japanese Ships
SS I-33, hits 1

Allied Ships
CL Achilles
BB Warspite
BC Repulse
CL Mauritius
DD Hughes
DD Morris
DD Walke
DD O'Brien
DD Russell



SS I-33 launches 6 torpedoes at CL Achilles
I-33 diving deep ....
DD Morris fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Walke fails to find sub and abandons search
DD O'Brien fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Russell attacking submerged sub ....
DD Morris fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Russell fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Russell fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Russell fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Russell fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

this was dangerous... my escorts once again prove not being able to guard our ships and Achilles is targetted by the sub... the torps luckily missed but the sub gets away unharmed...

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ASW attack near Cooktown at 95,136

Japanese Ships
SS I-33, hits 3

Allied Ships
DD Maury
BB North Carolina
CA Vincennes
CA Quincy
CA Salt Lake City
CL Honolulu
CLAA San Juan
DD Sterett
DD Ellet
DD Clark
DD Balch
DD Selfridge
DD Porter



SS I-33 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Maury
I-33 diving deep ....
DD Clark fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Balch fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Selfridge fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Porter fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Porter fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Porter attacking submerged sub ....
DD Porter fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Porter fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

boy, those things are just than annoying... how big would the chance for this sub really be to launch another full 6 torp salvo at the next TF in the same hex, especially when there are something like four DOZEN destroyers within the TFs in this hex... oh my... but hey, the sub took 3 near misses, makes 4 near misses in total...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Adak Island at 162,52, Range 2,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato
BB Ise
CL Kitakami
CL Oi
DD Kazegumo
DD Makinami
DD Takanami
DD Akatsuki
DD Hibiki
DD Amagiri
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
PT-67
PT-73
PT-77
PT-81
PT-82, Shell hits 3, and is sunk



Low visibility due to Thunderstorms with 57% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Thunderstorms and 57% moonlight: 2,000 yards
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
Range closes to 7,000 yards...
Range closes to 6,000 yards...
Range closes to 5,000 yards...
Range closes to 4,000 yards...
Range closes to 3,000 yards...
Range closes to 2,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 2,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 2,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages PT-82 at 2,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages PT-82 at 2,000 yards
PT-82 sunk by BB Yamato at 2,000 yards
Task forces break off...

we lose a PT to Yamato´s 18 inch guns...

and then:

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some more stupidity...

Naval bombardment of Adak Island at 162,52

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 5 destroyed on ground
Hurricane XIIb: 2 destroyed on ground
PBY-5A Catalina: 7 destroyed on ground
P-400 Airacobra: 2 destroyed on ground

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Yamato
CL Oi
CL Kitakami

Allied Ships
SS Porpoise, hits 2, on fire
AVP Thrush, Shell hits 1


Allied ground losses:
506 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 33 destroyed, 31 disabled
Engineers: 8 destroyed, 15 disabled
Guns lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled)
Vehicles lost 19 (13 destroyed, 6 disabled)


Airbase hits 15
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 219
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

BB Ise firing at Adak Island
BB Yamato firing at Adak Island
CL Oi firing at Adak Island
CL Kitakami firing at 1st Marine Division

TONED down... the base is wrecked... detection level 10: ALERT! ALERT! NUKE! BOOOM! S T U P I D! Not tested, ignored, or what else?

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Sub attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
xAK Kyokuzan Maru
xAK Kinmo Maru
PB Fumi Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kyokuzan Maru
Sealion diving deep ....
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fumi Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-32
SC CHa-1

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



Captain of SS Albacore elects not to launch torpedoes at this target
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

I would be happy about an escort being sunk...

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Sub attack near Koshiki-jima Retto at 100,60

Japanese Ships
xAKL Suez Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Seikai Maru

Allied Ships
SS Herring



SS Herring launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL Suez Maru
PB Seikai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Seikai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Seikai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Seikai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Seikai Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we get a small freighter, happy about that too...

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Sub attack near Naha at 95,68

Japanese Ships
TK Amakusa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
TK Okuni Maru
TK Fukko Maru
DD Akikaze

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon



SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at TK Amakusa Maru
DD Akikaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Akikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Akikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Akikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Akikaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

wow! We also get a oil loaden tanker... that´s the first prize for today...

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ASW attack near Port Moresby at 96,133

Japanese Ships
SS I-24

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CL Marblehead
AMC Westralia
AM Katoomba
AP William Ward Burrows
AP President Hayes
AP Barnett
AP U.S. Grant
xAP Iron Warrior
xAP Echunga
xAP Arkaba
xAP Adelong
xAP Nairana
xAP Maori
xAP Dardanus
xAP Nirvana
xAP Jalabala
xAP Ellenga
xAP Comliebank
xAP Clan Maciver
xAP Changte
xAP St. Mihel
xAK Iron Chieftan
xAK Laida
xAK Defiance
xAK President Quezon
xAK San Angelo
xAK Julia Luckenbach
xAK J.L. Luckenbach
xAK Harry Luckenbach
xAK Chickasaw City
xAK Lancaster
xAK Challenger
DD La Triomphant
AM Wollongong
AM Townsville
AM Mildura



SS I-24 is sighted by escort
DD La Triomphant fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Wollongong fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Mildura fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Wollongong fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

amphib TF going to Port Moresby to bring in a dozen eng units rolls over a sub...

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ASW attack near Port Moresby at 96,133

Japanese Ships
SS I-24

Allied Ships
BB North Carolina
CA Vincennes
CA New Orleans
CL Honolulu
CLAA San Juan
DD Sterett
DD Clark
DD Balch
DD Selfridge
DD Porter



SS I-24 is sighted by escort
DD Clark fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Balch fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Selfridge fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Porter fails to find sub and abandons search
Escort abandons search for sub

our escort sighting the sub first twice in a row? Must be a lucky day...

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ASW attack near Port Moresby at 96,133

Japanese Ships
SS I-24, hits 5, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Mahan
DD Cushing



SS I-24 is sighted by escort
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing attacking submerged sub ....
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Cushing fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

I-24 has a very unlucky day... while probably not in sinking condition, I hope the sub has to move back to Japan...

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Morning Air attack on 15th Army, at 60,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4



Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
21 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

picking off leaking Cap... the Tojos were bounced and all shot to pieces...

sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on 15th Army, at 60,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 16



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
8 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes

same here, leaking Tojo Cap being bounced and wrecked...

sweep two... same base, same target, same altitude... as usual so to say...


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Morning Air attack on 15th Army, at 60,44

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes

then the Warhawks join the party and come in separately... more or less an equal fight but the odds favoured us...

sweep three...




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Afternoon Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10



No Japanese losses



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb







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ASW attack near Port Moresby at 97,132

Japanese Ships
SS I-172

Allied Ships
CL Concord
CL Trenton
AMC Westralia
AM Kapunda
AP William Ward Burrows
AP U.S. Grant
xAP Iron Prince
xAP Dundula
xAP Allara
xAP Adelong
xAP Taroona
xAP Johanne Justesen
xAP Nova Scotia
xAP Jalaratna
xAP Haresfield
xAP Congella
xAP Comliebank
xAP Clan Maciver
xAP Changte
xAP Centaur
xAP St. Mihel
xAK Iron Baron
xAK Laida
xAK Willimoto
xAK Admiral Senn
xAK Mathew Luckenbach
xAK Julia Luckenbach
xAK J.L. Luckenbach
xAK F.J.Luckenbach
xAK Sagadahoc
xAK Lancaster
xAK Challenger
DD La Triomphant
AM Wollongong
AM Townsville
AM Mildura



SS I-172 is sighted by escort
DD La Triomphant fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Wollongong fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Townsville attacking submerged sub ....
AM Townsville cannot reach attack position over SS I-172
AM Mildura fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Townsville fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we´ve succesfull unloaded, Port Moresby will see a very fast buildup now... we´ve got hundreds of engineers and over a hundred eng vehicles there now... in two weeks at the latest we could base 100 heavy bombers there... but as long as our bombers can reach all potential targets from Australia, we´ll just keep them there as it seems to me they are safer there than at Port Moresby that could be bombed by KB or LBA...

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ASW attack near Moppo at 99,53

Japanese Ships
CM Sarushima, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at CM Sarushima
Silversides bottoming out ....
Sub escapes detection

wow, three succesful Mk-14 attacks in two days? Must be our lucky time of this month...

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Submarine attack near Moppo at 99,53

Japanese Ships
xAK Kosin Maru, Shell hits 4

Allied Ships
SS Tambor, hits 2



xAK Kosin Maru is sighted by SS Tambor
SS Tambor attacking xAK Kosin Maru on the surface
SS Tambor low on gun ammo, Murphy, J.W. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

Tambor then attacks the same TF that lost it´s escort... attacking on the surface is always a bad idea for a USN sub as the enemy outguns our subs... the torps didn´t ignite...

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Sub attack near Truk at 111,109

Japanese Ships
xAK Uji Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
xAKL Ujigawa Maru
PB Sento Maru

Allied Ships
SS Narwhal



SS Narwhal launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Uji Maru
Narwhal diving deep ....
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

what? A fourth succesful Mk-14 attack in two days? can´t wait for 1/43...

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Morning Air attack on Eastern Army, at 56,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 37



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 27
P-40E Warhawk x 45


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 3 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 8 destroyed



CAP engaged:
343rd FG/11th FS with P-40E Warhawk (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(13 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
51st FG/26th FS with P-40E Warhawk (11 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
11 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes
8th FG/35th FS with P-39D Airacobra (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(15 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes
58th FG/67th FS with P-39D Airacobra (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
70th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 8 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
23rd FG/75th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 12 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes

now we´re back into the fridging loopsides joke results... the Oscars achieved something like a 8:1 kill rate in this attack (the combat report is completely wrong all the time and in fact should be deleted completely... that´s not FOW, that´s just dividing the actual result by 2 or 3 all the time... it would be closer to reality if it would be multiplied by 2 because usually more kills were reported but not less)... we´ve moved a lot of fighters to Akyab to fly Cap over a convoy unloading there... what makes us happy once again? We see no less 72 fighters leaking out THREE hexes and 37 Oscar II get the idiotic NEVER ending dive in this case... result as described above... those 37 overpowered Oscars copied the Allied zoom and boom to take on twice as many of our fighters.... can´t this game create less loopsided results? Loops aren´t that seldom, they happen all the time... and the "end result" is only "ok" because they happen for both sides all the time... 8:1 loop for the IJAAF, followed by a 10:1 loop for the USN, then some 1:2 or 3:1 results, to get
another fridging 15 or 16:1 the next day...

sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Fergusson Island , at 102,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 24



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 20000 feet *

no Cap over Milne Bay, so also no leaking Cap over Ferguson... both sides are attempting to take on leaking Cap whenever possible... this completely useless feature should have been long ago eliminated or at least deactivated if you set your fighters range to 0...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 16


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
16 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 20000 feet

got Wildcats at Milne Bay now as I need some escorts for the divebombers that I´ve moved into this region... the Wildcats got a range of 6 while my USAAF fighters mostly have 5 (execpt the Ligthning with 6)...

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Morning Air attack on Eastern Army, at 56,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 32



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 7
P-40E Warhawk x 15


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 5 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
19 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
343rd FG/11th FS with P-40E Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
58th FG/67th FS with P-39D Airacobra (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
8th FG/35th FS with P-39D Airacobra (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
70th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
23rd FG/75th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

hey hey hey... same loopsided result as the Oscars... never ending dive, massacre...#

ah, yeah, sweep two...



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Morning Air attack on Eastern Army, at 56,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 40 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 4



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar sweeping at 30000 feet

sweep three... nothing left to take down... in the end we lose 40 fighters here, during the combat only five or six enemy fighters were shot down... some more where written off or crashed on their way home, still giving the enemy a 4:1 in this hex... not bad considering the fact that the Oscars were 2:1 outnumbered...

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Morning Air attack on Fergusson Island , at 102,132

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 20000 feet *

sweep two here... same unit, not being able to fly together...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 20000 feet

not to forget, sweep two... also my single unit can´t fly together... hard task for sure...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 67


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 86

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

shouldn´t complain, the fighters went in before the bombers... this was quite a big strike looks like my bombers seem to be reaching the necessary experience levels to learn how to fly to target in a formation...

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Morning Air attack on 4th Division, at 99,130

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
B-17F Fortress x 27
B-24D Liberator x 35


Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

Also attacking 8th Base Force ...
Also attacking 4th Division ...
Also attacking 8th Base Force ...
Also attacking 4th Division ...
Also attacking 8th Base Force ...
Also attacking 4th Division ...
Also attacking 8th Base Force ...
Also attacking 4th Division ...
Also attacking 8th Base Force ...
Also attacking 4th Division ...

Cooktown´s bomber were ordered to attack the retreating IJA units to perhaps slow them down... got our two divs at Port Moresby on the trail to pursue the enemy to Lae... expect to take Lae in three weeks...

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Morning Air attack on 4th Division, at 99,130

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

some straddlers coming in...

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Morning Air attack on 8th Base Force, at 99,130

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Eastern Army, at 56,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 20000 feet

not over yet in this hex... another piece meal sweep...

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Afternoon Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Adak Island , at 162,52

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 36
D3A1 Val x 24



Allied aircraft
Hurricane XIIb x 11
P-400 Airacobra x 12
P-40E Warhawk x 28


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 12 destroyed
D3A1 Val: 14 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-400 Airacobra: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
SS Pollack, Bomb hits 1



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x D3A1 Val bombing from 6000 feet
Port Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
No.118 Sqn RCAF with Hurricane XIIb (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 6 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes
6 planes vectored on to bombers
18th FG/6th FS with P-400 Airacobra (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 7 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 10000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes
8 planes vectored on to bombers
343rd FG/18th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 11 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 29000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
10 planes vectored on to bombers
18th FG/19th FS with P-40E Warhawk (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 7 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 7000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes
1 planes vectored on to bombers

let´s swing the pendulum the other way to get a "reasonable" result in total at the end of the day... just because nearly each encounter creates an off result, doesn´t mean the result in total losses at the end of the day would be off too... Rainer obviously thought that his naval bombardment completely knocked out everything on Adak (who would wonder after 200+ airfield hits) but neither my fighters were all down, nor the airfield closed... he already noticed that Adak is one of my main submarine bases now and due to daily recon and a normal detection level of 10 at this base he also spotted some ships disbanded in port... therefore he sent in his dive bombers to take care about the disbanded ships but they had to fight their was through 51 of our fighters first... the enemy was coming in too low and we got the never ending dive, resulting in a massacre... for only two or three of our fighters lost at Adak, we took down two dozen Zeroes, followed by one and a halve dozen Vals that were shot down before reaching the anchorage... one sub was hit but isn´t in danger, nearly no flt but a lot of sys damage, will head to Seattle for repairs. Achieved something like a 14:1 kill rate over Adak today... one would wonder if 36 Zeroes shouldn´t be able to do better than taking down only one or two enemy fighters...

constant kill rates above 4 or 5:1 at this stage of the war are off to me. No matter what side, IMO the usual kill rate should be at 3:1 AT BEST at this stage of the war when the numbers involved aren´t totally one sided. Kill rates late war with complete Allied superiority should surely be higher but those 15:1 kill rates on and on and on are just borked, no matter what side is achieving them.







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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/16/2010 12:33:25 PM   
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Haddock blows up a single PB... I really wonder what those single PB TFs are... we´ve encountered quite a lot of them recently...


Fast transports running in supply/troops or bringing out troops from smaller areas?
Think those PBs can be used in fast transport TFs and carry some 750 or so of cargo.
Saves his normal transports in sub infested waters atleast.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/16/2010 4:51:04 PM   
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Haddock blows up a single PB... I really wonder what those single PB TFs are... we´ve encountered quite a lot of them recently...


Fast transports running in supply/troops or bringing out troops from smaller areas?
Think those PBs can be used in fast transport TFs and carry some 750 or so of cargo.
Saves his normal transports in sub infested waters atleast.

Terje



didn´t know the Japanese could use those PBs for carrying troops or supplies... I´m unfortunetely stuck with APDs only for that task and made the mistake that I have converted all my four stackers to DEs instead of at least some of them to APDs. Means we´re stuck with 8 APDs until mid 43.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/16/2010 10:13:20 PM   
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ORIGINAL: castor troy


Haddock blows up a single PB... I really wonder what those single PB TFs are... we´ve encountered quite a lot of them recently...


Fast transports running in supply/troops or bringing out troops from smaller areas?
Think those PBs can be used in fast transport TFs and carry some 750 or so of cargo.
Saves his normal transports in sub infested waters atleast.

Terje



didn´t know the Japanese could use those PBs for carrying troops or supplies... I´m unfortunetely stuck with APDs only for that task and made the mistake that I have converted all my four stackers to DEs instead of at least some of them to APDs. Means we´re stuck with 8 APDs until mid 43.


Can't really blame you, I did the same. Any asw is a good thing in 42.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/17/2010 8:41:17 AM   
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ORIGINAL: castor troy


Haddock blows up a single PB... I really wonder what those single PB TFs are... we´ve encountered quite a lot of them recently...


Fast transports running in supply/troops or bringing out troops from smaller areas?
Think those PBs can be used in fast transport TFs and carry some 750 or so of cargo.
Saves his normal transports in sub infested waters atleast.

Terje



didn´t know the Japanese could use those PBs for carrying troops or supplies... I´m unfortunetely stuck with APDs only for that task and made the mistake that I have converted all my four stackers to DEs instead of at least some of them to APDs. Means we´re stuck with 8 APDs until mid 43.


Can't really blame you, I did the same. Any asw is a good thing in 42.



wouldn´t do it again though as something like 20 APDs instead of 8 would be very handy. And I guess not on of those DEs has ever encountered an enemy sub yet.

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/17/2010 11:48:13 AM   
castor troy


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Submarine attack near Milne Bay at 98,139

Japanese Ships
SS I-19, hits 19, and is sunk

Allied Ships
DD Jupiter, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Express
DD Electra



SS I-19 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Jupiter
DD Express fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express attacking submerged sub ....
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
DD Express is out of ASW ammo
SS I-19 forced to surface!
DD Electra firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Jupiter firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Electra firing on surfaced sub ....
DD Express firing on surfaced sub ....
Sub slips beneath the waves

oh no, this really really hurts... couldn´t a US DD be hit instead of one of the precious British DDs? Jupiter of course sinks like a stone but it´s DD Express again that finishes off a sub on her own. While running out of ammo, the sub was still forced to surface and was shot to pieces by a dozen 4.7 inch hits... I´ve only got 4 British DDs in this area (if I haven´t missed one) and they were operating as an ASW force, a very succesful one in the last days.


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Sub attack near Hengchun at 84,68

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 15
SC Ch 13
SC Ch 14

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 15
Seadragon diving deep ....
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the usual duds...

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Sub attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
xAK Oridono Maru, Torpedo hits 1
xAK Mitimei Maru
xAK Anzan Maru
E Susuki

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Oridono Maru
Halibut diving deep ....
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki attacking submerged sub ....
E Susuki cannot reach attack position over SS Halibut
E Susuki cannot reach attack position over SS Halibut
SS Halibut eludes ASW attack from E Susuki
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

boom, but no significant damage it seems... mmmm

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Sub attack near Toyohara at 126,46

Japanese Ships
xAK Tyoyo Maru
xAK Kaisyo Maru
PB Tamo Maru #7

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Tyoyo Maru
Haddock diving deep ....
PB Tamo Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamo Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamo Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamo Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Tamo Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

then more duds...

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ASW attack near Toyohara at 126,46

Japanese Ships
xAK Sumiyoshi Maru
xAK Sansei Maru
PB Uruboko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto is sighted by escort
Peto diving deep ....
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and an attempt to attack one of my subs...

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ASW attack near Adak Island at 162,52

Japanese Ships
SS I-4, hits 28, heavy damage

Allied Ships
BB Tennessee
BB Nevada
CL Helena
CLAA San Diego
CLAA Atlanta
DD Lansdowne
DD Laffey
DD Conyngham
DD Drayton
DD Cummings
DD Stack



SS I-4 is sighted by escort
DD Conyngham fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Drayton attacking submerged sub ....
DD Cummings fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Stack attacking submerged sub ....
DD Conyngham fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Drayton attacking submerged sub ....
DD Stack attacking submerged sub ....
Sounds of submarine breaking up detected!
Escort abandons search for sub

I´m not really happy about the fact that subs more often than not spot the whole TF composition, especially if they are spotted and attacked first... in this case, the sub has spotted and "identified" 100% of the ships in this TF... in this case, being in a base hex was a very bad choice as even the USN DDs are killers when they engage a sub in a base hex... the sub is reported sunk and I also expect it to be sunk after halve a dozen real hits... second bugger sunk today, best ASW result of the war so far... I would cheer if I wouldn´t have lost DD Jupiter...

the enemy is now aware of my BBs in this area again...


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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 7



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes

we get the usual series of piece meal sweeps, all from the same base... as soon as the enemy is able to put up a real number of fighters on Cap again, those piecemeal strikes get shred... I just hate it... the one Warhawk that was shot down here was a victim of a Nik, which was quite surprising to me... thought the Niks would be sitting ducks when facing my fighters...

sweep one...



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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 11
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 11



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 25


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 4 destroyed



CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

how should it be different elsewhere? This is out of India, a P-40B and two P-38 set to sweep Shwebo from the same base, voila the stupidity goes on and on... we of course get the strike pack feature and every squadrons fights it´s own war. The P-40B go in first and the never ending dive results in yet another loopsided result of 14:0 for the Japanese aircraft... loopsided results in this game (I deliberetly don´t use simulation) are surely not the norm, but they happen so often that it´s just off to speak about reasonable results most of the times. If you only take this AAR as an example, you can come up with countless engagements that show kill rates beyond any reasonable numbers. My pilots had 70 air skill of course, like all my other fighter pilots at the front also... strike packs and the dive, both "features" are just off noone can tell me that this is somewhere realistic nor historically correct. Those kill rates weren´t even the norm for late war ALLIED fighters. It´s a pity you can´t include videos in an AAR, I should, just to show you that the Warhawks NEVER even shot at one of the enemy fighters in this engagement. Stupid... and that´s not the first time, it just happens on and on. 14:0, hey there are too many Hartmanns and Marseilles flying in Japanese and Allied squadrons all the time...


sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 11
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 9



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet *

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 11 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes

then we see the figthter squadrons from Akyab coming in ONE BY ONE... amazingly enough, most of the Airacobras "only" got damaged and they also managed to fire at the enemy fighters (without much success though)...

sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
5 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Raid is overhead

hey ho, more single sweeps from Milne Bay... we dive on the enemy and trash the Zeroes...

sweep two...


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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 10


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

sweep three...

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 5



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
11 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet *

CAP engaged:
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes

more of the stupidity out of Akyab...

sweep two...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 10


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep four...

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 1
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 20


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
20 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

then the Lightning squadrons join, they both come in separated too of course... being at 39.000, we got the dive, the enemy was shredded... but there wasn´t much left as most of them ran out of fuel or ammo during the engagements with our other fighters that were shot to pieces...

sweep two...

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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 13



No Japanese losses



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
B-17F Fortress x 27
B-24D Liberator x 28


Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 96

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

then the bombers...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 8


No Allied losses



Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 11


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 20


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet
10 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

and more of the Milne Bay fighters... nearly seems like two squadrons with 10 ac each flew together... wow, must be an example of a broken routine when suddenly two squadrons launch 20 fighters to fly together...

sweep five...

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and the highlight of the day...

Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 80


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
19 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet *
20 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet *
25 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet *
16 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet *

4 squadrons of Warhawks decide to launch together from Akyab... doesn´t matter though as the piece meal strikes that came in earlier were shredded and when the big sweep arrives (must be the biggest of the war for the Allied so far) there´s not even a single enemy fighter in the air...

sweep three...

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 4


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet *
2 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet *

some fighters were even split from their squadrons...

sweep four...

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 25


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
25 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

and the second Lightning squadron from Imphal... three squadrons, three attacks...

sweep three...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 10


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet


oh, not to forget Milne Bay... another squadron...

sweep six...

it really sounds funny that this actually was tested and rated as "ok", or even "good" as I just can´t imagine that it would have been much of a problem to order three squadrons with something like 30-40 fighters to fly together to a target. Again, I´m not expecting hundreds of ac joining in from six different bases like it could happen in WITP (in theory, when all bases got the same distance to the target) but I´m expecting WWII front line squadrons to be able to fly in formation, no matter if it´s the same squadron, or part of three squadrons. Flying constant combined strikes with 40 or even 50 aircraft from the same base should be possible and surely was possible. I´m not talking about a level 1 airfield, I´m talking about airfields that have been built up to 6-9! HUGE airodromes that surely wouldn´t restrict a strike of 50 ac. But constantly seeing squadrons flying alone is just BS par excellence.

How many single sweeps were today? 13 sweeps against two targets. 13... I don´t even count the number of bomber strikes against Lae... everyone is always talking about what can go wrong all the time, but in fact the norm should be that it is not going wrong and not seeing it 95% of the time being screwed up. But I´m beating a dead horse as there´s nothing going wrong as it´s obviously working as designed and it´s a game, not a simulation. Piece meal strikes and the dive (if it´s endless) then result in kill rates that are just a joke, no matter for which side. If the numbers of fighters in the air on both sides is ok and the dive is ending at some point then also the results are reasonable. If both things aren´t true, then there will always be those stupid results with kill rates between 15 and 20:1. Having the piece meal BS cured to some extend would also cure a lot of the loopsided results. But as it´s obviously WAD (and there will only be bug busting anyway), it´s something I will have to live with.

Like mentioned earlier, the loops neutralize themselv though and while we suffer a 14:0 with our Warhawks over Shwebo, we get good results over Lae, then resulting in only a 23:17 fighter loss rate on the map today...

the three naval search ac lost today aren´t even worth mentioning anymore...






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Sub attack near Talaud-eilanden at 81,95

Japanese Ships
E Shirataka, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Tarpon



SS Tarpon launches 4 torpedoes at E Shirataka
Sub escapes detection

Our Mk-14 have done quite good the recently...

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Sub attack near Toyohara at 126,46

Japanese Ships
xAK Sansei Maru
PB Uruboko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Sansei Maru
Haddock diving deep ....
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

shouldn´t have though about that as it was immedietely followed by a dud...



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Post #: 375
RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/17/2010 12:34:09 PM   
castor troy


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Sub attack near Tsushima at 102,56

Japanese Ships
xAK Kinkai Maru
xAK Mitimei Maru
xAK Anzan Maru
E Susuki

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



SS Albacore launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Kinkai Maru
Albacore diving deep ....
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

dud

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Sub attack near Truk at 111,109

Japanese Ships
DD Oyashio
DD Akigumo
DD Natsushio
DD Hatsukaze
DD Kagero

Allied Ships
SS Stingray



SS Stingray launches 4 torpedoes at DD Oyashio
DD Natsushio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Hatsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Oyashio fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kagero fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Oyashio fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kagero fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kagero fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kagero fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kagero fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kagero fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


also dud... 5 DDs means no ASW TF, wonder if there´s something going on again...

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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 123,48

Japanese Ships
PB Uruboko Maru

Allied Ships
SS O19



SS O19 is sighted by escort
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Submarine attack near Diamond Harbour at 53,40

Japanese Ships
SS I-160

Allied Ships
xAKL Oklahoman, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage



xAKL Oklahoman is sighted by SS I-160
SS I-160 launches 8 torpedoes at xAKL Oklahoman

got an unescorted xAKL TF moving around in this area, obviously a mistake...

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Sub attack near Tsushima at 102,56

Japanese Ships
xAKL Tokuwa Maru
xAKL Bunzan Maru
xAKL Zuiho Maru
PB Minowa Maru

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



SS Albacore launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Tokuwa Maru
Albacore diving deep ....
PB Minowa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Minowa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Minowa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Minowa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Minowa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds...

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Morning Air attack on Semisopochnoi Island , at 159,52

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-400 Airacobra x 12


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x P-400 Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet

wanted to take on some Japanese leaking Cap, we launch the usual piece meal sweep one by one out of Adak... level 6 airfield btw...

sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Semisopochnoi Island , at 159,52

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 12


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep two...

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Morning Air attack on Balikpapan Base Force, at 64,96

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
45 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Semisopochnoi Island , at 159,52

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
Hurricane XIIb x 9


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Hurricane XIIb sweeping at 25000 feet

sweep three...

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Morning Air attack on Semisopochnoi Island , at 159,52

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-400 Airacobra x 2


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
2 x P-400 Airacobra sweeping at 10000 feet

sweep four...

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Morning Air attack on Semisopochnoi Island , at 159,52

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 16


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
14 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet
2 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep five...



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Afternoon Air attack on 15th Army, at 60,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

two Lightning squadrons out of Imphal also refuse to fly together... at least they manage to keep their own aircraft together... those are set at the same alt but it doesn´t matter anyway...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 89,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 10



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12
B-17F Fortress x 24
B-24D Liberator x 31


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-17F Fortress: 6 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 10 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Murakumo
xAK Ayato Maru
CA Mikuma
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
xAK Hokutatsu Maru
xAK Katuragi Maru
xAK Meiten Maru
xAK Achou Maru
xAK Azuma Maru
xAK Keihuku Maru



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

WOW! I was unaware of those two TFs at Merauke. There´s obviously a troop convoy and the cruiser TF we´ve engaged a couple of days ago that is covering the unloading... we launch a lot of bombers from Cooktown but how could it be different, all those bomber crews with a nav skill between 65 and 70 miss. We dropped over 1000x500 lb bombs last time for not one hit, we drop hundreds of 500lb bombs more for the same result, we can´t even hit the transports... we stay at 0% hit rate... not 2%, not 1% not even 0.5%...

people, there´s definetely no need to have a hr on 4Es on naval attack and there´s also no reason to train your level bombers in navbomb skill as they won´t hit anyway... no medium bombers today (dud to range) but also over a hundred Marauders haven´t hit anything earlier...

the only good thing, my 4E bombers act as a fighter sweep, as there´s still a surprise coming...




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and here it is:

Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 89,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4



Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 22
SBD-3 Dauntless x 99
TBF-1 Avenger x 45


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
SBD-3 Dauntless: 7 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 6 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya, Bomb hits 3, on fire
CA Mogami, Bomb hits 2, on fire
CA Kumano, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Aki Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Sugiyama Maru, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
xAK Kashu Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires
xAK Keihuku Maru
xAK Azuma Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Katuragi Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Shirakumo
DD Harusame
xAK Achou Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
xAK Hokutatsu Maru, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
xAK Arimasan Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Ayato Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DMS W-19
DD Yanagi
xAK Meiten Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Suzukaze
E Kiku, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
541 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 62 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
9 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
3 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
6 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 4000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
7 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
3 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
7 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
6 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 4000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
1 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
6 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
1 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
1 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
7 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 2000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Kashu Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Mogami
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Katuragi Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Hokutatsu Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Arimasan Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Ayato Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Aki Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Meiten Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Kumano
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Suzuya
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Azuma Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Sugiyama Maru

After having attacked enemy heavy cruisers North of Cooktown earlier, I wanted to scare them away and have set my carriers together with a strong escort force to steam towards Darwin as this is where I expected the enemy cruisers to be. We took Horn Island with paras and our TFs were one hex South of Horn Island yesterday and they got spotted by at least 4 or 5 enemy aircraft. I notice this but thought I could still send my carriers into the direction of Darwin, perhaps we could trash a Betty daitai on naval attack. Other than that, I didn´t expect anything. So our TFs moved on and ended up 6 hexes off Merauke when we first got two SBDs over the base being shot down by Cap (this was the first thing that alerted me today) and then one SBD after another spotting two TFs there. After the 4E fighter sweep there was not much left of the enemy Cap and our strike hasn´t got much of a problem to reach the enemy ships unloading there. I deliberetely had my TBF on using bombs as I´ve thought they are more of a threat when attacking with two 500lb bombs each than attacking with non working torps. I was WRONG once again. The TBFs are 100% useless in level bombing, they haven´t achieved a single hit. Not one, just like all our level bombers have done before. This is more than depressing, because when thinking about the Kates on level bombing, they achieve most often better hit rates than the Vals. Why? I have got no clue. Especially as our bombers drop two bombs each, they should be at least equal to the Kates, but that is just a wet dream.

The weather is awful and I was amazed that my SBDs were killers. I really like the new feature that ships of different TFs can be attacked by the same strike, in this case it was not really to our advantage though. Would have like to mainly target the CAs of course in this case, but imagine those would have been BBs, I would then say "I would have liked to see more transports being attacked". It really is a very good, new feature and especially the fact that if a ship is sunk, the remaining bombers in a strike just look for another target instead of turning around with their bombs even though there are plenty of ships left (like it was in WITP). Three heavy cruisers were hit by 1000lb bombs, also causing some secondary explosions. Suzuya suffered one belt hit that didn´t penetrate and therfore didn´t do any damage (I guess in real life this would have been the most dangerous hit due to mining effects). All bomb hits shown above are 1000lb hits so all those transports are in danger of sinking or went down already.


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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 89,124

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2



Allied aircraft
Swordfish I x 13
F4F-3 Wildcat x 11
SBD-3 Dauntless x 30
TBF-1 Avenger x 15


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Swordfish I: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
SBD-3 Dauntless: 6 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano, on fire
xAK Ayato Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
DMS W-19
xAK Achou Maru, on fire
CA Mogami, on fire
xAK Katuragi Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Keihuku Maru, Torpedo hits 1
DD Murakumo
xAK Kashu Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Azuma Maru, heavy fires
DD Shikinami
xAK Aki Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Yanagi

Japanese ground losses:
404 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 15 disabled
Non Combat: 10 destroyed, 40 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)
Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
11 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
7 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
3 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 2000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
12 x Swordfish I launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Mk XII Torpedo
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 3000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 4000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
4 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 5000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Kumano
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Ayato Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Mogami
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Katuragi Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Kashu Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Azuma Maru
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Aki Maru

here comes the second strike, the strike coordination was quite good in that case and I can´t complain. Got my carrier TFs "overstacked" as I´m using only two TFs for 450 carrier based ac. In this strike we also saw the Brits attacking with torps but they couldn´t even hit the transports except one torp that seemed not to do a lot of damage. Hit rate of the SBDs was by far worse than those of the first strike unfortunetely. Not one of the heavy cruisers was hit again and none of the three is listed as heavily damaged at the end of the turn. The Avengers again all missed. In total we had only 202 bombers attacking from our carriers, I expected to see more to be honest.

We both had luck today (wonder if Rainer would think he had luck though ). Why? Because the fact that we ended up with our carriers in range of the two enemy TFs was pure luck on my side, I haven´t spotted the enemy earlier and wanted to move towards Darwin, so we kind of just stumbled into the enemy at Merauke. Rainer was lucky because our carriers haven´t launched a single bomber against his ships in the morning. With 200 bombers attacking twice in this turn, it could have looked like far severe. Let alone the fact that my LBA could perhaps achieve a bomb hit at some time after dropping 1500x500lb bombs. Just think about that number of bombs.

I expect the enemy cruisers to run tomorrow, I´m not sure about the troop convoy as the transports will stay in range of my carriers anyway if they move North. The question will be where will the damaged cruisers head to and how fast can they still move. I would split the cruisers up into three TFs with one DD each and then send them full speed into three different directions. One North, one towards Darwin and one South. I would consider the chances for one to make it as small though. My carriers will move further North to cut off the way in that direction and I´ve got dive bombers at Port Moresby to attack any ships fleeing South. And my 4Es and Marauders of course, but they´re just a waste of supply on naval attack it seems. Much depends on the max speed of the cruisers, if they can still move 12 or 14 hexes (doubt it) then they could sprint away quite far. Weather of course could save them too. We´ll see. The game has been on hold the last couple of days due to Rainer having real life issues and the AAR is now matching the game date again, I hope I´ll get a new turn on the weekend.

It was a nice little success today, but like I´ve said, it was pure luck to stumble into the enemy in this region. What I don´t get is why he hasn´t moved his TFs North immedietely after spotting a lot of my TFs near Horn Island yesterday. Perhaps he though I would only cover reinforcements going to Horn Island. Anyway, IMO bringing reinforcements to Merauke is wrong anway as I see Merauke as a frontline base that is far too close to my heavy bomber bases. The Japanese should concentrate on building up a complex of bases further away IMO as they should have learnt the lesson already as I was easily able to suppress all the bases around PM and Lae with unescorted bomber strikes from Australia. Merauke has of course always been on my list of targets and this hasn´t changed of course. I doubt that there will be enough enemy troops there to stop me anyway but today´s encounter surely has made it worse for the Japanese. The base hasn´t been built up earlier and is just too small to be a threat for us. IMO, bringing troops there now is a waste of efforts.

I expect to take some toll on the enemy shipping tomorrow too.

Just want to point out again that also in this case, this new feature of IJN pre Cap flak fire damaged a hell a lot of my bombers and that´s just PLAIN WRONG. Other than damaging my bombers (don´t know if it really influences accuracy too) IJN flak is helpless in bringing down my bombers.





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Afternoon Air attack on 15th Army, at 60,43

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 25


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
25 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet


and here´s the other Lightning sweep... oh well, no enemy in the air anyway...



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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/17/2010 12:36:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		what just strikes me is the altitude my Avengers were bombing! I´ve set them to 10.000 ft but they´re obviously bombing from 5.000ft? Some of them even lower. 5.000ft or lower means lownav and not navbomb! All my Avenger crews were trained in navbomb but I didn´t care about lownav as this is something I didn´t want to do anyway.

Is this working as designed?

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RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting... - 4/19/2010 5:31:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		After attacking the enemy cruisers and the troop convoy at Merauke yesterday I gave orders to destroy what was left, therefore I expected this turn to be interesting, heck, it was more interesting than what I´ve thought...


AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 21, 42
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Submarine attack near Truk at 113,110

Japanese Ships
PB Shotoku Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Sailfish



PB Shotoku Maru is sighted by SS Sailfish
SS Sailfish launches 4 torpedoes

taking out another one of the single PB TFs...

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ASW attack near Bathurst Island at 78,122

Allied Ships
SS Argonaut



SS Argonaut is sighted by escort
Sub escapes detection

ghost attack?

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Sub attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
xAK Gozan Maru
PB Teshio Maru

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Gozan Maru
Whale diving deep ....
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

ploink

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5



Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 16


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
11 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 10000 feet *

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 26000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

Wildcats attempt to escort my divebombers that I´ve moved to Port Moresby yesterday (to attack the damaged enemy cruisers from Merauke if they head South) but Ferguson Island is East of Milne Bay... looks like an enemy TF has moved there, pretty close to my bases so to say...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 10000 feet *

more of the same, the Wildcats failed to link up with the bombers... that´s just great, how hard to do is this really... I´ve also got nearly a dozen messages of something going wrong of the heavy bombers at Australian bases... I wonder if this is when things are screwed up and all the other strikes I see all the time is when things work... lol

no Zeroes left, the first "sweep" took care of them...


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Morning Air attack on TF, near Wessel Islands at 84,122

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 13



Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 10
F4F-3A Wildcat x 25
F4F-3 Wildcat x 29
F4F-4 Wildcat x 79


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Martlet II: 1 destroyed
F4F-3A Wildcat: 1 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed



CAP engaged:
VF-2 with F4F-3A Wildcat (4 airborne, 17 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes
VF-42 with F4F-3 Wildcat (0 airborne, 20 on standby, 0 scrambling)
20 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 25000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes
VF-6 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 20 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 23000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes
VF-8 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 20 on standby, 0 scrambling)
20 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 24000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes
VF-71 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 26000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes
No.881 Sqn FAA with Martlet II (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 27000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes

failing to link up with the bombers also happens to the Japanese, in this case it was quite good for the Tojos, they took out dozens of my fighters... either shot down, damaged or turning back due to technical faults...

this leads to my next rant: anyone noticed that a defender suffers probably 10 times more often one of those messages (xy losing oil pressure, xy gun jammed, xy controls not responsiv)? I see those messages for the attacker too, but very very rarely. Not depending on which side is attacking, it just goes for both sides. The attacker usually has "no" problems while the defender seems to put up flying rubbish, hardly able to fly at all due to all those technical defects. To me this is more than strange so to say. But again, it could only be me.

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Wessel Islands at 84,122

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 30 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 37
G3M3 Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 33
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31



Allied aircraft
Martlet II x 6
F4F-3A Wildcat x 20
F4F-3 Wildcat x 25
F4F-4 Wildcat x 70


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 11 destroyed
G3M3 Nell: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 9 destroyed, 23 damaged
Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 11 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3A Wildcat: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed

Allied Ships
CV Yorktown
DD Shaw
CV Enterprise, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CA Louisville
CV Hornet
DD Perkins
CV Lexington
DD Cushing
CV Wasp



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G3M3 Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
14 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
9 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

CAP engaged:
VF-2 with F4F-3A Wildcat (7 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 26000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
15 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-42 with F4F-3 Wildcat (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 14 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
4 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-8 with F4F-4 Wildcat (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 16 being recalled, 6 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes
10 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-71 with F4F-4 Wildcat (5 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 26000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes
14 planes vectored on to bombers
No.881 Sqn FAA with Martlet II (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes
2 planes vectored on to bombers
VF-6 with F4F-4 Wildcat (5 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 23000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
22 planes vectored on to bombers

I´ve moved my carriers further North to catch the damaged enemy cruisers that were expected to go North. It seems I had the range of the Oscar wrong as I´ve thought in the hex where my carriers were they could only be reached by Zeroes. This strike is coming in from Darwin and also here, at least 30-35% of my fighters had to turn back due to one of those breakdowns. The enemy fighters didn´t suffer any problems and only turned back due to damage, or where shot down. So in fact, every attacking fighter is more or less worth 1.5 defending fighter as the defending fighters suffer from breakdowns while the attackers seem not to or definetely not to the same extend. grmpf

When I saw the dozen Tojos taking out 30 of my fighters I already knew that this strike would become a problem. We still had more than a hundred fighters on Cap but the Oscar proved to be a killer, damaging our fighters in the dozen, sending them home. The Zeroes weren´t a real threat, I once again wonder about what really is important in the stats as the Zero should be better from what I´ve heard.

67 of our fighters were vectored on to bombers, I´m not sure what this message really means. IIRC it was once stated that those try to immedietely engage the bombers while the rest would be dealing with the escorts. So far so good, but one thing is for sure, in this engagement, there were surely not 67 of our fighters attacking the bombers because we only shot down 13 of the bombers before they were dropping their load... the outcome then wasn´t surprising anymore, we´ve been lucky that the bombers attacked a couple of my DDs too and not only concentrated on my carriers. Yorktown nevertheless took a torp and is heavily damaged now...

there was a post air attack phase too where we more or less took out the rest of the escorts and also took a heavy toll on the bombers but by then it was too late already... lesson learnt again, it´s impossible to move our carriers for one turn into the range of a "bigger" enemy airbase if the enemy is willing to launch his aircraft. 110 enemy aircraft is quite a substantial force so the outcome isn´t unrealistic to me, also the fighter vs fighter engagement was looking quite good as we did not run into a complete loopsided result, a 4:1 A2A is acceptable IMO and not comparable to those 15:1+ results. Achieving one torp hit out of 29 bombers dropping their load seems also ok to me. Having Yorktown damaged now, we´re of course steaming South again, we can not compete with enemy LBA.

And this once again shows the difference in the bomber potentials between the Japanese and the Allied. We´ve dropped something like 1800 x 500lb bombs from level bombers in the last turns against his heavy cruisers and his freighters and achieved the wonderful hit rate of 0%. Doing this with 65-70 navbomb skill. Now we´ve got 29 Betty/Nell torps on the other side, hitting one of my carriers of course. I don´t even want to start talking about the flak values of the different TFs but the comparison of 1800 x 500lb bombs dropped for no hit and the 29 torps dropped for one hit is just another "oh my" example. I would say forget about any hr on altitude for 4E bombers and use them at 6000ft at least. And use your medium bombers at 2000 or even only at 1000ft. The problem is, we´ve got the 10.000ft hr for 4E bombers and I haven´t trained any of my bomber pilots on lownav so setting my medium bombers to attack at 2000ft isn´t a possibility either. Recognizing this in 9/42 is a bit late so to say. I´ve ordered all my bomber training squadrons to change their training from navbomb to lownav. As soon as I´ll get my 70 skill low nav bomber pilots, those will be sent to the medium bomber squadrons and the pilots already there (with a high navbomb skill) will return to the pool to act as replacements for the heavy bomber units, which I can´t use below 10.000ft anyway. Problem is that this will take me at least 2.5 - 3 months to see the first medium bombers being manned by lownav 70 skilled crews.

It´s really interesting, the first PBEM you do is really trial and error and that´s a good thing. There are a lot of things already that I wouldn´t do a second time in a PBEM playing as the Allied.

Rainer told me I was lucky here as he had expected far more aircraft attacking my carriers.

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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
50 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 15
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 16


Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 14 damaged
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 8 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Fubuki, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Usugumo
DD Hatsuyuki, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Atago
CA Takao, Bomb hits 1
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 1, on fire



Aircraft Attacking:
7 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
11 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
1 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

WOOOOW! Here comes the first wave of my, now unescorted, divebombers from Port Moresby. I had them set to 6 hexes range and that´s exactly how far they flew out. I was totally amazed to see my bombers attacking destroyers and heavy cruisers. My firs thought was "how did his damaged cruisers from Merauke make it all the way down there in one turn" just to realize the next second that those cruisers are different ones. This TF was sitting just a couple of hexes NE of Milne Bay, Rainer told me he´s got no idea what the AI was doing to bring them into that position, they should have moved in position to sweep Milne Bay. Other than saying "never trust the AI", I can´t really give an answer but I´m of course happy about it as I can already take it away, the damaged cruisers from Merauke obviously still were able to sprint around after taking two 1000lb bombs as they´ve completely moved out of range of my carriers. This means they must have moved something like a 12+ hexes, or all my search ac just couldn´t find them (which I doubt with the more or less bullet prove ship based naval search). Now I´ve got 80 dive bombers at Port Moresby and during this wave coming in putting some bombs into the enemy ships, I hoped that all my bombers would have launched. At this stage, Fubuki was dead...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 17 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
SBD-3 Dauntless x 18


Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Takao, Bomb hits 1, on fire
CA Atago, Bomb hits 1
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 1, on fire



Aircraft Attacking:
18 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Chokai

here comes the second wave, this SBD squadron even had some escorts... I really wonder if my 1000lb bombs are just like snowballs as two of those hits by far are not enough to seriously damage an enemy heavy cruiser. Hmm, looking at it from the other side, I wonder how an Allied heavy cruiser looks like after taking four 250kg bombs. Shouldn´t a 1000lb bomb nearly rip a cruiser apart if exploding inside the ship? Anyway, two 1000lb bombs are only causing minor damage, seen this near Merauke, seeing the same here again. It´s not over... in the morning, three of my five DB squadrons decided to actually attack... the other two took a day off it seems... hey, that´s how it was in WWII, you´re ordered on naval attack, the enemy moves three heavy cruisers into range and your squadron decides to go to the beach instead of attacking...

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Bathurst Island at 78,122

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 18 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 7
F4F-4 Wildcat x 16
SBD-3 Dauntless x 15
TBF-1 Avenger x 14


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 2 damaged
TBF-1 Avenger: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
DMS W-12, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
DMS W-19, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk
DMS W-20, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage



Aircraft Attacking:
15 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
14 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 6000 feet
Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb
7 x F4F-3 Wildcat sweeping at 15000 feet
7 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 15000 feet *
8 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 15000 feet *

CAP engaged:
Kanoya Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 6000
Raid is overhead

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring DMS W-19
Heavy smoke from fires obscuring DMS W-20

while we didn´t spot the enemy heavy cruisers sprinting away from Merauke, we obvioulsy got in range of something I would call a bait. Rainer probably has moved three useless minesweepers in range to draw a strike and here we go. This time the TBFs attacked at 6000ft and seemed to use their navbomb skill instead of low nav as they´ve scored several hits, while they couldn´t even hit a freighter yesterday. What determines the attack alt is still a mistery to me, they´ve been set to the same alt (10.000ft) just like yesterday. Including new features like different skills but not getting real info on what is working how is just depressing and highly annoying.

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Afternoon Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Light cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 6



Allied aircraft
A-24 Banshee x 9
F4F-4 Wildcat x 27
SB2U-3 Vindicator x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
A-24 Banshee: 8 damaged
SB2U-3 Vindicator: 10 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Takao, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage
CA Chokai, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
DD Usugumo, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Hatsuyuki
DD Sagiri, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 10000 feet *
2 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 2000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x F4F-4 Wildcat sweeping at 10000 feet *
5 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
12 x SB2U-3 Vindicator releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
4 x A-24 Banshee releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 26000
Raid is overhead

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring CA Takao

afternoon phase and Port Moresby´s bombers took off with an escort... would it have been bad weather, the enemy cruisers would have got away more or less unharmed once again... but that way, it looks definetely different, the first afternoon phase really the enemy hard. Taking another 5 x 1000lb bomb hits, I expect Takao to sink for sure, Chokai is already sunk as the second bomb hit caused a mag explosion and the heavy cruiser sunk with all hands down. This attack also finished two of the DDs, those 23 bomber crews really know how to bomb... all obviously were using their navbomb skill, their lownav skill is rubbish so I´m sure dive bomber pilots use NAVBOMB. Now I´ve got to figure out what the torp bomber pilots use when attacking with torps.

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 15
SBD-3 Dauntless x 13


Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 8 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Atago, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 3000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb
8 x SBD-3 Dauntless releasing from 4000'
Naval Attack: 1 x 1000 lb SAP Bomb

then 13 SBDs attacked Atago that was split off the rest of the enemy task force and finished her off with another 4 heavy bomb hits... makes it three DDs and three heavy cruisers sunk today. Not a bad result at all even though I didn´t even get all my bombers flying, not even if I take both phases together. Losing three CAs and three DDs is a hard hit to the enemy especially as we´ve put two torps into another CA some weeks ago (no idea what happened to that cruiser) and also damaged three more heavy cruisers at Merauke yesterday. I expect those three CAs to be back in action in two months at the latest.

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 89,124

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14



Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 6


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 5 damaged

Japanese Ships
xAK Keihuku Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage
xAK Azuma Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage

Japanese ground losses:
120 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 17 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (10 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAK Azuma Maru

then more of the screwed up LBA attacks launch against the heavily burning freighters at Merauke... attack after attack, also today not one hit... this is just off... either forget about a house rule or forget about using those bombers on naval attack at all...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 5


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Shirayuki
DD Fubuki, and is sunk



Aircraft Attacking:
5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb

Fubuki sinks during this attack... at least two 1000lb bombs are enough to take out a DD...

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 4


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Shirayuki



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Fergusson Island at 103,132

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 4


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Hatsuyuki, on fire



Aircraft Attacking:
4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Naval Attack: 8 x 500 lb SAP Bomb








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Status: offline 		Today´s airlosses. The enemy lost three times more aircraft than we did but Yorktown taking a torp wasn´t worth it, especially as the three damaged heavy cruisers from Merauke got away unharmed as they could sprint away from my carriers easily. I still wonder how an IJN heavy cruiser in real life would have looked like after two 1000lb bombs going through the main deck exploding inside the ship.

Our carrier based fighters shot down 52 enemy fighters (and another 23 bombers) A2A for the loss of only 16 A2A of their own. This is a better kill rate than expected, but seeing most of our Cap turning back due to technical defects or damage was quite depressing when you then see 80% of the bombers getting through and an AA value of 11.000 not being worth much either. Moving my carriers North was therefore alltogether a bad idea, the enemy convoy was trashed yesterday already and we couldn´t catch the cruisers. Unexpected but the move North was therefore a fault on my part.

It has also showed me once again that the enemy airforce is (except my 4Es on ground attack and the dbs on naval attack) far superior to my airforce and by far more a threat to my fleet than vice versa. Amazingly enough, in regards to aircraft destroyed, the Allied have been leading for months already, the Japanese have lost 450 aircraft more than we have. Reason for this is easily explained though, for months we have tried not to engage the enemy at all and if so, then only if I thought we would have a clear advantage. If we were on par, we usually always took a heavy beating and nothing has changed in this regards. Hopefully the P-40K will be an improvement but when looking at the P-38 then it will hardly hold its own against Tojos, mainly due to the fact that our squadrons always come in alone and get bounced by the enemy.




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Status: offline 		And that´s how Yortktown looks like now. As you can see, the torpedo caused quite some damage and it will take a couple of weeks to patch up the ship again. Like I´ve said earlier, we were still lucky that Yorktown was hit because she can be completely repaired by Sydney´s shipyard while all carriers/battleships with a tonnage above 30.000 tons have to be sent to Hawaii, the West Coast or Cape Town. Pearl Harbour isn´t a good idea as it takes far too long to repair ships there compared to the West Coast of Cape Town.

I doubt the carriers in in danger of sinking but there´s now of course the danger of being attacked by enemy subs and to some extend also the possibility of KB to appear. IMO, my land based bombers (except the dive bombers) aren´t a threat to any IJN shipping at all, so those bombers shouldn´t scare Rainer from moving in KB to attack my carriers. My land based fighters can deal with the enemy carrier based fighters and bombers and my land based dive bombers re definetely a real threat but if he manages to move past my land based DBs and get in range of my carriers while staying outside of my land based DBs then he could dish out some real damage. I´m not sure about my carriers and what a counterattack could really achieve, the TBFs proved 100% useless in level bombing, therfore I will have to figure out how to make them more effective or using them with torps. The chance that KB will show up the next two turns is expected to be minimal though, I don´t even know where KB is, I guess at Truk. Ater hitting Soryu and Hiryu with torps earlier, KB isn´t in perfect shape anyway, even though those two carriers could be easily replaced by other carriers available to the Japanese.




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Sub attack near Laoag at 80,72

Japanese Ships
xAK Teiyo Maru
xAK Tatumiya Maru
DD Numakaze

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon



SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Teiyo Maru
Sturgeon diving deep ....
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze attacking submerged sub ....
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

ploink...

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
PB Fukui Maru

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale is sighted by escort
Whale diving deep ....
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukui Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Fukui Maru cannot reach attack position over SS Whale
SS Whale eludes ASW attack from PB Fukui Maru
SS Whale eludes PB Fukui Maru by diving deep
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Perth at 43,147

Japanese Ships
SS I-166, hits 1

Allied Ships
AM Cairns
AM Bunbury
AM Outarde



SS I-166 is located by AM Cairns
I-166 diving deep ....
AM Outarde fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns attacking submerged sub ....
AM Cairns loses contact with SS I-166
AM Cairns attacking submerged sub ....
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Cairns fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Cairns seems to be a very good ASW vessel, compared to all the other AMs in this area... if a ship attacks, usually it´s AM Cairns... should check the captain and the crews experience...

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Sub attack near Sapporo at 120,49

Japanese Ships
xAK Taibun Maru
PB Takunan Maru

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Taibun Maru
Peto diving deep ....
PB Takunan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takunan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takunan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takunan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Takunan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds...

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Sub attack near Sapporo at 119,49

Japanese Ships
xAK Gozan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
PB Teshio Maru

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Gozan Maru
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Teshio Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

then a hit on a freighter... 3 more months and then it will become really dangerous for the Japanese...

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Sub attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-13

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-18
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

dud

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ASW attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-2

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale is located by SC CHa-18
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb

the enemy is moving eight units onto Hengyang and will cross the river soon... we´ve got 3000 av there (without supplies of course as we can only supply units OUTSIDE of bases - stupid ) and we´ve got level 5 forts. It´s a clear hex so I expect the enemy to shred us as soon as he has recovered from the river crossing... at the same time we try to get an Army into his back but you´ve got a unit in every hex to stop supply flowing into it so cutting the enemy off will be hard to impossible as he can dislodge any of my Armies smaller than 1000 av in clear hexes easily...

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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 69


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 damaged



Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 53

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

big combined strike on Lae... Lae and Buna should be closed forever... two of our divisions from Port Moresby have moved out of the hex and are now one hex West of Buna... expect Buna to fall within the next three weeks, what is now there shouldn´t be much of a threat and it should be only reinforced by the IJA div that was forced to retreat from PM. Our divebombers should make reinforcing any base in range of Port Moresby a very dangerous task... only fast transport TFs are an option IMO but if something gets screwed up, you will lose cruisers or destroyers... of course KB could support reinforcements or an evacuation but then KB runs into danger of being hit hard by LBA if we get a coordinated strike of dive bombers and fighters.

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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
B-17F Fortress x 14
B-24D Liberator x 36


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed, 17 damaged
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 5 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 3 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 24
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 101

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 7 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes

Cooktown´s bombers were set on airfield attack and Merauke´s level 1 airfield was hit hard. Most of the fighters turned back due to technical faults or were damaged... the have not been any threat to our bomber formation and this time we´ve destroyed a good number of enemy fighters on the ground... Milne Bay has reached level 8 airfield some time ago and also PM´s airfield is suitable for our heavy bombers and we could bring them in any time to fly a massive strike out of New Guinea already...

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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 10



Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 5 damaged



Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 7 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 20000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes



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Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 9



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 7 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 11000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes

even the following piecemeal strikes aren´t really endangered...

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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Light rain

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1



Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 7


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

the heavy bombers are the true kings of the air and so far there´s nothing the Japanese can do about it...

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Afternoon Air attack on Mandalay , at 59,46

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 25


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
25 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet *

first sweep...

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Afternoon Air attack on Mandalay , at 59,46

Weather in hex: Heavy rain

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 45,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 24


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38E Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

second sweep... two squadrons, two sweeps, nothing new... those two squadrons are the creme de la creme of Allied land based aviation and if those two can´t fly together you shouldn´t expect any other formation to fly together... ridicoulos but that´s how it works... Mandalay got no Cap in the air and that´s quite surprising as there are quite a lot of ac at the base... got a hundred medium bombers in India (non Blenheim) and am thinking about using them soon... guess I know the outcome already though... will use 300 fighters for a sweep, none of them will go in before the bombers, the bombers will come in piecemeal without an escort and they will meet 50+ Tojos that will shred my bombers... then the sweeps will trickle in one by one to be bounced and shred too... in the end we´ll lose five months of medium bomber replacements (Wellingtons: 6 per month) and a good number of fighters for a dozen Tojos shot down over their own base...

if I would upgrade my Indian Mitchells to 4Es, the enemy would have to abandon all of Burma just because I´ve got four dozen heavy bombers in India...

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ASW attack near Ominato at 118,52

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-14

Allied Ships
SS Haddock



SS Haddock is located by SC CHa-18
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub









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ASW attack near Truk at 111,110

Japanese Ships
PB Shuko Maru #5
PB Sonan Maru #5

Allied Ships
SS Trout



SS Trout is sighted by escort
Trout diving deep ....
PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Karachi at 39,5

Japanese Ships
SS I-11

Allied Ships
DD Witte de With
DD Kortenaer



SS I-11 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Witte de With
DD Kortenaer attacking submerged sub ....
DD Kortenaer loses contact with SS I-11
DD Kortenaer cannot reach attack position over SS I-11
DD Kortenaer loses contact with SS I-11
DD Kortenaer loses contact with SS I-11
DD Witte de With attacking submerged sub ....
DD Witte de With loses contact with SS I-11
DD Witte de With cannot reach attack position over SS I-11
DD Witte de With loses contact with SS I-11
DD Witte de With loses contact with SS I-11
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Witte de With fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


dud been quite lucky here... the sub is sitting near the off map entrance waiting for my ships to appear... no wonder, waypoint or not, all those TFs appear in the same hex... grmpf...

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ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 51,86

Japanese Ships
DD Harukaze
DD Satsuki

Allied Ships
SS KXVII, hits 4



SS KXVII launches 4 torpedoes at DD Harukaze
KXVII bottoming out ....
DD Harukaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Harukaze fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki attacking submerged sub ....
DD Satsuki is out of ASW ammo
DD Satsuki is out of ASW ammo
DD Satsuki is out of ASW ammo
Escort abandons search for sub

missed and some damage taken in return... the sub´s heading home...

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Sub attack near Nagasaki/Sasebo at 101,59

Japanese Ships
xAKL Saiho Maru
PB Toshi Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



Captain of SS Albacore elects not to launch torpedoes at this target
Albacore diving deep ....
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Toshi Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

hey, good idea not to fire at a freighter...

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Sub attack near Hirosaki/Aomori at 117,53

Japanese Ships
xAK Delagoa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Fukui Maru

Allied Ships
SS Peto



SS Peto launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Delagoa Maru
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukui Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fukui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Peto does better...

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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb

still some troops left...

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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 18



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
5 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 4



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3
B-17F Fortress x 22
B-24D Liberator x 34


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 3 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 8 damaged



Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 51

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
3rd Ku S-1 Det B with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

believe it or not, but the enemy is obviously using his Zeroes on LRCAP, coming from the other side of New Guinea... seems like this is common practice for the Japanese and they don´t suffer at all doing so... doesn´t matter, a couple of Zeroes in the air meeting my 4Es is only bad news for the Zeroes... we destroy more or less the rest of the Tojos at the base and the airfield (level 1) is closed anyway... doubt that the enemy will even try to build it up and it will only be a waste of troops to hold this place... it´s only 4 hexes from Horn Island so we could even fly some sweeps while it´s just better to send the heavies on long range bombing mission anyway but Horn Island could soon base dive bombers too so moving ships to Merauke would be more or less suicide then...

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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 29

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead



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Morning Air attack on Merauke , at 89,124

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1



Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged



Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 6000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead








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ASW attack near Hirosaki/Aomori at 117,53

Japanese Ships
DD Sanae
DMS Teiko
E Omae

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale launches 6 torpedoes at DD Sanae
DD Sanae fails to find sub and abandons search
E Omae attacking submerged sub ....
E Omae fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

looks like a mixed ASW TF... duds of course...

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Sub attack near Laoag at 80,71

Japanese Ships
TK Daiei Maru
PB Kenkon Maru

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon, hits 2



SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at TK Daiei Maru
PB Kenkon Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kenkon Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kenkon Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kenkon Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Kenkon Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds... would have been cool to sink this big tanker...

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ASW attack near Singapore at 49,84

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 4
SC Ch 18
SC Ch 16

Allied Ships
SS KXVII, hits 1



SS KXVII is located by SC Ch 4
SC Ch 18 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 16 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 16 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 16 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 16 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 16 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

got three subs with working torps operating around Palembang, the biggest oil site on the map... you would think that you would see more convoys in this area to pick up fule/oil but no, hardly every do we spot any shipping and if, then we´re engaging ASW TFs...

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Sub attack near Ishigaki at 89,68

Japanese Ships
xAK Osaka Maru
xAK Midori Maru
xAK Teisen Maru
xAK Mikasa Maru
xAK Kokai Maru
PB Kembu Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon



SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Osaka Maru
Sturgeon diving deep ....
PB Kembu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kembu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kembu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kembu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Kembu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another dud...

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ASW attack near Chittagong at 52,41

Japanese Ships
SS I-160, hits 6

Allied Ships
DD Isaac Sweers
BB Royal Sovereign
BB Revenge
CA Devonshire
CA Dorsetshire
DD Foxhound
DD Arunta
DD Norman
DD Nizam
DD Nestor
DD Napier



SS I-160 launches 8 torpedoes at DD Isaac Sweers
I-160 bottoming out ....
DD Norman fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Nizam fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Nestor fails to find sub and abandons search
DD Napier attacking submerged sub ....
DD Napier attacking submerged sub ....
DD Napier cannot establish contact with SS I-160
DD Napier fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Napier fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Napier attacking submerged sub ....
DD Napier is out of ASW ammo
DD Napier fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Napier fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

it just stays the same... considering the fact that a single, crappy IJN escort is enough to prevent our subs from attacking probably 1 out of 3 times then it´s just a joke that even dozens of Allied DDs can´t do the same 2 out of 3 times. In this case, there are 8 DDs (British ones) but yet again, the sub gets a shot... we´re only lucky that the sub targeted a DD and not one of the battlewaggons like 50% of the time... the sub should be forced to head home, the TF will continue it´s escort mission for a supply convoy to Akyab... Akyab is the main supply source for my troops sitting in the jungle and this works just fine...

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Sub attack near Moppo at 99,53

Japanese Ships
PB Lushan Maru
PB Uchide Maru

Allied Ships
SS Silversides, hits 1



Captain of SS Silversides elects not to launch torpedoes at this target
Silversides bottoming out ....
PB Uchide Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uchide Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uchide Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uchide Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uchide Maru attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

excellent idea...

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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 42



Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 25


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
P-38F Lightning: 5 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 25 scrambling)
12 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 36740.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes

shouldn´t complain anymore, the stupidity is what it is... single squadron sweep instead of going in together, facing the full Cap of course, being bounced for infinite time of course, being shot out of the sky by Tojos at a 8:0 kill rate... more than funny when you see "25 Tojos SCRAMBLING"... rocket Tojos, they take off and are catapulted up to 40.000ft to dive on the Lightnings... it´s a feature...

sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Hengyang , at 80,53

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 17



No Japanese losses



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Shwebo , at 59,45

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 36



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 5 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 25 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes

here comes the other squadron... this time the Tojos did not dive on the Lightnings for the whole combat, it was more like a 3/4 of the time the Lightnings were diving on the Tojos... result? 3:1 for the Lightnings... end result was a 11:10 A2A for the Tojos which is a totally unsustainable rate for the Allied... With over 200 IJA fighters being produced (OscarII and Tojos) we have nothing to really compete with those numbers... it will take another halve a year at least to get reasonable numbers of fighters to more or less being able to compete with the Japanese if we keep exchanging our BEST fighters 1:1 with the enemy... comparing the Lightnings with all other second generation fighters, I can´t see why other fighters should do considerable better though... the Lightnings are more or less already the best you will get, other fighters are only slightly better it seems.

sweep two...




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Afternoon Air attack on 46th Chinese Corps, at 80,53 (Hengyang)

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 41


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 25

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

those are the best fighters we have... and they can even drop bombs...

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Afternoon Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12


Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb

bad weather once again keeps us from hitting the airfield, those Zeroes based here were flying LRCAP to Merauke... quite a distance, doing so without suffering a hell a lot of ops is amazing...

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Ground combat at Hengyang (80,53)

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 76472 troops, 813 guns, 1308 vehicles, Assault Value = 3071

Defending force 82952 troops, 416 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3055

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 4

Japanese adjusted assault: 3300

Allied adjusted defense: 2487

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
12801 casualties reported
Squads: 17 destroyed, 470 disabled
Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 292 disabled
Engineers: 4 destroyed, 130 disabled
Vehicles lost 292 (8 destroyed, 284 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
3752 casualties reported
Squads: 6 destroyed, 297 disabled
Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 248 disabled
Engineers: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled


Assaulting units:
41st Division
1st Tank Division
39th Division
22nd Division
110th Division
32nd Division
2nd Tank Division
13th Army
4th Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
63rd Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
49th Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
28th Chinese Corps
55th Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
70th Chinese Corps
11th Chinese Base Force
18th Chinese Base Force
12th Group Army
7th War Area
6th Construction Regiment


as mentioned earlier, the enemy was marching an Army towards Hengyang (West of Changsha) and crossed the river today... We had quite a force there and have built up the forts to 5, something we were trying to get at all our frontline bases... our main problem is the fact that if our troops stay in a base, they will starve down to 0 supplies and from that on will vanish from starvation... also in this case, our units had only 15% of their needed supply (at best) but they still fought pretty good it seems, level 5 forts surely helped... but what do level 5 forts help when they are taken down to 4 immedietely when the enemy still gets a perfect adjusted av (how could it be different?) after CROSSING a river that should cause high disruption... even after the river crossing, the enemy still has a higher adjusted than base av... oh well, I´m moving in another 1500 av to hold the base, as soon as my units drop to 0 supply I have to move them out though, otherwise they die from starvation... no, in fact they die from a 100% borked supply routine... would I move them one hex out of the base, they would jump to 100% supply in one turn...



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Sub attack near Eureka at 214,67

Japanese Ships
SS I-9, hits 1

Allied Ships
AM Caraquet
AM Guysborough



SS I-9 launches 6 torpedoes at AM Caraquet
AM Guysborough fails to find sub and abandons search
AM Caraquet attacking submerged sub ....
SS I-9 eludes ASW attack from AM Caraquet
AM Caraquet fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Caraquet fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Caraquet fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Caraquet fails to find sub, continues to search...
AM Caraquet fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

the sub missed, only one of a couple of expected enemy subs around the West Coast...

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ASW attack near Taihoku at 87,62

Japanese Ships
PB Konei Maru

Allied Ships
SS Trigger



SS Trigger is sighted by escort
PB Konei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Konei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Konei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Konei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Konei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Sub attack near Vigan at 78,73

Japanese Ships
PB Chitose Maru #2
PB Syozui Maru

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at PB Chitose Maru #2
PB Syozui Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Syozui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Syozui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Syozui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Syozui Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

we usually hit with our defective torps... can´t wait for 43...

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Sub attack near Dadjangas at 77,94

Japanese Ships
PB Kiso Maru
xAK Chojun Maru
PB Nanpo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Tarpon, hits 1



SS Tarpon launches 4 torpedoes at PB Kiso Maru
PB Nanpo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nanpo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nanpo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nanpo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Nanpo Maru attacking submerged sub ....
Escort abandons search for sub

more of the same...

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Submarine attack near Cooktown at 96,137

Japanese Ships
SS RO-62

Allied Ships
PG Moresby



PG Moresby is sighted by SS RO-62
SS RO-62 launches 4 torpedoes

the sub missed the heavily damaged PG that was part of the PM invasion and is now heading to Townsville after temporary repairs at PM...

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Sub attack near Tsushima at 102,56

Japanese Ships
xAK Nanko Maru
PB Jokuja Maru

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



SS Albacore launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Nanko Maru
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds... lots of action for no gain...


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ASW attack near Shikuka at 126,45

Japanese Ships
PB Saishu Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion is sighted by escort
PB Saishu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Saishu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Saishu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Saishu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Saishu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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ASW attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
PB Minowa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
xAKL Bunzan Maru
xAKL Zuiho Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut launches 6 torpedoes at PB Minowa Maru
Halibut diving deep ....
Sub escapes detection

and finally an enemy escort is obliberated...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
xAKL Shoan Maru
PB Senyu Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Herring



SS Herring launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL Shoan Maru
Herring diving deep ....
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

followed by more duds...

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Sub attack near Vigan at 78,73

Japanese Ships
DD Shiokaze
xAK Tatumiya Maru
DD Numakaze

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at DD Shiokaze
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

and more...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
xAKL Shoan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
PB Senyu Maru #2

Allied Ships
SS Drum



SS Drum launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL Shoan Maru
Drum diving deep ....
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Senyu Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

but also another hit...

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Sub attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
xAKL Zuiho Maru, Shell hits 61, heavy fires, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Halibut, hits 2



SS Halibut attacking xAKL Zuiho Maru on the surface
SS Halibut low on gun ammo, Ross, P.H. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

after having the escort shot out of the convoy, Halibut attacks on the surface... not a single torp was fired, a couple of 3 inch hits but the small freighter was mostly riddled with cal.50 and cal.30 MG fire... I guess after taking 3 mio bullets the freighter has a fair chance to sink...

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Sub attack near Toyohara at 125,48

Japanese Ships
xAK Kyokuzan Maru
xAK Kinmo Maru
PB Fumi Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kyokuzan Maru
Sealion diving deep ....
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fumi Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Fumi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

then some more duds... a day like this with working torps and the IJN would lose at least halve a dozen ship in one day... and I´ve got only one and a halve dozen subs around Japan, by far not what I can send out... I have refrained from flooding the enemy shipping lanes with my available subs as the refit/repair routine for subs is just off and you could send out a heavily damaged sub after three days of repairs when the sub would be like brand new... so I´m kind of limiting myself to more realistic port times for subs...

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Morning Air attack on 99th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22
Ki-27b Nate x 8
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 14



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
22 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
14 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 18th Artillery Regiment ...
Also attacking 73rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 37th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 99th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 18th Artillery Regiment ...
Also attacking 99th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 18th Artillery Regiment ...
Also attacking 73rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 18th Artillery Regiment ...
Also attacking 99th Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 18



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6
B-17F Fortress x 24
B-24D Liberator x 35


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 9 damaged



Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 41

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
14 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
13th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Raid is overhead
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

we flew a back to back attack on Madang and I was first shocked to see such a high number of Niks... the Nik is the only Japanese fighter worth sending up against Allied heavy bombers... going with two engined fighters with a higher durability is the way to go for the Japanese if they want to fight our bombers... the one engined fighters all get damaged and driven off, which is by far not as much of a problem for the Niks... I guess the Niks can get at least a 1:1 A2A vs. our 4Es. Employed en masse this could be a bigger problem, but AFAIK the units to be equipped with Niks is very limited (3?).

We shot down two Niks A2A for the loss of three B-17... a very bad ratio for us, considering the replacements per months... also note that we´ve "only" lost 7 aircraft on naval search today: 3 PBYs, 1 Catalina, 2 Hudson III and a Seagull... naval search, the most dangerous mission in the world...





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Morning Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 2



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged



Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
13th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Raid is overhead



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Afternoon Air attack on 70th Chinese Corps, at 80,53 (Hengyang)

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 3 damaged


Allied ground losses:
28 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Ground combat at Hengyang (80,53)

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 305 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2344

Defending force 89937 troops, 465 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3204

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)



Assaulting units:
41st Division
110th Division
22nd Division
1st Tank Division
39th Division
32nd Division
2nd Tank Division
13th Army
4th Mortar Battalion

Defending units:
63rd Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
28th Chinese Corps
4th Chinese Corps
49th Chinese Corps
65th Chinese Corps
46th Chinese Corps
21st Chinese Corps
55th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
70th Chinese Corps
12th Group Army
7th War Area
11th Chinese Base Force
18th Chinese Base Force
6th Construction Regiment

only the artillery unit attacked but amazingly to me, only the Japanese took losses... looks like level 4 forts are worth it, this is a clear hex...

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Ground combat at 99,130

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 23109 troops, 451 guns, 620 vehicles, Assault Value = 790

Defending force 1566 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1

Allied adjusted assault: 734

Japanese adjusted defense: 10

Allied assault odds: 73 to 1

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(+), leaders(-), morale(-)
experience(-), supply(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
553 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 51 destroyed, 74 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled
Units retreated 1



Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
40th Infantry Division
Americal Infantry Division
5th RAA Coastal Artillery Regiment
I US Amphib Corps
2nd Medium Regiment

Defending units:
8th Base Force

our troops marched into the hex East of Port Moresby and caught one of the Ex PM defenders and dispatched the base force... the enemy division marched out before we marched in unfortunetely... our units are now marching onto Buna, expect them to be there in two weeks...

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Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 61767 troops, 361 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2429

Defending force 13628 troops, 106 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 516

Allied adjusted assault: 1486

Japanese adjusted defense: 1059

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 5)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 4

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
225 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled


Allied ground losses:
1273 casualties reported
Squads: 3 destroyed, 148 disabled
Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 90 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled


Assaulting units:
26th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
1st Chinese Cavalry Cavalry Division
1st Artillery Regiment
19th Group Army
9th War Area
18th Artillery Regiment
7th Artillery Regiment
20th Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
116th Division
RGC Tax Police Regiment


oh come on... sent down quite a big Army from Changsha to get into the enemy lines South of Hengyang to break the siege there... we had to move into this dot base where we´ve spotted two enemy units... thought about two divs but amazingly there´s only one div and a rubbish Police Rgt... but that´s easily enough to hold off a complete Chinese Army that is fully supplied btw... mind you, the units are OUTSIDE of a base and therefore fully supplied... we´re going to attack another time tomorrow but I don´t see much chance, unfortunetely you need the whole China Army to defeat one IJA division... I was more than amazed that this frigging dot base has 5 forts...


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Status: offline 		And here´s the shock of the day. For whatever reason, the major floatation damage on Enterprise shot up by 20 points today. I don´t know if I´ve missed a message in the replay, there´s none in the combat report, combat events or operational report so I´ve got no clue what actually happened. We stay on the bad luck side of the coin it seems, the carrier now even is in danger to sink after taking one torp from one of the uber Betties. It also means at least 5-6 weeks more in shipyard. That´s just great...




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Sub attack near Truk at 110,108

Japanese Ships
DD Fuyo
SC Ch 7
AO Teibo
AO Kyuko
AO Shiriya
AO Sata
AO Iro
AO Hayamoto

Allied Ships
SS Spearfish



SS Spearfish launches 4 torpedoes at DD Fuyo
Spearfish diving deep ....
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

miss... looks like fuel is going to Truk... or the empty AOs are leaving to pick up more...

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ASW attack near Wakkanai at 121,48

Japanese Ships
PB Uruboko Maru

Allied Ships
SS Whale



SS Whale is sighted by escort
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Uruboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

another miss... two in a row, that´s surprising, considering the fact that our Mk-14 torps got a 95% hit rate...

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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
xAK Kinmo Maru
xAK Kyokuzan Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kinmo Maru
Sealion diving deep ....
Escort abandons search for sub

duds... that´s what is normal...

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Sub attack near Vigan at 78,73

Japanese Ships
TK Okayama Maru
PB Kozan Maru
TK Rikko Maru
PB Shinko Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS Seadragon



SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at TK Okayama Maru
Seadragon diving deep ....
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Shinko Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds on a tanker...

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Submarine attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
xAKL Bunzan Maru, Shell hits 2

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



xAKL Bunzan Maru is sighted by SS Halibut
SS Halibut attacking xAKL Bunzan Maru on the surface
SS Halibut low on gun ammo, Ross, P.H. breaks off surface engagement and submerges

Halibut used up all it´s 3 mio MG bullets yesterday, still tries to attack on the surface and doesn´t even launch a torp... well done...

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Sub attack near Hengchun at 84,68

Japanese Ships
xAK Hokko Maru
xAK Tazan Maru
SC CHa-11

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon



SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Hokko Maru
Sturgeon diving deep ....
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more ploinks...

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Sub attack near Saishu To at 99,56

Japanese Ships
PB Minowa Maru, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut launches 4 torpedoes

same here... wonder how this PB can stay afloat, it was hit by a torp earlier...

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Sub attack near Wakkanai at 122,47

Japanese Ships
xAK Sansho Maru
xAK Kyokuzan Maru
xAK Kinmo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Sansho Maru
Sealion diving deep ....
Escort abandons search for sub

ploink...
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Submarine attack near Nakadori-jima at 101,56

Japanese Ships
xAKL Bunzan Maru

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



xAKL Bunzan Maru is sighted by SS Albacore
Captain of SS Albacore elects not to launch torpedoes at this target


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Sub attack near Saishu To at 98,55

Japanese Ships
xAKL Aiyo Maru
xAKL Fukuyama Maru
xAKL Chosen Maru
PB Menado Maru

Allied Ships
SS Halibut



SS Halibut launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Aiyo Maru
PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

ploink...


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Sub attack near Kanoya at 103,62

Japanese Ships
TK Hoyo Maru
PB Yodozo Maru

Allied Ships
SS Wahoo



SS Wahoo launches 6 torpedoes at TK Hoyo Maru
PB Yodozo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yodozo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yodozo Maru attacking submerged sub ....
PB Yodozo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Yodozo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

ploink... it´s really annoying, really...


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Morning Air attack on 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion, at 57,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 1



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 24


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 15000 feet *

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes

I´ve spotted a single enemy unit (reported to be rather small) moving in open terrain in Burma and I´ve decided to hit this unit hard... therefor I´ve ordered a lot of fighters to sweep as I´ve also expected a lot of leaking Cap (this is one hex South of Magwe, a major IJAAF fighter base) and all my bombers to attack... we get the usual stupid "we win the war by going in alone" feature and an Airacobra squadron is the first unit to arrive... no wonder, it´s the first unit in the stack... everything is so predictable but it still hurts in my head... to my surprise, there was only one Oscar in the air to start with...

sweep one...



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Morning Air attack on 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion, at 57,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 4
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8



Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 3 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
15 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

CAP engaged:
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Raid is overhead

then a single Lightning squadron comes in got the altitude advantage and shot the leaking Cap to pieces... 14 enemy fighters shot down for not even one loss on our side...

sweep two...

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Morning Air attack on 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion, at 57,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 12
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 25


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 4 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes

as you may know, we´ve got two Lightning squadrons, doesn´t mean they would fly together... the second one comes in just after the first one, also shredding the enemy leaking Cap, this time 7:1 as the dive was over at some point...

sweep three...

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Morning Air attack on 73rd Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16
Ki-27b Nate x 8
Ki-30 Ann x 9



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
78 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)


Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb
9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb

Also attacking 99th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 20th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 9th Prov Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 73rd Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 99th Chinese Corps ...
Also attacking 73rd Chinese Corps ...


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Morning Air attack on 99th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion, at 57,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 8 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15



Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 12
Wellington Ic x 13


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator II: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 12 (2 destroyed, 10 disabled)
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Wellington Ic bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
7 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Raid is overhead
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead

then already the bombers come in, the rest of my fighters didn´t show up... still enough enemy fighter in the air and the manage to take two Liberators and a Wellington down... We´ve got one understrenght Liberator II squadron with no replacements for them... replacements will arrive in a month or so at 4 per month... this again makes me really thinking about using the British bombers at all as I´ve just got no replacements for them... the enemy artillery unit is hit hard already and probably totally disabled...

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Morning Air attack on 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion, at 57,48

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 3
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8



Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 12
B-25C Mitchell x 54


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 9 (8 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Vehicles lost 10 (10 destroyed, 0 disabled)



Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Raid is overhead
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Raid is overhead
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

after the British bombers, the US ones go in, also encountering leaking Cap but to my surprise, even the Mitchells performed quite good against the fighters and not one US bomber in this attack was lost... the enemy unit is hit hard and was DESTROYED. Yeah baby, that was nice and well worth it. It once again also convinces me that we can only deal with leaking Cap, but then with devastating results for the enemy as the loops then stay on our side if the enemy numbers stay below ours during our single squadron sweeps... the problem will just be to find leaking Cap in "acceptable" numbers and you will of course also have the chance to run into a LRCAP trap... I am now trying to intense the airwar in Burma for some time to try to force the enemy to send more material there, this should hopefully help us at other fronts... the problem is that we won´t have the replacement aircraft to really fight a prolonged fight, not even after saving as many aircraft in the past as was possible, due to not attacking at all...





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Afternoon Air attack on 55th Chinese Corps, at 80,53 (Hengyang)

Weather in hex: Severe storms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 12 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8
Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15



Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-48-Ib Lily: 4 damaged


Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 10


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 28


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 8 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled)



Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 29

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12


No Japanese losses

No Allied losses



Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead



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Afternoon Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 8


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged



Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

we have to keep Buna closed, don´t want to see a surprise strike out of this level 4 airfield...

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Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 60522 troops, 361 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323

Defending force 13275 troops, 106 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 488

Allied adjusted assault: 1254

Japanese adjusted defense: 2625

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 4)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
620 casualties reported
Squads: 4 destroyed, 21 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 45 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled


Allied ground losses:
963 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 84 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 62 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled


Assaulting units:
73rd Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
99th Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
1st Chinese Cavalry Cavalry Division
18th Artillery Regiment
9th War Area
7th Artillery Regiment
19th Group Army
1st Artillery Regiment
20th Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
116th Division
RGC Tax Police Regiment


ground combat, don´t get me started... like I´ve said, a single IJA div seems to be enough to fight down a fully supplied Chinese Army...


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ASW attack near Pescadores at 83,63

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 14
SC Ch 15

Allied Ships
SS Trigger, hits 3



SS Trigger is located by SC Ch 14
Trigger diving deep ....
SC Ch 15 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 14 attacking submerged sub ....
SC Ch 14 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 14 is out of ASW ammo
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC Ch 14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

Trigger is hit hard off Formosa, retiring crippled with 40+ flt damage...

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Sub attack near Laoag at 81,70

Japanese Ships
TK Ogura Maru #2
E Yaeyama

Allied Ships
SS Sturgeon



SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at TK Ogura Maru #2
E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

duds on a tanker... again...

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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 98,59

Japanese Ships
xAK Koto Maru
xAK Yamagata Maru
DD Tawakaze

Allied Ships
SS Albacore



SS Albacore launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Koto Maru
Albacore diving deep ....
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

duds on a freighter...

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start of a very intense round...

Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 34
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 54



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 2 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(13 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 20 scrambling)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 26000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 19 scrambling)
9 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes

what can I say, I just hate the "send up all the Cap" to meet the "stupid single sweep strike packs"... probably have set something like 200 fighters to attack Magwe today (followed by 150 bombers) as I want to grind down the enemy defense... I should know better, with this game design, you´re just stupid to do so... perhaps not the design is stupid but I´m stupid because I just perfectly know what´s happening, therefore I should just not attack a base "directly"... Direct assault on such a base would only be possible if the "strike packs" would meet "strike pack Cap" but Cap is far too bullet prove when it comes down to fighters launched. I bet that we´re talking about 80-100% of the fighters in the air in this example... Daily recon for months and we get intel on 95-100 enemy ac at this base, with 88 actually in the air I bet we´re closer to 100% than 80% in the air... so full Cap most of the times vs. stupid strike packs... what a feature...

the single sweep meets the full Cap and is shred, we were only lucky not to instantly lose more Hurricanes as most of them were "only" damaged and dropped out of the formation...


sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 2



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 10


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
8 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 20000 feet

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes

same goes for the rest of the map, also flying against Buna as bombers are expected for a visit... with only one fighter in the air it doesn´t matter if the sweep goes in as one strike or piece meal though...

sweep one...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 33
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 57



Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 22


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-40B Warhawk: 6 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 15 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 12 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 17 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 41000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 11 scrambling)
9 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes

the first Hurricane sweep had a big chance to be completely annihilated but the Hurricanes were lucky and mostly only got damaged... not so the P-40 which were shot out of the sky for yet another funny 10:1 kill rate... tell me that loops in the game are seldome... this is mostly thanked to the funny strike pack meets full Cap feature... btw, to mention it another time, I only field 70 skilled pilots...

sweep two...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 28
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 40



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 24


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 6 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (13 airborne, 0 on standby, 8 scrambling)
17 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 41000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 7 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 44000.
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes

here we go with the next stupid single squadron sweep... going in against "what is left" of the Cap... the only reason that the Cap number is going down is the fact that the enemy sufferes technical defects or runs out of fuel... doesn´t matter for the P-39 squadron, it gets shred too... another 10:1 loop... all working very well and reasonable... I have missed the 65 year celebration of the Japanese Empire this year in real life... it works the same for both sides though...

sweep three

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 17
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 28



Allied aircraft
P-38E Lightning x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
P-38E Lightning: 6 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
5 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes

ah, wonna tell me the Lightnings are coming in alone too? Yeah, for sure they do... stupid strike pack number four... compared to the other three sweeps before, the Lightnings even did well as they got the dive for a short period where they took out some of the enemies and damaging some more... then the squadron got completely shredded as the dive then stayed on the Japanese side... 9 Lightnings downed over the target...

sweep four...

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Morning Air attack on 116th Division, at 82,54 (Pingsiang)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 3



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 23


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 2 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
4 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet
3 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

CAP engaged:
54th Sentai Det A with Ki-27b Nate (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

I have moved my four Warhawk squadrons from India to China for an ambush, that´s why they don´t perform single squadron kamikaze sweeps (my new term since stratosphere sweep hasn´t been an issue since the last patch - where nothing has changed, mind you). Got two squadrons at Changsha (LRCAP and escort)and two at Hengyang (Cap). Those at Changsha miss the bombers they were set to escort (hard task at two hexes range) and so they go in on a sweep to dispatch some leaking Nates... the Nate is the Japanese P-26, I wonder why they are still in service other than in non frontline training squadrons...

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Morning Air attack on 20th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 14
Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8



Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 21


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 destroyed, 1 damaged
Ki-43-Ia Oscar: 3 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
70th FS with P-40E Warhawk (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
343rd FG/11th FS with P-40E Warhawk (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead
51st FG/26th FS with P-40E Warhawk (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 15000
Raid is overhead

this is the LRCAP over my Army that fails to defeat the single IJA division... the Oscars are hit hard, the Sallies even more so with all of them but one being shot down... the results in China make up for the insane losses we took with our single sweep kamikaze missions in Burma today...

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Morning Air attack on Tarakan Base Force, at 67,92

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 5 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24



No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled


Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet
Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 10
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 48


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 6 destroyed



Aircraft Attacking:
1 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 36000 feet *

CAP engaged:
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes

and then we get a surprise in having three Hurricane squadrons flying together to target... we got the dive for quite a long time, the same then for the enemy to end up in quite an even fight... end result in this sweep was a 1.5:1 for the enemy...

sweep five though...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 1
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 18


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 31000 feet *
2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 31000 feet *

CAP engaged:
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Raid is overhead
24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIa Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 30000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes
260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes

not over yet, we send in some more sheep but there´s nothing left on the Japanese side... outnumbered and bounced until all were shot down or damaged, the enemy takes a 0:3 kill rate in this engagement...

sweep six...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 45
B-26 Marauder x 23


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 6 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 11 damaged



Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 91

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
11 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb

then the bombers from their Australian airfields show up, quite a big strike... the airfield is taken out of comission...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 14
B-26 Marauder x 11


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 50

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
7 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 11
B-26 Marauder x 24


Allied aircraft losses
B-26 Marauder: 6 damaged



Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 42

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-26 Marauder bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40B Warhawk x 3


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P-40B Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

three P-40 that missed their own squadron on it´s sweep... no enemy left, otherwise those three would be dead... the squadron was shred anyway...

sweep seven...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 3


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 15000 feet

same goes for the Airacobras...

sweep eight...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 24


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

hey, there´s the second Lightning squadron coming in too now...

sweep nine...

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Morning Air attack on 116th Division, at 82,54 (Pingsiang)

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 16 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-27b Nate x 1



Allied aircraft
SB-III x 10
P-40E Warhawk x 6


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-27b Nate: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SB-III bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 3 x 100 kg GP Bomb
2 x SB-III bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 3 x 100 kg GP Bomb
3 x SB-III bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 3 x 100 kg GP Bomb
2 x SB-III bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 3 x 100 kg GP Bomb
2 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

CAP engaged:
54th Sentai Det A with Ki-27b Nate (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead

Also attacking RGC Tax Police Regiment ...
Also attacking 116th Division ...

first time we used Chinese bombers... for no result...

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Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129

Weather in hex: Heavy cloud

Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-40E Warhawk x 10


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
10 x P-40E Warhawk sweeping at 15000 feet

sweep two on Buna, mind you, parts of two squadrons set to attack = two sweeps...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 16 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 4 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 15000 feet

wonderful, another single squadron kamikaze sweep...

sweep TEN...

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Afternoon Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 3
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 16



Allied aircraft
B-17F Fortress x 20
B-24D Liberator x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 8 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 4 damaged



Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet *
Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
13th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
6 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
10 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Raid is overhead
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead

not good, lots of Niks and no hits due to Thunderstorms...

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Afternoon Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 1
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 3



Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 12
B-24D Liberator x 15


Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 5 damaged



Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 13

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
1st Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Raid is overhead
13th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 10000
Raid is overhead
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Raid is overhead



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Afternoon Air attack on Madang , at 97,123

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 13 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 1



Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 9


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged



Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

CAP engaged:
264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIa Nick (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 11000
Raid is overhead


and that´s it in regards to air attacks today... due to the single squadron kamikaze sweeps we got our head handed over Burma once again... those stupid piece meal sweeps facing the full Cap all the time is just ridicoulos and produces one loop after another... bad design, or not working design... as there are people praising everything is fine, I guess I will call it just a bad design... good thing is that my opponent thinks the same about "coordination" (this doesn´t exist in this GAME) so we´re d´accord in this aspect... the shredded enemy attacks in China made up for some of our losses and in the end the loss list states a 65:51 in total losses and a 46:44 in A2A lost.

Fact is that we can´t afford such losses for more than a couple of days and we will have exhausted our pools that were built up over six months. The Japanese will probably soon ramp up fighter production some more and we´re screwed. Even more so because none of my bombers took off today. Why should they anyway? They were only ordered to do so, weather and everything was just fine. It was common practice in WWII real life to have a dozen squadrons not obeying orders so that´s just another reflected aspect of reality. Perhaps I could have lived with today´s result in Burma if at least my bombers would have torched some of the damaged or otherwise grounded enemy fighters, but as it turned out, it was yet again just a waste of resources. I´ve kept my squadrons orders on sweep for tomorrow together with my bombers on airfield attack. Either we get even more shot to pieces or the enemy has moved out anyway. I wouldn´t, I would smile and say: "please keep coming" it will never be easier to take out your aircraft than during single sweep kamikaze missions. When squadrons nearly get completely annihilated then you can´t use them for three or four weeks due to their morale being completely pummeled of course. Perhaps this then makes up for the monthly fighter replacement you lose in one day.




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Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-1
SC CHa-32

Allied Ships
SS Silversides



SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at SC CHa-1
Silversides diving deep ....
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-32 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

more duds was something I didn´t care much then...

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Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 59738 troops, 361 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2247

Defending force 12971 troops, 106 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 463

Allied adjusted assault: 1243

Japanese adjusted defense: 2491

Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 4)

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), op mode(-), leaders(+)
preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
371 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled
Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 22 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Vehicles lost 21 (5 destroyed, 16 disabled)


Allied ground losses:
653 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 49 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 55 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled


Assaulting units:
99th Chinese Corps
73rd Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
9th Prov Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
1st Chinese Cavalry Cavalry Division
9th War Area
18th Artillery Regiment
1st Artillery Regiment
7th Artillery Regiment
19th Group Army
20th Artillery Regiment

Defending units:
116th Division
8th Armored Car Co
RGC Tax Police Regiment


I did care about this stupid ground combat result... my air attack of course didn´t help at all and the single IJA division once again proves that we´re fighting some super humans... turn after turn the enemy gets insane adjusted assault values, no chance to do something... one IJA div vs. a whole Chinese Army that is fully supplied... oh well, just another thing I should know better already anyway... in total, moving this Army into this hex and attacking a coule of times has cost us a couple of hundred av that will take a year to recover...



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And here´s the shock of the day. For whatever reason, the major floatation damage on Enterprise shot up by 20 points today. I don´t know if I´ve missed a message in the replay, there´s none in the combat report, combat events or operational report so I´ve got no clue what actually happened. We stay on the bad luck side of the coin it seems, the carrier now even is in danger to sink after taking one torp from one of the uber Betties. It also means at least 5-6 weeks more in shipyard. That´s just great...





Look on the bright side, plenty of time for upgrades now.

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And here´s the shock of the day. For whatever reason, the major floatation damage on Enterprise shot up by 20 points today. I don´t know if I´ve missed a message in the replay, there´s none in the combat report, combat events or operational report so I´ve got no clue what actually happened. We stay on the bad luck side of the coin it seems, the carrier now even is in danger to sink after taking one torp from one of the uber Betties. It also means at least 5-6 weeks more in shipyard. That´s just great...





Look on the bright side, plenty of time for upgrades now.




lol, yeah. Problem is I wanted to stay on the offense and Saratoga also still got her 12 major flt and I wanted to send her back to a bigger shipyard together with POW which also has 7 major flt. It takes quite some time for the Japanese to build up bases and so far the invasion of New Guinea went perfectly and it seems the reason for this was the fact that there were only two level 4 airfields that have never become operational. The biggest problem would be to attack a complex of level 3 or 4 bases where the enemy could base hordes of aircraft. But on whole New Guinea there´s nothing like this yet and we could make a couple of jumps forward pretty quickly, but we need carriers to do that. And with both Enterprise and Saratoga not available this will become just too risky as could be seen by the one Betty attack out of Darwin. 30 Betty/Nell and you´ve got a carrier out of action for months. Mind you, I´ve got all my carriers (except CVL Hermes or CVEs) operating together, but this doesn´t really help when halve of your Cap suffers technical defects and many fighters of the rest get damaged by the escorts and 2/3 of the bombers get through.

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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 28, 42
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Sub attack near Truk at 111,108

Japanese Ships
SC Ch 9
SC Ch 7
AO Iro
AO Hayamoto
DD Fuyo

Allied Ships
SS Skipjack



SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 9
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
DD Fuyo attacking submerged sub ....
DD Fuyo fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

starting off with the usual duds...

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ASW attack near Sapporo at 118,50

Japanese Ships
SC CHa-13
SC CHa-18
SC CHa-14

Allied Ships
SS Sealion



SS Sealion is sighted by escort
Sealion diving deep ....
SC CHa-18 fails to find sub and abandons search
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
SC CHa-14 fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub


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Night Time Surface Combat, near Adak Island at 162,52, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato, Shell hits 5
BB Ise, Shell hits 3, on fire
CL Kitakami, Shell hits 1
CL Oi, Shell hits 10, heavy fires
DD Kazegumo, Shell hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Makinami
DD Takanami
DD Akatsuki
DD Hibiki
DD Amagiri
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
BB Nevada, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
BB Tennessee, Shell hits 24, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CLAA Atlanta, Shell hits 1
CLAA San Diego
CL Raleigh
CL Helena
DD Laffey, Shell hits 1
DD Lansdowne
DD Farenholt, Shell hits 1
DD Woodworth, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
DD Stack
DD Cummings, Shell hits 1
DD Drayton
DD Conyngham, Shell hits 3, on fire



Reduced visibility due to Rain with 89% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Rain and 89% moonlight: 6,000 yards
Range closes to 20,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 20,000 yards
Range closes to 14,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 5,000 yards...
CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 5,000 yards
Yamada, Yuji crosses the 'T'
BB Yamato engages BB Tennessee at 5,000 yards
BB Nevada engages BB Yamato at 5,000 yards
CL Oi engages CL Raleigh at 5,000 yards
BB Tennessee engages DD Sazanami at 5,000 yards
CLAA Atlanta engages CL Oi at 5,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages BB Tennessee at 5,000 yards
DD Drayton engages DD Sazanami at 5,000 yards
DD Drayton engages DD Akatsuki at 5,000 yards
DD Takanami engages BB Nevada at 5,000 yards
DD Woodworth engages DD Akatsuki at 5,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Woodworth at 5,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
BB Yamato engages BB Tennessee at 2,000 yards
BB Yamato engages BB Nevada at 2,000 yards
CLAA Atlanta engages CL Oi at 2,000 yards
CL Kitakami engages CL Raleigh at 2,000 yards
CLAA San Diego engages CL Oi at 2,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Conyngham at 2,000 yards
DD Takanami engages DD Drayton at 2,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Cummings at 2,000 yards
DD Drayton engages DD Takanami at 2,000 yards
DD Takanami engages DD Woodworth at 2,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Conyngham at 2,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Laffey at 2,000 yards
Range increases to 3,000 yards
BB Ise engages BB Tennessee at 3,000 yards
BB Tennessee engages BB Yamato at 3,000 yards
CL Helena engages CL Oi at 3,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages CL Oi at 3,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Conyngham at 3,000 yards
CL Oi engages CLAA Atlanta at 3,000 yards
DD Conyngham engages DD Akatsuki at 3,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Conyngham at 3,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Akatsuki at 3,000 yards
DD Akatsuki engages DD Stack at 3,000 yards
DD Woodworth engages DD Hibiki at 3,000 yards
DD Farenholt engages DD Hibiki at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 6,000 yards
BB Tennessee engages BB Yamato at 6,000 yards
BB Yamato engages BB Nevada at 6,000 yards
CL Oi engages CL Raleigh at 6,000 yards
CL Kitakami engages CL Helena at 6,000 yards
CL Oi engages CLAA San Diego at 6,000 yards
CL Oi engages CLAA Atlanta at 6,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Conyngham at 6,000 yards
DD Woodworth engages DD Hibiki at 6,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Kazegumo at 6,000 yards
DD Woodworth engages DD Takanami at 6,000 yards
DD Woodworth engages DD Kazegumo at 6,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Woodworth at 6,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Lansdowne at 6,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Laffey at 6,000 yards
Range increases to 9,000 yards
BB Ise engages BB Tennessee at 9,000 yards
BB Yamato engages BB Nevada at 9,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages CL Oi at 9,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Woodworth at 9,000 yards
CL Kitakami engages CLAA Atlanta at 9,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Woodworth at 9,000 yards
DD Drayton engages DD Hibiki at 9,000 yards
DD Akatsuki engages DD Conyngham at 9,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Takanami at 9,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Woodworth at 9,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Woodworth at 9,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Laffey at 9,000 yards
Task forces break off...




once again we did not spot the enemy while moving in, the two highly skilled PBY squadrons at Adak are just plain useless, as more or less the rest on the map too... we´ve spotted enemy shipping (one AMC identified) at the base a couple of hexes West of Adak and moved our BBs back to Adak as I wasn´t sure what was going on... so we´ve stumbled into the Yamato and Co, the weather was bad and that caused the two TFs meeting at point blank... it doesn´t really matter what BB you use in BB vs BB during night engagements due to the fact that even a 14 inch gun will penetrate the enemy´s armor at the ranges the battles are fought so first I was quite confident to see two or our BBs meeting two of the enemy even though that Yamato was one of them. And it wasn´t the enemy BBs that were the real threat but once more the difference between IJN torpedoeing over USN torpedoeing... as it has always been in WITP and it´s no different in AE, the IJN DDs are a major threat, while USN DD crews must have all been idiots... the IJN DDs scored 3 torp hits on our BBs at ranges around 5000 yards and this of course made the Japanese day already... many hits on our BBs were 25mm AA hits from the enemy BBs but both Yamato and Ise also scored main gun hits on our BBs but mostly detonating in the superstructure. When looking at my ships, superstructure hits are not worth it it seems as they hardly cause sys damage... shouldn´t superstructure hits cause a lot of sys damage? Anyway, Ise was hit by three penetrating 14 inch shells causing some damage, Yamato took two penetrating hits and another non penetrating tower armor hit. About the same number of main gun hits was scored on our BBs, but as mentioned above, not the gun hits are the problem, but the torpedo hits. The IJN DDs proved to be far superior also in exchanging gun fire, I would rate an IJN DD at least being twice as effective as an USN one. The engagement took a hell a long time but when it was over, I hoped to see my BBs being still in "ok" shape...


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Sub attack near Truk at 111,109

Japanese Ships
PB Sento Maru
xAKL Ujigawa Maru

Allied Ships
SS Spearfish



SS Spearfish launches 4 torpedoes at PB Sento Maru
Spearfish diving deep ....
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
PB Sento Maru fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

ploink...

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ASW attack near Lingga at 51,87

Japanese Ships
DMS Uruko
TK Tatibana Maru
TK Manju Maru
E Ishinui

Allied Ships
SS O21



SS O21 launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Uruko
E Ishinui attacking submerged sub ....
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search...
Escort abandons search for sub

same here...

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Night Time Surface Combat, near Adak Island at 162,52, Range 5,000 Yards

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato
BB Ise, Torpedo hits 1
CL Oi, on fire, heavy damage
DD Kazegumo, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hibiki
DD Amagiri
DD Akebono
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
PT-83, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-118, Shell hits 1
PT-120, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
PT-128, Shell hits 1, and is sunk



Japanese Ships Reported to be Approaching!
Allied TF begins to get underway
Reduced visibility due to Rain with 78% moonlight
Maximum visibility in Rain and 78% moonlight: 5,000 yards
Range closes to 11,000 yards...
Range closes to 10,000 yards...
Range closes to 9,000 yards...
Range closes to 8,000 yards...
Range closes to 7,000 yards...
Range closes to 6,000 yards...
Range closes to 5,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 5,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 5,000 yards
PT-128 sunk by DD Sazanami at 5,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages PT-83 at 5,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
PT-83 sunk by DD Sazanami at 3,000 yards
Range closes to 2,000 yards
PT-120 sunk by DD Sazanami at 2,000 yards
BB Ise engages PT-118 at 2,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages PT-118 at 2,000 yards
Howse, E.V. orders Allied TF to disengage
Range increases to 6,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages PT-118 at 6,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
BB Ise engages PT-118 at 12,000 yards
Task forces break off...

then one of our PT squadrons there is engaged (got two of them) and to my surprise, the squadron had to get underway first... we´ve lost two PTs immedietely but then scored a surprising hit on Ise that caused some flt damage but Ise still seems to be in good shape... another PT was finished off and the engagement was over...

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Day Time Surface Combat, near Adak Island at 162,52, Range 14,000 Yards

Allied aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft losses
No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
BB Yamato, Shell hits 6
BB Ise, Shell hits 4, heavy damage
CL Oi, Shell hits 27, and is sunk
DD Kazegumo, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage
DD Hibiki, Shell hits 4, heavy fires
DD Amagiri
DD Akebono, Shell hits 5, on fire
DD Sazanami

Allied Ships
CL Raleigh, Shell hits 1
CL Helena, Shell hits 14, and is sunk
DD Laffey, Shell hits 1, and is sunk
DD Lansdowne, Shell hits 5, heavy fires
DD Farenholt, Shell hits 1
DD Stack, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Cummings, Shell hits 2, on fire
DD Conyngham, Shell hits 9, heavy fires, heavy damage



Reduced visibility due to Rain
Maximum visibility in Rain: 15,000 yards
Range closes to 24,000 yards...
Range closes to 22,000 yards...
Range closes to 20,000 yards...
Range closes to 18,000 yards...
Range closes to 16,000 yards...
Range closes to 14,000 yards...
CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 14,000 yards
CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 14,000 yards
CL Helena engages CL Oi at 14,000 yards
CL Oi engages CL Raleigh at 14,000 yards
CL Oi engages DD Conyngham at 14,000 yards
DD Conyngham engages DD Sazanami at 14,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Sazanami at 14,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Conyngham at 14,000 yards
DD Lansdowne engages DD Amagiri at 14,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Stack at 14,000 yards
Range closes to 12,000 yards
BB Ise engages CL Raleigh at 12,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Helena at 12,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Akebono at 12,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Farenholt at 12,000 yards
DD Laffey sunk by BB Yamato at 12,000 yards
Range closes to 8,000 yards
CL Helena engages DD Amagiri at 8,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages DD Kazegumo at 8,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages CL Oi at 8,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Akebono at 8,000 yards
DD Conyngham engages DD Amagiri at 8,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Lansdowne at 8,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Stack at 8,000 yards
Range closes to 6,000 yards
CL Helena engages CL Oi at 6,000 yards
CL Oi engages CL Raleigh at 6,000 yards
CL Helena engages CL Oi at 6,000 yards
DD Lansdowne engages DD Sazanami at 6,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Stack at 6,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Stack at 6,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Conyngham at 6,000 yards
Range closes to 5,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Raleigh at 5,000 yards
CL Oi engages DD Conyngham at 5,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Conyngham at 5,000 yards
DD Akebono engages DD Conyngham at 5,000 yards
DD Lansdowne engages DD Amagiri at 5,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Stack at 5,000 yards
Range closes to 4,000 yards
BB Ise engages CL Raleigh at 4,000 yards
CL Oi sunk by CL Raleigh at 4,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Cummings at 4,000 yards
DD Lansdowne engages DD Akebono at 4,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Conyngham at 4,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Lansdowne at 4,000 yards
Range closes to 3,000 yards
CL Helena engages DD Hibiki at 3,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Helena at 3,000 yards
DD Akebono engages DD Conyngham at 3,000 yards
DD Akebono engages DD Stack at 3,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Amagiri at 3,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Conyngham at 3,000 yards
DD Lansdowne engages DD Kazegumo at 3,000 yards
Range increases to 5,000 yards
BB Ise engages CL Raleigh at 5,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Helena at 5,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Conyngham at 5,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Akebono at 5,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Stack at 5,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Lansdowne at 5,000 yards
DD Lansdowne engages DD Akebono at 5,000 yards
Brown, Wilson orders Allied TF to disengage
Range increases to 9,000 yards
CL Helena engages DD Hibiki at 9,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Stack at 9,000 yards
DD Akebono engages DD Conyngham at 9,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Conyngham at 9,000 yards
DD Farenholt engages DD Sazanami at 9,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Lansdowne at 9,000 yards
Range increases to 12,000 yards
BB Ise engages DD Farenholt at 12,000 yards
CL Helena sunk by BB Yamato at 12,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Lansdowne at 12,000 yards
DD Akebono engages DD Farenholt at 12,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Farenholt at 12,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Farenholt at 12,000 yards
Range increases to 15,000 yards
BB Ise engages CL Raleigh at 15,000 yards
DD Conyngham engages DD Hibiki at 15,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Akebono at 15,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Akebono at 15,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Farenholt at 15,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Lansdowne at 15,000 yards
Range closes to 14,000 yards
BB Ise engages CL Raleigh at 14,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Raleigh at 14,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Cummings at 14,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Hibiki at 14,000 yards
DD Akebono engages DD Farenholt at 14,000 yards
DD Conyngham engages DD Hibiki at 14,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Stack at 14,000 yards
Range closes to 13,000 yards
BB Ise engages DD Conyngham at 13,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Raleigh at 13,000 yards
DD Farenholt engages DD Sazanami at 13,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Kazegumo at 13,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Farenholt at 13,000 yards
Brown, Wilson orders Allied TF to disengage
BB Ise engages CL Raleigh at 13,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Raleigh at 13,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Akebono at 13,000 yards
DD Amagiri engages DD Stack at 13,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Farenholt at 13,000 yards
DD Hibiki engages DD Lansdowne at 13,000 yards
Range increases to 17,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages DD Sazanami at 17,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Sazanami at 17,000 yards
DD Stack engages DD Kazegumo at 17,000 yards
DD Farenholt engages DD Sazanami at 17,000 yards
DD Kazegumo engages DD Farenholt at 17,000 yards
Range increases to 20,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages DD Akebono at 20,000 yards
DD Sazanami engages DD Cummings at 20,000 yards
DD Cummings engages DD Akebono at 20,000 yards
Range increases to 24,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Raleigh at 24,000 yards
BB Ise engages DD Conyngham at 24,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages DD Akebono at 24,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages DD Amagiri at 24,000 yards
BB Ise engages DD Lansdowne at 24,000 yards
CL Raleigh engages DD Kazegumo at 24,000 yards
Range increases to 28,000 yards
BB Yamato engages CL Raleigh at 28,000 yards
BB Yamato engages DD Conyngham at 28,000 yards
BB Yamato engages DD Stack at 28,000 yards
BB Ise engages DD Lansdowne at 28,000 yards
Task forces break off...

this was frustrating to see then... why the IJN stayed until the day is beyond me, either by accident, deliberetely or due to a borked routine, I got no clue... seems like the enemy TF wasn´t set to "patrol do not retire" because after this engagement the enemy DID retire...

these were the remaining combat ready ships from our SC TF that has been hit hard during the night and it´s not surprising that during the day, our now cruiser TF is shot to pieces. Not without hitting OI hard and also taking out a DD. We pay a heavy price in losing CL Helena unfortunetely, instead of keeping distance trying to run, our TF closed the range but NOT launching a single torp though (this would be the only reason IMO to close the range). Helena was sunk by Yamato´s main gun fire. Before going down, Helena scored 6 inch hits on Ise (non penetrating of course) and Ise is now rated as heavily damaged. Ise also shows up in the sunk ship list, but I doubt that she went down right after this engagement. After three 14 inch hits and a torp from the PTs, there could be a slight chance to see the ship sinking though as it´s quite a distance back to a bigger port in Japan.

We got several messages of floatation increasing on Tennesse and the ship was lost during the replay, I had no chance to disband the ship at Adak, a level 8 port with lots of naval support. So in fact, the battlewaggon was sunk by the enemy DDs, Yamato and Ise only kind of "supported" the destroyers. If Ise will stay afloat then this round goes to the Japanese, unlike last time when we sunk Hyuga for the loss of Maryland IIRC. What I don´t understand though is why Rainer is doing those raids as they´re obvioulsy quite dangerous for him too. Every BB can sink an enemy BB during the night due to the short combat range so Yamato isn´t really superior to the old USN BBs, "only" the high night experience is helping the IJN but when looking at this and the last BB engagement, then we exchange main gun hits on an equal basis. Only the DDs made a difference this turn. If our ships aren´t sunk outright then we´ve got the advantage of having Adak´s level 8 port for emergency repairs, while the enemy has to move back to Japan. For major flt damage this doesn´t help us because without a shipyard not one point of major flt damage is repaired and this could mean that a ship is stuck in this port FOREVER. Or at least until 44 when I could move an ARD up there. But I guess by then KB would have long come for a visit to sink the BB in port.

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 10 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 25



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 9


No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIb Trop: 2 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(13 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
4 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes

after yesterday´s bleeding of our fighter force and my bombers not showing up I just had to send everything in again, hoping for a better result... as my fighters will never fly together, we start off as usual... single squadron kamikaze swee shot to pieces... amazingly enough, there are "only" Tojos in the air and their number is not as high today...

sweep one...


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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 22



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 3 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
(4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.)
2 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
8 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes

same here...

sweep two...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 12 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 2 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 12



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 14


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed



CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes

next single squadron, bounced the enemy, losses were equal...

sweep three...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 23 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 6 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 6



Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 22


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
19 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 5000 feet

CAP engaged:
11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
1 plane(s) intercepting now.
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 20000
Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
3 plane(s) intercepting now.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Raid is overhead

then the Airacobras come in very low and DIVE on the enemy... lol

sweep four...

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Morning Air attack on 4th PI Base Force, at 76,88

Weather in hex: Clear sky

Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 3 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27



No Japanese losses



Aircraft Attacking:
27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet *
Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb



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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1



Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIb Trop x 19


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed




Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 36000 feet *
11 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 36000 feet *
2 x Hurricane IIb Trop sweeping at 36000 feet *

CAP engaged:
50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling)
0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact.
Group patrol altitude is 16000
Raid is overhead

parts of two squadrons coming in together... wow

sweep five...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
Hurricane IIc Trop x 10


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 31000 feet *
2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 31000 feet *
2 x Hurricane IIc Trop sweeping at 31000 feet *

same here, parts of two squadrons...

sweep six...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 3
Wellington Ic x 27


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
Wellington Ic: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled



Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 17

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Wellington Ic bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
13 x Wellington Ic bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb

then the bombers show up, unfortunetely it´s thunderstorm time again... El Nino in 42 it seems as the whole map is drowning all the time...

no more fighters in the air though and that´s good, hit rate isn´t optimal in this weather of course but we torch some ac on the ground...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 14 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
Liberator II x 7
B-25C Mitchell x 42


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator II: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged



Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

then the majority of the US bombers show up, hit rate is low too...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-17D Fortress x 12
B-25C Mitchell x 11


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled



Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb
8 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

more fighters destroyed on the ground... I´m amazed they haven´t been moved out yesterday, perhaps my attack wasn´t expected?

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 12


Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground




Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet
Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb

and the rest of the bombers, also torching some enemy ac...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 11 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 3


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
3 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 5000 feet

the rest of the Airacobra squadron...

sweep seven...

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Morning Air attack on Magwe , at 57,47

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes


Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 22


No Allied losses



Aircraft Attacking:
22 x P-38F Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet

and then the Lightnings show up on a sightseeing flight...

sweep eight... better than yesterday when we had ten? sweeps...





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