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RE: Bad News Comes my way... - 11/19/2012 6:17:49 PM

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While FatR was busy W/KB at Gasmata USN paid a surprise visit to Truk...in Burma the allied pounded Toungou w/ artillery fire every turn...

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RE: Bad News Comes my way... - 11/21/2012 2:43:14 PM

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Mid turn report:

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RE: Bad News Comes my way... - 11/27/2012 11:46:11 PM

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4 days later we land w/ minor loss at Ponepa..

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RE: DD Flottilla Raid - 11/30/2012 2:03:06 PM

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44-4-14: Waiting for the results of most current DD Raid. Intel reported enemy ships at 3 ports on north coast of NG. Happened to have a group of DDs nearby that I thought could make a night run up the coast and provide 4x sqn p38 cover on the return. So off we go w/ waypoints set into each enemy port.

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RE: DD Flottilla Raid - 11/30/2012 6:43:56 PM

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Results are in and raid went as planed w/ no allied ship losses. USAAF threw a AF strike into Hollandia in support of DD withdrawal in effort to reduce counter ship strikes by IJAAF.

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RE: DD Flottilla Raid - 11/30/2012 6:46:39 PM

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As expected USN DD flottila reached Hollandia on night of second day and found another unloading IJN trans TF. I suspect RA Callahan used all his torps in his previous action so it became harder to sink these ships.

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RE: DD Flottilla Raid - 11/30/2012 6:52:18 PM

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Looks like the LSTs at wewak got away. So we nailed 2 out of 3 enemy TFs operating in the area. In future FatR will have to escort his Transports into this FEBA w/ capitol ships.

FatR had mined Umboi island w/ maybe 2/300 mines, but it did not take me very long to clear the hex. So my DDs just passed right thru, FatR is trying to close off the Finchshaven passage.

Note I set the TF to Mission speed on purpose. I was afraid on Full Speed they would return on daylight into enemy anti shipping range.

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44-4-14: Waiting for the results of most current DD Raid. Intel reported enemy ships at 3 ports on north coast of NG. Happened to have a group of DDs nearby that I thought could make a night run up the coast and provide 4x sqn p38 cover on the return. So off we go w/ waypoints set into each enemy port.

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RE: DD Flottilla Raid - 12/3/2012 2:56:21 PM

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44-4-18:

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Bold moves, but it seems that a small failure in the past bought me a big success today...

Regards, Stanislav.

Invasion of Marcus Island falters...

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RE: DD Flottilla Raid - 12/3/2012 3:04:41 PM

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but Invasion of Wake Island Progresses, although 2 day sail from KB located off Ponepa.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/4/2012 8:19:43 PM

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44-4-18:

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The post-beta raid coordinations seems to be much worse... Can only hope that the same applies to the Allies.

Regards, Stanislav.

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beta-11.20c I suspect both sides will need to fly smaller strike packages.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/5/2012 12:01:02 AM

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A recap of the turn. I am stalled at Marcus and wake.

Ponepa was shelled by a Mutsu SAG that ran into a USN DD TF.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/5/2012 12:07:17 AM

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At the end of the 1st day I have a ScreenPrint of the shelling at Tonguo and the resupply effort at Finchaven which was a success w/ damage to the Alabama. Also note how my CAP over US Alabama gets the job done until the next post.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/5/2012 12:14:04 AM

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Now at the end of 2nd day air combat the Alabama gets hammered.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/10/2012 2:32:46 PM

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I thought I had a SC cover force for this amphib TF near Buna. I must have screwed up. Good news is the IJN TF decided to take it's time going home and My TBFs loaded out.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/10/2012 2:35:33 PM

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44-4-20: In part two of todays action I reinforced Chang Mai by air Transport. Note the new units. Seems FatR is making a major effort in the area.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/10/2012 5:21:51 PM

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44-4-20: In part two of todays action I reinforced Chang Mai by air Transport. Note the new units. Seems FatR is making a major effort in the area.

Nice to see you are still slogging away. Would post screenies of major ship losses to date for both sides? Air losses and types? Top pilots and so on...

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/11/2012 2:21:35 AM

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Would post screenies of major ship losses to date for both sides? Air losses and types? Top pilots and so on...

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/11/2012 2:30:23 AM

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Pilots not so good. Lost all my best pilots in 43 over Burma in the effort to reclaim Burma and destroy the 25th army, which did occur.

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/14/2012 1:35:22 AM

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44-4-22:intel

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/14/2012 2:23:02 AM

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bb damage and experience

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RE: IJAAF w/new beta - 12/14/2012 2:23:49 AM

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FatR: The results at Ponape were disappointing for me..

Ground combat at Ponape (119,113)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 22678 troops, 436 guns, 886 vehicles, Assault Value = 676

Defending force 13412 troops, 225 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 240

Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3

Allied adjusted assault: 377

Japanese adjusted defense: 353

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), preparation(-), experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1741 casualties reported
Squads: 78 destroyed, 46 disabled
Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 51 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Guns lost 38 (8 destroyed, 30 disabled)
Vehicles lost 9 (6 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
440 casualties reported
Squads: 2 destroyed, 33 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled
Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled)

Assaulting units:
754th Tank Battalion
111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
18th Combat Engineer Regiment
25th Infantry Division
34th Combat Engineer Regiment
3rd USMC Tank Battalion
766th Tank Bn /5
3rd USN Naval Construction Battalion
231st USN Base Force
38th USN Naval Construction Battalion
I Corps Artillery
216th Coast AA Regiment
225th Field Artillery Battalion
26th USN Naval Construction Battalion
113th USAAF Base Force
82nd Mortar Battalion
30th USN Naval Construction Regiment

Defending units:
1st South Seas Det.
24th Infantry Regiment
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
5th South Seas Det.
35th Ind.Mixed Bde /1
37th Ind.Mixed Bde /1
52nd Construction Battalion
6th Base Force
19th JAAF AF Bn
1st JNAF AF Unit
70th Field AA Battalion
24th JNAF AF Unit
Ponape Naval Fortress
80th JAAF AF Bn /1
38th JNAF AF Unit
24th Air Flotilla /1
71st Field AA Battalion
31st Mountain Gun Regiment
55th JNAF AF Unit /2
4th Naval Construction Battalion
2nd Medium Mortar Battalion
51st Nav Gd /1
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Ground combat at Ponape (119,113)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 22394 troops, 436 guns, 885 vehicles, Assault Value = 639

Defending force 10595 troops, 217 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 123

Allied adjusted assault: 334

Japanese adjusted defense: 181

Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-)
experience(-)
Attacker:

Japanese ground losses:
1925 casualties reported
Squads: 65 destroyed, 36 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 59 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled
Guns lost 49 (29 destroyed, 20 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
159 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled)

Assaulting units:
627th Tank Destroyer Battalion
111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment
34th Combat Engineer Regiment
754th Tank Battalion
18th Combat Engineer Regiment
25th Infantry Division
3rd USMC Tank Battalion
766th Tank Bn /5
82nd Mortar Battalion
3rd USN Naval Construction Battalion
231st USN Base Force
38th USN Naval Construction Battalion
113th USAAF Base Force
I Corps Artillery
225th Field Artillery Battalion
216th Coast AA Regiment
26th USN Naval Construction Battalion
30th USN Naval Construction Regiment

Defending units:
Sasebo 3rd SNLF
35th Ind.Mixed Bde /1
24th Infantry Regiment
5th South Seas Det.
37th Ind.Mixed Bde /1
31st Mountain Gun Regiment
55th JNAF AF Unit /2
6th Base Force
80th JAAF AF Bn /1
Ponape Naval Fortress
24th JNAF AF Unit
51st Nav Gd /1
4th Naval Construction Battalion
2nd Medium Mortar Battalion
1st South Seas Det.
70th Field AA Battalion
24th Air Flotilla /1
52nd Construction Battalion
19th JAAF AF Bn
71st Field AA Battalion
38th JNAF AF Unit /1

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RE: Ponape falls - 12/18/2012 5:18:41 PM

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44-4-25: at the end of this 2 day turn Ponape will switch to allied control. The 25th US infantry division, which has led the assault, will have an experience rating of 69 at the end of this battle.

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RE: Ponape falls - 12/18/2012 5:20:38 PM

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Ponape will fall on this screenprint!!! My Marcus island invasion probably will fail...

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RE: Wake falls - 12/28/2012 3:42:35 AM

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I hate the new air coordination rules...

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RE: On the chin!!! - 12/28/2012 3:59:30 AM

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44-4-28: FatR takes one on the Chin!!!

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RE: On the chin!!! - 12/28/2012 4:01:27 AM

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44-4-29: These air combat screen shots represent about 40% of total IJ LBA attacks in the SOPAC/SWPAC area.

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I hate the new air coordination rules...

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RE: On the chin!!! - 12/28/2012 4:41:41 AM

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+40000VPs for allies. Jumped 550points since 44/4/22.

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RE: On the chin!!! - 12/28/2012 5:15:11 PM

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Well, you look to be doing fine. The fun thing is that due to the early setbacks and learning curve vs a good player, your game will most likely go all the way into 1946. This in itself will be very interesting as I have not seen it happen yet.

As I am sure you noticed every surface warship arriving after 1/44 comes with excellent experience. You just get a flood of Fletchers with great night exp and working torpedoes. Because they have armor and no other DD in the game does, they just are deadly. In low moon conditions, I do not ever bother using larger ships in surface actions. I just flood him with Allied DDs. The high experience modern Allied warships really have started to dominate all surface actions.

Also, I just turned over to 1/45. All of a sudden all Allied green replacement pilots come with much higher skills right off the bat. Navy pilots come right out of school with an average exp of 50 and 50 air skill. Makes it easy to train them up and I am just buried in good pilots for a change. Keep the faith, baby!

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RE: On the chin!!! - 12/30/2012 6:59:15 AM

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As I am sure you noticed every surface warship arriving after 1/44 comes with excellent experience. You just get a flood of Fletchers with great night exp and working torpedoes. Because they have armor and no other DD in the game does, they just are deadly. In low moon conditions, I do not ever bother using larger ships in surface actions. I just flood him with Allied DDs. The high experience modern Allied warships really have started to dominate all surface actions.

Interesting comments since I have noted the same about surface combat w/ the USN DDs. No need to risk the CA/BB on these attritional battles. Check out this result from today.