JocMeister
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Joined: 7/29/2009 From: Sweden Status: offline
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1st-2nd December -44 ______________________________________________________________________________ Some action these two turns. I have some interesting ideas I might try in the coming days. ------------------------ Thailand ------------------------ Erik does some random sweeps nailing some of my LRCAP. I don´t like that and he actually wins today with 12-21 in A2A losses. Well two can play that game...Plan for tomorrow is to stand down the LRCAP and see if he goes all in with a massive sweep. For now I have been happy to let Bangkok be. Erik have 600 Fighters there that he doesn´t dare do anything but pure CAP. He sweeps with a Frank group and a small Sam unit but everything else is on CAP. So in essence the base if sort of shut down. He also does some bombing of my armor using Graces and Peggys. I´m happy with that. I´m going to let him as I want to encourage him to keep his bomber force here. The superstack is once again out of supply. I´m going to try a deliberate here tomorrow and see how it does. My thinking here is that even if I do take lots of losses I can recover them. Erik can´t. So each destroyed or disabled squad will remain in that state. ------------------------ Okinawa (Felt really good writing that) ------------------------ I have been doing some long range recon lately trying to get a sense of Erik defenses. One thing I did find out is that Naha is virtually empty (20.000 troops). But I also found a HOARD of subs last turn. Taking a bit of a chance I sent in the B29s on a unescorted port strike. Boom? quote:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 79 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 83 Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 4 damaged Japanese Ships SS I-11, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS I-48, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SS I-9, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SS RO-47, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS RO-66, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS RO-56, Bomb hits 3, heavy damage SS I-45, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk SS I-19, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage SS RO-46, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SS RO-36, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS RO-107, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk SS RO-109, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SS RO-55, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage SS RO-42, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS I-47, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SS RO-45, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage SS I-37, Bomb hits 3, heavy damage SS I-173, Bomb hits 1 AG Kiyoshima Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage SS RO-48, Bomb hits 1 SS I-164, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 64 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 2 damaged Japanese Ships SS I-164, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk SS I-19, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage SS I-39, Bomb hits 2, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 52 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 4 damaged B-29-1 Superfort: 1 destroyed by flak Japanese Ships SS RO-48, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS I-173, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS RO-45, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk SS RO-55, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS I-39, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS RO-49, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SS RO-56, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 70 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 21 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 2 damaged Japanese Ships AG Kiyoshima Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage SS I-19, and is sunk SS I-37, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk No subs are found in the morning after. Quite pleased with that. In addition to this I also found a big BB TF sitting at Naha. Erik is probably going to try a "kamikaze" attack with them. They are extremely hard to use in this stage of the war and I bet Erik would exchange his 10 BBs for 4 CAs in a heartbeat. The BBs are simply too slow to much use outside of atoll suppression or TT magnets. Just like in the real war actually! Turns are going to be slow this week as Erik is on Iceland (lucky bastard!). He was hoping he could send a turn each evening and I got one last night. So it does look like some turns will be done.
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