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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/24/2014 6:22:57 PM   
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With no bombers around you might want to do a daylight run for max effect.


Not willing to risk, he could have 4E on low attack, some PBY on naval attack, etc. If forces end up in the Buin hex they would be under enemy CAP and at risk.

However, how do you do daylight bombardments anyway - I couldn't work out how to achieve this when I was bombarding at Darwin?

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/24/2014 7:38:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		So far I'm 100% with daylight bombardment by doing the following:

* Mission Speed
* Remain at Station
* Start with bombardment TF at the high speed hexes distance +1. So if my TF speed says "7/4" then I start 8 hexes from target.

Has worked every time, with good effect. I don't currently have any air retaliation to worry about at the moment though. The first one should be coming up the next day or so when I get around to updating my AAR again.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/24/2014 10:13:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Spidery

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With no bombers around you might want to do a daylight run for max effect.


Not willing to risk, he could have 4E on low attack, some PBY on naval attack, etc. If forces end up in the Buin hex they would be under enemy CAP and at risk.

However, how do you do daylight bombardments anyway - I couldn't work out how to achieve this when I was bombarding at Darwin?



I have to agree with this line of thinking. If you get a good roll there isn't that much of a difference. But if your floats decide not to fly, well then...tough luck. Also if you hit a mine and are slowed down but still there that could be tough.




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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/25/2014 7:54:34 AM   
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Air Losses: 11 Japanese, 11 Allied, 5 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Solomons

There are more enemy SCTF and lots more PT boats at Buin than I expected so there are massive surface actions. Only three BB get through to try and bombard but they have so little ammo left they do no damage.

CA Kako hits two mines and is too slow to escape and sunk in the day combat after taking a torpedo hit and 54 shell hits. DD Uzuki hits a mine and succumbs in the same combat without taking any more damage.

CA Maya and DD Fumuziki were accompanying them and are only two ships that are not back near Rabaul.

Only Allied air strike was 4 Liberators on a night strike and the Rufes were able to disturb their aim and flak finished one off.

CA Houston is sunk by the Yamato, CA Louisville is sunk by the Hyuga and others.

DD Arunta, Norman, Barton, Monssen, Farenholt are all believed sunk. Also about 24 PT boats are sunk.

BB Nagato has 28/5/10/0 damage and lost some AA guns. With a refit due next month she will be in the yards anyway. None of the other BB took significant damage.

Cruisers took more damage with Furutaka, Maya, Mogami, and Tama in need of yard time. All fires are out and Tama is the worst damaged at 49/46/24.

12 Destroyers are in need of repairs, with Shinonome at 72/19/13 and 10 fires the worse but Sazanami at 61/21/21 with 24 fires also badly.

Liberators hit Rabaul port at night and put a bomb in a damaged PB being repaired. This shows that Rabaul can't be used as a repair yard except for emergencies.

If I can extract Maya and Fumuzuki and don't loose too many other ships to damage I'm counting this a win.

Burma

Sweep Kalemyo again, no defense and bomb it. Most of the bombers don't fly due to weather of 15 that attacked, 5 are lost to flak and they only damage a few planes.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

SC CHa-17

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/25/2014 8:29:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Two long lance hits scored, both on DD that were sunk.

Allies scored a hit on the crippled CA Kako. A PT boat scored a hit on BB Hyuga (a dud).

Torpedoes just seem too reduced in effectiveness by DBB.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/25/2014 12:27:52 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 3 Japanese, 10 Allied, 1 Pilots
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Allies land at:

Subs

I-6 sinks AKA Aquarius near Pearl Harbour.

I-21 sinks TK Miralda near Karachi.

Solomons

DD Shinonome is looking bad at 80/39/15 and 18 fires still burning. May need to scuttle. (I only save 1 VP by scuttling, I'll dock her at Rabaul and she may at least absorb a bomb from a Liberator.)

All other ships are back at safety and with fires out.

Liberators hit Rabaul at night again. The Endo detach attacks them but the night fighters seem to run out of ammo quickly. Each strike they damage one Liberator but none shot down.

Burma

Sweep Kalemyo again still no CAP. Send some OScars and Helens in to bomb at 30,000 feet. Destroy 8 fighters on the ground for one ops loss. Looks like I may be onto something, either he flies CAP or I bomb from high altitude with no aircraft and no AA interfering the pilots have a straight bombing run.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

SC Ch 44, TK Meisen Maru (11,600 capacity), E Etoforu

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/25/2014 2:43:46 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 75 Japanese, 54 Allied, 15 Pilots
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Subs

I-29 is damaged 19/53/0 in the Solomons and is heading back for repairs.

Solomons

Fires on Shinonome are extinguished at 87/31/16 damage with 49 days to fix what can be fixed at Rabaul. Not sure will be able to manage this without enemy action doing further damage.

Burma

Allies sweep and bomb Katha. The sweep starts with 36 Corsair and about 100 other fighters on LRCAP. The Liberators attack with good escorts but the defense do manage to get through to do some damage.

Losses for the day: 39 Ki-44-IIc (4 on ground), 17 Ki-43-IIb, 15 N1K1-J for 20 Hurricane IIc, 8 P-40K, 4 Hurricane IIb, 3 F4U-1, 12 Liberator II, 6 Liberator B-24D1. With the 4E double points that 1::1 on VP loss so a nice result. However, if he can hit Katha again the defense is weakened (but morale is good).

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Ki-84a to 5/43 and enters production.

Reinforcements

SC CHa-25

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/25/2014 2:52:16 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Spidery

May 11th 1943

Air Losses: 75 Japanese, 54 Allied, 15 Pilots

R&D

Ki-84a to 5/43 and enters production.



You are getting more active I see and congratulations on getting the 84a. Let us see how that plane stands up against the Corsair.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/25/2014 6:57:18 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 3 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
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Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Solomons

Something Allied sunk, no idea what. VP suggets about a DD size.

Seem to have poked a hornets' nest at Buin and no idea what is going on. Lots of task forces just North of Torokina but they all look like small stuff, I guess they could include landing barges. Few planes reported at either Torokina or Buin so doesn't look like a CAP trap. Shot down two Kingfisher straying over Rabaul so he may be moving BB or cruisers into the area.

Burma

Quiet

Engineering

Taihoku airfield to 8.

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

SC CHa-18






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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 11:31:38 AM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 18 Allied, 2 Pilots
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Subs

Quiet

Solomons

I discover what the Allies were up to. He sends PT boats on a suicide mission to raid Rabaul.

Lost 5 Std-C Tankers containing valuable fuel and 2 Lima class AKE, 88 VP down the drain. The PT boats, that survive, seem to be out of fuel 1 hex SE of Rabaul. 29 PT boats sunk and another 10 that I should get tomorrow but still a loss. Good luck that I withdrew the AO, bad luck that I had just moved the AKE in to replace torpedoes on the cruisers.

N1K1-J sweep Torokina, 16 F4F-4 shot down for no losses. Odd bug occurs in that a pilot on the Shokaku becomes an Ace despite his group being grounded and miles from any combat.

Burma

Oscars bomb Ledo from 30,000 feet, damage a couple of planes.

Allies have withdrawn most planes from Kalemyo.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Ki-43-IV to 7/43, stop here and move over to researching something else (J7W1, Ki-83, P1Y2-S, ?). If I carried on to get it June I would have it about the 8th but I think I can afford to wait the extra three weeks.

Reinforcements

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 12:19:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Watch out for longer legged fletcher raids, too! Countering them is the challenge...


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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 12:30:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe

Watch out for longer legged fletcher raids, too! Countering them is the challenge...



Yes he has done that before but it didn't work out too well for him.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 12:43:16 PM   
Spidery

 

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As reported by Tracker. I make it 94 PT boats sunk so far. Historically, about 99 were lost throughout the war in all theatres. In this game, PT Boat crew is about the most dangerous posting around.

There are 9 PT boats sunk by 36cm shells and 2 by 40cm shells.




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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 3:07:53 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 11 Japanese, 6 Allied, 4 Pilots
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Monsoon starts on the 15th. Supply draw at Akyab has dropped to 450.

Subs

Quiet

Solomons

Surface forces finish off another 8 PT boats near Rabaul.

4E hit Rabaul at night. I supplemented Endo det with some Tojos hoping to keep the bombers from getting hits which cost a few planes. However, an ACM is sunk and DD Shinonome takes two more bomb hits and is now at 99 system damage. He does lose 3 4E bombers from flak and ops. Noticed that Endo Det is claiming its first kill.

Burma

Quiet

An Emily out of Port Blair spots a convoy at range 28 - that may confuse him!

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

Quiet

All dive bombers on the carriers are now D4Y1 or D4Y4.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 3:17:22 PM   
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Monsoon starts on the 15th. Supply draw at Akyab has dropped to 450.



What was it before?

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 3:24:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Lowpe


quote:

ORIGINAL: Spidery

Monsoon starts on the 15th. Supply draw at Akyab has dropped to 450.



What was it before?


900

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/26/2014 8:51:14 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 20 Japanese, 10 Allied, 7 Pilots
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Subs

I-7 sinks a small xAK (3000 tons) off Perth and is damaged in turn and will head back for repairs.

At Ponape, SS Gunnel is attacked and near misses damage some torpedo tubes.

Solomons

Quiet

Burma

Corsairs, aided by P-40K, sweep Katha. 3 F4U-1, 6 P-40K downed for 12 N1K1-J, 7 Ki-44-IIc, 1 Ki-43-IIb lost - not a good ratio.

Allies seem to have moved their airforce to Silchar.

Engineering

Dadjangas airfield to 4.

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

Quiet

First Ki-84a deploy into Burma but it will be a while before they are flying.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/27/2014 7:15:25 AM   
Spidery

 

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Very Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/27/2014 9:32:22 AM   
Spidery

 

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Very Quiet

Subs

Lots of Allied subs spotted around the Marianas. Sub swarms have often been the prelude before an Allied attack.

Solomons

Quiet

Burma

Quiet

Engineering

Guam forts to 6. Not sure whether to keep on to 7 or expand the airfield to 8. Expanding the airfield gives a strong defensive point but also gives him an airfield for free if he takes the Marianas.

Paoshan airfield to 4.

R&D

Ki-43-IIIa to 7/43 which is where it will stop at.

Mitsubishi Ha-43 to 12/43.

Reinforcements

Quiet

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/27/2014 3:35:03 PM   
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Guam forts to 6. Not sure whether to keep on to 7 or expand the airfield to 8. Expanding the airfield gives a strong defensive point but also gives him an airfield for free if he takes the Marianas.


Guam is the island you really want to make difficult in the Marianas.

Saipan and Tinian max out at airfield 7, but Guam maxes out at 8, giving it the important x2 aviation support bonus.

MrKane can make the airbase useless with heavy bombing, but the only way he's going to knock the forts down is if he lands and pays the price in attacking.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/27/2014 5:14:47 PM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
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Allies land at:

Subs

Quiet

Solomons

Liberators drop 30 mines at Rabaul at night but AMc clear 28 of them quickly. Complete failure of night CAP to engage. I still haven't been able to drop mines from my planes.

Burma

I try an attack at Warazup. Bad move! I had hoped for losses in about the 2::1 ratio. As it is, I inflicted less damage than I would have bombarding while taking lots of losses. Losses on my forces are exaggerated, looks like I lost about 260 devices, about 80% of what is reported.
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Japanese ground losses:
13899 casualties reported
Squads: 288 destroyed, 566 disabled
Non Combat: 21 destroyed, 89 disabled
Engineers: 22 destroyed, 39 disabled
Guns lost 124 (15 destroyed, 109 disabled)
Vehicles lost 22 (9 destroyed, 13 disabled)

Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Guns lost 15 (1 destroyed, 14 disabled)
Vehicles lost 22 (5 destroyed, 17 disabled)

At least I may be able to buy out the 15th Division on the cheap.

Engineering

Onnekotan-Jima forts to 4. Mukden forts to 5 (planning for against the Soviets).

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

LSD Nigitsu Maru. SS RO-107.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/27/2014 5:21:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mind_messing

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Guam forts to 6. Not sure whether to keep on to 7 or expand the airfield to 8. Expanding the airfield gives a strong defensive point but also gives him an airfield for free if he takes the Marianas.


Guam is the island you really want to make difficult in the Marianas.

Saipan and Tinian max out at airfield 7, but Guam maxes out at 8, giving it the important x2 aviation support bonus.

MrKane can make the airbase useless with heavy bombing, but the only way he's going to knock the forts down is if he lands and pays the price in attacking.


Well he can only bomb it once he has a foothold on the islands but I think building the forts is the priority.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 8:29:55 AM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 6 Japanese, 3 Allied, 1 Pilots
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Subs

Quiet

Solomons

14 PB4Y-1 Liberators try a night attack from 3000 feet at the ships at Rabaul (targetting the cruisers). 1 shot down by a Tojo and 1 downed by flak, no hits scored. 2 A6M2-N, 2 Ki-44-IIc lost.

There are a lot more mines at Rabaul than I expected, another 133 are cleared and still showing an enemy minefield. Just how many mines can a Liberator hold? Or has he had some subs laying mines as well?

A resupply convoy makes it through and unloads a needed 20,000+ supply.

Burma

I forgot to cancel the bombardment at Warazup and a heavy artillery unit is lost.

Problems getting supply to Northern Burma.

Engineering

Babeldoab forts to 5.

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

CV Taiho

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 10:53:01 AM   
Spidery

 

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Air Losses: 63 Japanese, 37 Allied, 19 Pilots
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Something is definitely wrong here. I get two new Aces but they are both on the carriers which are not involved in the combat.

Subs

Quiet

Solomons

Lightnings, Wildcats and Corsairs sweep Rabaul.
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Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 9 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 119
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 12
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 36

Allied aircraft
P-38F Lightning x 25
F4F-4 Wildcat x 63
F4U-1 Corsair x 54

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 6 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 4 destroyed
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 11 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 12 destroyed
F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed

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


Possible sighting of BB moving West South of the Gilberts.

Given that I can now field 150 N1K1-J (once repairs are completed) at Rabaul I am tempted to pull all the army fighters off CAP until they can be upgraded to Franks.

Burma

Corsairs, Warhawks sweep Katha
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Raid detected at 20 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 7 minutes

Japanese aircraft
N1K1-J George x 35
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 39
Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 37
Ki-84a Frank x 3

Allied aircraft
F4U-1 Corsair x 35

Japanese aircraft losses
N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 7 destroyed
Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 6 destroyed
Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4U-1 Corsair: 3 destroyed

Aircraft Attacking:
17 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 36000 feet


Between the two combats air losses for the day:
26 Ki-44-IIc, 17 Ki-43-IIb, 14 N1K1-J, 1 Ki-84a versus 25 F4F-4, 9 F4U-1, 2 P-40K, 1 P-38F. 58 to 37 so barely okay for a VP basis and he is taking losses in aircraft models that are becoming obsolete.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Quiet

Reinforcements

SS I-39

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 11:19:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		I got a theory :) I suspect that mrkane uses only top quality pilots in this sweeps, he trains them with ambush against bombers in early war and when they became top-guns they sweep you. In early war he avoids accurately air combat. Now that you're in defence you can't have top-guns everywhere so he has better planes and better pilots, no strange to have results like these...
It seems he's also very conservative in offensive... No real action till now, he's probably waiting to have hellcats on all CVs and then he'll come with everything for a strategic target, maybe really Marianas or Kuriles (I bet Marianas). I would put mines in all Marianas together with ACMs and also heavy art bought from Manchuria.
Good luck

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 11:34:00 AM   
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I got a theory :) I suspect that mrkane uses only top quality pilots in this sweeps, he trains them with ambush against bombers in early war and when they became top-guns they sweep you. In early war he avoids accurately air combat. Now that you're in defence you can't have top-guns everywhere so he has better planes and better pilots, no strange to have results like these...

Certainly he has very highly trained pilots, but I'm not sure his navy pilots will be that super as he hasn't had many chances to use them to gain kills. His Lightnings are packed with experts I am sure, when we were fighting over Darwin he mentioned he had a few triple Aces. My N1K1-J are mostly still flown by pilots in the 75+ experience area so not rubbish.

He gets these results because the Corsair totally out classes my aircraft. I think he uses the older models lower to cancel out the dive bonus for the N1K1-J and without they find it difficult against the Corsair. Fortunately, he gets very few Corsairs. Another problem is that the Tojo and Oscar out climb the N1K1-J and that tends to mean they take much of the fight.

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It seems he's also very conservative in offensive... No real action till now, he's probably waiting to have hellcats on all CVs and then he'll come with everything for a strategic target, maybe really Marianas or Kuriles (I bet Marianas). I would put mines in all Marianas together with ACMs and also heavy art bought from Manchuria.
Good luck


I'm sure he will come for somewhere important but I'm not sure it will be the Marianas.

One thing I don't understand is that he is making no effort to target Magwe.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 1:15:11 PM   
Spidery

 

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May 21st 1943

Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots
Japanese occupy:
Allies occupy:
Japanese land at:
Allies land at:

Subs

I-8 puts a torpedo into BB West Virginia near Nanumea and is damaged to the tune of 15/9/0 so will return to base. Later, I-170 takes a shot at her again but misses, damage to the tune of 21/16/6 will send her back to base as well. Reports are of 2 BB and 4 DD heading towards the Solomons, one of which is now damaged.

I have one more sub in the area which will see if he redirects the West Virginia for repairs.

Subs are spotted South of Japan and an xAK is damaged by a torpedo from SS Haddo 15/43/9 damage so should make it to Kobe. Was carrying supply to Balikpapan and lost half of it.

Solomons

Quiet

There are a lot of night time spots of Kingfishers and other aircraft spotting my ships at Rabaul. I'll put some Night CAP up higher and see if I can get any of these.

Burma

Allies have started bombardment attacks at Warazup after my errors. Losses are okay.

Engineering

Quiet

R&D

Ki-84r to 6/45.

Reinforcements

Quiet


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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 2:00:06 PM   
Lowpe


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Status: offline 		In general, I think you want your NF with up firing guns to be flying below the level of the bombers...not that it matters with only 2.



< Message edited by Lowpe -- 8/28/2014 3:00:29 PM >

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 2:20:33 PM   
Spidery

 

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Lowpe

In general, I think you want your NF with up firing guns to be flying below the level of the bombers...not that it matters with only 2.



If my NF were below his bombers they would be submarines

I keep everything low to counter low-level strikes. High-level strikes miss anyway. I have some other fighters on night CAP, even though they take losses, because the possible targets are too valuable.

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RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no Mr... - 8/28/2014 2:25:01 PM   
Spidery

 

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Status: offline 		The fuel and oil stocks in Japan are sufficient to last about a year after oil supplies are cut off.

This makes it possible that strategic damage to HI will mean I can't actually use all the fuel I have accumulated. I have a feeling it would have made some sense to expand some HI.

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