JocMeister
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Joined: 7/29/2009 From: Sweden Status: offline
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July 17th 1942 ______________________________________________________________________________ A very good day although costly! ------------------------ NORPAC ------------------------ Finally managed to ambush a bombing run. Jeff has stopped hitting Vancouver, Seattle and other AA covered sites. He is now back to hitting the smaller undefended targets. I took a chance and put my CAP at Seattle with range 2. This fatigued my pilots and didn´t get that many planes in the air. But Jeff havn´t been escorting that much lately. quote:
Afternoon Air attack on Bremerton , at 211,52 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 B5N2 Kate x 33 Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 27 P-40E Warhawk x 29 F4F-3A Wildcat x 6 F4F-3 Wildcat x 5 F4F-4 Wildcat x 5 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed quote:
Afternoon Air attack on Bremerton , at 211,52 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 22 Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 27 P-40E Warhawk x 29 F4F-3A Wildcat x 5 F4F-3 Wildcat x 5 F4F-4 Wildcat x 5 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 9 destroyed, 4 damaged Two sweeps also hits. One before and one after trading about 1:1. Its a good haul of VPs for only one repair yard hit. ------------------------ India ------------------------ Japanese bombers hits one of my "recon" units. This is useless units I just put in forward positions to spot incoming movement. Jeff moves even further West with parts of his main stack. ------------------------ China ------------------------ Panzer Armee Tojo strikes again... quote:
Ground combat at 74,52 (near Tuyun) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 38399 troops, 496 guns, 1222 vehicles, Assault Value = 1505 Defending force 45154 troops, 153 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1108 Japanese adjusted assault: 1013 Allied adjusted defense: 1327 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 503 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 46 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 45 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Vehicles lost 114 (10 destroyed, 104 disabled) Allied ground losses: 3356 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 283 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 92 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled Guns lost 16 (1 destroyed, 15 disabled) ------------------------ SOPAC ------------------------ This is the most interesting area right now. Jeff moves the KB in towards Brisbane. Fighters sweep Brisbane doing...not good! quote:
Morning Air attack on Brisbane , at 96,160 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 20 Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 49 P-400 Airacobra x 11 P-40E Warhawk x 11 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-39D Airacobra: 4 destroyed Considering this is the KB elite pilots...My guys did really well. Another sweep does about the same and KB fighter strength is now down to only 75 fighters. This is not enough to provide CAP, escort AND sweep. The KB bombs 2-3 locations around Brisbane scoring a single resource hit. No bombers lost though. I´ve kept the CAP up but added a little extra surprise. Lets see what Jimmie Thach and his VF3 can do if the Japanese show up tomorrow. Allied ASW forces a Japanese sub to the surface south of Melbourne and sinks it! quote:
ASW attack near Portsea at 81,172 Japanese Ships SS I-29, hits 5, and is sunk Allied Ships AM Kalgoorlie, Shell hits 1, heavy fires AM Bunbury, Shell hits 1 AM Mildura Very close to 1000 VPs for Japanese ship sunk! The big SCTF previously spotted between OZ and New Caledonia turns back towards the Solomons? Jeff seems to be unloading troops in the Solomons. Perhaps he was worried about their protection from Allied raiders?
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