Slitherine

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Morning Air attack on Camp Pendleton , at 226,77

Weather in hex: Severe storms

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

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 15
Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 17
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 7

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15
B-17F Fortress x 14
B-24D Liberator x 25
B-25C Mitchell x 34
B-26 Marauder x 3
P-39D Airacobra x 50

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 7 damaged
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 4 destroyed on ground
A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied aircraft losses
B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged
B-26 Marauder: 1 damaged
P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
73 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled)

Airbase hits 22
Airbase supply hits 9
Runway hits 86

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Eureka at 199,86

Weather in hex: Overcast

Raid detected at 78 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M5 Zero x 22
B5N2 Kate x 24
D3A1 Val x 11
D3A2 Val x 11

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
B5N2 Kate: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk
DD Litchfield, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk

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ORIGINAL: jwolf
If I understand this right, you've cleared his LBA or made it unusable -- so either he covers with KB or concedes complete air superiority to you. Right?

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ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

His airfield is toasted. You won't even need to sweep. With that number of hits from 500 lb bombs, the airfield damage is going to be way up there.

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ORIGINAL: Commander Cody

Omahas for CVLs is a good trade. Well done.

Cheers,
CC

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

This is the state of the P47 squadrons. Their value can certainly not be understated. To any JFB thinking about invading the WC in early 42: Remember that these arrive...

Kills: 107
Losses: 6

I still have 69 of these guys available. I can probably keep 1-2 squadrons operational until production start in July.

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ORIGINAL: jwolf
Pretty impressive. Are these early squadrons some sort of prototype? Maybe an alpha or beta test as we might say now?

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: jwolf
Pretty impressive. Are these early squadrons some sort of prototype? Maybe an alpha or beta test as we might say now?

I think they normally arrive in July but I´m not sure. It was pretty much the only positive thing arriving in the air via the emergency reinforcements. All the other squadrons that arrived was more or less empty.

Not these guys thankfully!

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I'll step in before the confusion grows amuck.

No aircraft factories have been damaged or lost, at L.A. or anywhere else. Acepylut misread something.

So this situation is just totaly victory - strategic, operational, tactical - for Jocke. The question is whether Jeff pulls himself together enough to soldier on. He has a good record of standing against despair, but this situation will really test his resolve. Encouraging words from the Peanut Gallery will be most appreciated, I think.

As for the P-47s, they do arrive in the summer of '43. Here we're already at January '43, so they're not ridiculously early. But Jocke is pointing out that an IJ invasion in early '42 would encounter Thunderbolts more than a year early.

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ORIGINAL: AcePylut

I’m really curious as to your thoughts….

Tactically – this is shaping up to be a defeat for Japan.

Strategically, however, with the loss of all those aircraft factories in LA, how do you see that affecting the US Aircraft pools long term? Will your airforce be ground to nothing in 43,44,45 as you don’t get all those planes that are most desperately needed?
It’s well documented that Japan can lose it’s high quality pilots and planes, and have a “new batch” of high quality pilots and planes up and running in a few months.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

I'm confused. What aircraft factories did he lose in LA?

How did he lose them?

I don't recall seeing LA fall to the Japanese.

If you're referring to damage from strategic bombing rather than destruction caused by losing control of the hex, can't the damage be repaired?

I thought the only way to "lose" a factory was by losing the hex, otherwise it's only damage that can be repaired and unlike the Japanese, the Americans have all the supply they need for the repair work.

I am wrong in my understanding?

Can strategic bombing permanently destroy factories?

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I'll step in before the confusion grows amuck.

No aircraft factories have been damaged or lost, at L.A. or anywhere else. Acepylut misread something.

So this situation is just totaly victory - strategic, operational, tactical - for Jocke. The question is whether Jeff pulls himself together enough to soldier on. He has a good record of standing against despair, but this situation will really test his resolve. Encouraging words from the Peanut Gallery will be most appreciated, I think.

As for the P-47s, they do arrive in the summer of '43. Here we're already at January '43, so they're not ridiculously early. But Jocke is pointing out that an IJ invasion in early '42 would encounter Thunderbolts more than a year early.

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ORIGINAL: witpqs
And as good as the P-47 is versus against contemporary and accelerated Japanese fighters, put it up against much earlier fighters...

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

I'm confused. What aircraft factories did he lose in LA?

How did he lose them?

I don't recall seeing LA fall to the Japanese.

If you're referring to damage from strategic bombing rather than destruction caused by losing control of the hex, can't the damage be repaired?

I thought the only way to "lose" a factory was by losing the hex, otherwise it's only damage that can be repaired and unlike the Japanese, the Americans have all the supply they need for the repair work.

I am wrong in my understanding?

Can strategic bombing permanently destroy factories?

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

I think they [P47] normally arrive in July but I´m not sure. It was pretty much the only positive thing arriving in the air via the emergency reinforcements. All the other squadrons that arrived were more or less empty.

Not these guys thankfully!

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ORIGINAL: ny59giants

What are the number of and quality of your DBs and TBs on the WC?? If Jeff has to try a Dunkirk like Greyjoy did, can you hurt him?

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ORIGINAL: jwolf
Is this a random thing? That is, which of the emergency squadrons are actually filled out as opposed to mere shells? I am wondering especially regarding Dan's comment a bit later that an early 1942 IJ invasion of the US could theoretically trigger activation of P47s more than a year early. Maybe the P47 units would just be empty shells? Definitely it would be unbalancing to have P47s that early, although admittedly in any game where the Japanese are seriously invading the US then "balance" was a casualty long beforehand.

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ORIGINAL: JocMeister

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

I'll step in before the confusion grows amuck.

No aircraft factories have been damaged or lost, at L.A. or anywhere else. Acepylut misread something.

So this situation is just totaly victory - strategic, operational, tactical - for Jocke. The question is whether Jeff pulls himself together enough to soldier on. He has a good record of standing against despair, but this situation will really test his resolve. Encouraging words from the Peanut Gallery will be most appreciated, I think.

As for the P-47s, they do arrive in the summer of '43. Here we're already at January '43, so they're not ridiculously early. But Jocke is pointing out that an IJ invasion in early '42 would encounter Thunderbolts more than a year early.

Exactly!