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Hawaii Invasion - 2/27/2021 7:57:42 PM

Evoken

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March 2 1943
Allied doomstack arrived at Lahaina , at night a Japanese DD got through the surface combat forces and sank a CVE with torpedo strike. As main carrier force is sitting 1 hex NE of Lahaina , it was up to CVE's to protect the invasion forces at Lahaina , losing 1 CVE lead to more planes getting through the CAP and 4 more CVE's got hit by Japanese airstrikes 1 sank , 3 crippled.
We have landed 3400 AV at Lahaina all combat troops have low fatigue and disruption and they are ready to do a shock attack against 1 Japanese regiment , there is also 14 AA regiments , 500 engineers and 200 engineer vehicles , i plan to turn Lahaina into impregnable fortress to grind down Japanese forces at Hawaii

My partner Dutchy noticed Andy Mac was hitting troops around Akyab without any escort or sweeps so he setup a cap trap with heavy fighters , which worked very well even against Japanese Heavies

And Australian airforce continues hitting Port Moresby airfield with massed bomber formation

Air Losses;

Ship losses;

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Morning Air attack on TF, near Lahaina at 182,108

Weather in hex: Thunderstorms

Raid detected at 114 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
A6M8 Zero x 5
D4Y1 Judy x 36

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 132
F6F-3 Hellcat x 5
F5F Skyrocket x 2
F5F-2 Skyrocket x 47
Dewoitine D.550 x 1
F4F-3S Wildcatfish x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed
A6M8 Zero: 1 destroyed
D4Y1 Judy: 14 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed

Allied Ships
CVE Altamaha
CVE Nassau
CVE Pocomoke, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage
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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lahaina at 182,108

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 83 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 29 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M8 Zero x 13
G4M1 Betty x 10

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 44
F6F-3 Hellcat x 3
F5F-2 Skyrocket x 17
F4F-3S Wildcatfish x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed
F4F-3S Wildcatfish: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CVE Altamaha, Torpedo hits 1

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lahaina at 182,108

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 119 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 41 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M8 Zero x 1
G4M1 Betty x 31

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 27
F6F-3 Hellcat x 2
F5F-2 Skyrocket x 10
F4F-3S Wildcatfish x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 21 destroyed, 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed by flak

No Allied losses

Allied Ships
CVE Suwannee
CVE Long Island, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Sangamon, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo
6 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo

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Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Lahaina at 182,108

Weather in hex: Moderate rain

Raid detected at 112 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 38 minutes

Japanese aircraft
A6M8 Zero x 1
G8N1 Rita x 7

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 13
F6F-3 Hellcat x 2
F5F-2 Skyrocket x 5

Japanese aircraft losses
G8N1 Rita: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
F5F-2 Skyrocket: 1 destroyed

Allied Ships
CVE Sangamon, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
CVE Altamaha

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x G8N1 Rita bombing from 11000 feet
Naval Attack: 10 x 250 kg SAP Bomb

There were a few more strikes before these but they arent too relevant

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Hawaii Liberation - 2/28/2021 8:22:41 AM

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March 3 1943
Today Allied warships bombarded most of the Hawaii island chain , grounding all of IJAF. Followed by a port strike from Carriers to finish of remaining ships at Pearl Harbor.

Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 36 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground
H8K3A Emily: 24 damaged
H8K3A Emily: 3 destroyed on ground
A6M8 Zero: 34 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 9 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M2 Nell: 15 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
CL Honolulu
CL St. Louis
DD Gansevoort
DD Bancroft
DD Bailey
DD Woodworth

Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled

Airbase hits 16
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 64

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Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 16 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground
H8K3A Emily: 7 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 25 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
G3M3 Nell: 3 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 5 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M2 Nell: 21 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 2 damaged
J1N1-C Irving: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CL British Columbia
CL Denver
DD Reid
DD Preston
DD Smith
DD Perkins

Japanese ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled

Airbase hits 22
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 22

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Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K3A Emily: 16 damaged
H8K3A Emily: 1 destroyed on ground
A6M8 Zero: 9 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
G4M1 Betty: 18 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 5 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M2 Nell: 20 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M3 Nell: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Rome
CA Burlington
DD Trippe
DD Mayrant
DD Paulding
DD Clark

Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 16

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Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M2 Nell: 29 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed on ground
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 7 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground
H8K3A Emily: 70 damaged
H8K3A Emily: 1 destroyed on ground
G4M1 Betty: 17 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 35 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
J1N1-C Irving: 2 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 2 damaged
G3M3 Nell: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
CA Chicago
CA Louisville
CA Chester
CA Northampton
DD Gillespie
DD Farenholt
DD McCalla
DD Lardner

Japanese ground losses:
158 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled

Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 51

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Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K3A Emily: 58 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 23 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 12 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 3 destroyed on ground
J1N1-C Irving: 1 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 10 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M2 Nell: 29 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
CA Quincy
CA Minneapolis
CA Astoria
CA Salt Lake City
DD Mustin
DD Hammann
DD Kalk
DD Hobby

Japanese ground losses:
55 casualties reported
Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled
Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled)

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 15

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Night Naval bombardment of Pearl Harbor at 180,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 5 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground
H8K3A Emily: 5 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 17 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
G3M3 Nell: 1 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 3 damaged
G3M2 Nell: 1 destroyed on ground
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged
J1N1-C Irving: 1 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
CA Duquesne
CA Exeter
CA Devonshire
CA Vincennes

Japanese ground losses:
49 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 5

Also gave valuable intel , IJA 2nd and 4th Divisions are garriosining Pearl Harbor and there is no coastal guns or mines.I believe a naval invasion is possible real soon

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Night Naval bombardment of Lahaina at 182,108

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M8 Zero: 15 damaged
A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed on ground
D4Y1 Judy: 6 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
BB Prince of Wales
BB Washington
BB North Carolina
DD Salak
DD Noble
DD Swan
DD Pakenham
DD Aylwin
DD Dale
DD Hull
DD Lamson
DD Drayton
DD Mahan
DD Fanning
DD Dunlap

Japanese ground losses:
224 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 10 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled)

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Night Naval bombardment of Kona at 182,111

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G8N1 Rita: 105 damaged
G8N1 Rita: 11 destroyed on ground
A6M2 Zero: 3 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed on ground
H8K3A Emily: 54 damaged
H8K3A Emily: 7 destroyed on ground
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed on ground
D4Y1 Judy: 2 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 2 destroyed on ground

Allied Ships
BC Ranger
BC King Frederick
BC King William
DD Balch
DD Selfridge
DD Porter
DD Cassin
DD Case
DD Ellet
DD Benham

Japanese ground losses:
335 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 23 disabled
Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled
Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled)

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 18
Port hits 15

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Night Naval bombardment of Kona at 182,111 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K3A Emily: 48 damaged
H8K3A Emily: 5 destroyed on ground
G8N1 Rita: 39 damaged
G8N1 Rita: 8 destroyed on ground
A6M2 Zero: 9 damaged
A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground
D4Y1 Judy: 8 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 2 destroyed on ground
G4M1 Betty: 11 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed on ground

7 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied Ships
CA Indianapolis
CA Portland
DD Lansdowne
DD Duncan
DD Buchanan
DD Aaron Ward

Japanese ground losses:
95 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 47
Port hits 8
Port supply hits 2

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Night Naval bombardment of Hilo at 183,111

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 7 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 8 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Cleveland
CL Nashville
DD Anderson
DD Hughes
DD Sims
DD Carmick

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20
Port hits 3

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Night Naval bombardment of Hilo at 183,111

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
D4Y1 Judy: 24 damaged
D4Y1 Judy: 1 destroyed on ground
G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged
Ki-43-IV Oscar: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Montpelier
CL Belfast
DD Laffey
DD Monssen
DD Grayson
DD Gwin

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled
Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled
Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 33
Port hits 13
Port supply hits 1
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Morning Air attack on Pearl Harbor , at 180,107

Weather in hex: Partial cloud

Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet.
Estimated time to target is 15 minutes

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Firefly F.I x 7
Hellcat I x 8
Martlet II x 8
F4F-4 Wildcat x 76
F6F-3 Hellcat x 22
SBD-3 Dauntless x 270
F5F Skyrocket x 11
F5F-2 Skyrocket x 38
Dewoitine D.550 x 14
Dewoitine D.790 x 14
Dewoitine D.791 x 7
LN.42 x 40

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD-3 Dauntless: 12 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Minami, Bomb hits 11, and is sunk
DD Takanobu, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
E Aotaka, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
DD Kaguya, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk
DD Takeichi, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk
SS I-109, Bomb hits 10, and is sunk
ACM Sonobe Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk
DD Morimasa, Bomb hits 6, and is sunk
SS I-173, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk
SS I-124, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk
SS I-83, Bomb hits 5, and is sunk

Repair Shipyard hits 4
Port hits 9
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 1

Air Losses;

Also we got some very valuable intell this turn ,
CV Namika is moving to Wake Island (136,98). I believe Andy Mac is bringing all his carriers together for a counter strike , question is do we fight them with Land based air support or just retreat with majority of the fleet and leave it to 14 AA regiments stationed on Lahaina

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 12:19:46 PM

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March 4-10 1943
As the initial invasion action is dying down , Hawaii turned into minefield stand off. 4 Japanese submarines hit and sunk by mines at Pearl harbor while Allies lost a CL and DD to mines.
While bombarding Pearl Harbor BC Ranger hit an allied mine and took a lot of damage , she is now getting minor repairs. Large allied floating docks will arrive soon , i will send them to Lahaina for major repairs untill Pearl Harbor is captured.

A Japanese carrier force is approaching Johnston island i am not sure about the size but from amount of ASW strikes its flying against my subs i am gonna guess its the main combined fleet. Lahaina has 600 fighters at the moment i am bringing fighters halfway with carriers and flying them off to the base. Airfield level is 6 and increasing every few days , i believe we are ready for a fight at Lahaina if combined fleet comes in

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 12:43:24 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Evoken

March 4-10 1943
As the initial invasion action is dying down , Hawaii turned into minefield stand off. 4 Japanese submarines hit and sunk by mines at Pearl harbor while Allies lost a CL and DD to mines.
While bombarding Pearl Harbor BC Ranger hit an allied mine and took a lot of damage , she is now getting minor repairs. Large allied floating docks will arrive soon , i will send them to Lahaina for major repairs untill Pearl Harbor is captured.

A Japanese carrier force is approaching Johnston island i am not sure about the size but from amount of ASW strikes its flying against my subs i am gonna guess its the main combined fleet. Lahaina has 600 fighters at the moment i am bringing fighters halfway with carriers and flying them off to the base. Airfield level is 6 and increasing every few days , i believe we are ready for a fight at Lahaina if combined fleet comes in

It would be a mistake to bring your floating drydocks (ARDs) to the Hawaiian Islands before you have soundly defeated the IJN Carrier force. If they win a Carrier clash they can do to your port what you just did to PH.

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 12:52:50 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

quote:

ORIGINAL: Evoken

March 4-10 1943
As the initial invasion action is dying down , Hawaii turned into minefield stand off. 4 Japanese submarines hit and sunk by mines at Pearl harbor while Allies lost a CL and DD to mines.
While bombarding Pearl Harbor BC Ranger hit an allied mine and took a lot of damage , she is now getting minor repairs. Large allied floating docks will arrive soon , i will send them to Lahaina for major repairs untill Pearl Harbor is captured.

A Japanese carrier force is approaching Johnston island i am not sure about the size but from amount of ASW strikes its flying against my subs i am gonna guess its the main combined fleet. Lahaina has 600 fighters at the moment i am bringing fighters halfway with carriers and flying them off to the base. Airfield level is 6 and increasing every few days , i believe we are ready for a fight at Lahaina if combined fleet comes in

It would be a mistake to bring your floating drydocks (ARDs) to the Hawaiian Islands before you have soundly defeated the IJN Carrier force. If they win a Carrier clash they can do to your port what you just did to PH.

Lahaina is a proper fortress , as airfield levels are increasing i am bringing more fighters in , there is a lot of surface combat task forces it is almost impsosible to bombard with ships and there is also 14 AA regiments each armed with 16x90mm AA guns , 32x40mm bofors and 48x.50 cal AA guns , this is without counting the AA from base forces and other units. When it reaches level 9 airfield it will be very hard to get through the combat air patrol with carrier force alone , the whole island chain is getting bombarded daily (laying mines at Pearl harbor was a mistake from me 2 more CL and 1 CA hit friendly mines this turn)

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 1:20:01 PM

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Ouch , 2 CL and 1 CA are pretty badly damaged
I guess i will have to stop bombarding Pearl Harbor because Mk16 mines really hurt.
All the enemy mines around Pearl have been swept , i have a dedicated minesweeper there but cant seem to sweep my own mines. I have deployed over 800 mines at Pearl is there anyway to stop my ships from hitting my own mines or did i just do a huge blunder and give enemy a minefield i cant do anything about ?

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 4:00:30 PM

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Usually your own ships know about your minefield the day after you lay it - but I have never made a minefield that large. Or should I say minefields - 800 is a lot to lay in one go, so you have probably been laying mines every day for some time. Every day you lay a minefield your ships must wait a day to become aware of it. The AI keeps track of minefields by the date they are laid, the type and the numbers laid or decayed.

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 4:27:54 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Usually your own ships know about your minefield the day after you lay it - but I have never made a minefield that large. Or should I say minefields - 800 is a lot to lay in one go, so you have probably been laying mines every day for some time. Every day you lay a minefield your ships must wait a day to become aware of it. The AI keeps track of minefields by the date they are laid, the type and the numbers laid or decayed.

I brought a lot of minelaying ships with me , laid it all in one go.My ships hit mines on 3 seperate days too , i think i made a huge mistake here

Also KB is coming out to play , pacific ocean itself is a living minefield filled with submarines , its only a matter of time

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/1/2021 6:23:45 PM

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Looks like KB will go to Johnston Is. to refuel before heading to the PH area.

< Message edited by BBfanboy -- 3/1/2021 6:24:06 PM >

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 4:21:48 PM

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March 14 1943
The Great PT boat slaughter
I had 72 PT Boats at Lahaina , i have set them up to intercept enemy ships if they come close to Pearl , i did the same thing for the surface combat task forces ; all on patrol order with 6 reaction range , agressive leaders , direct routing and absolute threat tolerance , a lot of planes for both night and day naval search (30+ planes for each phase all with radar). PT Boats reacted to enemy and engaged the enemy while my surface ships sat on their asses at Lahaina in both day and night phases , enemy came in and parked at Lanai 1 hex from Lahaina and they still didnt react. As a result enemy have sunk about 50 PT Boats and got into pearl harbor to rearm. I am seriously annoyed by this , if my ships reacted properly it was my best chance to do massive damage to Japanese surface fleet.

Anyways we are going all out assault on Pearl to try to bombard it , Andy Mac parked about 1400 planes there in 1 turn , if i cant bombard it this turn it will make Hawaii opeartion really hard as Lahaina is not level 9 airfield yet and its already overstacked to hell cant risk bringing more planes.

Also when you have crazy amount of airplanes on both sides it seems sweeping is really important as escorts against cap doesnt work too well , as you can see both sides took very heavy losses on bombers ;

this is more of a mod problem as we are dealing with 1945 amount of planes in 1943

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 4:37:18 PM

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Your SCTFs will only react if they are given Patrol orders and a react range. No react if they are set to "Remain on Station".

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 4:45:53 PM

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Please read the post

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 6:34:20 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Evoken

Please read the post

My apologies - you did mention patrol orders.
Perhaps leadership of the TFs was an issue? Aggression too low?

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 6:37:50 PM

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I also mentioned that in the post but there were a lot of agressive leaders (a lot of70+ and some 80+) , i still dont get why they didnt react but hopefully this turn we can recover. I am going all in to Pearl Harbor gotta keep it supressed untill Lahaina reaches level 9

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 9:05:33 PM

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I assume you game did not include a HR about limiting the number of PT boats per port size. If there is no HR, all is fair in love and war.

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/2/2021 9:38:03 PM

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We have no rule at the moment, i have even suggested PT Boat rule at the start of the game and suggested after this turns engagement. We shall see soon

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/3/2021 7:49:37 AM

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March 15 1943
This turn was pure chaos both sides bombarded each others island
there were so many engagements if i post the whole log it would take the whole page

Also i am still hitting my own mines at Pearl Harbor while Japanese ships are not , what is minefield mapping anyway

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/3/2021 3:05:17 PM

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Base ownership must have something to do with enemy mine avoidance. Just my guess.

Fantastic ground losses - you are destroying about 3X as many of his aircraft. Some questions:

- are the Japanese airfields in the HI still all closed?
- were there no surface ship clashes as you were trying to achieve previously?
- do you know the whereabouts of the IJN carriers at this time?

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/3/2021 3:47:26 PM

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-I believe they should be open its been a few days since last bombardement
-I will attach the combatreport file to this reply , there were so many clashes it would take the whole page
-KB dumped all their airwings into Pearl Harbor and left , lost track of them

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/3/2021 5:11:41 PM

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That was a massive report! Looks like the last third of the naval encounters featured no ammo on either side so they just gave each other the finger and went on their way. Considering the number of encounters the results were pretty inconclusive - a couple of CAs and CLs and lots of DDs lost on the Japanese side and maybe a little less on the Allied side. Good time to attack PH port next turn!

Too bad you had heavy rain interfere with your strikes on PH AF but then again, it may have reduced your losses from his heavy CAP.

Keep slugging! The peanut gallery loves it!

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/3/2021 6:00:40 PM

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March 16 1943
IJN is in full retreat , while retreating IJN ships took ; CA Azuma 3 Torps , CA Yakumo 2 Torps , CA Aoba 1 Torp , CL Hirado 3 Torps from submarines.
Aircraft from Deathstar and Lahaina attacked Pearl Harbor airfields today
Air losses;

Ship Losses;

Damaged suffered in Hawaii operation;

Situation around Hawaii;

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/8/2021 7:08:40 PM

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March 25 1943
Its been quiet lately , allied army reached to outskirts of Burma and got blocked by IJA in x3 terrain
I might have achieved highest casualty record in a delibarate attack today.

Japanese airforce have been hitting allied army in the jungle for a while now but it isnt doing much due to jungle. Today before the main attack allied airforce responded to Japanese , hundreds of bombers hit the Japanese troops in the jungle hoping to drive their disruption up but sadly didnt work well.
Even though only 2 units at high disruption whole attack got disruption (-) in this attack and it cost us heavy , lowest morale was 92

Ground combat at 55,48 (near Ramree Island)

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 497309 troops, 4616 guns, 4005 vehicles, Assault Value = 19525

Defending force 240772 troops, 2820 guns, 1377 vehicles, Assault Value = 7802

Allied adjusted assault: 3684

Japanese adjusted defense: 28309

Allied assault odds: 1 to 7

Combat modifiers
Defender: terrain(+), supply(-)
Attacker: disruption(-)

Japanese ground losses:
12994 casualties reported
Squads: 28 destroyed, 1098 disabled
Non Combat: 66 destroyed, 392 disabled
Engineers: 54 destroyed, 51 disabled
Guns lost 242 (75 destroyed, 167 disabled)
Vehicles lost 316 (129 destroyed, 187 disabled)
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
45386 casualties reported
Squads: 972 destroyed, 3978 disabled
Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 979 disabled
Engineers: 80 destroyed, 377 disabled
Guns lost 519 (177 destroyed, 342 disabled)
Vehicles lost 476 (63 destroyed, 413 disabled)

Assaulting units:
44th British Division
18th British Division
31st Chinese Corps
9th Australian Division
17th Indian Division
46th Chinese Corps
95th Chinese Corps
48th Chinese Corps
45th Chinese Corps
32nd Chinese Corps
Mobiele Eenheid 3 Battalion
52nd Chinese Corps
37th Chinese Corps
32nd Army Tank Brigade
94th Chinese Corps
3rd Cavalry Regiment
3rd Carabiniers Regiment
2nd NZ Division
58th Chinese Corps
3/6 Ghurka Rifles Battalion
100th Chinese Corps
8th Route Army
68th Chinese Corps
5th Indian Division
7th SA Armoured Brigade
66th Chinese Corps
59th Chinese Corps
23rd British Brigade
35th Chinese Corps
38th Chinese Corps
16th British Brigade
50th Chinese Corps
45th Recce Regiment
87th Chinese Corps
14th British Brigade
11th Indian Division
70th British Division
53rd Chinese Corps
91st Chinese Corps
57th Chinese Corps
8th Indian Division
92nd Chinese Corps
36th Chinese Corps
51st Highland Division
2/9th Field Regiment
7th Artillery Regiment
20th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
2/13th Field Regiment
Eastern Army
2/11th Field Regiment
1st Artillery Regiment
6th Medium Regiment
Malaya Army
20th Artillery Regiment
18th Artillery Regiment
1st Burma Auxiliary AA Regiment
3rd Heavy Mortar Regiment
77th Heavy AA Regiment
III Indian Corps
57th AT Gun Regiment
56th AT Gun Regiment

Defending units:
1st Mobile Engineer Regiment
29th Division
79th Infantry Brigade
4th Brigade
3rd Cavalry Division
37th Division
80th Infantry Brigade
32nd Division
31st Infantry Brigade
291st Division
36th Division
19th Division
250th Division
25th Division
1st Ind.Mixed Brigade
14th Division
104th Division
17th Infantry Brigade
302nd Division
10th Division
5th Infantry Brigade
51st Division
26th Recon Regiment
3rd Army
7th RF Gun Battalion
9th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
12th Air Defense AA Battalion
12th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
1st Mortar Battalion
6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
28th Mountain Gun Regiment
3rd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
1st Air Defense AA Regiment
14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment
3rd RF Gun Battalion
1st Army
Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment
12th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th RF Gun Battalion
22nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Air Defense AA Regiment
2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment
7th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
21st Ind.AA Gun Co
11th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
5th Ind.Hvy.Art Battalion
10th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment
5th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
8th Mountain Gun Regiment
15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
20th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion
12th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion
2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment
4th Medium Field Artillery Regiment
10th Mortar Battalion
21st Air Defense AA Regiment
7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
32nd Field AA Battalion
4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion
20th JAAF AF Bn

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/8/2021 11:34:45 PM

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It looks like a lot of your AV was Chinese so the setback may not be as bad as it seems if the casualties were mostly concentrated in your Chinese units.

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/8/2021 11:38:17 PM

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British divisions got mauled sadly , Chinese are intact

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/14/2021 10:12:36 AM

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April 10 1943
I dont have a lot of time to post to AAR lately.

Pacific Front;
Johnston island is captured with 50 H8K3's on the island.

India Front;
2 R Class Battleships got torpedoed at Diamond Harbour , didnt put enough cap over them and Betties got through , they are crippled but alive

Last week i have started challenging air superiority in Burma , its been mostly draw in air losses but we are fighting over Japanese teritory and pilot losses are starting to hurt Commonwealth and French airforces. Japanese tried to retalliate this turn but bombers arrived before the sweeps and i have stacked so much AA at Chittagong bombers getting through the cap didnt even land a single hit.

We got a new house rule ; Maximum 5 squadrons on Sweep on a single hex

3 New Tank divisions and 2 tank brigades arrived to roadblock near Prome i am thinking of another deliberate attack

Air losses for turn;

Intell Screen;

Most elite allied squadron;

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/15/2021 12:56:14 AM

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April 20 1943
We have played 10 turns in a day , pretty impressive

Hawaii;
Old battleships finally joined the daily Pearl Harbor bombardements , with moonlight at %100 Bombardements are doing around 2000 casualties per day , D-Day is soon.

Burma;
I had 3 approaches to Burma;
20K AV from the Coastal Route , 12k AV from Imphal into Scwebo area , 8k AV from Ledo into Moulmein area. This turn Chinese army supported by commonwealth troops captured Scwebo , soon 8k AV from Moulmein will join them for river crossing into Mandalay

Ground combat at Shwebo (59,45)

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 317931 troops, 2277 guns, 1354 vehicles, Assault Value = 12394

Defending force 36929 troops, 306 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 1190

Allied adjusted assault: 13629

Japanese adjusted defense: 537

Allied assault odds: 25 to 1 (fort level 3)

Allied forces CAPTURE Shwebo !!!

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

Japanese ground losses:
12285 casualties reported
Squads: 408 destroyed, 337 disabled
Non Combat: 443 destroyed, 133 disabled
Engineers: 163 destroyed, 13 disabled
Guns lost 141 (95 destroyed, 46 disabled)
Vehicles lost 32 (31 destroyed, 1 disabled)
Units retreated 5
Units destroyed 1

Allied ground losses:
13435 casualties reported
Squads: 88 destroyed, 1210 disabled
Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 74 disabled
Engineers: 3 destroyed, 56 disabled
Guns lost 79 (8 destroyed, 71 disabled)

Defeated Japanese Units Retreating!

Assaulting units:
24th Chinese Corps
55th Chinese Corps
20th Indian Division
13th Chinese Corps
20th Chinese Corps
1e Colonial Infantr Division
56th Chinese Corps
19th Chinese Corps
25th Chinese Corps
8th Chinese Corps
40th Chinese Corps
7th Australian Division
21st Chinese Corps
16th Chinese Corps
28th Chinese Corps
26th Chinese Corps
14th Chinese Corps
9th Chinese Corps
27th Chinese Corps
62nd Prov Chinese Corps
18th Chinese Corps
III Gemotoriseerde Brigade
3e Colonial Infantr Division
163rd Light AA Regiment
21st Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
25th Indian Mountain Gun Regiment
21st Light AA Regiment
41st AA Regiment

Defending units:
9th Ind. Engineer Regiment
110th Division
17th Ind.Mixed Brigade
300th Division
4th Mortar Battalion
45th Road Const Co

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/16/2021 8:37:56 AM

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April 21 1943
As Chinese army is moving to cross river into Mandalay i was hoping to weaken defenders at Mandalay from air , sadly bombers arrived before the sweeps and it was very bloody. I had a very reliable method so far with fighters sweeping 5k above bombers and most of the time they arrive before the bombers but not this time sadly

Air losses;

I got about 20k AV in India as reserve , 10k AV at Australia and about 3k AV at Alaska front. Now the question is what do i do with this excess AV at India ? Pearl Harbor invasion should happen in about a month and that will free up a massive amphibious invasion force , i could use some input on selecting next invasion target.
here is the strategic map

Also combat report attached if anyone wants to see the slaughter in detail

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/16/2021 9:16:36 AM

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Do you have CV superiority? If you do I would recommend a push in the Central Pacific to get bases within B-29 bomber range of the Home Islands.

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/16/2021 9:44:16 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: DesertWolf101

Do you have CV superiority? If you do I would recommend a push in the Central Pacific to get bases within B-29 bomber range of the Home Islands.

At the moment we got Carrier parity at best , IJN might have more plane capacity if Andy Mac sped up carriers from start. So before the operation i need to figure out where KB is , otherwise it can lead to a disaster

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RE: Hawaii Liberation - 3/16/2021 2:35:51 PM

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What about Port Blair? It is the cork in the Malacca strait bottle. It will make his supply route to Rangoon under risk of air and sea attack if you take and hold Port Blair. It will also threaten a further landing at Sabang or along the lower coast of southern Burma or norther Malaya. The threat to southern Burma would be a risk to cutting his forces off above Pegu and his retreat out of Burma could be a very long slow and costly trug through the jungle to Thailand. I suggest this as it seems you have a lot of excess troops in India as your post suggests so then you would need to win local air superiority over Port Blair but already have the troops on hand. As you accurately state knowing where the KB is would be the clue where your operation should occur away from it.

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