castor troy
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Joined: 8/23/2004 From: Austria Status: offline
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 03, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Rabaul at 106,124 Japanese Ships xAK Daigen Maru, Torpedo hits 1 xAK Yoneyama Maru E No.47 E No.37 Allied Ships SS Thresher, hits 17, heavy damage Thresher has been spotted for days and without moving it never got rid of a high DL but the sub was sitting at the entrance of Rabaul so we had to move through the hex... wasn't afraid much with more escorts than troop carrying freighters and the sub being spotted daily and most often attacked... was wrong, the sub hits a freighter (lol! 16 flt dam) and takes two hits and over a dozen near misses in return... Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) SS Thresher launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Daigen Maru E No.47 fails to find sub and abandons search E No.37 attacking submerged sub .... E No.37 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.37 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.37 attacking submerged sub .... E No.37 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.37 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kusaie Island , at 125,118 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84r Frank x 88 Allied aircraft P-51D Mustang x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84r Frank: 6 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-51D Mustang: 4 destroyed encouraged by the sweeps in India the Allied fly sweeps out of Kwajalein against Kusai where I still have two Frank sentais that are covering convoys going in and out... Mundy as well as so many other players hasn't heard that the dive was fixed so he keeps his fighter keep attacking with a maximum altitude advantage... having the dive, they outright kill 9 Franks for NO loss... hmmm, wasn't the dive, was woodooo... the dive for the Mustangs ended, they kill at least four more Franks but also lose at least the same number of their own... 9:0 with the dive, at best 1:1 without it... it has been fixed and it has no effect in the air routine... CAP engaged: 87th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (0 airborne, 30 on standby, 0 scrambling) 14 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 33910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 104th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (0 airborne, 30 on standby, 0 scrambling) 14 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 33910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kusaie Island , at 125,118 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 50 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84r Frank x 67 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 5 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84r Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed the enemy has also set his Thunderbolt squads to sweep and the funny so called air "routine" decided this time that the lost fragments of each squadron, that usually go in at the end, come in first... 2 dives for the Thuds, 1 kill and 1 damaged Frank, dive ended, another Frank damaged and a Thunderbolt shot down... CAP engaged: 87th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (12 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 12 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 39910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 104th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 23 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 40910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kusaie Island , at 125,118 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 73 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 21 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84r Frank x 58 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 5 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84r Frank: 2 destroyed No Allied losses amazing, 5 Thuds, 4 dives, 3 Franks downed... engagement was over before they ran out of dives... CAP engaged: 87th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 1 scrambling) 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 27000 and 36910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 104th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 22 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 40910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kusaie Island , at 125,118 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84r Frank x 49 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84r Frank: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed for what reason ever this sweep only got 3 dives, resulting in 2 Franks downed with another 2 during the engagement without a dive for either side... also 2 Thuds downed without the dive... CAP engaged: 87th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (1 airborne, 3 on standby, 1 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 10 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 24000 and 36910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 104th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 14 being recalled, 6 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kusaie Island , at 125,118 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84r Frank x 37 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84r Frank: 6 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D25 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed what the previous sweep didn't enjoy all went into this one... hmm... must be overly surprising once more... 18 Thuds and I have counted 16 dives for them during which they instanty took down 13 Franks for NO loss... the dive ended at some point when only a handful P-47 were still over the target and while they shot down another Frank they also lost two and had three more damaged... with the dive due to the strato sweep = 13:0 kill rate, the dive ends and it's a 1:2... surely, the dive AGAIN had no effect here... it must be something else... the dive is always there when we get out of whack kill rates and if the dive isn't there we get kill rates from 1-4:1... but hey, when the dive is always there you can still search for the hundred things you think that are the reason because you know, the dive was fixed and it can't be the reason... CAP engaged: 87th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 27000 and 37910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 104th Sentai with Ki-84r Frank (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 12 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 33910. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes
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