RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy

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castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/9/2007 5:55:43 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/21/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 167 troops unloading over beach at Malang, 22,66 Japanese ground losses: 149 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 118 encounters mine field at Batavia (19,59) Japanese Ships DD Hagikaze, Mine hits 1, on fire with some luck an Allied mine can be enough to sink an IJN DD... not in this case... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 30,47 Japanese Ships DD Nowaki Allied Ships SS Sailfish still no luck with subs against IJN warships... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 33,63 Japanese Ships AP Atuta Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-38 very seldom do we see 2 torps hit, which would 98% of the time be enough to sink a ship... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 43,49 Japanese Ships AP Yubae Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied Ships SS Permit but we are happy if our torps hit AND explode... even if they don´t sink ships... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a lot of mine sweeping is going on... TF 215 encounters mine field at Batavia (19,59) - Coastal Guns Fire Back! TF 215 troops unloading over beach at Batavia, 19,59 thought that the many 120 and 150 mm CD guns would do some serious damage, thought wrong... all well supplied and undamaged... 9 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW Choun Maru #6 MSW W.5 MSW W.4 MSW Ranzan Maru MSW W.6, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru DD Kasasagi DD Sagiri PC Shonan Maru #6 DD Kamo PG Eifuku Maru PG Hashidate DD Kari PC Shonan Maru #7 PG Uji PG Saga PG Sozan Maru Coastal Guns at Batavia, 19,59, firing at TF 215 237 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships DD Kari, Shell hits 1, on fire AP Yamakisan Maru, Shell hits 1 CA Chokai DD Kasasagi, Shell hits 1 CL Isuzu, Shell hits 1 DD Kamo AP Eihuku Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire Japanese ground losses: 695 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported again, the shipping isn´t really hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 167 troops unloading over beach at Malang, 22,66 Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I was wrong with my assumption that Hortlund won´t come in right at Batavia. In fact, I really don´t know why he´s doing that, when he could just land at the empty base right next to Batavia... oh well, serves me good... TF 215 encounters mine field at Batavia (19,59) - Coastal Guns Fire Back! TF 215 troops unloading over beach at Batavia, 19,59 36 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW Choun Maru #6, Shell hits 6, on fire, heavy damage MSW W.5, Shell hits 5, on fire, heavy damage MSW W.4 MSW Ranzan Maru, Shell hits 3 MSW W.6, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Uji PG Hashidate DD Sagiri PC Shonan Maru #7, Mine hits 4, on fire, heavy damage DD Kamo DD Kiji PG Eifuku Maru PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Saga DD Kari some more counterfire this time... Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported Coastal Guns at Batavia, 19,59, firing at TF 215 129 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships DD Kiji, Shell hits 1 CL Isuzu Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Changsha , at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 39 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 45 Ki-30 Ann x 39 Ki-51 Sonia x 16 Ki-36 Ida x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 2 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed, 12 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 31 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 43 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- we try to cover our fleet at Rangoon and moved in nearly 90 P40s! The expected Zero sweep goes in... Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 48 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 23 P-40E Warhawk x 28 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 6 destroyed, 8 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 5 destroyed, 13 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed, 14 damaged The AVG proved more or less useless, 5 Zeroes were destroyed by other fighter squadrons (which have 20 points lower exp)...[8\|] But we can live with a 2:1 kill rate. Nothing to chear but we can live with it at the moment... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 9 Blenheim I x 22 Blenheim IV x 6 Hudson I x 18 No Allied losses Port supply hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Buffalo I bombing at 2000 feet Trying to get some squadrons to exp levels where you can use them (which means 60+). Most of them are around 50 and totally crap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 62 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged Allied ground losses: 324 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 2 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet our flak is pathetic... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Clark Field , at 43,51 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 20 Ki-30 Ann x 23 Ki-21 Sally x 50 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged Ki-21 Sally: 7 damaged Allied ground losses: 61 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 81 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet not many flak guns at Clark... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 8 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 83rd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 21 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 30,73 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Gyoko Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-30 Ann x 16 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 18 P-40E Warhawk x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-30 Ann: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged we have no luck, the Anns come in unescorted from Moulmein but have such a low morale that most turn back... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- now the amazing air battle from todays turn... Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 12 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 18 P-40E Warhawk x 22 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 5 destroyed, 8 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 8 destroyed, 6 damaged Allied Ships AK Edgar Luckenbach, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Selma City, Torpedo hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet The AVG is as useless as a British Buffalo squadron I could put in the air. I lose another 5 Tomahawks from the AVG and then they break off! Break off? It´s their first encounter of enemy fighters and they break off?? They lose 10 fighters today and take down a single enemy fighter... 10:1? Good kill rate for the AVG... [8\|] The Oscars on escort are doing far better than Zeroes on sweep. I expected to be massively attacked and therefor I expected to suffer. But with such more or less small attacks I thought I could hurt my enemy a bit more. The fighters will be in position for one more turn, then the majority of the combat troops from Rangoon will be evacuated... We also see 3 reported CAs 6 hexes South of Rangoon so I expect to see a night surface combat next turn. 2 CAs with 4 DDs in a TF, two PTs in a TF, a MSW in a TF AND a single BB in a TF that is coming in next turn (the one I forgot to include with the DDs in a TF... [8\|]) are awaiting any incoming enemy. I already see my BB being surprised and sunk by long lances... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,67 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 3 T.IVa x 3 Martin 139 x 3 Allied aircraft losses T.IVa: 1 damaged Martin 139: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Natsugumo DD Samidare Aircraft Attacking: 3 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,67 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 10 No Allied losses Japanese Ships CL Jintsu, Bomb hits 2 DD Natsugumo CL Naka Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet we continue to bomb the bullet proof CLs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,67 Allied aircraft Brewster 339D x 2 T.IVa x 2 Martin 139 x 21 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Yudachi CL Jintsu DD Samidare CL Naka, Bomb hits 2 AP Yasukuni Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet same here, most of the bombers went after the CLs that they can´t hurt anyway. The two bomb hits on the AP didn´t really hurt it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 30,73 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Hayashio Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Manila at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 6 No Japanese losses Allied Ships PT PT-34, Shell hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x A5M4 Claude attacking at 100 feet looks like a baby carrier is refuelling in the South Philipines. The shell hits must be FOW as the PT has now 1 point of sys dam. It´s the last PT in the Philipines... they fought VERY WELL! [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft Ki-30 Ann x 8 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 13 P-40E Warhawk x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed the Anns come in again, but the low morale causes them to turn back immediately... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 11,75 Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 13 B5N Kate x 14 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Hosang AK Empire Mist, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Barracuda, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet damn, a baby carrier was spotted West of Java but I forgot an empty cargo TF that would have had no problem to evade the carrier. The 20 ships of the TF are now scattered into 2 and 3 ship TFs of which most will try to flee to Perth with the others going towards Broome and Darwin... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Rangoon at 29,34 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 4 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 13 P-40E Warhawk x 11 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged Allied Ships CA Exeter Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet the Oscars come in again, take down an AVG fighter - then AVG breaks off. The bombers went in to torp the Exeter but one bomber is shot down, the others miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 33,64 Japanese Ships AP Ayato Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Otori Allied Ships SS S-37 two torp hits... a big IJN AP is history...[&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Muntok at 21,55 Japanese Ships MSW W.14 MSW W.13 Allied Ships SS KXIII -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Waingapu Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1607 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 41 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 37 - adjusted assault: 11 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 11 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Waingapu base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1618 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1962 Defending force 73980 troops, 448 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1664 Allied ground losses: 66 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hong Kong Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 25881 troops, 203 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 475 Defending force 13223 troops, 105 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 234 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Japanese max assault: 472 - adjusted assault: 123 Allied max defense: 256 - adjusted defense: 507 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese ground losses: 426 casualties reported Guns lost 11 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 90 casualties reported Guns lost 4 forts are reduced again, but our troops hold out... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 641 Defending force 36580 troops, 173 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 852 Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at San Marcelino Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 13300 troops, 273 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 505 Defending force 6129 troops, 62 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 171 Japanese max assault: 500 - adjusted assault: 445 Allied max defense: 133 - adjusted defense: 85 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 64 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Allied ground losses: 54 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! damn, Hortlund landed another division and only one of my inf units (of course the smaller one) was able to get out of the base quickly enough. A PA division is shredded due to the attack. The low casualties are really misleading as a retreat causes huge losses... In a couple of days the last reinforcement at Bataan arrives and then I´m considering to retreat from Clark into Manila while the other troops will still block the units in the wooden hex South of Manila. The only problem I see is if Hortlund decides to let my troops just rot and he only uses a brigade or two to block me and use my troops as training targets for his airforce training programm... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Malacca Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 22312 troops, 253 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 862 Defending force 14949 troops, 121 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 294 Japanese max assault: 504 - adjusted assault: 280 Allied max defense: 266 - adjusted defense: 197 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Japanese ground losses: 239 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 73 casualties reported Guns lost 4 ohh ohh... a 1:1 is not good news. Hopefully Hortlund will rest his troops next turn. My units are ordered already to get out of the hex and retreat to the South, which will take TWO turns... wow, looks like I made it possible to see Malaya, Burma, the Philipines and Java being lost at the end of December... not to talk about the Changsha area... good god - I really suck... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 5958 troops, 205 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 374 Defending force 29311 troops, 229 guns, 111 vehicles, Assault Value = 673 Allied ground losses: 102 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pagan Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1300 troops, 0 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 51 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 51 - adjusted assault: 53 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Pagan base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hollandia Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 548 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 28 - adjusted assault: 5 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Hollandia base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Batavia Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 6626 troops, 82 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 186 Defending force 10213 troops, 111 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 213 Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Guns lost 2 a single brigade was landed. Wonder if it will be enough to shock attack me out, or if he will bring more units. Don´t know what terrain Batavia is but I hope it´s wooden as we don´t have forts to cause some trouble... The only reason we have still "a lot" of troops at Batavia is the fact that we want to try to damage as many oil, ressource points as possible. 100 damaged ressource points are worse for the Japanese than one or two weeks more fighting in Java... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Malang Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 5607 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 145 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 80 - adjusted assault: 21 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Malang base !!! Only parts of the 48th division were landed at Malang. With the 100 assault points at Kragen the Japanese have now around 250 assault points in the Soerabaja area. We have around 150 with lots of base forces and obsolete aircrafts. What we fear the most are IJN BB bombardments of Soerabaja... The air losses of this turn. As you can see, the Japanese lost more planes today. The fighter losses were 2:1 in favour of the Japanese which seems not to be as bad also, but our fighters are worn down quickly, whith the AVG already being completely useless due to low morale. Why it has such a low morale, I don´t know... perhaps being set to training 0% in India is a morale killer.... [8\|] [image]local://upfiles/13774/D51F714A76BF40DF9A31A88B7512B41B.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/12/2007 5:58:37 PM)
I lost the combat report for 12/22/41 as it was overwritten by the new one. We saw another Zero sweep to Rangoon which first failed to find the target, then it came in and the Japanese lost 4 Zeroes with 4 US P40 lost also. Some more Zeroes were damaged and another 2 crashed. The 3 reported CAs proved to be only DDs which tried to intercept my fleeing evacuation fleet but missed by one hex. This turn was a very good turn for my subs, which once again IMO proves that the PH attack is (in the game) worse than a Manila attack to take out all those subs. No ships were sunk at PH, though nearly 200 planes destroyed on the ground. All (95%) fleeing ships from the Philipinese were sunk but most from Java, Malaya made it out. If Hortlund wouldn´t have invaded Palmyra, Johnston and Christmas Island then there wouldn´t have been a reason why KB should be in the Hawaian area. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/23/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coastal Guns at Batavia, 19,59, firing at TF 194 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 194 encounters mine field at Batavia (19,59) TF 194 troops unloading over beach at Batavia, 19,59 36 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships PG Myoken Maru Japanese ground losses: 158 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,54 Japanese Ships AP Ayaha Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Trusty British sub sinks an AP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Batavia at 19,59 Japanese Ships DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Michishio CA Atago BB Kongo Allied Ships SS KX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Muntok at 21,55 Japanese Ships AK Toa Maru #2 DD Yugiri DD Ayanami DD Asagiri MSW W.2 MSW W.1 PC Shimushu Allied Ships SS KXIII torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 27,33 Japanese Ships DD Uranami DD Shikinami DD Amagiri Allied Ships MSW Patna, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk The IJN DDs that were sent near Rangoon were able to end up in the same hex as the poor MSW Patna - she was surprised and sunk by long lances... only one MSW and an AK was lost during my evacuation of Rangoon. Was able to bring out 300 assault points. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,53 Japanese Ships AP Imizu Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS KXVII another transport is sunk!! [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,51 Japanese Ships AP Aiyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Truant and another one... [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 88 troops unloading over beach at Kuantan, 24,47 Japanese ground losses: 323 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 88 troops unloading over beach at Kuantan, 24,47 Japanese ground losses: 207 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Palembang at 20,55 Japanese Ships MSW Choun Maru #7 PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru MSW W.4 PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru DD Kari CL Kashii DD Sagiri Allied Ships SS Sculpin, hits 2 Sculpin meets a super escort and is hit by one real hit and a near miss... nearly 50 floatation, will retire to Singapore... was able to save more ships at Singapore already as Hortlund never even attempted to attack disbanded ships there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Toboali at 22,57 Japanese Ships MSW W.5, heavy damage MSW Choun Maru #6, heavy damage DD Hagikaze Allied Ships SS KXI -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Batavia at 19,59 Japanese Ships DD Michishio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki CA Takao BB Haruna BB Kongo Allied Ships SS KX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kendari at 33,71 Japanese Ships AP Gyoko Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS KVIII again a precious AP is hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Changsha , at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 39 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 45 Ki-30 Ann x 30 Ki-51 Sonia x 10 Ki-36 Ida x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 7 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 3 destroyed, 10 damaged Ki-36 Ida: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet 18 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet would like to take some Nates down... but my flak fails to achieve that so far... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 25 Hurricane IIb x 14 Blenheim I x 22 Blenheim IV x 9 Hudson I x 11 No Allied losses Port hits 3 Port supply hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Buffalo I bombing at 2000 feet 3 x Buffalo I bombing at 2000 feet Hortlund provided me with a training ground, so the RAF and RAAF is doing some training to be prepared for an expected drive on India by the Japanese... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 59 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 12 damaged Allied ground losses: 179 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet 10 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet 8 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet Sallies prove to be tough also... a couple are lost to ops though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Clark Field , at 43,51 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 19 Ki-30 Ann x 15 Ki-21 Sally x 42 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Ki-21 Sally: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 50 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 67 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet 14 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet Anns suffer the most from flak so far... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 62nd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 20 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet my corps are training targets for the IJA... Don´t have that much of a problem with high exp. bomber pilots, what I fear are the high exp. fighter pilots... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 28th Indian Brigade, at 22,49 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 6 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 30 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 34 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 6 x G3M Nell bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 24,70 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Asashio, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet Asashio already was heavily damaged, now she is finished... Perhaps a dozen IJN ships sink this turn... [&o] I really wonder why I haven´t seen an IJN bombardment on Soerabaja nor an air attack by Zeroes/Nells/Betties... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 23,61 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 8 Brewster 339D x 10 Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Yuzan Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 18,58 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 24 G3M Nell x 6 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Sibolga, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet a damaged AK that tried to escape from Batavia port was attacked and sunk by Nells out of Palembang... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 23,61 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Amakusa Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Japanese ground losses: 61 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet a big AP that sunk later also... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 24,70 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 6 Brewster 339D x 7 Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Yasukuni Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet like this AP sunk also... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Batavia at 19,59 Japanese Ships AP Haaburu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Myoken Maru PG Kiso Maru Allied Ships SS KX another sub hits today... lot of targets around... [:D] really love to see those APs hit...[&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooops....................... Sub attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-171 Allied Ships CV Saratoga DD Talbot DD Dent DD Crosby I-171 fires a salvo of two torps at Saratoga but misses. I was lucky, but in this game it equals out so far as we had a lot of torp misses on major IJN vessels. We had to retire Saratoga to Canton to pick up the 8000 fuel there. She will now sprint to Pago Pago to meet the other two CVs. In a week or so we will have the USMC div completely unloaded at Canton and 40.000 fuel at Pago Pago as well as tens of thousands supplies. A USMC def btn will unload at Pago Pago in a week and a RCT in three weeks. Then, both targets will be tough to take if not really a LOT of material is brought there. No super fast attack with a nav guard possible then. Also the loss of shipping should be substantial then as on both islands are at least 30+ 5 inch or 155mm CD guns. [:D] Forts are being built and our troops are further preparing. Still don´t know what KB is doing as our Catalinas haven´t spotted them for a couple of turns, nor did we get any "Val sights sub at xy" messages. Perhaps KB retires to Truk or so. With New Caledonia in Japanese hands KB could perhaps support an attack on New Zealand, which would isolate Australia. This would mean I would go right through the Pacific (hard to do - if not impossible - with carriers only and a lot of leakers) or through the Aleutans, which seems a bit gamey to me as the game allows far more operations up there as was possible in real life IMO. Another option would then be Pago Pago - Fidjis - New Caledonia and cut off the Japanese in New Zealand. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships PC Ch 32 AP Anzan Maru AP Matsukawa Maru AP Ozan Maru AP Waura Maru Allied Ships PT PT-34 Once again I fail to give the right orders as I have set the last PT on patrol do not retire. She fires her torps but misses at daylight... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- another round... nothing happens... Day Time Surface Combat, near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships PC Takunan Maru #5 PC Ch 13 PC Ch 14 PC Ch 16 PC Ch 17 PC Ch 18 Allied Ships PT PT-34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Batavia, at 19,59 Japanese Ships DD Sanae DD Kuretake DD Mikazuki CL Kinu CL Yura BB Yamashiro BB Fuso Allied ground losses: 1201 casualties reported Guns lost 28 Vehicles lost 2 Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 5 Port hits 7 ouch.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Batavia at 19,59 Japanese Ships DD Mikazuki BB Fuso Allied Ships SS KX -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1672 troops, 51 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1981 Defending force 74484 troops, 460 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1674 Allied ground losses: 317 casualties reported today, Changsha was cut off and we don´t have a supply or retreat path. Forts are soon at 4, further increasing, most troops there 100% prepped, a couple of HQs (support green) AND I get auto supply at that base, which means it could be really hard to starve my troops there (wonder if Hortlund knows that I get auto supply there). [:D] We now hope that a couple of attacks can be repulsed while our troops can get out of the mountains and jungles to bring 2000 more assault points to the Changsha area. Then we will attack the weakest spot in the chain around Changsha, as Hortlund can´t put more than 2 or max. 3 divisions in one hex (if he even has that many around there already). He uses the trick of splitting his divisions so that I see more units when I hover over the unit stacks... Our offensive towards Kaifeng goes on in the meantime, as well as 1500 assault points have left Ichang to the East.... of course offensive actions are limited by our far too low supply levels but we can easily kick around one or one and a half IJA divisions... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 644 Defending force 29279 troops, 121 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 633 Allied ground losses: 63 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6016 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 388 Defending force 24762 troops, 177 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 553 Allied ground losses: 167 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Rangoon Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 23736 troops, 266 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 541 Defending force 8902 troops, 67 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 18 Allied ground losses: 195 casualties reported Wonder why Hortlund didn´t order an immediate shock attack, as he must be sure about me trying to evac my troops (which I already succesfully did). I had 31 damaged P40s there, was able to bring more than a dozen out this turn. So we expect to lose a good dozen P40s tomorrow as well as parts of the inf units there and a couple of understrenght base forces... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tomini Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 441 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 28 - adjusted assault: 5 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tomini base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pomala Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 452 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 26 - adjusted assault: 8 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Pomala base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Batavia Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 5952 troops, 60 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 172 Defending force 22700 troops, 174 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 394 Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Batavia is expected to fall soon, the troops will surrender as we don´t have a retreat path... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Banjarmasin Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 146 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8 Defending force 496 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 34 Allied max assault: 3 - adjusted assault: 0 Japanese max defense: 29 - adjusted defense: 13 Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied ground losses: 43 casualties reported thought Banjamarsin would only have two dozens paras or so... which would also have had no problem to repulse the attack... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Merak Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 13 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 2 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Merak base !!! 13 troops... ???????? Hurrey, those para attacks get smaller and smaller... the sub invasions I´ve seen were most often 10 or 20 times bigger than those para drops... 13 soldiers couldn´t take such a base and hold it, not even against third line troops...[8\|][8\|] A BIG issue I have at the moment is the fact that my forts at Singapore are BUGGED!!! [8\|] Hurrey again! We have 200+ eng and a dozen vehicles there for a dozen turns but after the forts increased to level 0 48% they just stopped to further increase... makes it easy to take Singapore then, when I´m hit by a "can´t build forts" bug... will this ever stop? 17.000 supplies, no damage to port, airfield, airbase... eng and combat eng at the base... OH WELL... checked it for the last 4 turns, never increasing, will check it also the next turns...

ny59giants -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/12/2007 7:23:53 PM)
I'm at 12/18/41 with John 3rd and the only think unexpected is the use of his subs. He has 2 or 3 at key ports (like all around Java) and with very few ASW ships (those with an ASW of 1 don't count [;)]), I have yet to find a good counter strategy (this is Big B's v1.4). I will probably use the Flush Decks as they have the best at 4 for the Americans and have yet to get a British group together. I miss the CHS game in which my Clemson DD's upgrade on 1/42 to finsih with an ASW of 8. This tactics would be short lived. I can read your AAR and it makes me feel I'm not suffering as much. [:D][:D] My shipping from Manila is much like yours...sunk [:(]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/12/2007 7:28:28 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants I'm at 12/18/41 with John 3rd and the only think unexpected is the use of his subs. He has 2 or 3 at key ports (like all around Java) and with very few ASW ships (those with an ASW of 1 don't count [;)]), I have yet to find a good counter strategy (this is Big B's v1.4). I will probably use the Flush Decks as they have the best at 4 for the Americans and have yet to get a British group together. I miss the CHS game in which my Clemson DD's upgrade on 1/42 to finsih with an ASW of 8. This tactics would be short lived. I can read your AAR and it makes me feel I'm not suffering as much. [:D][:D] My shipping from Manila is much like yours...sunk [:(] so far, the IJN subs weren´t a problem, not nearly as effective as my subs... [:D] if nothing really bad happens then I´m confident so far. All those bases I lost so far were lost because they were empty (not possible to reinforce within the first couple of days...)[:D], we will see what happens when Hortlund attacks the first target that is well defended...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/13/2007 8:03:45 PM)
again a turn when we were able to hit a lot of IJN shipping... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/24/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Palembang at 20,55 Japanese Ships AP Iwaki Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage MSW Wa 3 Allied Ships SS KXIII sinks immediately... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kuantan at 24,47 Japanese Ships PC Ch 3 PC Ch 1 PC Shonan Maru #2 MSW W.18 MSW W.17 MSW W.10 Allied Ships SS Spearfish, hits 4 1 real hit, 3 near misses... will try to make Singapore harbour... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,58 Japanese Ships AP Hakutetsu Maru #13, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Skipjack MK14 fail to detonate... ship sunk later though...[:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kragen at 22,63 Japanese Ships BB Kongo BB Haruna CA Takao CA Atago DD Michishio, Shell hits 2 DD Akatsuki DD Hibiki Allied Ships PT TM-12 PT TM-13, Shell hits 3, and is sunk PT TM-14 PT TM-15 both TFs spot each other but two PTs launch their torps first but all miss (aimed at DDs...)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kendari at 33,71 Japanese Ships DD Yamakaze DD Kawakaze Allied Ships CL Java, Shell hits 3 sent in the damaged Java (15 sys) to mop up some TFs at Kendari as it seemed that there is not a lot of Japanese airforce... Java is hit from 8000 yards with 5 inch shells that weren´t able to penetrate her armour. All salvos in return missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kragen at 22,63 Japanese Ships BB Kongo BB Haruna CA Takao CA Atago DD Michishio DD Akatsuki DD Hibiki Allied Ships PT TM-12 PT TM-14 PT TM-15, Shell hits 1 another round and TM-15 is hit by a 5 inch shell... IMO such a hit should sink a PT but she isn´t even listed as heavily damaged. Not FOW though as she has around 30 sys damage now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kendari at 33,71 Japanese Ships DD Yamakaze DD Kawakaze Allied Ships CL Java, Shell hits 1 another round at Kendari with a shell hit on Java that didn´t penetrate and all salvos in return missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Palembang at 20,55 Japanese Ships AP Hakozake Maru PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji Allied Ships SS KXIII, hits 1 one real hit... the sub will try to make Singapore... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 24,57 Japanese Ships DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Michishio Allied Ships SS Sargo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 28,48 Japanese Ships DD Fumizuki, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Minazuki DD Satsuki DD Nagatsuki CVE Taiyo Allied Ships SS Sailfish Sailfish puts a MK14 into Fumizuki that could be in trouble now (7 or 8 hexes to the next port 6). Escort carrier Taiyo also in this TF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 37,60 Japanese Ships AP Ayato Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-40 Ayato Maru goes down immediately after 3 out of 4 torps hitting the big AP... [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,57 Japanese Ships DD Michishio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki Allied Ships SS Sargo Sargo misses Michishio... in return all DDs fail to locate the sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Batavia at 19,59 Japanese Ships AK Toa Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire MSW W.2 MSW W.1 PC Shimushu DD Yugiri DD Asagiri DD Ayanami Allied Ships SS KXVIII, hits 3 and another transport is hit... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 20,59 Japanese Ships AP Syoryu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Myoken Maru PG Kiso Maru Allied Ships SS KX, hits 4, on fire and another one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Changsha , at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 34 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 Ki-30 Ann x 26 Ki-51 Sonia x 11 Ki-36 Ida x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 1 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 13 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 41 Hurricane IIb x 13 Blenheim I x 28 Blenheim IV x 24 Hudson I x 11 Beaufort V-IX x 3 P-26A x 8 No Allied losses Port hits 2 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Buffalo I bombing at 2000 feet this was a mistake! I ordered my aircraft on port attack only but to my BIG surprise Hortlund sent his three DDs to Akyab. Obviously a combined attack on my evac to Diamond Harbour and a evacuation fast transport to Akyab to pick up his 500 paras there. 50 bombers put on naval attack/port attack could have perhaps caught a DD or two... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Rahaeng , at 31,35 Allied aircraft B-17C Fortress x 10 Allied aircraft losses B-17C Fortress: 5 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-17C Fortress bombing at 11000 feet a lot of flak at Rahaeng and we lose 2 out of 10 B-17... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 54 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 20 damaged Allied ground losses: 266 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Vehicles lost 4 Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet 6 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Clark Field , at 43,51 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 26 C5M Babs x 3 Ki-30 Ann x 14 Ki-21 Sally x 40 Ki-48 Lily x 46 Ki-46-II Dinah x 2 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged C5M Babs: 1 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 2 damaged Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged Ki-48 Lily: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 24 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 131 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 9 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 62nd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 18 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 19 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 27,65 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 11 Brewster 339D x 10 Martin 139 x 42 Allied aircraft losses Martin 139: 2 damaged Japanese Ships AP Senkai Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire APD APD-46 AP Tonan Maru, Bomb hits 3 AP Ural Maru, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage AP Mizuho Maru Japanese ground losses: 163 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet now that was a nice one! Our search planes weren´t able to spot the BBs at Kragen and therefor a loaded transport TF is attacked with lots of bombers. Even though they only drop 250 lb bombs we inflict some damage as I expect Ural Maru to sink... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 25,69 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Husimi Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet Husimi Maru sinks later in the day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Kragen at 22,63 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 4 Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Yamato Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 16,57 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 18 G3M Nell x 8 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Sibolga, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 30,29 Allied aircraft Swordfish x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Amagiri, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Uranami Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Swordfish bombing at 5000 feet 4 x Swordfish bombing at 5000 feet only half a dozen Swordfish were set to naval attack and one manages to put a 500 lb bomb into Amagiri. Next turn all my bombers are set to naval attack but it´s 5 hexes to Akyab and I guess those DDs will be out of range when my bombers will take off... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 27,65 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 6 Brewster 339D x 4 Martin 139 x 36 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Tonan Maru, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage APD APD-46, Bomb hits 3, on fire AP Tatuwa Maru AP Ural Maru, Bomb hits 11, on fire, heavy damage AP Mizuho Maru Japanese ground losses: 319 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet Ural maru is hit with 19 250 lb bombs today. Another AP is hit also as well as the high ASW value APD-46... nice one. TF is still 5 hexes out of Kragen which is the expected harbour it will head to, which means if Hortlund doesn´t move his bullet proof battleships or cruisers into range 5 from Soerabaja then the Martins will go in again next turn to shoot the TF up some more - if weather allows it...[;)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 31,73 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 11 Allied aircraft losses Hudson I: 2 damaged Japanese Ships DD Hayashio AP Eiko Maru AP Heiwa Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet Hudsons attack a TF that is probably heading to the last Dutch base on Timor (the one in the West). They all miss and another 6 Hudsons are moved there but I don´t expect to do much damage and can´t move in more bombers as we only have 12 air support at the base... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships AP Maya Maru MSW Musashi Maru MSW Hinode Maru #20 Allied Ships SS Pickerel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Batavia Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 22796 troops, 175 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 396 Defending force 14464 troops, 94 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 171 Japanese max assault: 357 - adjusted assault: 119 Allied max defense: 159 - adjusted defense: 116 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Japanese ground losses: 357 casualties reported Guns lost 9 Allied ground losses: 319 casualties reported Guns lost 2 the base won´t last long... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 100270 troops, 1090 guns, 157 vehicles, Assault Value = 1999 Defending force 74075 troops, 461 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1674 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese max assault: 2045 - adjusted assault: 872 Allied max defense: 1768 - adjusted defense: 1795 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese ground losses: 1799 casualties reported Guns lost 46 Vehicles lost 5 Allied ground losses: 3397 casualties reported Guns lost 25 again the Japanese are able to reduce a fort level... [8\|] I was shocked by the high Allied losses even when the Japanese get a 0:1 [8\|] Watching that, I thought the base will fall in no time, but after looking at my troops I discovered that "only" my 5 HQ units that are the first units in the stack were shredded. The first one went down from something like 90/100 to 39/97... [8\|] my inf units didn´t suffer at all but the attack did cost us 3000 supplies... [X(][X(][X(] The fort level again went up to 3 this turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 649 Defending force 29316 troops, 120 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 633 Allied ground losses: 51 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 5996 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 393 Defending force 24788 troops, 176 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 545 Allied ground losses: 82 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 4 In three days the last unit in the Philipines will arrive (100 av). I´m thinking about moving 300 assault points more to this hex and try a shock attack. Would mean 400 assault points would stay at Clark (fort 0, clear terrain - so we are in extreme danger to be kicked out, all troops preparing for Manila) and 850 would try the shock attack South of Manila. It´s a wooden hex so I´m not sure if I will achieve something. If I could kick the Japanese back then nearly a dozen units would suffer... and then the IJA would need more reinforcements to take the Philipines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Rangoon Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 25291 troops, 265 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 541 Defending force 8921 troops, 69 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Japanese max assault: 541 - adjusted assault: 210 Allied max defense: 20 - adjusted defense: 33 Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon base !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 3 destroyed P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed Vildebeest IV: 2 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 175 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Allied ground losses: 15722 casualties reported Guns lost 40 Vehicles lost 2 not surprising, Rangoon fell today... [:(] a lot of troops surrendered so the IJA did get some good victory points, but I was able to evacuate nearly all combat troops in good condition. Kicked back to Mandalay and then on the trails would have caused more headache if the IJA goes for India. Though I have achieved a new record in losing Burma that early. The evac cost me a MSW, an AK and perhaps 40 P40s... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Mandalay Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1300 troops, 0 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 52 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 96 - adjusted assault: 50 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 50 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Mandalay base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Malacca Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 4666 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 811 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 36 - adjusted assault: 20 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Malacca base !!! 800 assault points will be far to less to take Malaya as this is the same av that I have available and I don´t have to shock attack over the river into Singapore. Though my forts in Singapore didn´t go up, so there´s definetely something bugged. No damage to anything but forts don´t even go up to 1... [8\|] oh well... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kuantan Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 5759 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 55 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 37 - adjusted assault: 76 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 76 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Kuantan base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Banjarmasin Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 483 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33 Defending force 300 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Japanese max assault: 25 - adjusted assault: 14 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SE Borneo Garrison Battalion Wiped Out at Banjarmasin by attrition!!! my units get wiped out one after another but I´m happy about it as this way they can´t serve as training targets for the Japanese airforce later on... I checked the ship losses so far and the Japanese will soon meet our losses points wise as well as in number of ships sunk. More than 30 APs are sunk in not even 3 weeks, most by subs. This is excellent as APs are the most important ships early on for all those invasions (with a lot more damaged). With the reduced cargo capacity in Nikmod this will be even more severe. Though 30 won´t be enough to stop further expansion but at least we hurt our enemy...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/14/2007 4:22:18 PM)
our subs could have had a field day again... without luck, 80% of our torps missed or failed to detonate. The good news today is that Hortlund stated in his email that he already has some big concerns about my subs killing so many ships, as he told me he never had so many losses so early in the game, not able to do something against it... [:D] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/25/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Muntok at 21,55 Japanese Ships AK Kinka Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-39 the turn starts off well...another sub that has expended ALL her torps and is now heading to Singapore to pick up new ones... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,55 Japanese Ships AP Yamakisan Maru DD Hagikaze Allied Ships SS Searaven torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships PC Ch 32 Allied Ships SS Perch torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,55 Japanese Ships AP Eihuku Maru DD Hagikaze Allied Ships SS Searaven torps fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,54 Japanese Ships AK Nako Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AP Asama Maru PC Ch 7 PG Tatsumiya Maru Allied Ships SS Truant Truant is doing a very good job so far, not her first kill... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Muntok at 21,55 Japanese Ships AP Sanura Maru PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW W.4 DD Sagiri CL Isuzu Allied Ships SS Saury torps fail to detonate but the super escort fails to locate the sub in return... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships MSW W.19 Allied Ships SS Perch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Pescadores at 47,43 Japanese Ships PC Ch 12 PC Ch 11 PC Ch 10 PC Ch 6 MSW W.12 MSW W.11 Allied Ships SS Tarpon, hits 6 6 near misses but Tarpon is out of action with 23/9/0... have 7 or 8 subs that are not combat ready anymore but have yet to have a sub sunk... EXCELLENT... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 26,55 Japanese Ships AP Yamakisan Maru DD Hagikaze Allied Ships SS Shark MK14 fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 37 P-26A x 11 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Buffalo I: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged P-26A: 3 damaged Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Buffalo I bombing at 2000 feet oops! Oscars are LRCAPing Akyab from Rangoon and prove to be very effective as I lose 4 of those fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Clark Field , at 43,51 Japanese aircraft C5M Babs x 4 Ki-48 Lily x 37 Ki-46-II Dinah x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48 Lily: 12 damaged Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 57 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet wonder where all the Sallies are... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 9 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 59 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 63rd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 21 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 53,91 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 Allied aircraft losses Hudson I: 2 damaged Japanese Ships CA Aoba Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet Hortlund has parked a couple of CAs at PM... wonder why [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 26,64 Allied aircraft Brewster 339D x 6 Martin 139 x 38 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Tonan Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AP Ural Maru, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage AP Tatuwa Maru, Bomb hits 1 AP Senkai Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage APD APD-46, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage AP Mizuho Maru, Bomb hits 1 Japanese ground losses: 107 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet the former attacked TF is still heading towards Kragen but is mauled again. Seems the Dutch airforce did it´s job before all aircraft will be lost when Soerabaja will surrender... APD-46 is sunk... the APs hit with dozens of 250lb bombs are still afloat but I doubt they will make it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 28,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 14 Allied aircraft losses Hudson I: 1 damaged Japanese Ships AP Heiwa Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire AP Horai Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet The last turn spotted TF isn´t heading to Timor but to a base North of it to pick up some troops. CL Java will replenish next turn at Koepang and then try to intercept this TF. The couple of Hudsons aren´t really a threat... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Kragen at 22,63 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 3 T.IVa x 5 Martin 139 x 2 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Ume Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AP Yuzan Maru Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet 3 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet still no bullet proof IJN ships in range of my bombers from Soerabaja - really surprising... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 30,29 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7 Allied aircraft Swordfish x 7 Hurricane IIb x 16 Blenheim I x 21 Blenheim IV x 19 Hudson I x 10 Beaufort V-IX x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 7 damaged Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb: 3 damaged Blenheim I: 7 damaged Blenheim IV: 3 damaged Hudson I: 2 damaged Japanese Ships DD Uranami DD Shikinami, Bomb hits 2, on fire DD Amagiri, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet 2 x Blenheim IV bombing at 1000 feet 3 x Swordfish bombing at 5000 feet 2 x Blenheim I bombing at 1000 feet WOW, the IJN DDs are still at Akyab and the paras are still at the base. The Oscars fight well and my bombers are all missing. The two hits were achieved by the Swordfish from 5000 ft. [8\|] With that hit rate it will be hard to defend us against an upcoming invasion in India and 2 500lb bombs are not enough to heavily damage a DD. [8\|] A cruiser squadron is sent out next turn to intercept the possible retreat of the DDs but it would be just pure luck to guess the right hex... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 30,29 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 15 B-17C Fortress x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged B-17C Fortress: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Amagiri, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-17C Fortress bombing at 6000 feet Those Oscars are really a deadly weapon! We lose again 3!!! P40s of the AVG... [8\|] 15 AVG P40s against 3 Oscars and we are in real trouble... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 28,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 9 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Horai Maru, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage AP Eiko Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Palembang at 20,55 Japanese Ships AP Choko Maru MSW Wa 3 Allied Ships SS S-39 MK10s fail to detonate... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,55 Japanese Ships MSW Choun Maru #6, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Searaven torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 30,50 Japanese Ships AP Tientsin Maru Allied Ships SS Pike torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,54 Japanese Ships AK Nissyo Maru AP Josho Maru PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW W.4 DD Sagiri Allied Ships SS Truant Truant misses also... unbelievable low hits today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 93 troops unloading over beach at Nauru Island, 79,91 Japanese ground losses: 31 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1626 troops, 46 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1875 Defending force 69086 troops, 429 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1644 Allied ground losses: 69 casualties reported compared to last turn we have 30 lower assault value, the IJa lost 124 assault points. The supply level went up again, so this means the auto supply is working. Forts at 3 (14%) but we don´t even have 200 eng at the base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hong Kong Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 25615 troops, 191 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 456 Defending force 13298 troops, 101 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 240 Japanese max assault: 444 - adjusted assault: 167 Allied max defense: 263 - adjusted defense: 157 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Japanese ground losses: 225 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 277 casualties reported Guns lost 14 Hong Kong will fall soon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 650 Defending force 29340 troops, 120 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 630 Allied ground losses: 97 casualties reported Guns lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 50,31 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 7444 troops, 86 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149 Defending force 79295 troops, 500 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2104 Japanese max assault: 178 - adjusted assault: 0 Allied max defense: 2133 - adjusted defense: 1950 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 2171 casualties reported Guns lost 39 lol, an IJA brigade crossed the river into half a dozen corps of mine. The unit is wrecked and will be further decimated by our attack next turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 5996 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 395 Defending force 24813 troops, 176 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 543 Allied ground losses: 200 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 38,36 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 3815 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 628 Defending force 1956 troops, 6 guns, 125 vehicles, Assault Value = 59 an IJA tank brigade meets some of our corps in a wooden hex North West of Nanning... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2376 troops, 27 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 135 Defending force 1564 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 the two brigades that start out in the jungle in Burma finally entered Taung Gyi this turn. Taung Gyi is defended by a tank brigade... don´t expect to save those two brigades... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Soerabaja Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 5749 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 146 Defending force 15867 troops, 134 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 194 parts of 48 division entered Soerabaja. More units coming from Kragen, expect to lose Soerabaja soon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Banjarmasin Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 503 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33 Defending force 240 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese max assault: 25 - adjusted assault: 8 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kavieng Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 73 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Kavieng base !!! para drops in the Solomons on empty bases... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Sag Sag Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 46 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 4 - adjusted assault: 6 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Sag Sag base !!! paras... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Nauru Island Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 610 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 28 - adjusted assault: 16 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Nauru Island base !!! today the forts at Singapore went up 11%... [8\|] While it´s good news that they are now increasing, they only increased 11% - with a fort level of 0!!!! There are 300+ eng and 30 eng vehicles so I would expect to see the fort level going up FASTER... [:(]

Kereguelen -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/14/2007 5:21:26 PM)
Castor, excellent play with your subs! Some of them should be quite experienced by now. Subs are always quite deadly against an agressive Japanese opponent like Hortlund, if properly employed by someone who understands the art of sub warfare. Should be interesting to see if such early successes really hurt Japanese troop transport capacities in CHS. K

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/14/2007 6:24:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Kereguelen Castor, excellent play with your subs! Some of them should be quite experienced by now. Subs are always quite deadly against an agressive Japanese opponent like Hortlund, if properly employed by someone who understands the art of sub warfare. Should be interesting to see if such early successes really hurt Japanese troop transport capacities in CHS. K thanks! Haven´t tracked their experience but when I look at what they hit, oh well... lot´s of torps just miss their targets (mostly slow transports). But I´m absolutely happy with their performance so far. Nice to see so many APs sinking but I fear Hortlunds troop transport capacity isn´t really hurt yet and targets get fewer as soon all his landings in the DEI are over. We´re playing Nikmod, don´t know how it looks like in CHS. Hortlund stated that follow on invasions will soon start, when Java will be Japanese. The question will be, Australia, India or New Zealand...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/14/2007 6:42:28 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/26/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Batavia, at 19,59 Japanese Ships CA Mikuma CA Mogami CA Kumano CA Suzuya CL Kinu CL Yura BB Yamashiro BB Fuso Allied ground losses: 805 casualties reported Guns lost 16 Vehicles lost 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Port hits 3 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 27,54 Japanese Ships AP Yamakisan Maru DD Hagikaze Allied Ships SS Searaven torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-10 Allied Ships AP Henry T. Allen, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 19 casualties reported Guns lost 1 ouch, the AP sinks but there was no message of USMC div rescued by TF... so Hortlund shouldn´t know that tomorrow the whole division is landed in good condition on Canton Island... should be then a tough nut to crack... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 97 troops unloading over beach at Ndini, 72,101 Japanese ground losses: 44 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 56 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Japanese Ships DD Uranami -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kragen at 22,63 Japanese Ships AP Yuzan Maru Allied Ships SS Trout torps fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Changsha , at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 37 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 Ki-30 Ann x 27 Ki-51 Sonia x 19 Ki-36 Ida x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 2 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 3 damaged Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet the 3 Chinese base forces just can´t put enough flak fire up to really hurt those planes attacking at 2000 ft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 48th Division, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 7 Allied aircraft losses Martin 139: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet will try to disrupt the division, perhaps we can hold out a couple of days longer then...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Port Moresby at 53,91 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 1 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Oboro Aircraft Attacking: 1 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet the reason the cruiser and the DDs are parked at PM is that an invasion TF has just passed Gili Gili. PM isn´t reinforced, so I expect it to fall within the next couple of turns... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Banjarmasin at 27,64 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 2 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Mizuho Maru, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Waingapu at 27,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 13 Allied aircraft losses Hudson I: 1 damaged Japanese Ships AP Eiko Maru AP Heiwa Maru, Bomb hits 1 DD Hayashio Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet the Dutch are far more effective than the Australian... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Kragen at 22,63 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 6 T.IVa x 5 Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Yamato Maru, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AP Ume Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet 3 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 26,65 Allied aircraft Brewster 339D x 5 Martin 139 x 8 No Allied losses Japanese Ships CL Sendai DD Hokaze DD Shirakumo Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet Hortlund has now a bullet proof CL next to my airfield... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 26,65 Allied aircraft CW-21B Demon x 4 Brewster 339D x 2 Martin 139 x 15 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Shirakumo CL Sendai, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet and now my bombers are going after a target that can´t be hurt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Akyab , at 30,29 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 9 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 15 Blenheim I x 18 Blenheim IV x 15 Hudson I x 3 Beaufort V-IX x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 6 damaged Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Blenheim I: 7 damaged Blenheim IV: 3 damaged Hudson I: 3 damaged Beaufort V-IX: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Blenheim I bombing at 1000 feet no sense in further doing these attacks. Those Oscars have been Uber weapons so far and I lose again 5 aircraft A2A for no Oscar lost... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Waingapu at 27,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Heiwa Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Kragen at 22,63 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 6 CW-21B Demon x 6 Brewster 339D x 6 Martin 139 x 2 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Yamato Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 29,73 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Horai Maru, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 26,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 23 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Hokaze, Bomb hits 2, on fire CL Sendai, Bomb hits 1 DD Shirakumo Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet most Martins tried to bomb the CL but 3 succesfully attacked DD Hokaze and put two small ping pong bombs into it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 27,54 Japanese Ships MSW Choun Maru #6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Searaven the MSW is blown out of the water by two exploding MK14s... would like to see exploding hits on transports, not on those mini MSWs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Kragen at 22,63 Japanese Ships AP Ume Maru AP Yamato Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk Allied Ships PT TM-12, Shell hits 3, on fire PT TM-14 PT TM-15 one PT was shot up by 13mm counterfire and is out of action... we sink an AP that was already in a sinking condition... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Legaspi at 44,55 Japanese Ships AK Eizan Maru Allied Ships SS Porpoise torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Biak Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1178 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 5 - adjusted assault: 2 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Biak base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Batavia Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 22440 troops, 164 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 378 Defending force 11676 troops, 57 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 146 Japanese max assault: 337 - adjusted assault: 235 Allied max defense: 116 - adjusted defense: 50 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Batavia base !!! Japanese ground losses: 98 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Allied ground losses: 19260 casualties reported Guns lost 79 Batavia falls and those two brigades will help to take Soerabaja easily... must have done a lot wrong so far as all the SRA seems to fall within 4 weeks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1620 troops, 47 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2286 Defending force 69368 troops, 447 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1656 Allied ground losses: 160 casualties reported another division moved into Changsha. Seems that Hortlund doesn´t care about my offensive in the North as he keeps bringing troops to Changsha in the South... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hong Kong Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 25446 troops, 182 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 448 Defending force 12940 troops, 83 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 236 Japanese max assault: 436 - adjusted assault: 580 Allied max defense: 229 - adjusted defense: 191 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Japanese ground losses: 141 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Allied ground losses: 102 casualties reported Guns lost 6 my troops are nearly undamaged but Hong Kong will fall soon also... Have seen it often enough that one division is NOT enough to take Hong Kong. In this case it was no problem for Hortlund - this without any air attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 651 Defending force 29200 troops, 112 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 629 Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6016 troops, 207 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 402 Defending force 24697 troops, 173 guns, 95 vehicles, Assault Value = 544 Allied ground losses: 42 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 38,36 Allied Shock attack Attacking force 19519 troops, 141 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 625 Defending force 1946 troops, 6 guns, 124 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Allied max assault: 1148 - adjusted assault: 106 Japanese max defense: 57 - adjusted defense: 25 Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 42 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Vehicles lost 4 Allied ground losses: 294 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! we kicked out the tank brigade we met last turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 50,31 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 69328 troops, 500 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2347 Defending force 4638 troops, 28 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Allied max assault: 2056 - adjusted assault: 2821 Japanese max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 2 Allied assault odds: 1410 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 207 casualties reported Guns lost 9 Allied ground losses: 42 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! and the brigade that last turn shock attacked over the river is further wrecked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Allied Shock attack Attacking force 4855 troops, 45 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 135 Defending force 1552 troops, 0 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 57 Allied max assault: 242 - adjusted assault: 7 Japanese max defense: 57 - adjusted defense: 113 Allied assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese ground losses: 3 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 442 casualties reported Guns lost 12 my two brigades in the middle of Burma are lost...[:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Admiralty Islands Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 86 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 0 - adjusted assault: 2 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Admiralty Islands base !!! paras... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Buka Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 53 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Buka base !!! paras... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Soerabaja Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 5747 troops, 10 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 225 Defending force 16037 troops, 136 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 199 Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Banjarmasin Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 499 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52 Defending force 220 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese max assault: 25 - adjusted assault: 27 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1 Allied ground losses: 281 casualties reported

2ndACR -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/14/2007 6:53:40 PM)
I am Hortland's Japanese opponent using this same mod. Transport losses can hurt, but not as much as you hope. In one game, I have lost 80+ transports, and can still lift 2 1/2 divisions anywhere I want. Hardest part is massing the transports. And those are the small/medium transports. Of course I have 80 or so AP's in the body shop. (note, these losses are not against Hortland). Watch for surface fights...............he loves surface actions. Not sure about this now that I think about it...............He is always allies against me. You are doing nothing really wrong.............I have taken all major bases in the SRA and it is Feb 42. Only Manilla and Timor stands. The key as the Japanese is to use mass. I classify the PI as a side show really and it only gets 3 div at start............the 38th moves to help out after HK falls.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/14/2007 8:33:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: 2ndACR I am Hortland's Japanese opponent using this same mod. Transport losses can hurt, but not as much as you hope. In one game, I have lost 80+ transports, and can still lift 2 1/2 divisions anywhere I want. Hardest part is massing the transports. And those are the small/medium transports. Of course I have 80 or so AP's in the body shop. (note, these losses are not against Hortland). Watch for surface fights...............he loves surface actions. Not sure about this now that I think about it...............He is always allies against me. You are doing nothing really wrong.............I have taken all major bases in the SRA and it is Feb 42. Only Manilla and Timor stands. The key as the Japanese is to use mass. I classify the PI as a side show really and it only gets 3 div at start............the 38th moves to help out after HK falls. Yeah, those AP losses won´t stop him at all, but as mentioned, he starts thinking about it. So perhaps invasions in the near future will be better protected and not everywhere at once (with the lack of targets it´s easily to focus then anyway [:D]), so perhaps I get some more time. Time is all I need and every week counts! I expected an invasion of Canton Island, Pago Pago and the Fidjis already but it came "late" - or it will never come (though I don´t understand the attack on Johnston or Palmyra then) - as Canton now has a USMC division. Next will be Pago Pago and if Hortlund doesn´t go for the Fidjis it will be reinforced also, but I have no ships at the West coast to pick up a unit at all. I love surface fights too! So far I´m happy in how they went and it seems I´m more the one who seeks for them... [8D]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/16/2007 11:42:49 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/27/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships MSW W.19 Allied Ships SS Perch torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 222 troops unloading over beach at Umnak Island, 102,36 Japanese ground losses: 244 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 222 troops unloading over beach at Umnak Island, 102,36 Japanese ground losses: 195 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 7 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Japanese Ships DD Amagiri Amagiri clears a couple of mines... would be cool to see her hit one... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 22,65 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 26 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 7 CW-21B Demon x 8 Brewster 339D x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses Hawk 75A: 3 damaged CW-21B Demon: 6 damaged Brewster 339D: 11 destroyed the expected massacre of my fighters over Soerabaja... came far later then expected though. The loss rate of 11 Dutch fighters for not a single Zero shot down isn´t encouraging... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 8 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 62nd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 18 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 31 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Brigade, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 7 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 35 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Labao at 29,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 2 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Heiwa Maru, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Banjarmasin at 27,64 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 2 Allied aircraft losses Martin 139: 1 damaged Japanese Ships AP Senkai Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 25,63 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Hokaze, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet our Martins became ship busters in the last couple of weeks... started off real bad but I´m really satisfied by what they achieved so far. When all those planes will be lost, we will still have achieved more points by sinking enemy shipping than we have lost due to the destruction of our aircraft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 22,62 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 9 CW-21B Demon x 8 Brewster 339D x 10 T.IVa x 5 Martin 139 x 22 Allied aircraft losses T.IVa: 4 damaged Martin 139: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged Japanese Ships BB Yamashiro BB Fuso, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CA Kumano, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet Hortlund has now a bullet proof BB/CA TF in range of my bombers! The Martins mostly miss but they also destroy a 8 inch turret of the Kumano and a turret of the secondary armament onboard the Fuso... And we still have an ace left that Hortlund didn´t expect! While he is save from our level bombers, we still have half a dozen obsolete torp bombers left (exp around 60) of which one puts a torp into Fuso which should send her into the repair yards... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 23,61 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Ume Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet another AP is hit... if just those 250lb bombs would do some damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,44 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK St. Quentin, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet we sent three AKs with 2250 supplies each to Singapore. One is sunk two days before entering Singapore port... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 22,62 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 5 CW-21B Demon x 3 Brewster 339D x 3 T.IVa x 3 Martin 139 x 17 Allied aircraft losses T.IVa: 2 damaged Martin 139: 9 damaged Japanese Ships CA Mogami CA Suzuya, Bomb hits 2 CL Yura BB Fuso, on fire BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,42 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Tai Sang, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet the second AK to Singapore is sunk also... 6 torps is pretty much overkill... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,52 Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 9 B5N Kate x 15 No Japanese losses Allied Ships TK Empire Flint, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage TK British Motorist, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet damn, we sent two TKs from India to Australia as Australia really lacks fuel. The TKs weren´t spotted the last two turns but this turn they end up in the same hex as a IJN baby carrier... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Waingapu at 27,74 Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses C.XI-W: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships DD Hayashio AP Eiko Maru Allied Ships CL Java, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk oh man... [8\|] we sent in Java in daylight to have a fight at a good range. Result is that Java missed with a dozen salvos of her 5.9 ich guns and in return DD Hayashio puts a torp into my cruiser at a range of 16.000 yards... are those Dutch sailors dumb or blind??? The torp hits and Java is immediately sunk by a mag explosion... The Dutch light cruiser Java, victim of a Japanese long lance... [image]local://upfiles/13774/1095DD22916C49BEB3A2D191160D6795.gif[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 135 troops unloading over beach at San Jose, 41,53 Japanese ground losses: 39 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1648 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2292 Defending force 69034 troops, 458 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1658 Allied ground losses: 202 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hong Kong Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 25066 troops, 170 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 430 Defending force 12949 troops, 81 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 233 Japanese max assault: 414 - adjusted assault: 85 Allied max defense: 210 - adjusted defense: 285 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese ground losses: 495 casualties reported Guns lost 7 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 158 casualties reported Guns lost 8 my troops at Hong Kong are still nearly undamaged, so when the IJA achieves a 2:1 at some time then my troops will surrender although they are still in nearly perfect shape then... wonder how the IJA gets supplies as I´m having my troops sitting in Canton and supply shouldn´t be able to flow through a contested hex to Hong Kong... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 651 Defending force 29085 troops, 109 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 628 Allied ground losses: 39 casualties reported a couple of IJA units are in the wooden hex North of Canton, trying to cut my troops in Canton off. Have around 800 assault points availabel to counter them. At least one IJA div is spotted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6006 troops, 206 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 408 Defending force 34693 troops, 313 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 827 Allied ground losses: 114 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 3 I will soon try a shock attack here. Only real combat unit here is a IJA division in not perfect shape anymore... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ndini Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1228 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 4 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Ndini base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Johore Bahru Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 4722 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 818 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 37 - adjusted assault: 38 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 38 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Johore Bahru base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Talasea Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 86 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Talasea base !!! paras... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Soerabaja Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 7902 troops, 55 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 226 Defending force 16359 troops, 137 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 201 Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Woodlark Island Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 73 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Woodlark Island base !!! paras...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/16/2007 12:13:26 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/28/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 135 troops unloading over beach at San Jose, 41,53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 99,99 Japanese Ships SS I-2 Allied Ships AP President Monroe the transport TF that brought the USMC division to Canton is attacked again but I-2 fortunately misses with 6 torps. Those big APs are very valuable ships as they move 6 hexes a turn and are my numero uno troop transports... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships AK Chuko Maru PG Kure Maru #5 PG Chohakusan Maru PG Chiyo Maru PG Akitsu Maru Allied Ships SS Perch, hits 1 Perch´s MK14s fail to detonate... in return she gets a near miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 29,55 Japanese Ships PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW W.4 DD Sagiri Allied Ships SS Snapper Snapper escapes a super escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships PC Takunan Maru #5 PC Ch 13, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk PC Ch 14 PC Ch 16 PC Ch 17 PC Ch 18 Allied Ships PT PT-34, Shell hits 34, and is sunk we trade a PT for a PC... another ASW vessel sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Port Moresby, at 53,91 Japanese Ships DD Oboro CA Kinugasa CA Aoba Allied ground losses: 31 casualties reported Runway hits 2 Port hits 1 Port fuel hits 2 Port supply hits 1 naval bombardment... means an invasion soon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 9 troops unloading over beach at Babo, 42,77 Japanese ground losses: 32 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coastal Guns at Port Moresby, 53,91, firing at TF 20 TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Port Moresby, 53,91 16 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CL Kuma, Shell hits 2 DD Matsukaze CA Ashigara Japanese ground losses: 409 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 27 casualties reported here it comes! The couple of well supplied 6 inch CD guns do... nothing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 62 troops unloading over beach at Madang, 54,84 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coastal Guns at Port Moresby, 53,91, firing at TF 20 TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Port Moresby, 53,91 22 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships PC Sonan Maru #6 PC Ch 30 Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 135 troops unloading over beach at San Jose, 41,53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 9 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 62nd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 20 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Brigade, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 3 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 24,61 Allied aircraft Brewster 339D x 2 Martin 139 x 2 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Hokaze, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet Hokaze should soon be in danger of sinking I hope... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Soerabaja at 22,65 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 2 CW-21B Demon x 9 Brewster 339D x 6 T.IVa x 5 Martin 139 x 22 Allied aircraft losses T.IVa: 3 damaged Martin 139: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged Japanese Ships BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 4 CA Mikuma CL Kinu Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Waingapu at 27,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 8 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Eiko Maru, Bomb hits 1 DD Hayashio Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet APs hit here and there... takes 12 of the ping pong bombs to sink a ship bigger than a MSW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Soerabaja at 22,65 Japanese Ships BB Yamashiro CA Mogami CA Mikuma CA Suzuya CA Kumano CL Yura CL Kinu DD Maikaze DD Arashi DD Asagiri DD Mikazuki DD Kuretake DD Sanae Allied Ships PT TM-12, Shell hits 7, and is sunk the BBs come in at daylight, my PT is surprised... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Soerabaja at 22,65 Japanese Ships BB Yamashiro CA Mogami CA Mikuma CA Suzuya CA Kumano CL Yura CL Kinu DD Maikaze DD Arashi DD Asagiri DD Mikazuki DD Kuretake DD Sanae Allied Ships PT TM-14, Shell hits 8, and is sunk PT TM-15, Shell hits 3, and is sunk same here, PTs are surprised... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Port Moresby, at 53,91 Japanese Ships DD Oboro CA Kinugasa CA Aoba Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Port hits 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Soerabaja, at 22,65 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 96 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CL Kinu, Shell hits 11, on fire, heavy damage CL Yura CA Kumano CA Suzuya, Shell hits 9 CA Mikuma CA Mogami BB Yamashiro, Shell hits 8 Allied ground losses: 413 casualties reported Guns lost 9 now that´s something I like! [:D] Again, a bombardment without any recon before that doesn´t do real damage - not a single aircraft out of 80 is lost. In return a CL is shot up pretty bad. This is something that happened to me also when doing bombardments as IJN at Soerabaja as those CD guns there seem to be pretty effective... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lingayen at 44,50 Japanese Ships MSW W.19 Allied Ships SS Perch this MSW was attacked several times so far, but never hit... (or when hit the torps failed to do booom)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Umnak Island Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 639 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 3 - adjusted assault: 5 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Umnak Island base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 117505 troops, 1278 guns, 155 vehicles, Assault Value = 2582 Defending force 68969 troops, 459 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1665 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese max assault: 2261 - adjusted assault: 923 Allied max defense: 1749 - adjusted defense: 1143 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese ground losses: 1551 casualties reported Guns lost 56 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 2397 casualties reported Guns lost 42 really amazing that it seems most of the IJA attacks in this campaign were able to reduce a fort level. Most of our casualties are in the HQ units again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 649 Defending force 29108 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 627 Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 46,36 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 6366 troops, 64 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 178 Defending force 36615 troops, 246 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1034 Japanese max assault: 98 - adjusted assault: 1 Allied max defense: 1041 - adjusted defense: 211 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 1088 casualties reported Guns lost 22 Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported [:D] a brigade crosses the river into my troops West of Changsha and is mauled... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 5996 troops, 205 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 417 Defending force 34798 troops, 315 guns, 97 vehicles, Assault Value = 826 Allied ground losses: 117 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Dadjangas Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 9274 troops, 74 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 208 Defending force 3508 troops, 28 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 51 Japanese max assault: 163 - adjusted assault: 69 Allied max defense: 46 - adjusted defense: 13 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Dadjangas base !!! Japanese ground losses: 27 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Allied ground losses: 5623 casualties reported Guns lost 35 Mindanao is cleared now... another IJA brigade for attacks somewhere else... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lashio Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1300 troops, 0 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 51 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 45 - adjusted assault: 92 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 92 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Lashio base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at San Jose Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 942 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 6 - adjusted assault: 8 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE San Jose base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 46,36 Allied Shock attack Attacking force 32653 troops, 246 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1032 Defending force 6742 troops, 33 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 93 Allied max assault: 1958 - adjusted assault: 939 Japanese max defense: 85 - adjusted defense: 39 Allied assault odds: 24 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 124 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 4 Allied ground losses: 470 casualties reported Guns lost 14 Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! West of Changsha! We take advantage of the rule that the Japanese attack first! After our troops were only encountering a tank brigade here last turn I ordered a shock attack. Now our shock attack kicked out the tank brigade AND the brigade that had to shock attack across the river this turn. Looks like Hortlund isn´t using the follow unit command (or it isn´t working - once again) as his troops are coming across the river one by one. Expect to see more troops crossing the river in the next few turns... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 3296 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 78 Defending force 6017 troops, 61 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 130 Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Hope to see my troops at PM to hold as they are very well supplied and the attacker is "only" a nav guard unit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Soerabaja Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 7940 troops, 55 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 228 Defending force 16031 troops, 132 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 190 Japanese max assault: 178 - adjusted assault: 46 Allied max defense: 159 - adjusted defense: 171 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese ground losses: 761 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Allied ground losses: 63 casualties reported Guns lost 1 First deliberate attack at Soerabaja is repulsed. Seems the small ground attacks by my Martins helped as the attackers adjusted av is pretty bad. Hortlund will probably wait a couple of days until the two brigades from the North will arrive, then Soerabaja will collapse easily... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Muntok Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 33 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 2 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Muntok base !!! paras... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Emirau Island Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 59 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 6 - adjusted assault: 8 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Emirau Island base !!! paras... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Russell Islands Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 72 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 8 - adjusted assault: 6 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Russell Islands base !!! paras... can´t wait for 43/44 when I will use my paras everywhere too!!!!!! [&o][;)] With MORE paras and MORE transport aircraft than the Japanese have now, this will be great fun...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/18/2007 11:35:38 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/29/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coastal Guns at Port Moresby, 53,91, firing at TF 20 TF 20 troops unloading over beach at Port Moresby, 53,91 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese ground losses: 14 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 32,55 Japanese Ships AP Miike Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW W.4 DD Sagiri CL Kashii Allied Ships SS Sailfish Japanese ground losses: 33 casualties reported another AP hit with MK14 torp but one might be not enough to sink a big AP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,57 Japanese Ships AP Ume Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Trusty two torps definetely are... Ume Maru sinks... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 22,65 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 25 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 7 CW-21B Demon x 10 Brewster 339D x 13 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses Hawk 75A: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged CW-21B Demon: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged Brewster 339D: 4 destroyed, 4 damaged My fighters have NO chance. After loosing a dozen two turns ago, we lose another 10. They will be withdrawn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 57th Chinese Corps, at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 33 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 32 Ki-30 Ann x 27 Ki-51 Sonia x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 10 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 66 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet Hortlund has ordered close air support now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 41st PA Division, at 43,51 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 7 C5M Babs x 3 Ki-21 Sally x 20 Ki-48 Lily x 35 Ki-46-II Dinah x 3 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 1 damaged Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged Ki-48 Lily: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged Allied ground losses: 121 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Brigade, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 6 CW-21B Demon x 6 Brewster 339D x 6 Martin 139 x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Singapore at 23,50 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 15 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Shinai, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet the last of the 3 supply AKs reached Singapore but is sunk in the harbour before unloading a single point of supplies... damn... Singapore has 27.000 supplies... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 17,36 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 22 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 2 damaged Allied Ships DD Edsall CL Mauritius, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet double damn...[:@][:(] Hortlund has now a baby carrier in the Andaman island area and it stumbles across my fast transports that are doing evacs... Hortlund said he didn´t spot me before so it was just by accident. I hate losing ships that way... my patrols didn´t spot the baby carrier TF so I thought I would be safe... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Labao at 29,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Eiko Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 24,65 Allied aircraft Hawk 75A x 5 CW-21B Demon x 3 Brewster 339D x 6 T.IVa x 5 Martin 139 x 20 No Allied losses Japanese Ships CL Kinu, Bomb hits 14, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet the heavily damaged CL that was shot up by Soerabaja´s CD guns is hit by a dozen bombs that can´t penetrate the armor but also by a Dutch 450mm torp... hopefully this will be enough... every CL counts as they get very good AA values in mid to late 43, comparable to BBs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Waingapu at 27,74 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 8 Allied aircraft losses Hudson I: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Hayashio, Bomb hits 1, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Nicobar Island at 21,38 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 19 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Stewart, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 63 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet we lose another fast transport DD... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 33,55 Japanese Ships AK Johore Maru AP Hakusika Maru AP Hakozake Maru PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW W.4 DD Sagiri Allied Ships SS Snapper torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 104,102 Japanese Ships SS I-3 Allied Ships AK Vincent, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage a supply AK heading to Canton is sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 206 troops unloading over beach at Tacloban, 44,58 Japanese ground losses: 34 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 23590 troops, 358 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 424 Defending force 38295 troops, 353 guns, 99 vehicles, Assault Value = 895 Allied ground losses: 126 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [8\|] Ground combat at Port Moresby Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 6170 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 130 Defending force 5170 troops, 46 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 78 Japanese max assault: 125 - adjusted assault: 192 Allied max defense: 70 - adjusted defense: 47 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Moresby base !!! Japanese ground losses: 161 casualties reported Guns lost 10 Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! like Rabaul, Port Moresby fell with the first attack against a nav guard... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 46,36 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 34650 troops, 420 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 978 Defending force 27525 troops, 158 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 720 Japanese max assault: 668 - adjusted assault: 29 Allied max defense: 713 - adjusted defense: 181 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 1226 casualties reported Guns lost 40 Vehicles lost 2 Allied ground losses: 96 casualties reported Guns lost 5 more units cross the river West of Changsha... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1684 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2494 Defending force 73547 troops, 471 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1851 Allied ground losses: 125 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 651 Defending force 29257 troops, 109 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 632 Allied ground losses: 83 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1530 troops, 0 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 55 Defending force 4119 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 79 Japanese max assault: 108 - adjusted assault: 40 Allied max defense: 55 - adjusted defense: 11 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 46 casualties reported Vehicles lost 4 Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Guns lost 5 our two brigades that moved from the jungle into Taung Gyi are now constantly attacked by a tank regiment. They move 2 miles a day NW, trying to get back to India - doubt they will make it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Mersing Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 4702 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 39 - adjusted assault: 38 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 38 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Mersing base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Babo Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 387 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 11 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Babo base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Madang Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 519 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 13 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Madang base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kaifeng Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8445 troops, 66 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1601 Defending force 37390 troops, 448 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 674 we entered Kaifeng and order a bombardment to get an idea of the troops there. Don´t know how the forts look like, I expect level 3. Another corps will move in and then a deliberate attack is launched. 1800 against 670 should hopefully be enough to achieve something. With the ground war in China I wonder if I will face Kwangtung units also there. We only have "the usual house rules" but we didn´t specify it to "no Kwangtung units in China without paying the pp"... [&:] With the available Kwangtung units in China we will soon be steamrolled back to India...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/18/2007 12:27:53 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/30/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Fergusson Island at 57,94 Japanese Ships AP Toyo Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Gudgeon another AP is attacked but the torps miss... looks like my skippers really like to go after APs... EXCELLENT! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Taan , at 37,41 Allied aircraft IL-4c x 9 Allied aircraft losses IL-4c: 5 damaged Japanese Ships AK Heiei Maru #7, Bomb hits 1 AP Zinzan Maru, Bomb hits 1 Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 6 x IL-4c bombing at 6000 feet nice one! Sent in my low experienced (below 40) Chinese bombers on a long range strike from Chungking. Amazingly they hit two ships in port with a 250kg AP bomb, but I lose 2 to flak in return. Only a nuissance raid but perhaps Hortlund is forced to place some fighters over valuable bases. Those Chinese bombers are the perfect ship killers though as they carry something like 10+ 250kg AP bombs!!! [X(] Means they are far better than any of the US 4Es... [X(] Pitily I only get 10 a month with pilots not able to fly them. They will be soon flown to India to defend it against a possible upcoming invasion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 22,65 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 No Japanese losses no more obsolete Dutch fighters in the air that can be shot down at a 20:0 ratio... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 178 Ki-15 Babs x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 3 destroyed, 20 damaged Allied ground losses: 1107 casualties reported Guns lost 23 Vehicles lost 8 Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 10 Runway hits 214 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet wow, a nuke on Manila! Our support troops get shredded, we take 5 Sallies down, which is not that encouraging as we have a lot of flak there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Naval Guard Unit, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 7 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet instead of the division or brigade at Soerabaja, only a nav guard unit is attacked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 4 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet 4 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 63rd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-30 Ann x 29 Ki-51 Sonia x 18 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 35 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet 29 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 30,73 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 8 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Eiko Maru, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet the Hudsons from Koepang hit an AP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 22,36 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 22 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 2 damaged Allied Ships DD Whipple, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet fast transport DD Whipple is sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 26,66 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 25 No Allied losses Japanese Ships CL Kinu, Bomb hits 22, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet 22 out of 25 Martins hit CL Kinu but no bomb can penetrate the deck or belt armor. A lot of armament is destroyed though. I wonder if the cruiser will make it as she it is still afloat... [8\|] Would really like to use 500lb bombs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,42 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied Ships DD Parrott Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 38,58 Japanese Ships AK Toyohara Maru Allied Ships SS Porpoise torps fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 23689 troops, 359 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 429 Defending force 38171 troops, 351 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 894 Allied ground losses: 62 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1692 troops, 51 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2515 Defending force 73796 troops, 480 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1856 Allied ground losses: 105 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 651 Defending force 29147 troops, 110 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 631 Allied ground losses: 3 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tjilitjap Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 10316 troops, 98 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 222 Defending force 989 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 35 Japanese max assault: 205 - adjusted assault: 95 Allied max defense: 31 - adjusted defense: 7 Japanese assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tjilitjap base !!! Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 1746 casualties reported the static Dutch CD gun unit surrenders... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Palembang Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 11290 troops, 151 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 317 Defending force 704 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Japanese max assault: 240 - adjusted assault: 212 Allied max defense: 13 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 212 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 37 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Allied ground losses: 75 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! The ex garrisson of Palembang entered Palembang again last turn and is forced to retreat... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1460 troops, 0 guns, 94 vehicles, Assault Value = 49 Defending force 3951 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 74 Japanese max assault: 94 - adjusted assault: 70 Allied max defense: 55 - adjusted defense: 11 Japanese assault odds: 6 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Vehicles lost 2 Allied ground losses: 55 casualties reported Guns lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tacloban Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 295 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 9 - adjusted assault: 3 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tacloban base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Maumere Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 225 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 6 - adjusted assault: 5 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Maumere base !!!

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/18/2007 12:56:28 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 12/31/41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 56,95 Japanese Ships AP Daitei Maru Allied Ships SS Pollack torps fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-10, hits 3 Allied Ships AK Charles H Cramp, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage another supply AK to Canton is sunk. It hits the I-10 with 3x 3 inch shells but it seems those don´t do any damge to a sub... shouldn´t a sub be sunk (or at least unable to dive) after being hit by 3 3inch shells? [8\|][8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 26,24 Japanese Ships SS I-157 Allied Ships AK Memphis City subs now operate in the Diamond Harbour area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 22,65 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 No Japanese losses no Dutch victims in the air... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 150 Ki-15 Babs x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 3 destroyed, 26 damaged Allied ground losses: 314 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 5 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 115 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet 7 Sallies are lost to flak today... at least it does cost the Japanese a couple of planes, but they are really hurting me... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Naval Guard Unit, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 8 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 39,39 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 9 Ki-15 Babs x 2 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 63rd Chinese Corps, at 43,41 Japanese aircraft Ki-30 Ann x 34 Ki-51 Sonia x 20 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 58 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing at 2000 feet 34 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 21st PA Division, at 43,51 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 7 Ki-48 Lily x 11 Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged Ki-48 Lily: 7 damaged Allied ground losses: 57 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 4th USMC Regiment, at 43,51 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 6 C5M Babs x 1 Ki-21 Sally x 7 Ki-48 Lily x 18 Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 6 damaged Ki-21 Sally: 5 damaged Ki-48 Lily: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 84 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-48 Lily bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,40 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Parrott, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet fast evac DD Parrott is sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Andaman Island at 23,34 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 27 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Whipple, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 15 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet Whipple is dead also... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-10, hits 2 Allied Ships DD Kilty DD Crane DD Crosby DD Dent DD Talbot DD Waters two subs are sitting in the Canton hex. I-10 is the one that was hit 3!!! times with 3 inch shells but has no problem escaping the DDs that are sitting in the hex for 3 or four turns now (attacking the first time today). Wonder if 3 shell hits still are FOW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 55,95 Japanese Ships AP Yamafuku Maru, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Thresher Thresher puts a MK14 torp, 3 5inch shells and a couple of .50 cal bursts into another AP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 36,61 Japanese Ships AK Yuri Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied Ships SS Porpoise Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported A troop loaden AK is hit with a MK14... seems to be a good day for my subs again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 194 troops unloading over beach at Bankha, 20,47 Japanese ground losses: 84 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 23707 troops, 362 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 433 Defending force 42459 troops, 401 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Allied ground losses: 42 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Hex South of Manila! We have ordered a shock attack next turn. 12 IJA units there, with a division at 60% strength in the lead, 2 or 3 eng units, rest artillery and base forces. It´s a wooden hex but we hope to achieve something with 2,5 times the assault value of the defender. We will see... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1692 troops, 51 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2539 Defending force 73955 troops, 488 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1865 Allied ground losses: 142 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 46,36 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 780 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 885 Defending force 35084 troops, 226 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 945 Japanese max assault: 0 - adjusted assault: 0 Allied max defense: 977 - adjusted defense: 229 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 80 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Allied ground losses: 15 casualties reported an artillery unit crosses the river West of Changsha... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 653 Defending force 29075 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 629 Allied ground losses: 52 casualties reported the South of China is heating up as we have now IJA units reported moving towards Nanning from the West. Wooden hex, fort level 4 with 600 assault points. If the IJA breaks through Nanning, then we will have to withdraw from Canton and probably abandon the whole South back to a defensive line Kweiyang - Chungking... [8\|] With those units being West of Nanning, they must be Southern Area or Burma HQ! So far I´ve never seen a Japanese commander using those troops for an assault in China.[X(] Problems coming my way... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1416 troops, 0 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 45 Defending force 3845 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 71 Japanese max assault: 86 - adjusted assault: 36 Allied max defense: 55 - adjusted defense: 17 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 61 casualties reported Guns lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 45,35 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 71753 troops, 546 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2174 Defending force 12846 troops, 148 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 238 Allied max assault: 2049 - adjusted assault: 802 Japanese max defense: 233 - adjusted defense: 307 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 160 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Allied ground losses: 839 casualties reported Guns lost 25 Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! The single brigade that entered my hex WNW of Changsha is kicked out. Wooden hex, just look at my adjusted av... a brigade or div more and my attack would have failed... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Raba Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 120 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 0 - adjusted assault: 2 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Raba base !!! paras...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 10:18:41 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/01/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1021 encounters mine field at Midway (95,61) Allied Ships DM Tracy, Mine hits 1, on fire lol, my minelayer hits a sub laid Type 88 mine. Damage is at 32/43/4. Tracy is retiring to Pearl... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 22,48 Japanese Ships AP Hakuyo Maru PG Myoken Maru PG Kiso Maru Allied Ships SS Stingray torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 14 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Japanese Ships DD Hatakaze DD Harukaze DD Nagatsuki I´m not lucky with my mines... The DDs destroy half a dozen of them but none is hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1041 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Allied Ships SS O20, Mine hits 1 [8\|] Sent O19 and O20 to lay mines at Rangoon and O20 hits one of our own VH2 mines...[8\|] She has only 32 floatation damage thoug, so I expect her to make Diamond Harbour... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 25,24 Japanese Ships SS I-153 Allied Ships PG Thyme PG Cyclamen PG Genista PG Fritillary one of two reported IJN subs South West of Diamond Harbour. Hortlund is trying to interrupt my shipping up there. The PGs fail to locate the sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 54,94 Japanese Ships AP Yamafuku Maru, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Plunger Plunger´s torps fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Port Moresby at 53,91 Japanese Ships DD Oboro Allied Ships SS Thresher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,53 Japanese Ships DD Hokaze, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Sturgeon Sturgeon sinks the already damaged Hokaze with a MK14 hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Soerabaja , at 22,65 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 No Japanese losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 19 Ki-15 Babs x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged Allied ground losses: 124 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet 7 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [X(][X(][X(] Day Air attack on Perth , at 7,100 Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 16 B5N Kate x 17 Japanese aircraft losses A5M4 Claude: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Port hits 2 Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A5M4 Claude bombing at 2000 feet 11 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet Steve sends a baby carrier to Perth! He even sets his Claudes to port attack, doing no damage while losing two planes and pilots over Perth... but it was at least surprising... A cargo TF of mine (perhaps 20 AKs) was just 3 hexes from the carrier but wasn´t spotted... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Naval Guard Unit, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 7 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Chinese Corps, at 40,38 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 66 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 34 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 62 troops unloading over beach at Sarmi, 48,78 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 23698 troops, 365 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 438 Defending force 42725 troops, 405 guns, 106 vehicles, Assault Value = 1034 Allied ground losses: 259 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 130642 troops, 1400 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 2561 Defending force 73985 troops, 497 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1873 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese max assault: 2586 - adjusted assault: 1422 Allied max defense: 1942 - adjusted defense: 1665 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese ground losses: 3100 casualties reported Guns lost 99 Vehicles lost 8 Allied ground losses: 2712 casualties reported Guns lost 70 Another attack at Changsha and another time my forts are brought down... [8\|] My 4 HQ units again get shredded, the first is at 0/92 now... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hong Kong Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 24895 troops, 158 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 419 Defending force 13125 troops, 85 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 237 Japanese max assault: 408 - adjusted assault: 62 Allied max defense: 257 - adjusted defense: 237 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese ground losses: 698 casualties reported Guns lost 14 Vehicles lost 2 Allied ground losses: 296 casualties reported Guns lost 13 Hong Kong still holds with my troops still in excellent shape... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 656 Defending force 28979 troops, 108 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 631 Allied ground losses: 103 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Samarinda Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3536 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 116 Defending force 3465 troops, 40 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 39 Japanese max assault: 97 - adjusted assault: 54 Allied max defense: 30 - adjusted defense: 19 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Samarinda base !!! Japanese ground losses: 45 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 6691 casualties reported Guns lost 59 Vehicles lost 1 Southern Borneo is now completely cleared. Only a base in the NW is still Dutch. Think Hortlund will use it as a training target as there hasn´t been an attack so far. We will see... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bankha Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1234 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 34 Defending force 999 troops, 7 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese max assault: 58 - adjusted assault: 6 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 7 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese ground losses: 52 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kaifeng Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 61307 troops, 456 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2153 Defending force 38103 troops, 461 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 702 Japanese ground losses: 45 casualties reported Guns lost 4 We outnumber the IJA 3:1 and we will shock attack soon. With no combat eng in my corps I have to shock attack to bring forts down... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Allied Shock attack Attacking force 37756 troops, 397 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 1023 Defending force 39514 troops, 381 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 438 Allied max assault: 1986 - adjusted assault: 1012 Japanese max defense: 436 - adjusted defense: 849 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 614 casualties reported Guns lost 37 Allied ground losses: 1871 casualties reported Guns lost 48 Vehicles lost 13 now that hurts... [8\|] While my adjusted av is halfed, the IJA´s is doubled... all units in the Philipines will now retreat to Manila. This failed attack did cost me 150 assault points... [:(]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 4:04:36 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/02/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 92 encounters mine field at Noumea (68,113) Japanese Ships PG Heijo Maru PG Takunan Maru #10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 25,24 Japanese Ships SS I-153, hits 2 Allied Ships PG Thyme PG Cyclamen PG Genista PG Fritillary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 22,51 Japanese Ships AP Hakuyo Maru PG Myoken Maru PG Kiso Maru Allied Ships SS Sargo torps miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 55,94 Japanese Ships AK Venice Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PC Ch 30 PC Ch 29 PC Ch 24 PC Takunan Maru #10 PC Sonan Maru #6 PC Sonan Maru #5 PG Shotoku Maru PG Shoei Maru MSW Seki Maru #3 MSW Fumi Maru #2 MSW Banshu Maru #8 MSW Asahi Maru Allied Ships SS Tautog despite having a super escort, there have been several ships been shot out of the TF with my subs always escaping... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,54 Japanese Ships PG Kamitsu Maru PC Ch 12 PC Ch 11 PC Ch 10 PC Ch 6 PG Aso Maru Allied Ships SS Seadragon torps miss, the patrol boats fail to locate the sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Naval Guard Unit, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 34 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 43 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet the Martins will soon be flown out to Australia... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 51st Chinese Corps, at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 26 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31 Ki-30 Ann x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 3 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 21,36 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 22 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Parrott, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B5N Kate bombing at 6000 feet Parrott is finished and sinks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 53,92 Japanese Ships AP Yamafuku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Pollack we sink another AP... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 55,94 Japanese Ships AK Venice Maru, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Tautog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 40,55 Japanese Ships AK Nissyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AP Teiun Maru PC Shonan Maru #6 PG Sozan Maru PG Muro Maru PG Eiko Maru PG Eifuku Maru PG Uji PG Saga PG Hashidate MSW Ranzan Maru MSW Choun Maru #7 MSW W.4 DD Sagiri Allied Ships SS Seal Japanese ground losses: 40 casualties reported we hit another cargo ship and the super escort fails to locate our succesful sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,24 Japanese Ships SS I-153 Allied Ships PG Thyme PG Cyclamen PG Genista PG Fritillary I-153´s torps miss... we fail to locate the sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 25,24 Japanese Ships SS I-153 Allied Ships PG Thyme PG Cyclamen PG Genista PG Fritillary -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Muntok at 21,55 Japanese Ships AP Hokuhi Maru MSW Wa 3 Allied Ships SS Saury -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 33,64 Japanese Ships AK Eizan Maru, Shell hits 8, on fire Allied Ships SS Porpoise Japanese ground losses: 81 casualties reported Porpoise attacks on the surface, expends a dozen torps that miss or fail to detonate. The 8 shell hits aren´t really damaging the AK... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 91 troops unloading over beach at Washington Island, 108,86 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,53 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 24149 troops, 371 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 431 Defending force 40348 troops, 321 guns, 89 vehicles, Assault Value = 872 Allied ground losses: 428 casualties reported Guns lost 13 Vehicles lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1664 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2385 Defending force 69482 troops, 398 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1747 Allied ground losses: 64 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 660 Defending force 29075 troops, 111 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 631 Allied ground losses: 56 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Djokjakarta Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 10356 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 217 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 199 - adjusted assault: 97 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 97 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Djokjakarta base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Sarmi Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 519 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 12 - adjusted assault: 5 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Sarmi base !!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hsinyang Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8988 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1208 Defending force 19092 troops, 213 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 321 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Washington Island Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 604 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 25 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 46 - adjusted assault: 22 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 22 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Washington Island base !!!

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 4:19:00 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/03/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 55,95 Japanese Ships AP Monji Maru PC Ch 30 PC Ch 29 PC Ch 24 PC Takunan Maru #10 PC Sonan Maru #6 PC Sonan Maru #5 PG Shotoku Maru PG Shoei Maru MSW Seki Maru #3 MSW Fumi Maru #2 MSW Banshu Maru #8 MSW Asahi Maru Allied Ships SS Narwhal Narwhal fires 2 torps at Monji Maru but misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 24,24 Japanese Ships SS I-157 Allied Ships DD Vampire DD Electra DD Express DD Paladin DD Tenedos DD Vendetta we are forced to do something against IJN subs near Indian ports... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 22,54 Japanese Ships MSW Wa 3 Allied Ships SS Pike -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 24,24 Japanese Ships SS I-157, hits 17, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Vampire DD Electra DD Express DD Paladin DD Tenedos DD Vendetta haven´t received a sunk message, but after 2 real hits and 15 near misses I expect I-157 to be sunk... first IJN sub that should be lost... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 7 troops unloading over beach at Makale, 32,67 Japanese ground losses: 67 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balikpapan at 31,64 Japanese Ships AK Toyohara Maru, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS KVIII Japanese ground losses: 97 casualties reported KVIII kills a troop loaden AK... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-10 Allied Ships DD Crosby, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Kilty DD Crane DD Dent DD Talbot DD Waters one of the DDs I have placed in an ASW TF at Canton is heavily damaged and will probably sink. IMO it´s just a myth that subs in base hexes are more vulnerable. The 2 subs in the Canton island hex are just sitting under my ASW DDs, being spotted every day turn after turn and they pick off one ship after another... [8\|][>:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Naval Guard Unit, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 19 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 35 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Chinese Corps, at 40,38 Japanese aircraft B5N Kate x 8 Ki-30 Ann x 70 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 24 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 34 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 51st Chinese Corps, at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 33 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31 Ki-30 Ann x 7 Ki-51 Sonia x 36 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 2 destroyed, 15 damaged Allied ground losses: 81 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet all in all 10 Japanese planes are lost today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1670 troops, 49 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2418 Defending force 69459 troops, 400 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1756 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Canton Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2132 troops, 84 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 667 Defending force 29064 troops, 112 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 631 Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Allied ground losses: 131 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Nanning Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 31331 troops, 353 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 1153 Defending force 41302 troops, 250 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 980 Allied ground losses: 38 casualties reported 2 IJA div and a brigade have arrived at Nanning facing 4 Chinese corps. Wooden hex, level 4 forts, enough supplies and 3 units are fully prepped. Can´t see how those IJA troops can break through here but I expect more to be brought in. Good to see Burma HQ and Southern Area HQ units fighting in China, as they can´t invade places more important than China then... Though with lot of reinforcement divisions in China it will even fall more easily than it would with "only" the Chinese HQ" units...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 30243 troops, 421 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 568 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 471 - adjusted assault: 310 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 310 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Clark Field base !!! I have pulled out of Clark and the base falls. Now something I have learnt this turn: I always was told that if you are forced out of the base then you lose the supply there to the attacker, but if you move out, the supply will move with you!!! FALSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [:@][:@][:@] Even though my HQs are at Manila, 16000 supplies (=85% of all available supply) was always at Clark - AND IT STAYED THERE!!!! Means with my move from Clark to Manila I have lost 85% of my supply... Means we can already surrender... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1396 troops, 0 guns, 89 vehicles, Assault Value = 45 Defending force 3664 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 71 Japanese max assault: 43 - adjusted assault: 36 Allied max defense: 63 - adjusted defense: 11 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 158 casualties reported Guns lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kaifeng Allied Shock attack Attacking force 70336 troops, 526 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2158 Defending force 38427 troops, 461 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 710 Allied max assault: 4204 - adjusted assault: 1949 Japanese max defense: 733 - adjusted defense: 512 Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Japanese ground losses: 366 casualties reported Guns lost 13 Allied ground losses: 2142 casualties reported Guns lost 51 [:@] We miss the needed 4:1 by 100 adjusted av... at least the forts are at 0 now but I shredded the leading corps in the stack, while the Japanese didn´t suffer at all. My units are highly disrupted 70+ - thought that happens only when you get a 0:1 - so I have to wait at least two or three turns until my next attack. The goal of this offensive is: a) try to get some supplies from the Japanese, b) force some IJA units to retreat to make them combat ineffective for some time and c) force Hortlund to bring some divisions from the South. While I don´t know about a), b) could be managable but c) seems completely a dream of mine as Hortlund even moves more troops TO the South instead of trying to do something about my offensive in the North.

Yakface -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 4:42:13 PM)
Hi Castor, I wouldn't feel too down hearted about the result at Kaifeng, you've set yourself up for a victory. Looks like you've got roughly 4 Chinese corp attacking and suffered 3% casualties (although it's probably more like 10% combat casualties). The disruption will go down quickly and (unless the IJA can get some reserve troops in quickly) you should still have the 2:1 on the next assault you need to take the base. Nice move BTW. On the supply thing - not having direct control over supply distribution does cause problems. Sometimes it takes a few days for supplies to move from high concentrations to an area of need, even if it is only next door. As far as HQ's go, I've always found that rather than actually pulling in supplies, they just don't let them leave unitil you get to the 25K they want. Supplies only seem to move reliably based on the 2x requirement of all units at the base. It does seem like your defence has been totally undermined by the supply routine. Might be worth explaining and asking your opponent to allow a convoy through. I've allowed a similar thing for my Allied opponent when 20K of supplies disappeared from Darwin.

anarchyintheuk -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 6:40:49 PM)
Good suggestions. BTW Castor, how long do you spend on your subs a turn? You're getting great results.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 7:55:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Yakface Hi Castor, I wouldn't feel too down hearted about the result at Kaifeng, you've set yourself up for a victory. Looks like you've got roughly 4 Chinese corp attacking and suffered 3% casualties (although it's probably more like 10% combat casualties). The disruption will go down quickly and (unless the IJA can get some reserve troops in quickly) you should still have the 2:1 on the next assault you need to take the base. Nice move BTW. On the supply thing - not having direct control over supply distribution does cause problems. Sometimes it takes a few days for supplies to move from high concentrations to an area of need, even if it is only next door. As far as HQ's go, I've always found that rather than actually pulling in supplies, they just don't let them leave unitil you get to the 25K they want. Supplies only seem to move reliably based on the 2x requirement of all units at the base. It does seem like your defence has been totally undermined by the supply routine. Might be worth explaining and asking your opponent to allow a convoy through. I've allowed a similar thing for my Allied opponent when 20K of supplies disappeared from Darwin. Thanks for your kind words Yakface! I too think that I will be able to take Kaifeng. I have more troops - if needed - a hex West of Kaifeng, blocking an IJA division North behind the river. I just wonder if it really helps me to take Kaifeng, while bleeding my troops that I could need in a month or so defending Chungking, as it seems that all will collaps if Hortlund breaks through in the South. There are probably 4 or 5 IJA divisions from Southern area HQ operating in China now, don´t know about Kwangtung area troops. The supply system is a mess and I´ve known that since starting to play (and loving [8D]) WITP so I won´t ask my opponent to let a supply convoy through. I made a mistake in attacking in the South, I should just have my opponent let attack me. So I lost the Philipines early because of a mistake I made and I will accept it - just like I lost Burma 3 months early... [:D] I WILL BE BACK![sm=character0095.gif]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 8:11:42 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk Good suggestions. BTW Castor, how long do you spend on your subs a turn? You're getting great results. At this stage I spend around 1,5 hours for a turn, watching the replay included. Could do it perhaps a bit faster, but as I´m having enough time until I get a new turn I decided to do my turns carefully. It doesn´t take that long to organize my subs. 5 Minutes? Maybe 6. What´s really important is my naval search. I still have the 2 Catalina squadrons that start out in the Philipines at two of the islands there as well as most Dutch Dorniers around Java, which spot a lot of convoys. Once we spot a convoy I order at least 4 subs to hunt it - in best case 6 or 7. So mostly I´m only operating on a max. of 3 TFs but those get hit hard normally. Of course in joke points we also just stumble over IJN TFs while we are on the move to operate on the big spotted TFs. So if Hortlund wanted to half his ship losses to subs, he would just have to bomb those bases where my patrol aircrafts are... [:D]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/19/2007 9:17:51 PM)
A bad day! Our subs only sink 2 ships... [:D] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/04/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 22,54 Japanese Ships PC Ch 12 PC Ch 11 PC Ch 10 PC Ch 6 PG Kamitsu Maru PG Aso Maru Allied Ships SS Pike, hits 2 The IJN is getting angry! 2 near misses... this is a hunter killer group... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 56,95 Japanese Ships AK Venice Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Nautilus Nautilus sinks Venice Maru... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 31,65 Japanese Ships AP Kembu Maru, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-37 and S-37 sinks Kembu Maru... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 82 troops unloading over beach at Jarvis Island, 110,92 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Pescadores at 47,43 Japanese Ships AP Hanakawa Maru MSW Banshu Maru #52 Allied Ships SS Permit Permit misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Naval Guard Unit, at 22,65 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 7 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet 3 x Martin 139 bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Port Moresby at 53,91 Japanese Ships DD Oboro CA Kinugasa Allied Ships SS Thresher still a CA TF at Port Moresby... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 62 troops unloading over beach at Noemfoor, 45,76 Japanese ground losses: 46 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Madioen Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 8104 troops, 51 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 374 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 128 - adjusted assault: 63 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 63 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Madioen base !!! when those two units will arrive at Soerabaja then the base will fall very quickly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1658 troops, 50 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2445 Defending force 69828 troops, 419 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1765 Allied ground losses: 122 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Nanning Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 53953 troops, 613 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 1148 Defending force 41282 troops, 252 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 982 Allied ground losses: 54 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Taung Gyi Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1374 troops, 0 guns, 87 vehicles, Assault Value = 43 Defending force 3439 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 60 Japanese max assault: 41 - adjusted assault: 10 Allied max defense: 53 - adjusted defense: 7 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 39 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pakhoi Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 232 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 14 - adjusted assault: 9 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese forces CAPTURE Pakhoi base !!! Another BIG mistake of mine!!!! [:@] I wanted to swap out a division from Nanning with the corps from Pakhoi. The corps moved to Nanning but the division needed one day more... of course suddenly paras are flown in, the movement of my division is cancelled and now Pakhoi is Japanese. Unfortunately this is somewhere exploiting the game engine, as I can´t understand why my troop´s movement is cancelled, but I have to say it´s of course a good move of my opponent. I´m 100% sure that soon another Southern area division or even two are landed at Pakhoi, which means I have to give up Nanning also and march back towards Canton, taking position behind the river... What the hell can I do against all those Southern area divisions when it´s hard enough to fight in China with far too few troops anyway? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Jarvis Island Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 749 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 32 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 56 - adjusted assault: 15 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Jarvis Island base !!! Hortlund takes another dot base South of Christmas island... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Makale Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 374 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 24 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 17 - adjusted assault: 10 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Makale base !!!

racndoc -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/20/2007 4:29:01 AM)
I'd be happy if my Japanese opponent diverted 2 SAA divisions to China during the crucial first 6 months of the war. Whats another 2 divisions when the Japanese have so much AV in China? And thats 2 less divisions rampaging through the PI/Malaya/DEI/India/Australia/South Pacific. Id almost trade space in China for time.....let him advance into China and take a couple of cities just to keep those SAA divisions out of the rest of the war.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/21/2007 5:43:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AdmSpruance I'd be happy if my Japanese opponent diverted 2 SAA divisions to China during the crucial first 6 months of the war. Whats another 2 divisions when the Japanese have so much AV in China? And thats 2 less divisions rampaging through the PI/Malaya/DEI/India/Australia/South Pacific. Id almost trade space in China for time.....let him advance into China and take a couple of cities just to keep those SAA divisions out of the rest of the war. yes, I agree. The only problem I see is when there are enough divisions in China to completely conquer it. I still have troops crawling at 2 miles a day in mountain or jungle hexes and am weeks away from having my troops where I want them to be. Would Hortlung use those divs in two months I would say, no problem, my troops are dug in and in position, but at the moment the consequence of facing those division could be to lose China, or at least 80% of it. When he really breaks through, with the right follow on moves one Chinese held city could fall after another. This would be the known China walkthrough then... [8\|]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/22/2007 8:16:13 PM)
I didn´t receive the combat replay nor the combat report for 1/5/42 because Hortlund already did another turn of one of his PBEMs so no AAR for that day. I didn´t give many orders as this has no sense if I haven´t seen the replay. I just hope that KB doesn´t show up next turn somewhere to sink one of my TFs as I haven´t got anything from this turn... I always have a bad feeling when something like this happens...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/24/2007 5:56:49 PM)
A good day for us regarding the ground war, a bad day regarding ship losses... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/06/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 94 encounters mine field at Noumea (68,113) Japanese Ships PG Nikkai Maru PG Seikai Maru would be nice to hit the shipping to and from Noumea with some of our mines that are still there. There has yet to show up an IJN MSW, so perhaps we will be lucky and sink a ship or two... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1052 encounters mine field at Midway (95,61) Allied Ships DMS Zane DMS Hopkins DMS Hovey DMS Southard we clear the Type 88 mines at Midway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 95 troops unloading over beach at Fanning Island, 110,87 dot base in the area of Christmas Island. Wonder what Hortlund wants to do with all those dot bases he took [&:][&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1052 encounters mine field at Midway (95,61) Allied Ships DMS Zane DMS Hopkins DMS Hovey DMS Southard -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sinkep Island at 22,53 Japanese Ships AP Hakuyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Myoken Maru PG Kiso Maru Allied Ships SS Sealion, hits 1 what do we hit?? AN AP OF COURSE!!! [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 57th Chinese Corps, at 47,36 Japanese aircraft Ki-27 Nate x 32 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31 Ki-30 Ann x 7 Ki-51 Sonia x 33 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-27 Nate: 3 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-51 Sonia: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Allied ground losses: 18 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-27 Nate bombing at 2000 feet Hortlund has switched to ground support. That isn´t doing him any good as the attacked unit only suffers 32 disruption and nearly no casualties. He would be better off to attack the airbase to reduce my supplies. This way, with the auto supply, my supply levels are going up. [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 30,68 Allied aircraft Martin 139 x 4 Allied aircraft losses Martin 139: 1 damaged Japanese Ships AP Tatuwa Maru Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Martin 139 bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 31,70 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 2 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Kembu Maru, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Hudson I bombing at 1000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Canton at 43,41 Allied aircraft IL-4c x 7 No Allied losses Japanese Ships MSW Tasei Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x IL-4c bombing at 1000 feet nice one! [:)] My Catalinas in the Philipines spot a lot of shipping and my IL-4c take off from Kweiyang and sink a spotted MSW at Canton. Perfect ship killers with 10x250 kg bombs. Even those pilots in the 40s manage to hit this tiny ship... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 12 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Alaskan, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Steel Trader, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet ouch! Those Betties are coming in from Palmyra. Long range strike but deadly. Those 2 AKs were in a TF consisting of 8 AKs bringing supplies to Canton. When I checked the TF I was shocked! Last turn - where I didn´t have a combat replay nor a combat report - there must have been the same attack also as 2 ships were already sunk and 3 others heavily damaged. With today, the whole TF is lost. I was never concerned about the loss of Palmyra and Johnston, the only problem that comes up is the fact that you can´t transfer squadrons from Pearl to Canton and further South anymore. This way I have to ship in fighters. 72 P-39s will arrive in two weeks or so, which means Canton is pretty much surpressed by Palmyra´s Betties. The joke is, that those attacks are triggered by the two IJN subs sitting spotted for weeks at Canton under my ASW TF. No chance to get those spotted subs attacked. They just sit spotted in my port... Every sub that is moved every day is in bigger danger to be attacked by a TF that is just passing by than any spotted sub in a base hex sitting there for weeks. Have seen that so MANY times already I could just [sm=vomit-smiley-020.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged Allied Ships AO Tippecanoe TK Alfred Clegg Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet 4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet One TK out of this TF was heavily damaged last turn also...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Pescadores at 47,43 Japanese Ships AP Tohuku Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire Allied Ships SS Pickerel hey ho! [8D] Of course we hit an AP! lol [&o] When playing the Japanese I always complained about NOT being able to do anything against subs early on (when you don´t have hundreds of Sallies/Helens with exp. 80+ but when I see what a toll my subs take on Hortlunds APs then I have to say that I have never really suffered by Allied subs early on! [8D] Think that the IJN has lost around 70.000 - 80.000 AP capacity (means around 45 APs - reduced cargo capacity in the mod) so far in APs sunk, not counting those that are damaged... This in a month of war... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hong Kong Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 24184 troops, 141 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 383 Defending force 12583 troops, 55 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 224 Japanese max assault: 742 - adjusted assault: 184 Allied max defense: 230 - adjusted defense: 489 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese ground losses: 1251 casualties reported Guns lost 19 Vehicles lost 2 Allied ground losses: 137 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Hortlund wears down his IJA division at Hong Kong with a shock attack! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Nanning Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 53992 troops, 617 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 1152 Defending force 41451 troops, 261 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 988 Japanese max assault: 1163 - adjusted assault: 209 Allied max defense: 1028 - adjusted defense: 1369 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 4) Japanese ground losses: 2110 casualties reported Guns lost 52 Vehicles lost 7 Allied ground losses: 742 casualties reported Guns lost 5 His attack at Nanning fails also - as expected. My inf units didn´t suffer at all, "only" losses in the leading HQ unit. Forts still at four. Still angry about losing Pakhoi to paras because my units didn´t move at the same speed... [8\|] When Hortlund brings more troops to Pakhoi by ship then I have to abandon Nanning and fall back behind the river West of Canton, which is a problem because I then have to cover 2 or 3 hexes there and I don´t have the troops to do that. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kaifeng [:D][:D] Allied Shock attack Attacking force 81097 troops, 530 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2348 Defending force 38534 troops, 445 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 713 Allied max assault: 4496 - adjusted assault: 4175 Japanese max defense: 740 - adjusted defense: 287 Allied assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 1) Allied forces CAPTURE Kaifeng base !!! Japanese ground losses: 672 casualties reported Guns lost 33 Vehicles lost 1 Allied ground losses: 2141 casualties reported Guns lost 40 Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! The second attack on Kaifeng is a succes and the 2 divisions, a brigade and a base force retreat East. This turn did cost the Japanese around 100 victory points in ground losses. On the downside, Kaifeng only has 3000 supplies and not the 10.000 I had hoped for, so the attack did cost me probably more supplies than I conquered. But at least those IJA troops that had to retreat aren´t as combat effective anymore as they were. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hsinyang Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 9179 troops, 70 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1218 Defending force 19352 troops, 209 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 327 We will wait for two more corps and then launch a shock attack. One brigade and a couple of small units defending Hsinyang, probable behind level 3-5 forts. Hortlund is still not interested in my offensives in Central and North China as there are still no troops redirected from the South. The complete opposite is happening, he still brings in more troops to the South! [X(] Unfortunately he can just go on in the South, not caring about his bases further North, as he knows (like me) that when he breaks through in the South then all (most) of China is lost, no matter what I achieve in the North. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Fanning Island Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 205 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese max assault: 6 - adjusted assault: 2 Allied max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Fanning Island base !!! dot base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Singkawang Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 2169 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 701 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 26 Japanese max assault: 92 - adjusted assault: 40 Allied max defense: 20 - adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 40 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 75 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 26 casualties reported Defeated Allied Units Retreating!

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/26/2007 6:25:39 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 01/07/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,53 Japanese Ships AP Teia Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire MSW W.14 MSW W.13 DD Shirakumo DD Shinonome CL Sendai Allied Ships SS Skipjack, hits 1 The attacks on APs go on... [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Pescadores at 47,43 Japanese Ships AP Chowa Maru AP Karachi Maru MSW Banshu Maru #52 Allied Ships SS Permit Chowa Maru was hit but the MK14s failed to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-171 Allied Ships DD Kilty DD Crane DD Dent DD Talbot DD Waters -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese Ships SS I-171 Allied Ships DD Kilty DD Crane DD Dent DD Talbot DD Waters our DDs at Canton try to attack I-171 twice but they always fail to locate the bastard... wow, those spotted subs sitting in base hexes are REALLY vulnerable...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sinkep Island at 22,53 Japanese Ships PG Kiso Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PG Myoken Maru Allied Ships SS Trusty Trusty kills a PG!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 22,51 Japanese Ships AP Kaihei Maru MSW Wa 3 Allied Ships SS Sargo Torpedoes miss Kaihei maru... could have been a nasty round to the IJN APs again... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 55,94 Japanese Ships DD Oboro CA Aoba Allied Ships SS Narwhal The cruiser sqadron retires from Port Moresby... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sinkep Island at 22,53 Japanese Ships AP Kamikaze Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire PG Myoken Maru Allied Ships SS Trusty Trusty expends her last torps and probably kills another AP! [:'(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 28th Chinese Corps, at 40,38 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 36 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 91st Chinese Corps, at 40,38 Japanese aircraft Ki-30 Ann x 64 Ki-15 Babs x 1 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-30 Ann bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 50th Chinese Corps, at 40,38 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 103 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 163 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet Our corps at Nanning are Hortlunds target now! Looks like he is serious in breaking through here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 13 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged Allied Ships DD Talbot DD Kilty DD Waters, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Dent Aircraft Attacking: 1 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Of course the Betties show up this turn also. All undamaged ships will try to escape after unloading, but it seems I lost a dozen ships here bringing in supplies and fuel...[8\|] This against a single Betty daitai... I need fighters to cover my base against unescorted raids... DD Waters is probably sunk... USS Waters (Destroyer # 115, later DD-115, APD-8 and DD-115), 1918-1946 USS Waters, a 1090-ton Wickes class destroyer built at Camden, New Jersey, was commissioned in August 1918. During the remaining three months of the First World War she escorted shipping across the Atlantic, making two voyages to England and Ireland and one to the Azores. For the first eight months after the Armistice she mainly operated along the U.S. East Coast, but also returned to the Azores twice, the second time, in May 1919 as part of the plane guard line for the trans-Atlantic flight attempt by the Navy's NC seaplanes. Waters transited the Panama Canal in July to become part of the Pacific Fleet. In addition to taking part in exercises off the West Coast, she briefly operated off Hawaii in 1919, steamed to South America in early 1921, and served in the Far East from mid-1921 until mid-1922. Shortly before the end of 1922 Waters was decommissioned and laid up at San Diego, California. The destroyer returned to commissioned status in June 1930 and for the next six years was mainly stationed in California ports. She voyaged to Hawaii in 1932 and operated in the Atlantic and Caribbean in April-October 1934. In July 1936 Waters went back to Hawaii for three years, during which she played an active role in the development of anti-submarine sonar techniques. This mission continued in West Coast waters in 1939-1941. After the beginning of the Pacific War in December 1941 she conducted searches for Japanese submarines and escorted shipping, primarily between the "lower 48 states" and Alaska. In December 1942 Waters began conversion to a high-speed transport, receiving the new hull number APD-8 before the work was finished in February 1943. She was then sent to the south Pacific to take part in combat operations. From June 1943 to April 1944 Waters kept busy participating in, and providing follow-on support for, amphibious operations to capture Rendova, New Georgia, Vella Lavella, the Treasury Islands, Bougainville, the Green Islands and Emirau. She also fought several actions against enemy aircraft and, in July 1943, rescued survivors of the sunken cruiser Helena. Shifting to the central Pacific, Waters took part in the campaigns to seize Saipan and Tinian in June and July 1944, Iwo Jima in February 1945 and Okinawa in March-May 1945. Redesignated DD-115 in August 1945, she was undergoing overhaul at San Pedro, California, when the war ended. The elderly ship had no place in the post-war fleet and was decommissioned in mid-October 1945. USS Waters was stricken from the Navy list soon afterwards and was sold for scrapping in May 1946. [image]local://upfiles/13774/DA638F73063F4B2ABEF414DF1B7066BF.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Pescadores at 47,43 Japanese Ships AP Tenyo Maru Allied Ships SS Permit unfortunately we miss this AP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Pago Pago at 98,110 Japanese Ships SS I-3 Allied Ships AK Susan Luckenbach, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 37 casualties reported An AK of the TF that brings a RCT to Pago Pago is hit by a sub that we have spotted for 2 weeks in this base hex... spotting subs helps? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Changsha Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 126040 troops, 1237 guns, 139 vehicles, Assault Value = 2295 Defending force 68612 troops, 374 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1755 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Japanese max assault: 2126 - adjusted assault: 1042 Allied max defense: 1778 - adjusted defense: 1441 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese ground losses: 1922 casualties reported Guns lost 41 Vehicles lost 5 Allied ground losses: 802 casualties reported Guns lost 45 Again a fort level is reduced, which I really don´t like. Hortlund seems to have no problems at all to reduce forts... My leading HQ units are all nearly without undisrupted support squads while the inf units still look good. A 2:1 would cause them all to surrender though, but I´m working on establishing a retreat path again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,40 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 24056 troops, 202 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 757 Defending force 19802 troops, 246 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 433 Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Guns lost 1 an IJA division sits in a wooden hex and it will be hard to kick it out I fear. 3 more units in the wooden hex to the East are surely heading towards this hex NW of Canton. Hopefully my units are faster and can kick this division out again... the South of China is really interesting... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 46,36 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 7620 troops, 71 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 938 Defending force 47672 troops, 569 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 906 Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hsinyang Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 9203 troops, 70 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1475 Defending force 19419 troops, 211 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 328 Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Next turn I will order a shock attack at Hsinyang. We should have 1700 assault points there and hopefully be able to kick the 5 or 6 units there out. Only one brigade there and minor units so I really wonder why Hortlund isn´t just retreating out of the base... Will be the 2nd base we take in China...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (10/29/2007 10:22:11 PM)
My honourable opponent has lots of work in real life so our campaign is on hold for a couple of days. Addicted like I am, I hope it won´t be more than a couple of days as we only did one turn in a week.[:(]

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