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 (4/15/2008 2:11:09 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Adnan Meshuggi About the "bomber versus fighter" theme jep, i think the nikmod has a problem. cause the huge numbers of allied 2/4-engine-bombers, the japanese is not only helpless but can´t do anything against. If (big if) the japanese player is able to mount 300-400 fighters, a 200-bomber-attack is doomed. Point. No way they will survive. cause they do not the box-defence but pairs flying in. So a lot fighters against few bombers. If the japanese fighters are as fast as the bombers and have exp.75+ the allies should loose (if not turn) 50-80% of its attack. But with nikmod it is under best conditions maybe 5-10%. To remember, in the best case. If the odds went bad for the japanese player, he can´t do anything against unescorted med/heavy-bombers that destroy anything the japanese try to do. So the only chance for an ongoing game is a house rule for med/heavy attacks. e.g. say only with escorts, never more groups as the base-air-level (+1 for <4 Bases), etc... so the numbers of attacking bombers stay in an accectable range and a heavy defence could knock out such attacks Normally i am against such rules, but with nickmod the alternate is to drop or (as the japanese) do also everything beyond any hr. Only escorted raids is nearly impossible due to the lack of Allied fighter range and it wouldn´t help because even though the escorts would die, there would be even more bombers. And honestly the Japanese bombers (while being more fragile than the Allied bombers) are also getting through high numbers of Cap in really high numbers. We have a stacking rule of 50 aircraft / airfield size and with the super flak it would be even nearer to impossible than it already is to do real damage, means closing an airfield constantly. Yes, the bombers are nearly immune but you have one or two attacks and 80% of the bombers are inoperational, so in fact it is harder for the Allied to close bases, which means it makes live harder in general. Saying that from a standpoint where I have a Nikmod game going as the Japanese against Swift and one as the Allied against Hortlund. While Hortlund thinks that Nikmod has crippled the Japanese side, I can say it as a player that plays both sides, the Japanese are far stronger in the long term than in stock. Far stronger. Why? Because they will never face an Uber Cap! Uber Cap isn´t existing in Nikmod. Strikes of 100 aircraft won´t be completely shot down even if there are a lot of fighters on Cap. Even increasing this "problem" for me as the Allied with our stacking limits (which also go for CV based aircraft - 550 max/hex).

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/15/2008 2:12:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: 2ndACR Nah, not a dork. I have played since first release, and still do not know all the rules of this game. Plus you get really used to be able to invade anywhere and anytime on every other part of the map. I have been lucky in all my games to not have to fight up north. So this same rule probably would have bit me too. It´s really amazing. I guess I´ve read the manual a couple of times in all those years and have played a couple of thousand PBEM turns but this rule was something I have never thought of. But it was a real good hint of you! [:D] And I´m impressed about this sense of realism!

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/15/2008 2:16:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jumper Actually I know this rule, because some time ago I have landed the Americal division on unguared Omnetokan Jima, got 70% disablements and wondered why. I was really surprised to find the answer in the manual.. [;)] and noone told me after my first invasion that wrecked 95% of the first RCT? [X(][;)]

jumper -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/15/2008 3:02:36 PM)
I thought it was a small arms fire.. [:D] But seriously I didn´t follow your AAR in those days. I was reading PjHs side but had to stop when he started an AAR of the game against me and I was sure It would be just matter of time when I would click on the wrong one. And so I joined yours instead.. [;)]

ny59giants -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/15/2008 3:14:50 PM)
I just found out the hard way that the Jacks do well against Allied 4e bombers. [:(][X(] The Corsairs are very nice. However, with their high durability rating in Nik Mod, about 1/3 to 1/2 will always be damaged after constant CAP (I usually run them at 60 or 70%). Only after prolonged stand down will I get close to 100% availability.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/17/2008 2:13:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants I just found out the hard way that the Jacks do well against Allied 4e bombers. [:(][X(] The Corsairs are very nice. However, with their high durability rating in Nik Mod, about 1/3 to 1/2 will always be damaged after constant CAP (I usually run them at 60 or 70%). Only after prolonged stand down will I get close to 100% availability. Jacks won´t be available until early 44! [:D] I´m experiencing the same problem with fighters flying cap and get damaged, mostly my Wildcats on the CVs. Can´t set them to more than 70% Cap, even if I wished to fly 90%. It´s not that severe than in previous versions of Nikmod but still I regularly see CV fighter sqadrons having 25%+ of their aircraft damaged just from flying Cap. Could be a problem for my TFs when I think on the high number of enemy bombers that get through Cap without much of a problem. Only low morale of the attacker can save you, if the enemy bombers turn back.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/17/2008 2:21:13 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/02/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1030 troops unloading over beach at Dutch Harbor, 103,36 Allied ground losses: 63 casualties reported The rest of the RCT is unloading... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 71 B-26B Marauder x 111 Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 175 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 56 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 20000 feet Mandalay seems to have very few engineers as the damage is repaired very, very slowly... That´s good, the only level 6 airfield is out of order for a long time after my attacks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 154 Liberator VI x 23 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 52 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 55 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Wellington III bombing at 19000 feet even though we lose nearly half a dozen bombers with every of those attacks, considering the flak fire, this is a milk run... though I still have to use my bombers at max altitude... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kai Island , at 39,78 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 208 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 73 casualties reported Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 56 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Dutch Harbor , at 103,36 Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 63 No Allied losses Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 48 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Shuzan Naval Guard Unit, at 103,36 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 40 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 33rd/B Division, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 128 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 10 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 136 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet The 4 units on the trail towards Imphal are now moving back to Mandalay it seems as one is on the rail again... guess Hortlund didn´t like the constant air attacks, I don´t understand anyway why he sends a rgt, a tank bgd, a mortar btn and an AA rgt towards Imphal... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 28,83 [:(] Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK John Hart, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet I´ve sent a lonely AK from Broome to Darwin to have a freighter there that could pick up the radar of two base forces at Darwin to be sent to Tenimbar (base North of Darwin) but the freighter is immediately spotted AND attacked of course... the first three Betties put 3 torps into the ship and then the rest wasn´t able to locate it anymore... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,61 Japanese Ships DD Asanagi PC Kunashiri PC Hachijo APD APD-39 Allied Ships SS Snapper, hits 3 This is the rest of the available "super ASW vessels" the IJN can field. The two PCs and the APD are the only IJN ships at the moment that have a higher ASW value than 4. In a couple of months the IJN will start receiving more PCs with an ASW value of 6 and higher. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Dutch Harbor Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1338 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Now I know why my SBDs don´t cause anymore casualties when they are set to ground attack. The nav guard unit isn´t existing anymore... but can still be bombed...[&:]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/17/2008 2:24:56 PM)
We have now two Corsair squadrons in Australia waiting to get operational. In 10 days we will have another one. Without combat we would be able to upgrade 3 Marine squadrons every month, but I guess I will use them for the first time when I have 72 operational. With exp levels around or below 60 I´m not really confident that they can achieve much against the high exp Zeroes... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/03/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Dutch Harbor , at 103,36 Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 63 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 48 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 48 TBF Avenger x 32 Wellington III x 48 PV-1 Ventura x 22 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 177 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 27 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Wellington III bombing at 19000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Shuzan Naval Guard Unit, at 103,36 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 50 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 5th Mortar Battalion, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 129 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 10 P-40E Warhawk x 20 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Dutch Harbor Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 1441 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Allied max assault: 29 - adjusted assault: 28 Japanese max defense: 0 - adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 28 to 1 (fort level 6) Allied forces CAPTURE Dutch Harbor base !!! We take the base against something like a ghost unit. I don´t understand why this unit didn´t just vanish if it´s not existing anymore. It should have vanished and the base would have autoconverted, this would have saved our RCT from being wrecked from the invasion in the winter months... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese Unit(s) surrounded at Dutch Harbor

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/17/2008 2:43:39 PM)
This is an ouch turn! AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/04/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,59 Japanese Ships AK Turuga Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW W.21 Allied Ships SS Pickerel, hits 1 it starts off well though, West of Borneo was a big AK hit by a MK14 torp. The single escort tactic seem to have passed it´s peak of success and more and more often my subs score. One near miss on Pickerel and the sub will return to Darwin after being on station for a couple of weeks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Amboina , at 39,73 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 18 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 26 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 26 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 13 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 101 B-24D Liberator x 92 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 2 destroyed, 12 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 21 damaged Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 13 damaged Ki-57-II Topsy: 2 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 93 damaged B-24D Liberator: 4 destroyed, 51 damaged Japanese ground losses: 38 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet that´s the reason why I said it´s an ouch turn. The enemy sent his Helens earlier from Amboina to bomb Tenimbar and we still saw a fat, dark airfield symbol so I thought that there will still be a lot of bombers and probably no Cap as I guessed he thinks that my 4Es are around Cairns and not at Darwin. I didn´t fly any recon before as I wanted to do a surprise attack. Well, as you can see, the surprise was on my side, meeting 83 enemy fighters on Cap. [:(] Even though Hortlund will think that he did no damage, I can say that this is again what I call something like a disaster as we lost a monthly replacement of B17s and nearly another dozen of B-24s. Total bomber losses here today: 26! Seems low but my BGs are completely wrecked, 70% of the B-17s turned back due to low morale, the B-24s pressed through and after being attacked by the fighters, the undamaged rest was shot up by flak. All my BGs have no a morale around 20 and only 20% of the bombers are operational. They have to be withdrawn South to be built up again. Hortlund lost 30 aircraft today but I guess he doesn´t know that this was a Japanese victory. And the weeks pass... Without the 200 4Es I can´t even think about an invasion as Hortlund now again focusses on a couple of bases that he Caps with 200 fighters and as those bases can´t be closed (not even attacked), an invasion around those strongholds would (and will be) absolutely bloody because after one day my CV Cap will be completely worn down. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Thursday Island , at 49,90 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 5 B-25C Mitchell x 239 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 37 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 72 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 13th AA Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 66 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 10 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 5th Mortar Battalion, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 62 P-40E Warhawk x 23 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships DD Hayate DD Yuzuki DD Nagatsuki DD Asagiri Allied Ships SS S-34, hits 4, on fire, heavy damage There are still two IJN BBs sitting at Lautern (under a Cap of 150+ fighters) and my subs had no chance so far. S-34 missed Hayate with 4 torps and is sunk immediately in return.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/19/2008 3:58:53 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/05/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 4 B-26B Marauder x 68 Allied aircraft losses B-25J Mitchell: 1 destroyed B-26B Marauder: 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 47 TBF Avenger x 32 Wellington III x 57 PV-1 Ventura x 21 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 259 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 39 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 5th Mortar Battalion, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 116 Kittyhawk I x 16 Beaufighter VIC x 10 P-40E Warhawk x 24 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Hikosan Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire AK Sinkoku Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet Hortlund moved a supply convoy and a SC TF as cover to Thursday Island. We launch a small strike but achieve an excelletn hit rate as those small and big AKs are hit with 5x500 lb bombs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 71 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 5 damaged Japanese Ships BB Nagato, Bomb hits 2, on fire CL Naka CA Ashigara CA Suzuya Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet and we launch a big strike against the SC TF and achieve a really bad hit rate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Sinkoku Maru, on fire, heavy damage AK Hikosan Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Houn Maru Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet another 500lb bomb hit. At least two AKs lost their supplies which were scheduled for Thursday Island. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 54 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 5 damaged Japanese Ships CA Aoba BB Nagato, Bomb hits 1, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet 130 Mitchells attacked this TF at 6000ft today, achieving 3 bomb hits. That´s the might of the Allied bomber force. Hortlund has parked several BB/CA TFs for months in range of my bombers in Timor and New Guinea and don´t even has to fly Cap to cover them as they are immune to bomber attacks. Another example how crippled the Japanese are in Nikmod or WITP in general. Hortlund is doing something that would have been impossible in real life. Just imagine I would place a couple of BBs/CAs without Cap in range of 200 Betties... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Japanese Ships BB Nagato, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 24,61 Japanese Ships AK Tokyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW W.21 Allied Ships SS KXVI at least a sub hits another big AK from the same TF that lost an AK already yesterday...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/19/2008 5:01:43 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/06/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,62 Japanese Ships AK Nitiren Maru MSW W.21 Allied Ships SS Whale Whale missed a big AK of the convoy West of Borneo which was attacked by subs several times already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 13th AA Regiment, at 34,28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 55 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 10 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 13th AA Regiment, at 34,28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 63 P-40E Warhawk x 20 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet attack on the retreating AA unit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 [:D] Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 35 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Fumishima Maru, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage AK Saiko Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Sinkoku Maru, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage AK Houn Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire AK Hikosan Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet I´m sure Hortlund won´t like the hit rate of my 80+ exp Liberators! [8D] Guess most of the supply for Thursday Island was completely destroyed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Fumishima Maru, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 4 B-17E Fortress x 33 Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Japanese Ships CA Aoba, Bomb hits 1 CL Naka BB Nagato CA Ashigara, Bomb hits 1, on fire <---- 2000lb GP bomb hit!!! [X(] Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet 1 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet while it isn´t a problem to hit slow transports with a load of 500lb bombs, it´s harder to hit the agile IJN warships! A CA was hit by a 2000lb bomb though! [X(] I have no idea if it wasn´t FOW though as the CA wasn´t heavily burning after the hit and it doesn´t show up as heavily damaged either. A 2000lb bomb should cause serious damage to a cruiser, shouldn´t it? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 30 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Sinkoku Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Houn Maru, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage AK Saiko Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet attack on the BB/CA TF in the afternoon failed to locate the target but 30 B-17s finish off the still floating merchants. Today we saw 4 big AKs (one near Borneo from a torp hit and 3 at Thursday Island from air attacks) and 1 small AK sinking.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/19/2008 5:58:11 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/07/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 27,66 Japanese Ships DD Asanagi, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PC Kunashiri PC Hachijo APD APD-39 Allied Ships SS Sawfish Hortlund operates this ASW group in the Borneo area and when I look at the last couple of weeks, it really seems that our subs are getting effective again. Hit on a precious DD with a MK14 torp (DDs must be very precious for the IJN already) [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 4 B-26B Marauder x 134 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged Japanese ground losses: 148 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 163 Liberator VI x 24 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 12 damaged Liberator VI: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet what a result... have got 400 bombers in India available and they will work on closing down all airfields in Burma. Perhaps this forces our enemy to relocate some fighters to Burma again (not massing them all on Timor and New Guinea). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 5th Mortar Battalion, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 119 Kittyhawk I x 13 Beaufighter VIC x 12 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 29 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/20/2008 3:33:44 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/08/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 27,66 Japanese Ships AK Syohei Maru MSW W.21 Allied Ships SS Scamp Scamp´s torps failed to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 28,66 Japanese Ships AK Singapore Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire MSW W.21 Allied Ships SS Tunny we really take a toll on this TF... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 45 A6M3a Zero x 15 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 69 Allied aircraft Kittyhawk I x 85 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 13 destroyed, 14 damaged Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 49 destroyed what can I say... [8\|] I´m using 50 exp pilots, the enemy has 80 exp pilots available... [image]local://upfiles/13774/42A69EC624E94CA49983B507AF8D959F.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 62 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 63 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/20/2008 3:47:03 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/09/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 39 encounters mine field at Andaman Island (23,34) Japanese Ships ML Kurokami, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage ML Kuroshima, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D][:D][:D] two small MLs were sunk by sub laid mines! One hit a VH2, the other one a MK10! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 28,66 Japanese Ships DD Susuzuki PC Sado PC Oki Allied Ships SS Tunny Tunny missed the DD... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 30,66 Japanese Ships PC Oki, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PC Sado DD Susuzuki Allied Ships SS Scamp but Scamp finishes Oki off! [:D] another high ASW value PC sunk... the phase when my subs were completely useless really seems to be gone... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Toboali at 22,57 Japanese Ships AK Hakonesan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Kusuyama Maru PC Ch 12 PG Busho Maru MSW Tama Maru MSW Wa 3 DD Kisaragi Allied Ships SS Searaven a big AK going to Toboali to load ressources is hit! Surprisingly strong escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 48 TBF Avenger x 22 Wellington III x 55 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 3 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 118 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 66 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 63 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 41 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 [8\|] Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 25 A6M3a Zero x 15 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 38 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 23 Swordfish x 37 T.IVa x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 17 destroyed Swordfish: 12 destroyed, 13 damaged T.IVa: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged Japanese Ships DD Natsugumo DD Oboro, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD Uranami DD Kiyonami DD Kasumi Aircraft Attacking: 2 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet yesterday Hortlund sent out his BB TF from Lautern to go into position North of Darwin so I sent in my torp bombers with some escorts. Well, the escorts lost 17:2 [8\|] (guess the Zeroes shot down 14 Wildcats for no loss...) and then??? F*CK YOU! My torp bombers launched against the ASW TF that follows the fat, high value BB TF that was spotted 10 times today! [8\|] Excellent chose of target. My torp bombers could have achieved something against the slow, old IJN BBs but the game decides it would be better to send them against the agile DDs. Called it luck for the enemy or whatever, but it sucks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 12 A6M3a Zero x 7 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 17 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 47 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 1 damaged A6M3a Zero: 5 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 4 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 28 damaged Japanese Ships DD Kiyonami DD Natsugumo DD Uranami DD Kasumi DD Arare DD Oboro, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet then an unescorted strike from Darwin. As usual, unescorted bomber attacks are better than escorted ones... [8\|] All 45 attacking Mitchells miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 25 A6M3a Zero x 15 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 36 Allied aircraft Kittyhawk I x 28 P-40E Warhawk x 61 B-25C Mitchell x 42 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 7 destroyed, 6 damaged A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed, 2 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 23 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 11 destroyed, 6 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed, 26 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged Japanese Ships BB Ise, Bomb hits 3, on fire BB Kongo, Bomb hits 1 DD Hayate Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet but hey, another strike from Darwin, this time with a big escort and the Warhawk FG did quite a good job. But of course now the bombers attack the bomb prove BBs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 20 A6M3a Zero x 10 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 18 Allied aircraft Kittyhawk I x 22 P-40E Warhawk x 25 B-25C Mitchell x 3 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed A6M3a Zero: 4 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 9 destroyed, 4 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed, 17 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese Ships DD Oboro, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet mini bomber strike in the afternoon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 [:@][:@][:@] Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 19 A6M3a Zero x 10 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 12 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 2 Swordfish x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 1 damaged A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Swordfish: 4 destroyed, 4 damaged Japanese Ships DD Arare DD Uranami DD Kasumi Aircraft Attacking: 1 x Swordfish launching torpedoes at 200 feet what the hell! Is this game really that bad? Like in the morning, the torp bombers AGAIN attack the DDs... [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 9 A6M3a Zero x 5 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 6 Allied aircraft P-40E Warhawk x 3 B-25C Mitchell x 46 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 2 damaged A6M3a Zero: 1 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged Japanese Ships DD Natsugumo, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Kiyonami DD Arare DD Kasumi DD Uranami, Bomb hits 1, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet small number of bombers, BIG number of escorts! Big number of bombers, SMALL number of escorts... [sm=crazy.gif] guess someone should take a look at the routine that puts up the airstrikes... We lose 80+ aircraft today but took down 40+ enemy fighters. We achieve two bomb hits on DDs and a torp hit on a DD. The bombs on the BBs just bounced off. Hortlund told me he only lost 5 pilots but I don´t believe him. 5 out of 40+ shot down?? [8\|] I guess we will see a bombardment of Darwin tomorrow, but I haven´t evacuated it. There are 12 PTs, 2 DDs and a lot of subs on the way to Darwin. We have 400 aircraft at Darwin and the remaining torp bombers at Tenimbar are still on nav attack. Hortlund called it a total Japanese victory again, but I´m (once again) of different oppinion. [image]local://upfiles/13774/219AA11E06F14E49B338D29DADB0BCCD.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 56,95 Japanese Ships AK Taki Maru DD Naganami CL Agano Allied Ships SS Pompano, hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Pompano missed the big AK and then receives two real hits and is in sinking condition with 84 flt...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/20/2008 3:58:28 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/10/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Toboali at 22,57 Japanese Ships AK Kenryu Maru, Shell hits 4 Allied Ships SS Sealion, hits 1 unescorted AK at Toboali is attacked on the surface. The only torp salvo missed and the AK is hit by 3x40mm and a 4 inch shell... Hit on the sub is FOW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 72 encounters mine field at Lae (54,87) Japanese Ships AP Josho Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D] Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Argonaut´s MK10 mines hit an AP... I only have 3 sub mine layers but they are really doing a great job. Reason for that is that Hortlund doesn´t care at all about the sub laid mines. He just does nothing against spotted minefields. Unbelievable but that´s how it is. And that´s the reason he has lost several ships to sub laid mines and had BBs and just recently CV Kaga hit a sub laid mines. When I think about my IJN game against Swift, my opponent uses all his Allied subs to lay mines, but has achieved nearly nothing as I pay attention to all spotted subs and MSWs are on the whole map to clear sub laid mines immediately. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 3 B-26B Marauder x 143 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 14 damaged Japanese ground losses: 196 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 38 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 150 Liberator VI x 23 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Liberator VI: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet What a hit rate... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Tenimbar , at 36,81 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 60 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 11 Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 No Japanese losses no BB bombardment of Darwin (the BBs are back at Lautern) but Hortlund tries to take out Tenimbar. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Tenimbar , at 36,81 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 20 Ki-49 Helen x 112 Ki-46-III Dinah x 5 Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 8 damaged Allied aircraft losses Swordfish: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 64 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet 3 base forces there, not a single Helen is lost today... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Tenimbar , at 36,81 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 22 G4M1 Betty x 269 [X(] Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 26 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 15 damaged Allied aircraft losses Swordfish: 2 destroyed Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 171 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 16000 feet no idea how this works, but only 1 Betty is lost today (ops). So out of 400 attacking bombers 1!!! was lost. I lost 15 twice as durable bombers over Burma and Thursday Island today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Thursday Island , at 49,90 Japanese aircraft A6M2-N Rufe x 4 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 5 B-25C Mitchell x 236 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2-N Rufe: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 23 damaged Japanese ground losses: 239 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Airbase hits 19 Airbase supply hits 12 Runway hits 87 Aircraft Attacking: 44 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet 6 Mitchells lost... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 45 TBF Avenger x 31 Wellington III x 59 PV-1 Ventura x 20 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 3 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 140 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 35 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,77 Allied aircraft Beaufort I x 10 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Oboro Aircraft Attacking: 1 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet flew the Beaforts in but they only drop bombs from the level 2 airfield... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,77 Allied aircraft Swordfish x 9 Kittyhawk I x 46 T.IVa x 3 Allied aircraft losses Swordfish: 2 damaged T.IVa: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Natsugumo DD Uranami, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet Tenimbar was nearly empty, that´s why I took just a few aircraft lost on the ground. Our torp bombers attacked the retiring DDs and Uranami was confirmed sunk. Another DD sunk, but as I have been told before, Hortlund doesn´t need his DDs. [:D] 70+ IJN DDs lost so far...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 2:53:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/11/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 37,59 Japanese Ships AP Nikki Maru AP Tatsuta Maru DD Urakaze Allied Ships SS Gunnel Gunnel´s torps fail to detonate after hitting the big AP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 37,59 Japanese Ships AP Teizui Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AP Tatsutake Maru DD Urakaze Allied Ships SS Gunnel but Gunnel attacks another big AP hitting it with a MK14. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 3 B-26B Marauder x 130 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged Japanese ground losses: 92 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 91 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet will take a month to close down all airfields in Nothern Burma, except Akyab as there are too many engineers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Tenimbar , at 36,81 Japanese aircraft Ki-49 Helen x 9 Ki-46-III Dinah x 3 Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 12 Kittyhawk I x 37 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 6 destroyed Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged Kittyhawk I: 3 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet guess Hortlund will state that it is BS that 49 of my fighters took down 6 of the attacking 9 bombers. 3 dropped bombs... looks like he forgot to stand down this chutai -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Thursday Island , at 49,90 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Hudson I x 5 B-25C Mitchell x 209 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2-N Rufe: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 26 damaged Japanese ground losses: 58 casualties reported Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 74 Aircraft Attacking: 50 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet if I just could figure out why we never really hit the defending AA and base force units... this way flak will never get less effective... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 42 TBF Avenger x 31 Wellington III x 59 PV-1 Ventura x 23 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 195 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 64 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Wellington III bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 63 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 78 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 56 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 23 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 110 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Muntok at 21,55 Japanese Ships AK Hakonesan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Searaven another AK is history... [:D]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 3:31:04 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/12/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 95 encounters mine field at Andaman Island (23,34) Japanese Ships MSW Hinode Maru #18 MSW Banshu Maru #8 after losing two MLs at Andaman to sub laid mines, Hortlund sent two MSWs from Rangoon... too late though! [8D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 47,114 Japanese Ships SS I-6 Allied Ships DD Helm DD Henley DD Patterson DD Jarvis DD Gridley spotted this sub yesterday so I´ve sent out 5 ASW TFs in every hex around Brisbane. First TF missed the sub completely... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Palembang at 20,55 Japanese Ships AK Hakonesan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Searaven but we finish off a big AK that was already hit yesterday... glug glug -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 47,114 Japanese Ships SS I-6 Allied Ships DD Frazier DD Welles DD Barton DD McCalla DD Saufley DD Radford then I-6 attacks one of my hunter groups but missed. All DDs fail to locate the sub... would like to sink the bugger as it carries a Glen... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 42 TBF Avenger x 31 Wellington III x 57 PV-1 Ventura x 23 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 1 damaged Wellington III: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 64 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 61 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet soon SBDs will start attacking the LCUs but I guess flak is still too strong for attacks at 2000ft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 61 P-40E Warhawk x 20 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 95 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 47,114 Japanese Ships SS I-6 Allied Ships DD Frazier DD Welles DD Barton DD McCalla DD Saufley DD Radford we get a third chance to attack this sub today but again all DDs fail to locate the sub...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 3:42:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/13/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Gili Gili at 56,94 Japanese Ships PG Kozan Maru, Shell hits 11, on fire, heavy damage AK Madras Maru, Shell hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk AK Samarang Maru, heavy damage Allied Ships CL Marblehead, Shell hits 1 DD Grayson DD Morris we use our surface raider group from Cairns to attack shipping at Gili Gili. The PG and the AK are sunk, the other one is heavily damaged from a MK10 mine hit... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 20 encounters mine field at Lae (54,87) Japanese Ships MSW Chitose Maru MSW Choyo Maru #2 PG Hirotama Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage then a minesweeping TF goes in to Lae but the included PG hits another sub laid MK10! [:D] It´s real fun! The PG could be in real trouble. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-26B Marauder x 90 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Wellington III x 152 Liberator VI x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Liberator VI: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 22 casualties reported Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Wellington III bombing at 19000 feet why my mostly 85+ exp Wellingtons and Libs achieve such lousy hit rates is a mistery for me... [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lae , at 54,87 [:D] Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 7 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 41 B-24D Liberator x 109 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 8 destroyed Ki-57-II Topsy: 8 destroyed L2D2 Tabby: 4 destroyed A6M2-N Rufe: 2 destroyed H8K Emily: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 6 damaged B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed, 19 damaged Japanese ground losses: 476 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 24 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 83 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet there are still a lot of aircraft at Lae but most fighters are on Cap over Gili Gili (100+ in ther air) and PM (80 in the air). We recon Thursday, Gili Gili, PM and Lae every day and today 150 4Es flew an agressive recon mission! [:D] No biggy but the Japanese lost 54 aircraft on the whole map today. 4 4Es are lost to various cases. We have to find a way to force our opponent to spread his Cap. Bases with 100 fighters on Cap and dozens of AA units are impossible to attack. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 40 TBF Avenger x 30 Wellington III x 27 PV-1 Ventura x 21 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 1 damaged Wellington III: 5 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 60 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 32 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 30,83 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 31 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Chatanooga City, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet impossible to sneak even single ships to Darwin... perhaps I should use Hortlund´s tactic of picket ships! Send one AK one hex off Derby and Cap it with 200 fighters then! Take down 50% of the 30 attacking bombers with 200 fighters and hear the crying about using a picket ship and how crippled the Japanese are when the Allied still have so mighty fighters - that lose 5-15:1 against Japanese fighters... [:D][:D][:D]

ny59giants -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 6:52:57 PM)
Send out your PBYs and LB from Brisbane at 1000' naval search. This should increase the detection level on his sub and if their experience level is high enough even get a hit. Then your hunter/killer groups should be able to go in for the kill.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 8:00:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants Send out your PBYs and LB from Brisbane at 1000' naval search. This should increase the detection level on his sub and if their experience level is high enough even get a hit. Then your hunter/killer groups should be able to go in for the kill. the sub was spotted a couple of times already that´s why I sent out the DDs.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 8:02:40 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/14/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 24 encounters mine field at Gili Gili (56,94) Japanese Ships AK Samarang Maru, Mine hits 1, heavy damage PG Kozan Maru, on fire, heavy damage another Mk10 finds a victim at Gili Gili, probably a lot supplies lost! [:D] AP Josho Maru that hit a mine at Lae a couple of days ago was reported sunk a couple of hexes East of Lae. Another example that Hortlund doesn´t care about his ships as he could have disbanded the medium AP at Lae (even though it´s just a level 3 port it would have been worth a try). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 56,86 Japanese Ships AP Hikawa Maru DD Makigumo Allied Ships SS Pompon torps missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 96 encounters mine field at Rabaul (61,88) Japanese Ships MSW Tamozono Maru #2 MSW Sonobe Maru -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Thursday Island , at 49,90 Japanese aircraft A6M2-N Rufe x 1 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 5 B-25C Mitchell x 183 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2-N Rufe: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 22 damaged Japanese ground losses: 163 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 145 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet excellent hit rate but we lost 7 bombers today! [:(] 6 to flak, 1 to ops... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 40 TBF Avenger x 27 Wellington III x 27 PV-1 Ventura x 17 Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 33 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 44 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 77 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 42 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/23/2008 10:58:01 PM)
quiet everywhere. Rather boring but I can´t take on the Japanese strongholds with hundreds of fighters and dozens of AA units in one base yet. Have to build up the pool of P-38s and Corsairs first, no sense in sending in 48 60exp Corsairs against 200 80 exp Japanese fighters on Timor. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/15/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 42 SBD Dauntless x 64 TBF Avenger x 23 Wellington III x 27 PV-1 Ventura x 15 Allied aircraft losses SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged TBF Avenger: 1 damaged Wellington III: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 97 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 18 Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 76 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet we´re taking enough losses anyway. Again 7 aircraft lost today...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/24/2008 8:59:12 PM)
Everything changes and so also the time when my subs were completely useless due to 80% of the torps missing and 50% of the rest failing to detonate... [8D] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/16/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 62,74 Japanese Ships AP Chihaya Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Choko Maru #2 PG Choan Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Lapon Lapon going to Brisbane from a transit mine laying mission from the West Coast to Saipan hits a medium AP a couple of hexes North of Truk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,57 Japanese Ships AK Kohuku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PC Ch 12 PG Busho Maru MSW Tama Maru MSW Wa 3 DD Kisaragi Allied Ships SS Scorpion Scoripion hits a big AK one hex East of Toboali, probably loaded with 5500 tons of resources as this is the TF that went to Toboali a couple of days ago! [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30 Allied aircraft Kittyhawk I x 18 B-26B Marauder x 43 Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 97 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30 Allied aircraft B-26B Marauder x 79 Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 7 damaged Japanese ground losses: 80 casualties reported Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Wellington III x 150 Liberator VI x 28 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 36 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 42 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Liberator VI bombing at 16000 feet The IJAAF is nowhere around and we´re bombing empty bases with less effect, just to ramp up our losses to flak and ops... there´s no reason Hortlund should oppose these attacks...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kiska Island , at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 38 SBD Dauntless x 44 TBF Avenger x 24 Wellington III x 18 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses SBD Dauntless: 10 damaged TBF Avenger: 1 damaged Wellington III: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 83 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 77 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 42 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,57 Japanese Ships AK Arimasan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PC Ch 12 PG Busho Maru MSW Tama Maru MSW Wa 3 DD Kisaragi Allied Ships SS Scorpion Scoripion scores a second time today! Another resource loaden big AK is hit! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 23,57 Japanese Ships AK Kensyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Kitahuku Maru PC Ch 12 PG Busho Maru MSW Tama Maru MSW Wa 3 DD Kisaragi Allied Ships SS Scorpion and again it´s Scorpion that hits a big AK! [&o][&o][&o] Scorpion hits three big AKs today and retires without torps for her forward tubes to Darwin. Probably 2 of those AKs are lost, how Hortlund cared about his ships in the past I would guess all three will be lost. 3 big AKs lost with 16500 tons of resources! Excellent turn...

anarchyintheuk -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 2:25:06 AM)
What avenue do you think that you'll take when you start your offensive?

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 9:50:26 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk What avenue do you think that you'll take when you start your offensive? First targets will be on Southern New Guinea, pretty sure the first invasion will go in at Thursday Island as this is a temperate hex and the only base in that region I can bomb with my Mitchells. Then PM, Gili Gili and in between perhaps Merauke if it isn´t strongly defended. I´m 99% sure that Hortlund knows that too. Should be 100% sure as I told him that I cancelled my PM invasion a couple of weeks ago as my TFs were hit by the movement bug off Cairns for 10 days and didn´t move a single hex while being spotted nearly every day. I told him that 3000 assault points were scheduled to go in at PM! [:D] Of course I´m not planning to throw in 10 divs on PM. I have 3000 av 100% prepped for Thursday, PM and Gili Gili together and I guess those numbers should be sufficient, while I get more and more divs and RCTs that I could use as reinforcements. I don´t know if he believed me but if so, then I´m sure PM will get a lot of reinforcements in the next weeks. I can also bypass it and only take Thursday and Gili Gili. The more troops he pumps into PM the less he will have for Thursday and Gili Gili or Timor and Northern New Guinea. We will see. But Hortlund will surely have to strongly defend Timor too, as this could be the first target also, even though I would have to go around Australia with my TFs. The plan is now to make Hortlund think that we will attack Timor first as this is the direct way into the SRA. Then we have to wear down a lot of Japanese fighters over Timor and do a lot of bombing there to prepare (far later) landings and to draw away fighters from New Guinea and wear the enemy fighter daitais down. But with the previous engagements of enemy fighters this will be a really tough job as my pilots are just not up to the enemy aces with 80+ exp. We have now some 60 Corsairs operational (exp between 55 and 65) and a dozen still repairing (a Corsair squadron repairs one or two aircraft a day, so it takes at least 12-15 days to repair a whole Marine squadron). I have 24 P-38 operational, another 72 plane FG is repairing, at 3 or 4 aircraft a day, means weeks until it´s operational. The key to airsuperiority over Timor will be the airfield of Tenimbar (North of Darwin) as this base is 5 hexes from Lautern (major base on Timor with 200+ enemy fighters in the air every day!!!!!). Tenimbar started out at airfield size 0(0) and I´ve been building it up since half a year with 300 eng and 50 eng vehicles but am only at 2 (63%). Building up a 0(0) af is nearly impossible, even for the Allied. Increasing 1% a day which means another month until we reach level 3. Then I can do sweeps with 150 fighters against Lautern. When Tenimbar will be ready I will have some 120 Corsairs ready, they will do the first major sweep. I guess after this first sweep, the Corsairs will be exhausted (probably 60 shot down and another 40 dam). Then they will be brought out and the next day we follow up with 150 Australian/Canadian Kittyhawks. Also on the second day (or on the third) we will launch 300 Mitchells with 100 P-38 as escorts from Darwin (6 hexes, normal range for the Mitchell, 6x500lb bombs each bomber). On day four I will either have airsuperiority over Eastern Timor or I will have to wait another month because my fighters were completely shot to pieces, not doing much damage to the enemy. So the plan is to see 300 enemy fighters destroyed after day 3 and see major fighter reinforcements coming in from New Guinea afterwards. The most important thing will be to destroy as many Zero daitais as possible as those will be the ones escorting the Betties that will attack my invasion and carrier TFs. The Betties will break through my Cap but if there´s not enough cover from the Zeroes they will still take a high toll (and Hortlund won´t like that!! [:D] as he thinks they should be as imune and durable as my B-17s [;)]). The problem now is that most of the fighters defending Timor are IJAAF Tojos and not Navy fighter squadrons, but I guess as soon as I have worn down the Tojos, there will be more and more Zeroes show up. So that´s the plan, but it still takes time and we´re already in 43, while we haven´t seen any major Allied invasions (only the disastrous landings on Dutch Harbour during the winter months, but those weren´t major invasions anyway). But I just have to wait, the longer the better. Last time I immediately used my P38s when one squadron was ready and it was shot down at 1:15 by 100 defending Zeroes. In 3/43 we will see P-47C going online, that will be 35 additional long range (6 hexes [:D]) fighters. The only real strong weapon I have are the 200 high exp 4Es operating out of Australia´s East coast but one attack against a strongly defended base and 80% of them aren´t operational on day two.

ny59giants -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 2:38:22 PM)
Have you gotten the Boomerang IIs yet?? I'm on hold with my CHS 158c Nik Mod game and I've used them to replace the useless Wirraways. They have a nice range for possible teaming up with your P-47C. I have PDU on so I was able to upgrade the Wirraways to Beaufighter and after training them up to the low 70's, switch them over to the Boomerang's. [;)] The one thing about Nik Mod is the increased durability of the Corsairs is nice for survivability, but sucks as they cannot stay on CAP for extended periods before the squadrons start to approach 50% damage.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 8:35:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants Have you gotten the Boomerang IIs yet?? I'm on hold with my CHS 158c Nik Mod game and I've used them to replace the useless Wirraways. They have a nice range for possible teaming up with your P-47C. I have PDU on so I was able to upgrade the Wirraways to Beaufighter and after training them up to the low 70's, switch them over to the Boomerang's. [;)] The one thing about Nik Mod is the increased durability of the Corsairs is nice for survivability, but sucks as they cannot stay on CAP for extended periods before the squadrons start to approach 50% damage. I´ve got Boomerang IIs but they really suck and I don´t have any Wirraways on the map. They have been upgraded to Hurricanes - Spitfire - Kittyhawk a long time ago. The only advantage of the Boomerang vs the Kittyhawk is that it has one hex more range but when I look at how easily my Kittyhawks die then I won´t use any Boomerang II for the whole war.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 8:36:38 PM)
only "interesting" thing today was that Helens attacked two of my subs hitting one with a bomb... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/17/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lashio , at 35,30 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 21 Kittyhawk I x 18 B-26B Marauder x 33 Allied aircraft losses B-26B Marauder: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 24 casualties reported Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 76 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 38 Kittyhawk I x 14 Beaufighter VIC x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 9:11:59 PM)
deja vu like nearly every day: two subs of mine were attacked by Helens, one was hit by a bomb... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/18/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Akyab, at 30,29 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 125 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Newcastle CL Glasgow CL Hobart, Shell hits 1 CL Perth, Shell hits 14 CL Achilles, Shell hits 11 CA Exeter CA Cornwall, Shell hits 12 CA Devonshire CA Dorsetshire, Shell hits 9 Japanese ground losses: 187 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 1 why this single CD gun unit at Akyab is so super effective, no one knows... [8\|] not a single hit on the airfield or port, this base has been reconned daily by dedicated recon aircraft for a year now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 39,45 Japanese Ships AK Mito Maru Allied Ships SS Amberjack South of Hong Kong, torps hit the big AK but fail to detonate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 28,66 Japanese Ships MSW Wa 14, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage MSW Toroshima Maru MSW Wa 10 Allied Ships SS Scorpion This is the mighty Scorpion! After hitting three big AKs in one day she retired to Darwin and on her way she hits a small MSW with 3 torps out of a salvo of 4!! [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 92,35 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 23 SBD Dauntless x 47 TBF Avenger x 26 Wellington III x 15 PV-1 Ventura x 6 PB4Y Liberator x 3 Allied aircraft losses SBD Dauntless: 2 destroyed, 18 damaged TBF Avenger: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 84 casualties reported Vehicles lost 6 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet not a good idea to do ground attacks as we see the old strange feature of flak being 5 times more effective when defending an LCU and not the base or port... 7 aircraft lost to flak today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 62,71 Japanese Ships TK Ogurasan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Chitose Maru Allied Ships SS Finback North of Truk we hit a fuel loaden 6000 ton TK! Fuel is burning, would be luck if the TK will make it. My Wolfpack in the area will try to shadow the TF, probably going directly to Truk...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (4/25/2008 10:17:40 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 02/19/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 30,70 Japanese Ships PC Kunashiri PC Hachijo APD APD-39 Allied Ships SS Scorpion Scorpion escapes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 43,45 Japanese Ships AK Kenryu Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire Allied Ships SS Blackfish Blackfish scores two torp hits but the big AK gets away not even damaged a couple of hexes South East of Hong Kong... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 26 A6M3a Zero x 6 Allied aircraft F-5A Lightning x 3 B-17E Fortress x 98 B-24D Liberator x 130 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 4 destroyed, 19 damaged A6M3a Zero: 2 destroyed Ki-46-III Dinah: 2 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 18 damaged B-24D Liberator: 16 damaged Japanese ground losses: 151 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Airbase hits 38 [X(] Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 154 [X(] Aircraft Attacking: 43 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 20000 feet this hit rate from 20.000 ft is absolutely amazing. 32 fighters aren´t enough to do real damage (3 bombers are lost today) but at the end of the day we have 25% of the bombers damaged. Some 20 aircraft of various types were torched at Gili Gili today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st NLF , at 36,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 77 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 63,76 Japanese Ships AK Katsukawa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire MSW Shonan Maru #7 MSW Atsu Maru MSW Wa 7 MSW Wa 5 Allied Ships SS Wahoo Wahoo is part of the Wolpack that tried to engage the TK convoy off Truk but instead another big AK is hit... I take everything I get... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 13,85 Japanese Ships SS I-175, hits 4 Allied Ships PG Kiwi, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PG Tui PG Moa PG Warrego PG Swan 9 hexes West of Broome has been a IJN sub sitting for a long time already so we sent out some PGs from Perth. The hunters get hunted and PG Kiwi sinks immediately. The rest scores one real hit and 3 near misses...

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