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castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/19/2008 1:48:01 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/29/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 23 encounters mine field at Akyab (30,29) Japanese Ships BB Hyuga, Mine hits 1 [:D] sub laid VH2 hits Hyuga. SS O19 and O20 are mining the area and are replenishing at Diamond Harbour, so they lay 50 mines and can replenish a couple of turns later... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 37,59 Japanese Ships PG Kanko Maru PG Toyotsu Maru PG Kaiun Maru PG Busho Maru APD APD-31 Allied Ships SS S-46, hits 8, on fire Japanese ASW gets too good for my taste... S-46 retires with 35 sys and 63 float... 50/50 chance I would say... [:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 33,64 Japanese Ships DD Yugumo Allied Ships SS S-43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 158 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Japanese Ships PC Ch 12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 32 P-40E Warhawk x 69 No Allied losses We swept the hex with the TK rgt in as we spotted LRCAP last turn, but we encountered no fighters this turn... cat and mouse game...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/19/2008 4:03:59 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/30/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1044 encounters mine field at Lautem (33,78) Allied Ships CL De Ruyter, Mine hits 1, on fire I will break every record in WITP regarding mine hits of "non invasion" TFs... what kind of joke of am I the victim? [&:] said it before, I just don´t understand what´s happening in this PBEM regarding those mine hits... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 113 encounters mine field at Palembang (20,55) Japanese Ships MSW W.14 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 78 P-40E Warhawk x 62 SB-2c x 1 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 101 casualties reported Vehicles lost 5 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet the LRCAP last turn was just a feint or a try to catch some unescorted ground strike... no LRCAP today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 53,47 Japanese Ships AP Biyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Kantori Maru PG Hakkaisan Maru PC Shonon Maru #3 Allied Ships SS Tautog Japanese ground losses: 39 casualties reported we sent a new "Wolfpack" of 6 subs to the front (operating as single subs in different hexes of course) and one day after the subs arrived one achieved a hit on a medium sized AP... the important fact of this turn is that I got recon reports about the IJA bombers being back at Mandalay. I´m taking advantage of me seeing Hortlund´s aircraft transfers because I´m the second player and I have to say I never liked that feature. So what should I do? I can´t stop looking at the enemy airfields completely and if I see that aircraft are moved in should I just wait until I get clobbered? I don´t like this "feature"...[8\|] well, the IJA bombers are back so I´m expecting an attack on one of my airfields in India tomorrow. Probable target will be Imphal where I have 150 aircraft that were attacking the IJA TK rgt. I moved my bombers back to Dacca with 36 Tomahawks of AVG for escort. Those ac are now set on NAV attack / airfield attack Mandalay (6 hexes). This means my bombers will attack in the afternoon. So the plan is to do a sweep on Mandalay in the morning both from Imphal and Chandpur and see my bombers grounded in the morning. The IJA (if set to airfield attack) will attack in the morning and will be grounded in the afternoon. As Dacca was empty yesterday (that´s what Hortlund saw) I don´t expect him to bomb my bombers at Dacca in the morning. He surely orders escorts for his bombers so his Cap will below the 100 fighters like the last days. My sweeps in the morning will deal with the remaining Cap and my bombers with AVG escorts will torch the IJA escorts and bombers on the ground... that´s the plan... [:D] will be interesting what will go wrong...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/19/2008 5:02:20 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 05/31/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 114 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Japanese Ships BB Hyuga, Mine hits 1, on fire [:D][:D] After hitting a mine at Akyab, Hyuga retired to Rangoon to hit her second VH2 mine... think she will spend the next months in a repair yard... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 6,99 Japanese Ships SS I-124, hits 1 <---- IJN mine layer on it´s way to Perth... Allied Ships DD Foxhound DD Stuart -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 52,47 Japanese Ships AP Daifuku Maru PG Kantori Maru PG Hakkaisan Maru PC Shonon Maru #3 Allied Ships SS Drum our Wolfpack keeps operating on the TF that was attacked yesterday... Drum misses with a salvo of 6 torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 27,31 Japanese Ships PC Ch 12 PC Ch 11 PC Ch 10 PC Ch 6 PG Kamitsu Maru Allied Ships SS KVII, hits 1 one near miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 39,50 Japanese Ships AK Tosan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PC Shimushu DD Murakumo Allied Ships SS Haddock, hits 1 Tosan Maru hit by MK14 torp... one near miss for Haddock... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 87 P-40E Warhawk x 65 A-20B Boston x 1 SB-2c x 1 No Allied losses [X(][X(][X(] what´s Hortlund doing??? Not a single fighter on CAP... very careless, but this is working perfectly for me... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 78 P-40E Warhawk x 23 A-20B Boston x 1 No Allied losses also our second sweep is only a sightseeing trip for our pilots... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Imphal , at 33,26 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 76 [X(] Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 144 [X(][X(] Ki-21 Sally x 76 Ki-49 Helen x 46 Ki-46-II Dinah x 8 Ki-15 Babs x 12 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses SB-2c: 1 destroyed A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed Hurricane IIb: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 89 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 18 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 78 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 11000 feet then, as expected, Hortlund bombs Imphal that is nearly empty as our fighters/fighter bombers have left the airfield to sweep Mandalay... Hortlund sets 220 fighters on escort/sweep and has not a single fighter left for Cap... I don´t feel for him if I bomb his unguarded airfield... what a mistake IMO... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Imphal , at 33,26 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 31 Ki-49 Helen x 46 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged Allied aircraft losses SB-2c: 3 destroyed Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet a second strike from Pagan... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 127 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged Japanese ground losses: 226 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 32 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- afternoon phase... Day Air attack on Mandalay , at 33,30 [:D][:D][:D] Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Wellington III x 66 P-40B Tomahawk x 4 B-26B Marauder x 46 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 13 destroyed Ki-21 Sally: 15 destroyed A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed A6M3 Zero: 5 destroyed Ki-15 Babs: 1 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 8 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 5 destroyed, 21 damaged B-26B Marauder: 8 damaged Japanese ground losses: 587 casualties reported Guns lost 20 Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 16 Runway hits 60 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet all but 50 bombers attack Mandalay with a very small escort but nevertheless we torch a lot of aircraft on the ground... have to say that our plan worked better than expected, as we didn´t lose any fighters to the enemy cap... Here are todays air losses! As Hortlund thinks that days where we exchange air losses at 1:1 is a success for him (can´t understand that at all at this date, but I´m happy that he´s happy - I´m happy too! [;)]) I can surely say that today was a CLEAR ALLIED VICTORY then... [:D] Hortlund has lost hundreds of aircraft more in this area so far than we did and so far, all in all he had better planes and far better pilots. So I´m perfectly happy with the situation... [image]local://upfiles/13774/CB0070E3DBA44E5A9F96174F539AE577.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Imphal , at 33,26 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 44 Ki-46-II Dinah x 3 Ki-15 Babs x 3 No Japanese losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 28,30 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 11 P-40B Tomahawk x 7 No Allied losses Japanese Ships PC Ch 10 PC Ch 12 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 28,30 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 25 P-40B Tomahawk x 24 No Allied losses Japanese Ships PG Kamitsu Maru PC Ch 10 PC Ch 6 PC Ch 11 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet this TF is the reason why not all bombers were flying the airfield attack on Mandalay... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 50,47 Japanese Ships PC Ch 21 PC Ch 20 PC Ch 19 PG Tamo Maru #7 Allied Ships SS Sealion, hits 4 4 near misses but Sealion has to retire home... let´s look at the ASW war so far... as mentioned earlier Hortlund is using massive IJA medium bomber formations to take out my subs. I move them every turn but the IJA bombers have achieved dozens of hits so far with half a dozen subs sunk and 15+ sitting in port now with heavy damage. Every day, our subs are attacked by Helens and Sallies... those bombers are sweeping the seas from Allied subs. Makes it impossible in the long run to keep up the sub war like the Allied should do it and I have to say a WITP campaign without a sub war is just plain BS... [8\|] But before I lose all my subs to land based IJA medium bombers I will just stop it... here´s the average op report: OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR 05/31/42 Ki-49 Helen sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 30,68 , Speed 2 , Moving Southwest Ki-49 Helen attacking S-43 at 30,68 S-43 is reported HIT Ki-49 Helen sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 30,68 , Speed 6 , Moving Southwest Ki-51 Sonia reports suspected submarine at 40, 68 Ki-49 Helen reports suspected submarine at 30, 68 Ki-49 Helen sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 38,63 , Speed 2 , Moving Southeast Ki-21 Sally reports diving submarine at 40, 67 Ki-21 Sally attacking S-46 at 38,63 S-46 is reported HIT Ki-21 Sally sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 38,63 , Speed 6 , Moving Southeast G4M1 Betty reports shadow in water at 30, 68 G4M1 Betty reports shadow in water at 38, 63 G4M1 Betty reports radio transmissions at 30, 68 G4M1 Betty attacking Shark at 38,63 E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 38, 63 E13A1 Jake reports radio transmissions at 38, 63 F1M2 Pete reports shadow in water at 40, 68 Hudson I sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 28,77 , Speed 8 , Moving Southwest Ki-49 Helen reports periscope at 38, 63 Ki-49 Helen reports radio transmissions at 30, 68 Ki-49 Helen reports shadow in water at 38, 63 Ki-49 Helen reports suspected submarine at 30, 68 Ki-49 Helen attacking S-46 at 38,63 S-46 is reported HIT Ki-49 Helen reports radio transmissions at 38, 63 Ki-21 Sally reports suspected submarine at 38, 63 Ki-21 Sally reports periscope at 40, 68 Ki-21 Sally reports shadow in water at 38, 63 Ki-21 Sally reports shadow in water at 38, 63 G4M1 Betty reports shadow in water at 38, 63 G4M1 Betty reports suspected submarine at 30, 68 G4M1 Betty reports suspected submarine at 30, 68 E13A1 Jake sighting report: 1 Allied ship at 40,68 , Speed 11 , Moving Southwest E13A1 Jake reports shadow in water at 40, 68 Catalina I reports submarine at 29,27 Catalina I sighting report: 1 Japanese ship at 28,30 , Speed 15 , Moving Northeast Hudson I has spotted Gyoraitei #4 at 28,77 Hudson I has spotted Chokai at 33,78 Wakkanai expands airfield to size 5 Kweilin expands airfield to size 5 Haiphong expands airfield to size 5 Trimcomalee expands airfield to size 6 Rabaul expands port to size 7 Previous British Withdraw Penalty Paid = 300 For 6/42, the British Must Withdraw: 1 BB + 2 DD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S-46 sunk and S-43 will sink the next couple of turns with 88 floatation damage now... great eh? [8\|] As soon as the Japanese player uses hundreds of IJA bombers to clean the sea of Allied subs it´s impossible to send out the subs on patrol... perhaps something to consider for AE... [8\|] NOTE: CA Chokai was spotted at Lautern, 6 hexes from Darwin. Could be either a feint to destroy another surface TF of mine or a bombardment TF that takes position to attack Darwin tomorrow. I moved out all my ships and precious aircraft (like B-17 and P-40) and will wait what will happen tomorrow... I could really use BB Royal Sovereign now, the BB was tasked to cover Darwin...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/19/2008 6:04:48 PM)
GOD DAMN THOSE F***ING BUGS OF THIS GAME!!!!! For no reason, we´re out of synch again! [:@][:@][:@][:@] This happened in my turn, but not in our game... [:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@] Day Air attack on TF, near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 54 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged Japanese Ships CA Chokai, Bomb hits 12, on fire, heavy damage DD Usugumo, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/19/2008 7:41:12 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/03/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77 Japanese Ships AP Koshin Maru AP Siraha Maru, Shell hits 10, on fire, heavy damage AP Shoto Maru, heavy damage Allied Ships CL Sumatra, Shell hits 2 damaged APs were sitting in Koepang´s port and Sumatra hits the medium AP Siraha Maru with 10x5,9 inch shells... Note: no mine hits today! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 28,77 Japanese Ships PT Gyoraitei #1 PT Gyoraitei #4 Allied Ships CL Sumatra normally the PTs engage first... [&:] range 8.000 yards, no hits, TFs break off... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships DD Usugumo DD Hakaze DD Kisaragi Allied Ships SS Plunger, hits 4, on fire one real hit, Plunger needs 2 months of yard time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 77 P-40E Warhawk x 18 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 91 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 4 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet 72 P-40s are ordered on escort but only 18 are flying...[&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,70 Japanese aircraft E13A1 Jake x 13 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AP Empire Chivalry Aircraft Attacking: 1 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet there´s a CS sitting at the map edge on the shipping lanes between India and Australia... [8\|]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/20/2008 2:09:02 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/04/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 9 encounters mine field at Tarawa (85,91) Japanese Ships DD Kari sub laid mines from a sub that moved from the West Coast to Australia... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 79 P-40E Warhawk x 20 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 142 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 7 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet I´m sure we will soon see a Japanese LRCAP ambush over the TK regiment...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/20/2008 2:15:50 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/05/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 71 encounters mine field at Akyab (30,29) Japanese Ships MSW W.18 MSW W.17 DD Hayabusa, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D] VH2 mine found a victim... don´t know why Hortlund has a DD in his mine sweeper TF... also BB Haruna is in this hex, probably functioning as cover for the mine sweeper TF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 32 A6M3 Zero x 19 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 6 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 13 B-25C Mitchell x 196 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged A6M3 Zero: 4 destroyed, 12 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 damaged B5N Kate: 2 destroyed Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed Ki-15 Babs: 1 destroyed H8K Emily: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 8 destroyed, 65 damaged Japanese ground losses: 982 casualties reported Guns lost 15 Airbase hits 31 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 120 Aircraft Attacking: 33 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet our B-25s were hit hard but we also achieved a very good hit rate if we consider that there was strong fighter opposition and Koepang is a FLAK base... my B-25 units don´t look good at the moment... in the afternoon, not a single fighter was seen flying cap but my B-17 that were ordered to attack stayed home... [8\|] could have been the end of the Japanese fighter force if my 4Es would have launched... if our bomber pilot´s morale would have been lower, probably all bombers would have turned back. With high morale (that is history now of course) we were able to press this attack through at all costs... [image]local://upfiles/13774/0CECFE9065EE41ADB8FC81023614DC2E.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Sagiri Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet 95% of the Hudsons failed to locate the TF... all in all, not much worked in this turn...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/20/2008 2:30:35 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/06/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 71 encounters mine field at Akyab (30,29) Japanese Ships MSW W.18 MSW W.17 DD Hasu more DDs in this MSW TF... we´ve already learnt that Hortlund doesn´t need his DDs! [;)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 38 A6M3 Zero x 47 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 5 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 87 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 18 damaged A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed, 31 damaged Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 79 damaged Japanese ground losses: 235 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet ouch again... even more fighters were on Cap today and our B-17s are shredded, even though in the end we "only" lose 5 (16 replacement / month). Nearly 100% shot down or damaged... [:(]With the repair rates this means we won´t have full strenght in our B-17 BGs for at least two or three weeks. At least morale will have recovered by then. Again, Hortlund was kind of lucky, as again, in the afternoon there weren´t any fighters seen on CAP and AGAIN my bombers didn´t take off in the afternoon. This time my B-25s were grounded, the airstrike was cancelled due to a thunderstorm over Derby. Amazing how many thunderstorms there are in Northern Australia. As it stands now, we can´t keep up continued bomber attacks. It doesn´t matter if escorted or unescorted, because even if we would chase away the enemy fighters, the high flak concentration would damage 30-50% of the bombers every time, even when attacking at 16.000ft. Going even higher makes no sense I think. No hr on numbers of flak units at a base, this could be something people should think about when starting a Nikmod game. But on the other side, with the Japanese fighters unable to really harm (when speaking of kills) armored US medium and heavy bombers, the Japanese should be allowed to place as many flak units where ever he wants. A BB bombardment could take out a lot of support troops at Koepang, but that isn´t an option at the moment. Perhaps we should just concentrate on the East End of Timor... With 400 fighters in Burma and 200 on Timor there can´t be much left for all the other areas. My first invasion will take advantage of these concentrations. Even if those fighters can be transferred in in 4 or 5 turns, this could be too late to really harm an invasion, not to think about the fatigue those fighter pilots would have. And our fighters with their .50 cal six pack can take down Japanese bombers. Not like in stock but perhaps enough to really take a toll on the Japanese bomber squadrons... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Tenimbar at 36,81 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 5 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Sipirok, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet Vals from Lautern attack a small AK at Tenimbar, the small size 0 island North of Darwin. I wanted to build it up to level 3 but this takes half a year. There are 3 sea bee units, but we increase the size 0 airfield only 3% every turn... [:(] impossible to really build it up it seems... I wanted to use the size 3 airfield as a torp bomber base if the Japanese try a bombardment of Darwin. Then my bombers would have a perfect staging base due to their range of only 4. Like every turn, our subs are victim of Japanese air attacks. Not just Helens and Sallies attacked, there seems to be a carrier TF moving around the North of the Philipines as 3 subs were attacked by Vals and Kates... as I said before, the seas are being swept of Allied subs by a high concentration of Japanese aircraft on ASW duty... [:(]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/20/2008 4:35:55 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/07/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 80 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 89 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 7 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet Hortlund expected a strike from me on Mandalay today, as he had no Cap there last turn. This was too obvious Steve! [:D] There were all of Mandalay´s fighters flying Cap and those from Akyab on LRCAP as we spotted 220+ fighters in the air over Mandalay! [X(] We bombed a TK rgt instead... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Koepang at 28,77 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 16 A6M3 Zero x 19 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 7 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 4 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 11 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 damaged A6M3 Zero: 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses Hudson I: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged Japanese Ships DD Sagiri DD Shirakumo Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Hudson I bombing at 6000 feet Hortlund isn´t happy with the A2A at the moment and I can understand him as I´m thinking it´s working good at some point, then a bit later, I again think it´s not working that good at another point. From this strike I lost 6 Hudsons. 6 out of 11 isn´t a loss rate I can cheer about and for me it seems it´s pretty good working. Of course if you see 180 Mitchels going in against 70 Zeroes and you see "only" 15 lost (but 75 more damaged[X(]) then you might think it was working not so good. But in fact, one of those strikes of my bombers completely shredds my offensive capabilities as you have only 50% of your bombers operational the next days, so it seems it makes it impossible to do continuos attacks and therefore it´s very hard to close bases down like in stock. So in that case, it seems everything is working very good, compared to stock. You just have to get used to see different kill rates, compared to the completely off numbers of stock. what makes it even worse for Steve is the fact that he is reading the kill numbers wrong all the time... can´t figure out why, perhaps someone should tell him that there´s an info screen where he can see the real kills of a turn. He stated in his email that it´s a joke that 40 fighters are only able to take out 3 bombers, but in fact 6 were shot down. 6 out of 11... it seems he isn´t aware that the combat report alone isn´t telling him the real numbers... 6 out of 11 shot down and the rest damaged looks like a perfectly realistic result for WW2. And it would be a disaster for the one who lost 6 out of 11 bombers. In fact it´s not nice for me either as I receive only 20 Hudsons a month. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 51,47 Japanese Ships PC Ch 21 PC Ch 20 PC Ch 19 PG Tamo Maru #7 PG Takunan Maru #8 Allied Ships SS Greenling all patrols fail to locate our sub... one S-class sub sunk today due to an air attack... [8\|]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/20/2008 7:08:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/08/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 71 encounters mine field at Rangoon (29,34) Japanese Ships MSW W.18 MSW W.17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 15 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 18 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 57 A-20B Boston x 5 B-17E Fortress x 47 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed, 2 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 5 destroyed D3A Val: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 4 destroyed, 20 damaged B-17E Fortress: 13 damaged Japanese ground losses: 208 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet my Tomahawks are sitting ducks against the Japanese fighters but they were able to fight the bombers through. A dozen turned back due to low morale, without escorts we would have seen all turn back. From 112 B-17Es deployed (ON THE WHOLE MAP!!!) we have now 41 operational after two attacks. Both BG with morale below 40... hit rate of this attack wasn´t impressing either... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 13 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 17 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 154 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 4 destroyed, 3 damaged D3A Val: 1 destroyed Ki-30 Ann: 2 destroyed E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 17 damaged Japanese ground losses: 282 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 61 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet today we were able to force our Mitchels to fly again. Around 30 bombers turned back due to low morale. No further attacks are possible at the moment, if the enemy is still able to put cap into the air... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 27,80 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 16 No Allied losses Japanese Ships BB Yamato [X(] CL Natori Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet during the night phase a single AK unloading at Derby was retreating due to a Japanese surface raid. Now I see what was trying to attack my shipping at Derby. Something I don´t understand, why risk Yamato if you can do the same with a CL or CA escorted by one or two DDs? I only used a BB when I tried to engage enemy cruisers. To go after some cargoes or DDs, a CL works better...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/20/2008 8:21:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/09/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1094 encounters mine field at Baker Island (94,92) [sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000289.gif][sm=00000289.gif][sm=00000289.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000289.gif][sm=00000289.gif][sm=00000289.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000280.gif][sm=00000280.gif] Allied Ships DD Kane, Mine hits 1, on fire[sm=crazy.gif] DD Humphreys, Mine hits 1[sm=crazy.gif] DD Schley, Mine hits 1, on fire[sm=crazy.gif] DD Litchfield, Mine hits 1, on fire[sm=crazy.gif] I have never seen my surface TFs hitting so many mines in any of my games. My SC TFs hit more mines in 6 months in this game than in all my other games together, speaking of some 2000+ turns... don´t know what phenomena we see here but at some point this is just getting ridicoulos. What is this? UV^3?? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Baker Island at 94,92 Japanese Ships MSW W.19, Shell hits 4, on fire AK Tenposan Maru, Shell hits 3 Allied Ships DD Litchfield, on fire DD Chew DD Schley, on fire DD Humphreys, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Kane, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage two of the Flush Deckers will surely sink, the other tow are severly damaged. One returns without damage, the Japanese don´t suffer at all as a single MSW outperforms 5 US DDs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Allied aircraft SB-2c x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x SB-2c bombing at 10000 feet no flak? Our Hurricanes will show up tomorrow... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 2 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Wildebeeste Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet two Betties launch from Koepang but miss our AK... Hortlund started to fly recon with a DinahII over Derby and with Japanese BBs in the area I´m sure we will soon see all our bases in Northern Australia being nuked with BBs. We don´t have BBs to cover every base up there and our torp bombers only have a range of 4 so this will get nasty if Hortlund really decides to nuke our bases... Fort level 9 everywhere but forts have NEVER helped against BB bombardments. All you have to do is RECON, RECON, RECON... and then... [sm=00000959.gif]

Yakface -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 11:16:15 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy the important fact of this turn is that I got recon reports about the IJA bombers being back at Mandalay. I´m taking advantage of me seeing Hortlund´s aircraft transfers because I´m the second player and I have to say I never liked that feature. So what should I do? I can´t stop looking at the enemy airfields completely and if I see that aircraft are moved in should I just wait until I get clobbered? I don´t like this "feature"...[8\|] Hi Castor I really (really) hate this as well, although I'm playing the Japanese in my game. It completely screws the airwar by handing the allied side the whip hand. My opponent has been pretty good about introducing house rules and the best way we have found of handling this one is to limit allied bombers by not allowing them to be flown on the turn they transfer. It avoids the Allies jumping them into a base invisibly, launching a strike and jumping away before any kind of counter-strike can be launched. It's not perfect: there is still the problem that the allies can jump lots of fighters into a base that appears empty to the japanese player and savage un- or under-escorted bombers.....but there's not much you can do about that one. Great AR BTW - always my first stop for catching up.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 12:26:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Yakface quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy the important fact of this turn is that I got recon reports about the IJA bombers being back at Mandalay. I´m taking advantage of me seeing Hortlund´s aircraft transfers because I´m the second player and I have to say I never liked that feature. So what should I do? I can´t stop looking at the enemy airfields completely and if I see that aircraft are moved in should I just wait until I get clobbered? I don´t like this "feature"...[8\|] Hi Castor I really (really) hate this as well, although I'm playing the Japanese in my game. It completely screws the airwar by handing the allied side the whip hand. My opponent has been pretty good about introducing house rules and the best way we have found of handling this one is to limit allied bombers by not allowing them to be flown on the turn they transfer. It avoids the Allies jumping them into a base invisibly, launching a strike and jumping away before any kind of counter-strike can be launched. It's not perfect: there is still the problem that the allies can jump lots of fighters into a base that appears empty to the japanese player and savage un- or under-escorted bombers.....but there's not much you can do about that one. Great AR BTW - always my first stop for catching up. thanks this "feature" was and is always a problem. Even if I don´t attack with my bombers the turn I move them in, it still favours me because a) I could empty an airfield that my opponent sees as fully stacked and will be the probable target for his attack or b) attack the airfield when my bombers aren´t transferred in and they were already sitting at their base. But I think that AE takes care of this problem...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 6:51:45 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/10/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,63 Japanese Ships ML Ninoshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage ML Ma 1 ML Takashima Allied Ships SS O23 super short combat report for today but with a very nice engagament... Ninoshima sank immediately...[:D]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 6:58:29 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/11/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1016 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships AK Modjekerto, Mine hits 1 sub laid Type 88 mine... I even spotted a sub here, but I didn´t think of sending a MSW... 35 sys and 40 float for the AK... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 27,65 Japanese Ships ML Enoshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D] ML Ma 1 ML Takashima Allied Ships SS O23 after sinking a ML last turn, O23 finishes another one this turn! [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 27,65 Japanese Ships ML Toshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D][:D][:D] ML Ma 1 ML Takashima Allied Ships SS O23 and it seems unbelievable but another ML is finished by O23... [&o][sm=00000436.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34 [:D] Allied aircraft Wellington III x 113 No Allied losses Japanese Ships BB Hyuga, Bomb hits 2 BB Yamashiro, Bomb hits 6, on fire CL Jintsu, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CA Maya, Bomb hits 1 Japanese ground losses: 51 casualties reported Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Wellington III bombing at 11000 feet I´ve been reconning Rangoon for quite some time and last turn Chandpur was built up to level 4 airfield so I brought in my Wellingtons with a range of 9, which is the range from Chandpur to Rangoon. We spotted 2 dozen ships there and no CAP with only 4 ground units. There were no fighters in the air and no flak fire at all!!! [X(] We lost one Wellington to ops and achieve one penetrating hit on CL Jintsu and perhaps some sys damage on the BBs... This attack should force Hortlund to spread out his fighters as well as his AA units, not concentrating everything at Mandalay and Akyab (which is completely empty now...[&:]) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 90 P-40E Warhawk x 24 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 36 casualties reported Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet same here, no flak fire or fighters at Myitkina... heavy LRCAP over the TK rgt that we attacked a couple of times today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 9 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 40 A-20B Boston x 4 B-17E Fortress x 35 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-30 Ann: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 7 damaged B-17E Fortress: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 212 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 16000 feet those Tomahawks are really performing bad. 7 were damaged for not a single hit on the Oscars. We outnumbered them AND had the bounce. Our B-25s stayed home once again... seems impossible to see an attack from Darwin and Wyndham the same day...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 8:38:23 PM)
quiet day... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/12/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 108 encounters mine field at Tarawa (85,91) Japanese Ships PG Keijo Maru Keijo Maru destroys 2 mines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships MSW Grebe we begin to sweep the sub laid mines at Perth... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 28,65 Japanese Ships ML Ma 1 ML Takashima Allied Ships SS O23 [:D] would have been cool if O23 would have killed her fourth ML in three days... today the MLs attack first... Recon shows now nearly 200 aircraft at Lautern, but only 7 Oscars were on Cap... BB Yamato is also at Lautern now... Japanese recon over the small island North of Darwin...

mdiehl -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 8:50:23 PM)
quote: I move them every turn but the IJA bombers have achieved dozens of hits so far with half a dozen subs sunk FWIW, you're not losing them any faster than the real allies did as far as I can tell.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/21/2008 11:44:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mdiehl quote: I move them every turn but the IJA bombers have achieved dozens of hits so far with half a dozen subs sunk FWIW, you're not losing them any faster than the real allies did as far as I can tell. at the moment it´s like 10-12 subs hit by air ASW in a month of which 4-6 sink. A Brit sub was hit today, 32 sys, 71 float... 27 hexes to Darwin... chances are 1:4 that the sub will survive...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/22/2008 1:00:36 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/13/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 [X(] Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 38 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 14 Hurricane IIb x 13 Kittyhawk I x 17 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 7 destroyed, 7 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged Hurricane IIb: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged now I know why there are so many fighters on Timor. This is the first sweep on Darwin, coming from Lautern. I was shocked! We had nearly 100 fighters on 80% Cap and see only a laughable number of 44 in the air! [&:] I think we have a dozen radar stations at Darwin. Nevertheless we achieved a great result as in the end 11 Zeroes are lost today. So that was kind of surprising, as my RAAF and USMC fighter pilots are all in the mid to high 50s only... I also set my 50 Tomahawks on Cap now. I thought my base would be safe with a high number of Cap. A massed strike of IJA bombers could have really done serious damage... Even though we flew some massive strikes so far, it seems we really have to get serious now to force the Japanese to more or less retreat from Timor OR to invade Australia (which isn´t a real possibility for the Japanese IMO). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 Japanese aircraft Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 11 Hurricane IIb x 10 Kittyhawk I x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Darwin , at 36,84 Japanese aircraft Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 23 Hurricane IIb x 14 Kittyhawk I x 27 No Japanese losses No Allied losses afternoon phase so more fighters in the air... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 54,47 Japanese Ships APD APD-34 DD Ayanami Allied Ships SS Spearfish

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/22/2008 7:36:08 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/14/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships MSW Grebe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 98 encounters mine field at Lunga (67,97) Japanese Ships DD Arare -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 28,66 Japanese Ships APD APD-39 APD APD-36 APD APD-35 DD Oboro DD Hatsuharu Allied Ships SS KXVI oops, one of the dangerous APD TFs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 28,66 Japanese Ships APD APD-35 APD APD-39 APD APD-36 DD Oboro DD Hatsuharu Allied Ships SS KXVI damn, we miss with 4 torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 16 encounters mine field at Tarawa (85,91) Japanese Ships PG Shoei Maru DD Yukaze TK Shinkoku Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire fuel loaden TK seems to be burning... MK10 mine found a victim... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe Allied and Japanese subs are laying mines at key ports... mostly only annoying actions but you can also knock out a BB like we did with Yamashiro that hit 2 sub laid VH2 mines... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84 Japanese Ships SS I-27, hits 1 Allied Ships MSW Pieter de Bitter, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage MSW Jan van Amstel wonder what that damn sub is doing at Darwin. Spotted it last turn and thought that it would lay mines. Created an ASW TF out of DDs (which did nothing of course) and a mine sweeping TF which acted as a target for the sub... what is interesting here is the fact that we spotted a BB TF (Kirishima spotted) 6 hexes North East of Darwin heading East. No IJN BB can move 6 hexes normally (seen the Kongos do it sometimes even if their max speed is 29 and therefor they "should" only move 5 hexes) so I wonder if this TF tries to do a bombardment of Darwin or if it is heading East and retiring to Truk or somewhere else. At Darwin we have BB Colorado (night rating below 50)and BB Resolution (with a night rating of 80) with 3 DDs as escorts - 4 ships with radar, this should prevent us from being surprised. If I would play the Japanese I would NEVER engage BBs with my BBs, it´s mostly a gamble. At night every BB will be able to penetrate the enemy´s armor due to the range mostly below 10.000 yards. One or two 15 or 16 inch shells that hit one of the Japanese BBs could slow one down to 4 hexes or even slower and then my 70 torp bombers from Darwin will have a big, fat and slow target right in front of them. Of course there´s still the danger of seeing a nuke on my base or Darwin being clouded the whole day. At the moment I would guess that it´s just too dangerous for Hortlund and he´s only moving his BBs away, but who knows. What makes me a bit sceptic is the fact that he´s so near to Darwin... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Hudson I x 8 B-25C Mitchell x 182 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed H6K4 Mavis: 1 destroyed A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 2 destroyed, 20 damaged Japanese ground losses: 1046 casualties reported Guns lost 12 Airbase hits 14 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 49 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet 5 Mitchels are lost, 11 aircraft destroyed on the ground. No cap [&:] but nearly 70 fighters on Cap over Lautern today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 80 P-40E Warhawk x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 56 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet no Cap here, tomorrow we will do a big style attack in Burma with nearly all we´ve got...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/24/2008 9:24:36 AM)
unfortunately this game is on hold [:(]. Hortlund seems to have a corrupt file, he says he can´t load the turn. Rtrapasso would be so kind to run the turn but I think Hortlund won´t give away his password, we will see... you could ask now, why on earth aren´t you just redoing the last two turns. Well, I had never problems redoing a turn when some kind of bug hit the game and it was obvious during the replay. Though this corrupt file thing is different. I had this happen earlier against Japanese opponents. The file seems not to be working. Sent it to someone other, it worked. Now if it would be a turn where it´s probably pretty quiet or if there´s nothing expected to be happening, no problem. The last time this corrupt file thing came up, the Japanese player lost a couple of carriers with me as the Allied suffering one bomb hit on my carriers. So it was a very special turn, where the corrupt file popped up... you go two turns back and the carriers wouldn´t meet two days later... deliberately, or just because you can´t give exactly the same orders like before... Now in our case, I ordered a huge airstrike from India which could destroy a monthly Japanese aircraft production. What´s even more interesting is the fact, that I spotted Kirishima off Darwin, as I wrote in my last post, she (or more BBs) are either going to bombard Darwin (where I have 2 BBs and 70 torp bombers) or the Japanese are just going East. So what if this is a turn that is working? The IJN comes in, damages my 2 BBs and gets damaged also. Then 70 torp bombers attack the Japanese at 3 or 4 hexes range because their max speed dropped below 5 hexes... 2 BBs and a CA sunk or something like that are sunk... to top it off, my airforce from India torches 100 enemy fighters... would be a perfect turn for the corrupt file to jump out of the box... that´s why I´m insisting to see this file run on another computer, but that seems impossible at the moment... [:(] I´m not blaming any of my opponents but in all honesty, the Japanese player is the one that resolves the turn, sees the results first. If he doesn´t like them, what does he do? Normally send it back of course, saying ouch... but he could also say the file doesn´t work, let´s go back two days and you will never see his carriers, BBs, aircraft... show up two days later at the place where he lost them (or would lose them) in the corrupt file turn... everytime (well, everytime isn´t really correct, but often) I had this corrupt file thing, it was a turn where something "special" happened, never when it was a usual turn. I don´t call anyone a cheater, but if I would go back two turns in this situation and then nothing happens at this date, then the game would have a really bad smell for me for the rest of it´s duration... or until we have the next corrupt file... So to really clear up all doubts, the turn should be sent to rtrapasso, who would be so kind to run it and then we would see what´s really happening. If Hortlund isn´t willing to give away his password, then I fear this PBEM has ended... another one... [8\|][:(] Please release AE with a working AI... [&o]

anarchyintheuk -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/24/2008 9:12:06 PM)
Hope you can find a way to keep it going.

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/24/2008 9:32:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk Hope you can find a way to keep it going. at the moment we´re working on a solution...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/24/2008 10:28:57 PM)
I didn´t want to lose the game and finally I agreed to redo the turn... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/15/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships MSW Grebe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 29,71 Japanese Ships AK Morioka Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied Ships SS S-36 S-36 on the way to the front hits a big AK... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here´s the expected engagement... Night Time Surface Combat, near Darwin at 36,84 [X(] Japanese Ships BB Kirishima, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CL Natori, Shell hits 2 DD Arashi, Shell hits 24, and is sunk DD Hakaze, Shell hits 6, on fire Allied Ships BB Colorado, Shell hits 2 BB Ramilles, Shell hits 1 DD Sims, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD O'Brien DD Walke, Shell hits 1, on fire DD Morris DD Stuart DD Arunta DD Tjerk Hiddes we were able to surprise the Japanese after we spotted them on radar. During the surprise phase we launched a lot of torps that all missed. Arashi was shot to pieces after being surprised but she was able to put a fish into DD Sims. The BBs were all hit by non penetrating hits. Shortly before the engagement ended DD Stuart was able to hit Kirishima with a torp... this should slow her down... Colorado´s night exp was boosted up to 59... so there was this expected engagement, though only one BB with a small escort was coming in. Recon the day before showed a lot more ships AND sightings with spotted ships, but for the moment I can live with it... hopefully (or better say I don´t expect) to see those "corrupt" files again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84 Japanese Ships CL Natori Allied Ships SS O21 4 torps miss... [:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships MSW Grebe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 35,83 Japanese Ships BB Kirishima, on fire DD Hakaze, on fire Allied Ships SS S-40 4 torps miss Kirishima retiring towards Lautern... [:@][:@][:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 78 P-40E Warhawk x 18 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 34 casualties reported Vehicles lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet the big airstrike from India wasn´t ordered anymore as I wasn´t sure about the situation as I didn´t get a combat replay from redoing the turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this is the reason why I think it was a suicide mission to send surface forces to Northern Australia: Day Air attack on TF at 34,80 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 14 Swordfish x 40 Hurricane IIb x 16 Kittyhawk I x 16 T.IVa x 7 Beaufort I x 9 P-40B Tomahawk x 21 Allied aircraft losses Swordfish: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged T.IVa: 2 damaged Japanese Ships BB Kirishima, Torpedo hits 7, on fire, heavy damage DD Hakaze, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x T.IVa launching torpedoes at 200 feet 2 x Swordfish launching torpedoes at 200 feet Kirishima is lost. This adventure cost the Japanese a BB and a DD... you can surely understand why I didn´t wanted to redo this turn. I spotted BBs and CAs moving back from the East to Lautern so I think they were part of the Kirishima TF before... [8\|] Kirishima isn´t worth a lot of points but Hortlund will miss her as escort for KB... [image]local://upfiles/13774/4884359B70134CA4ACCE1B76529AC0F3.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Baker Island at 94,92 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 16 No Allied losses Japanese Ships CA Tone CL Yubari Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet most of our low exp Mitchels failed to locate the target and with low exp they don´t hit anything... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,83 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 8 D3A Val x 3 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 3 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Allied Ships TK Empire Emerald Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/24/2008 10:37:42 PM)
First Japanese BB sunk! Kirishima (Battlecruiser and Battleship, 1915-1942) Kirishima, a 26,230 ton Kongo class battlecruiser built at Nagasaki, Japan, was completed in April 1915. After more than a decade of service, she was modernized at Kure between 1927 and 1930 and reclassified as a battleship. Again reconstructed in 1935-36, with her hull lengthened and more powerful machinery installed, Kirishima emerged as a modern-appearing 32,156 ton capital ship, quite fast though comparatively lightly armed and armored. Her high speed ensured that Kirishima would play an active role in the first year of the Pacific War. She accompanied the Japanese aircraft carriers during their 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and was active during the offensive in the East Indies in early 1942. In March and April, she was part of the powerful force that raided the British in the Indian Ocean. During the Solomons Campaign later in 1942, Kirishima was present during the carrier battles of the Eastern Solomons in August and the Santa Cruz Islands in October. She received minor damage in the night surface action off Guadalcanal on 13 November. Two nights later, serving as flagship of another Japanese surface force, she was engaged by the U.S. battleship Washington (BB-56). Disabled in this encounter, Kirishima was scuttled a few miles west of Savo Island. Her wreck was discovered and examined in August 1992, resting upside down with its forward end blown off some 4000 feet below the surface. [image]local://upfiles/13774/C0A8CE915BD8438798207A935902AD67.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/25/2008 5:07:46 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/16/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1006 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships MSW Launceton MSW Lismore MSW Grebe sub laid minefield completely cleared now... should take some time until the next sub arrives and my MSWs will stay at Perth anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe my ports in Northern Australia have MSWs also... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 34,78 Japanese Ships DD Usugumo CA Kumano CA Chokai DD Kisaragi DD Nagatsuki DD Urakaze Allied Ships SS S-44 those ships are part of the TF that was originally spotted the turn BEFORE our corrupted file, so in all honesty, I really think that those were also ordered to attack Darwin first... the "not corrupted" turn saw only a very small escort for Kirishima... Yamato is also in this TF, I bet she should have gone to Darwin too... oh well [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Darwin at 36,84 Japanese Ships SS I-27 Allied Ships DD Pakenham DD Foxhound DD Fox -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84 Japanese Ships SS I-27, hits 7 Allied Ships DD Fox DD Pakenham DD Foxhound I-27 attacks our ASW TF. 6 torps miss DD Fox, in return we achieve 7 near misses of which one damages the forward torp tubes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 89 P-40E Warhawk x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-15 Babs: 2 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet no flak and we even torch 3 aircraft on the ground. All flak seems to be concentrated at Mandalay... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 12 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 56,47 Japanese Ships AK Suzuya Maru, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied Ships SS Gato, hits 1 South of Japan, we hit a big AK with a MK14, 2x4 inch shells and 7x.50 rounds. TF of 9 ships spotted going West so I think this could be an empty TF ordered to haul in some ressources. What is interesting is the fact that Timor seems to accomodate HUNDREDS of Japanese aircraft now. I´m heavily reconning Lautern and Koepang and at Lautern (level 2 airfield) we see 80+ fighters on Cap with 320 aircraft being spotted at the airfield. Well, I know how accurate recon is, normally I take the number from recon and divide it by 2 but then there would still be 160 fighters at this airfield. Allowed are only 50x2 + 10%. As I see 80 fighters on cap, I really wonder how many fighters there really are as there are also other aircraft types at Lautern. Normally, no matter if you set your CAP to 90% you see around 60% flying as the Japanese. So with all the other aircrafts there and 80 fighters in the air, it really seems that Hortlund has forgotten about our stacking rule, at least at Lautern...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/25/2008 10:45:30 PM)
this was an "ouch" day... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/17/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships DD Usugumo CA Chokai DD Kisaragi DD Nagatsuki DD Urakaze Allied Ships SS S-44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1031 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Allied Ships MSW Latrobe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 58 A6M3 Zero x 14 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 18 Allied aircraft P-40B Tomahawk x 43 A-20B Boston x 35 B-17E Fortress x 43 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 9 destroyed, 28 damaged A6M3 Zero: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged Ki-15 Babs: 2 destroyed E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40B Tomahawk: 15 destroyed, 13 damaged A-20B Boston: 6 destroyed, 23 damaged B-17E Fortress: 24 damaged Japanese ground losses: 518 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 56 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x A-20B Boston bombing at 11000 feet it´s just better to send in the bombers alone and let the Japanese take down a dozen until they turn back... my Tomahawks are just useless, my pilots are dying in droves... 6:1 A2A in fighter losses... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 30 A6M3 Zero x 6 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 8 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 192 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed, 9 damaged A6M3 Zero: 5 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 58 damaged Japanese ground losses: 265 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 54 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 11000 feet 90 fighters were flying over Lautern today, that are just too many. We could deal with half of them, but not with nearly 100... our losses were too high, morale isn´t existing anymore (mostly below 20) and we lost two months of P-40B replacements...[8\|] [image]local://upfiles/13774/CD41495541A34875A7B81F9475271156.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 78 P-40E Warhawk x 17 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 76 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 4 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet only 100 Oscars are on Cap in Burma... every other Japanese fighter seems to be on Timor... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 20 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 30,83 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 11 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Wildebeeste, Bomb hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 6000 feet empty AK...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/26/2008 12:38:41 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/18/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships DD Usugumo DD Kisaragi DD Nagatsuki DD Urakaze BB Yamato Allied Ships SS Trusty ahh, Mrs. Yamato is still at Lautern... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships APD APD-37 Allied Ships SS Trusty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 38,127 Japanese Ships SS I-23 Allied Ships DD Electra DD Russell DD Mustin DD Hammann DD Hughes DD Meredith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 38,127 Japanese Ships SS I-23 Allied Ships DD Electra DD Russell DD Mustin DD Hammann DD Hughes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 93 P-40E Warhawk x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-15 Babs: 2 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 35 casualties reported Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 15 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 10,34 Japanese aircraft E7K2 Alf x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Scout Aircraft Attacking: 4 x E7K2 Alf bombing at 2000 feet we tried to transfer a dozen cargoes from India to Australia as I really lack AKs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 10,34 Japanese aircraft E13A1 Jake x 2 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Wagtail Aircraft Attacking: 2 x E13A1 Jake bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 10,34 Japanese aircraft E7K2 Alf x 13 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Wagtail, Bomb hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 1 x E7K2 Alf bombing at 2000 feet FOW, not a single AK was hit today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 10,35 Japanese aircraft E7K2 Alf x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Lake Aircraft Attacking: 4 x E7K2 Alf bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships APD APD-37 Allied Ships SS Trusty -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Darwin at 36,84 Japanese Ships SS I-27 Allied Ships DD MacDonough DD Aylwin DD Pakenham DD Foxhound DD Fox -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships APD APD-37 Allied Ships SS Trusty, hits 5, on fire this single APD proves to be more dangerous than my 2 dozen DDs I had hunting subs today. 2 real hits, Trusty retires with 69 float damage to Darwin... we spotted bombers (Betties) on Timor today...[:(]

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/26/2008 3:49:45 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/19/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Norfolk Island at 60,119 Japanese Ships SS RO-68, hits 7, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Napier DD Hotspur we tried to catch a cargo ship that was able to retreat last turn but even better we hit a sub with 2 real hits and 5 near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 31,75 Japanese Ships AP Toko Maru #2, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS O23 Japanese ground losses: 72 casualties reported Couple of hexes North of Timor the famous O23 is out on her next patrol after replenishing at Darwin and on the way to the front she sinks an AP. Parts of the 1st aviation rgt are rescued. Hortlund seems to build up Timor more and more. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships APD APD-37 Allied Ships SS S-44, hits 1, on fire APD-37 stays lucky, 4 torps miss but the damn APD hits our sub with a 4.7 inch shell. S-44 retires with 23/33... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 33,76 Japanese Ships AK Nitiyu Maru, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-18, hits 1 and we sink a big AK... good day for our subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Myitkyina , at 36,28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 106 P-40E Warhawk x 17 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 99 casualties reported Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet we have to further increase our fighter bomber pilots´ experience before we can take on the IJA in Burma. Only Mandalay is heavily defended. Tomorrow we will do a long range strike on Rangoon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Koepang , at 28,77 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 22 A6M3 Zero x 19 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 4 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft Hudson I x 14 B-25C Mitchell x 157 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 9 damaged A6M3 Zero: 6 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 damaged Ki-57-II Topsy: 1 destroyed H8K Emily: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 55 damaged Japanese ground losses: 158 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 16000 feet this attack has finally completely wrecked our bombers´ morale. Hortlund is now flying LRCAP over all those bases on Timor. Good tactic to see more fighters in the air as with short distances this is working better than 90% CAP AND he doesn´t suffer so many ac lost on the ground as most of them are in the air... 120 of our bombers turn back... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 27,79 Allied aircraft A-20B Boston x 8 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Shirakumo DD Sagiri Aircraft Attacking: 1 x A-20B Boston bombing at 6000 feet 2 DDs alone 6 hexes North of Derby... surface raid on Derby? Derby is empty... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships DD Usugumo CA Chokai DD Kisaragi DD Nagatsuki DD Urakaze Allied Ships SS S-44 sooner or later one of our subs at Lautern will hit a warship. Port 1 doesn´t prevent subs from attacking docked TFs...

castor troy -> RE: The rant goes on... Pzjg Hortlund vs Castor Troy (1/26/2008 4:02:12 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 06/20/42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 33,77 Japanese Ships ML Hirashima ML Nasami ML Natsushima Allied Ships SS Pompano MLs going to Lautern... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 51,114 Japanese Ships SS I-170, hits 5, on fire Allied Ships PG Swan APD Stringham APD McKean APD Little APD Colhoun APD Manley 2 real hits, I-170 could be in trouble. This is 7 hexes East of Brisbane... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships AK Nitiyu Maru, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Tambor Tambor on mine laying mission at Lautern attacks the heavily damaged Nitiyu Maru but misses with 4 torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Rangoon , at 29,34 [:D] Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 16 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 138 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 3 destroyed, 11 damaged D3A Val: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 14 damaged Japanese ground losses: 466 casualties reported Airbase hits 27 Airbase supply hits 10 Runway hits 120 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Wellington III bombing at 6000 feet all of the Japanese flak in Burma seems to be stationed at Mandalay and Akyab. Mandalay has 100+ Oscars in the air flying CAP, so probably 150+ fighters at the base. Akyab, no aircraft at all anymore. Rangoon has only one Sentai flying Cap and the Oscars can´t stop our high experienced British bombers. We do a lot of damage and lose only 1 bomber to ops... [:)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 79 Ki-49 Helen x 82 Ki-46-II Dinah x 5 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 7 destroyed, 57 damaged Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 6 destroyed Allied ground losses: 27 casualties reported Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 32 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet hmm, what should I think about that? We have spotted a BB TF 6 hexes North of Derby and 8 hexes North of Derby there´s a CV TF. So after heavily reconning Derby Hortlund seems to send in a nuke with his BBs to Derby but that´s the point that I don´t understand. Why does he send his bombers first? After the nuke flak fire wouldn´t even be half as intense... we lose 12 Mitchels on the ground, damage to the airbase is already repaired again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 34,27 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIb x 88 P-40E Warhawk x 18 Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 87 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Port Moresby Defense Brigade, at 54,92 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 17 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21 Sally bombing at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85 [X(][X(] Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 16 Hurricane IIb x 32 A-24 Dauntless x 14 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Sagiri, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage DD Shirakumo, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Hurricane IIb bombing at 2000 feet this is the next thing of this round that I don´t understand. Those DDs just stayed at Derby and are sunk by my dive bombers with 1000lb bombs... oh, I already was told that he doesn´t need his DDs anyway! [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85 Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 2 B-26B Marauder x 27 B-17E Fortress x 22 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Sagiri, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Shirakumo, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 6000 feet couple of more hits on the already doomed DDs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 23,79 Allied aircraft A-20B Boston x 9 B-25C Mitchell x 61 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese Ships BB Ise, Bomb hits 4 BB Mutsu, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet unfortunately our Mitchels are mostly below 60 exp and the hit rate isn´t impressing. 6 hexes North of Derby, only 500lb bomb hits that just bounce off. I have no idea what the CV TF is doing 2 hexes further North, perhaps it´s just there to scare me. Perhaps the bomb hits caused one or two points of sys dam but that´s it. Tomorrow those BBs should go in position for the bombardment in two turns. They can only move 4 hexes, so most certainly they will be able to run 5 hexes when they do the bombardment but they can´t go 6 hexes, so this means my airfield is still full tomorrow and then I will take out most ac as they would all be torched by the Japanese nuke. I think I counted up the hexes 5 times and the BBs are still 6 hexes off Derby, so if the game doesn´t go completely crazy then there should be no chance for the BBs to do the bombardment next turn... but who knows... here are the aircraft losses for this turn: [image]local://upfiles/13774/4EF33793C67449BCA067BAD6F38A5396.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lautem at 33,78 Japanese Ships AK Nitiyu Maru, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Tambor another unsuccesful attack on the already doomed AK...

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