March 28th, 1943

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FeurerKrieg -> March 28th, 1943 (3/2/2009 12:07:28 AM)
March 28th, 1943 Tiring of the Chinese fighters getting in the way of our attacks on the C-47s, today our trainees fly a full sweep over Chungking. They do well enough for rookies, taking down 5 P-66, 3 I-16c and 3 P-43A. We lost 4 Oscars and 1 A6M3, but only one army pilot was lost. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/chungking19.jpg[/image] Sweep over Chungking

FeurerKrieg -> March 29th, 1943 (3/2/2009 12:13:53 AM)
March 29th, 1943 Another MSW falls victim to an enemy sub at Attu Island. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/attu1-1.jpg[/image] Enemy torpedo hits home Green Island airfield in the Solomons expands (sz 3) and the airfield at Bandoeng on Java is completed. (sz 4). In the Pacific, SS Gato is chased away from some valuable ships en route to Tokyo for upgrades - CVLs Shoho and Zuiho.

FeurerKrieg -> March 30th, 1943 (3/7/2009 2:57:00 AM)
March 30th, 1943 Today we manage to hit SS Pogy with a depth charge near Attu Island, although the sub will not sink. Near Koepang, SS Stingray was hit by a Ki-32 Mary dive bomber. In Burma, Hurricanes and Spitfires swept Mandalay and 67 P-40Es swept Myitkyina. In both case our fighters stayed home and thus we suffered no losses there. At Port Blair though, 100 B-24Ds, 37 B-17E and 10 B-17D hit the island. 18 Nicks did some damage to the bombers, downing 4 of the B-24s. The island still took moderate damage and a total of 31 planes were lost on the ground. In China, our Zeros and Oscars flew sweep over Chungking and shot down 6 P-43A, and 4 P-66 while losing 4 Oscars and 1 Zero. A unit of Jacks will be moving to Port Blair in a couple days and an engineer unit is en route to fix any bombing damaged faster in the future.

FeurerKrieg -> March 31th, 1943 (3/7/2009 3:03:28 AM)
March 31st, 1943 We got some small revenge on the last day of March. The AVG flies sweep over Lashio where several of our fighter units are based. Our planes fight well, bringing down 13 of the P-40Es in exchange for 7 Tony and 3 Tojo. Only 3 pilots were lost. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/lashio1.jpg[/image] A rare sweep into our second line

FeurerKrieg -> March 1943 Stats (3/9/2009 7:45:21 AM)
The loss of Midway further shrinks the center of the Empire, but the next gaps the US has to cross are their biggest yet (excepting a Northern Pacific push). Japan losses more planes this month, but many pilots were rescued in friendly territory. Plus several were lower experience pilots training in China. Three subs lost this month is also unfortunate, especially given on of them was our number 2 top sub thus far, the I-153. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43Map.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43SB.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43Shiplosses.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43TopSubs.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43Subratio.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43TopGuns.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43Airlosses-month.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43Airlosses-full.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar43Prod.jpg[/image]

FeurerKrieg -> Maps (3/9/2009 8:44:28 AM)
Here are some interesting things I put together. I was thinking about a comment Alikchi made some posts back about not getting bombed by B-29s. Well, it is hard to sty out of range of something that goes 27 hexes, but we might have a chance against unescorted B-29s, so I made a map that shows all the bases required for the Allies to capture in order to be able to escort their B-29s. This is based on the fact that the longest legged Allied fighters can go 12 hexes. The P-61 can go 16, but given it is a night fighter, I've left it out since we can probably put up a decent fight against those planes. So the Allies must take a base inside the yellow line to be able to bomb Japanese factories in the Home Islands or Korea. Anywhere outside the yellow line, they would have to fly their bombers unescorted. The map certainly shows me the places I need to fight for and also the places I need to put some divisions as they come out of China. Big map first, and then the 4 quadrants in more detail. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/12hexall.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/12hexwest.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/12hexsouth.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/12hexeast.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/12hexnorth.jpg[/image]

thegreatwent -> RE: Maps (3/10/2009 3:08:38 AM)
Nice map FK. That will help me design my rear echelon defenses should my CHS game go long enough. Thanks[:)]

FeurerKrieg -> April 1st, 1943 (3/11/2009 5:07:54 AM)
April 1st, 1943 Zeros and Oscars sweep over Chungking and take down 6 P-66, 3 P-43a and lose 2 Oscars. Some Liberator III's hit Cox's Bazar. Allied bombing of this base has increased, not sure if it is just training missions or a prelude to an offensive.

FeurerKrieg -> April 2nd, 1943 (3/11/2009 5:09:51 AM)
April 2nd, 1943 Today we tried LRCAP over Chungking, and our tired pilots made more mistakes than usual, causing several ops losses. In total 5 Oscars and 4 Zeros were lost, but several pilots were okay. They did manage to bring down 4 P-43a, 1 P-66 and 1 C-47 transport. Also spotted were B-24D's flying in supplies.

FeurerKrieg -> April 3rd, 1943 (3/11/2009 5:10:37 AM)
April 3rd, 1943 Mostly quiet today. 3 SB-2c's bombed our troops at Chungking.

FeurerKrieg -> April 4th, 1943 (3/11/2009 5:16:07 AM)
April 4th, 1943 Today another bombing raid on Cox's Bazar, this time Blen IV's and Wellington IIIs. Today's raid targeted our small garrison there. If they Allies want the base it will fall easily, most of the garrison has been pounded pretty heavily and has very little supply. But the base doesn't appear to help any further offensives into Burma, other than providing a trail supply route to Akyab. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/coxsbazar1.jpg[/image] Prelude to invasion?

niceguy2005 -> RE: April 4th, 1943 (3/13/2009 12:00:06 AM)
Interesting game you have going. I think 1943 is by far the most interesting point in the war = most balanced. Too bad about Midway, but as you say it just get harder from the Allies from there. Is the enemy making any sort of a push into the South Pacific?

FeurerKrieg -> RE: April 4th, 1943 (3/13/2009 12:34:33 AM)
Nothing int he South Pacific thus far. To my knowledge, all the US carriers are in Pearl, and the British carriers are in India. So he has to make a long attack across the eastern South Pacific before he can threaten the traditional SWPac/Solomon/New Guinea area. And that fact has been vary helpful, since I don't need to keep a lot of assets in the SWPac like Japan often does. Australia just doesn't have any carriers to support any operations out of there. I think they have surface ships, transports and men in good supply - but without carriers they are stranded on Australia.

FeurerKrieg -> April 5th, 1943 (3/16/2009 7:54:08 AM)
April 5th, 1943 Today Blenheim IV's and Wellington III's hit our troops at Cox's Bazar. They are quite worn out now, between low supplies and enemy bombs. On the production front, I should mention I have stop production on all merchant (AK/AP) ships except the ones that already have more than a couple days work into them. So, for example, an AK with a DUR of 10, which starts drawing Merch Shipyard points when it hits a delay of 100 days, would be stopped at that 100 day mark. For ships that are already less than that mark, they will be finish through to completion. As our Merchant SYP day to day balance increases, more Merchant Factories will be idled to save HI. Resources continue to be tight, but the slow repairs of the facilities as Soerabaja has slowed the decline. It is, and always will, be a decline though. Oil, on the other hand, is actually increasing. Currently we are almost up to 3 MILLION oil points and it is April 43. In the home islands, there is enough oil to last 160 days with no imports, and two more convoys of about 230,000 oil will be in soon.

FeurerKrieg -> April 6th, 1943 (3/20/2009 7:20:08 AM)
April 6th, 1943 Lots of Allied air units attacked Cox's Bazar today. Also, some fighters attacked one of our border guard units farther northeast in Burma. No Allied troops spotted on the move yet though.

FeurerKrieg -> April 7th, 1943 - Air battles (3/20/2009 7:24:29 AM)
April 7th, 1943 A fair amount of air action today. First, our large sweep over Chungking meets up with P-40Ns and the other normal opposition. We lose 13 Oscars and 10 rookie pilots, while taking down 6 P-66, 6 I-16c, 4 P-43a, and 3 P-40Ns - a total of 19 enemy planes. Thankfully none of our Navy pilots were lost. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/chungking21.jpg[/image] Combat training hits a new airplane Next, in a surprising move, the AVG flew a sweep over Lashio. We lost 4 Tony and 3 Tojo (3 pilots lost) but took down 8 of the AVG P-40Es. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/lashio2.jpg[/image] The enemy reaches farther into Burma Then, what seemed like every Allied aircraft in eastern India attacked the troops at Cox's Bazar. No sign of Allies troops attacking yet though. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/coxsbazar2.jpg[/image] Massive attack on Cox's Bazar - this is just one wave Dadjangas AF in the southern Philippines expanded today. (sz 2)

FeurerKrieg -> April 8th, 1943 - Air battles (3/20/2009 7:34:08 AM)
April 8th, 1943 9 Hurricanes again attack our ground troops on the border in Burma, doing little damaged to the dug in troops in the jungle. Enemy troops were spotted at Cox's Bazar so it is likely our garrison will be evicted from there tomorrow. On the north coast of Australia, some enemy APD's attempted to repeat their success from a few weeks back of sneaking past our Timor based airplanes. They did not make it this time, and Betty bombers attacked. APD Alden and John D Edwards each took three torpedoes and APD Whipple got one. Alden and JD Edwards both sunk immediately. 1 Betty was lost to AA fire. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/timor5.jpg[/image] Successful air to surface attack

FeurerKrieg -> April 9th, 1943 - Cox's Bazar captured (3/21/2009 7:53:42 AM)
April 9th, 1943 LRCAP over Chungking didn't do so great today. We lost 8 Oscars and 7 A6M3s, taking down 5 enemy transports, 9 fighters and 2 bombers. We'll need to do some sweeps and thin down the enemy fighters again. In Burma, several air attacks on our troops at Cox's Bazar and then an Indian tank brigade and some supporting infantry pushed our remaining men out of the base. We will probably put up a bit more of a fight for Akyab, but Cox's Bazar was never intended to be anything more than a tripwire. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/coxsbazar3.jpg[/image] Allies advance towards Burma

FeurerKrieg -> April 10th, 1943 (3/21/2009 8:01:15 AM)
April 10th, 1943 In Burma today, enemy planes continue to attack our retreating NLF unit. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/burma51.jpg[/image] Enemy air attacks continue in several waves Hurricanes attacked our border unit near Mandalay again, the Yokosuka 4th SNLF. If these attacks continue we may attempt to ambush those ground attacking fighter planes. The AVG hit Magwe where 34 P-40E met 8 Tony fighters. Each side lost 2 fighters, we lost only 1 pilot. Biak airfield expanded today. (sz 3)

FeurerKrieg -> April 11th, 1943 (3/21/2009 8:04:33 AM)
April 11th, 1943 Mostly quiet except in Burma. Enemy bombers continue their attacks against our retreating NLF force. Hurricanes hit the 9th NLF border unit. Tomorrow we will attempt to put LRCAP from Lashio over these ground troops.

FeurerKrieg -> April 12th, 1943 - Small Ambush (3/21/2009 8:10:21 AM)
April 12th, 1943 Tonys and Tojos fly LRCAP over one of our NLF units on the border in Burma and are successful in finding prey. The enemy fighters come in low for ground attack and are easy work for our pilots. All 8 Hurricanes of the attacking force are shot down for no losses on our side. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/burma52.jpg[/image] 8 Hurricanes go down Pagan airfield expanded today. (sz 3)

niceguy2005 -> RE: April 5th, 1943 (3/26/2009 2:06:51 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg April 5th, 1943 Resources continue to be tight, but the slow repairs of the facilities as Soerabaja has slowed the decline. It is, and always will, be a decline though. Oil, on the other hand, is actually increasing. Currently we are almost up to 3 MILLION oil points and it is April 43. In the home islands, there is enough oil to last 160 days with no imports, and two more convoys of about 230,000 oil will be in soon. So what is the reason for the resource problems? Is this a CHS issue?

FeurerKrieg -> RE: April 5th, 1943 (3/26/2009 2:34:45 AM)
Yes, it is a CHS thing. I believe it is pretty well known - there is a shortage of resources from the get go, even if you suffer no damage in the DEI (although it is a very small shortage in that case) because all the manpower centers eat up the resources. Everytime I captured a base, I'd turn off repairs to manpower so that those would stay damaged and I've repaired resources everywhere I could. Some bases in China it is hard to get the supplies to move to the right bases. And when I captured Soerabaja all 500 resource points were damaged. I think it is up to 270 something repaired now. So far I have managed to only have about 5 days that my Home Islands were short of resources, but it is always a close run thing. I have a convoy of 300,000 resources arriving in 2 days, and as of the turn I just ran (April 27th) I have 3 days worth of Resources in the Home Islands. Very close indeed. Anyway - I need to get this AAR caught up - April has had some more action in the air, and the Allies have dared to hit some of our factories! What impact this will have on the resource shortage I haven't really calculated yet.

FeurerKrieg -> April 13th, 1943 (3/26/2009 4:37:42 AM)
April 13th, 1943 SB-2cs are bombing near daily at Chungking now, likely because I haven't LRCAPed there for a while. Today 1 of the bombers was shot down by our AA guns. Several British planes continue their attacks on the 2nd NLF as it marches to Akyab.

FeurerKrieg -> April 14th, 1943 (3/26/2009 5:03:02 AM)
April 14th, 1943 Mostly quiet today. SB-2cs again attacked at Chungking, and again one went down due to our AA fire. The big news of the day is the deployment of not one, but TWO NEW CARRIERS!! CVs Unryu and Amagi were declared operationally ready. Both of the carriers have fairly green pilots in their airgroups. The DB and TB groups are not full and highly experienced Val and Kate pilots from naval LBA are being sent to Japan to be transferred into the airgroups on these two new carriers. The two carriers will rendezvous at Tokyo and then head to Kwajelein. They will arrive there in time to replace CVL Ryuho which is due for an upgrade in May. Hopefully these two carriers will serve me better than their real life counterparts. The next carrier due out of the slips is Katsuragi in about 45 days. The KB now stands at 7 CVs, 5 CVLs. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/unryu1.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/unryu2.jpg[/image] IJN Carrier Unryu

FeurerKrieg -> April 15th, 1943 (3/26/2009 5:21:17 AM)
April 15th, 1943 The British resume their attacks on our NLF unit heading to Akyab today. In China, our pilots that are training fly sweep over Chungking. The enemy P-40Ns take down several of our Oscars. Now that our stocks of Tonys are sufficient I am going to start putting the combat training pilots into Tonys so they can survive longer and become good pilots to be moved to the front. I think I am done building Oscar IIs (haven't built any for a while as is) The score for the combat over Chungking was: Japan: 1 A6M3, 2 A6M2, 16 Oscar II, Total 19 fighters. Allies: 10 P-66, 13 P-43A, 18 P-40N, Total 41 fighters. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/chungking22.jpg[/image] Combat training in China I might have mentioned it before, but for anyone interested, here is my training process for pilots. I don't think it is as gamey as bombing ground troops with fighters but it certainly takes more time and effort. 1) A unit is filled with untrained pilots (25-35 IJA, 35-45 IJN). They are then put on training in Osaka or Tokyo. 90% training for fighters, 100% for bombers. The units are put into the oldest aircraft I have. Nates, Claudes, Ki-36 DBs, biplane torpedo bombers, etc. 2) Once they reach an average experience of 55 (all pilots in the unit are usually around 50-60), the planes are upgraded to front line airframes (naval pilots go into A6M3 or A6M2, save the A6M3a for the carriers). Then the fighters are sent to China where they fly sweeps over Chungking until they are around 70-80 experience. The bombers are sent to 2nd line bases and placed on ASW or naval search at 100%. 3) Once naval bombers are up to 65 or so, they are sent to either front line bases, or their pilots are transferred to carrier units and then refilled with untrained pilots. The fighters (once at 70-80) are either sent whole to the front, or have their pilots transferred to other units or carrier units as needed. I do try to put one or two untrained pilots in veteran units also, as it seems they gain experience pretty fast when surrounded by vets. A couple units have also ended up with more average (50-60xp) pilots than I would like due to one circumstance or another. To transfer pilots around, I use two interior bases in Japan that I took all the AV support out of and I just fly the unit back and forth, leaving a fragment and then I move that fragment to Tokyo, it repairs and then I fly it to where the target unit is and disband it. Takes about 10-15 days to drop a unit to its last plane, and then I refill it with newbies. Sorry for the dissertation, just thought I would post that in case anyone was interested.

FeurerKrieg -> April 16th, 1943 (3/27/2009 12:26:38 AM)
April 16th, 1943 Another SB-2c is shot down by flak over Chungking. Two waves of Allied bombers hit our NLF unit north of Akyab.

FeurerKrieg -> April 17th, 1943 (3/27/2009 12:29:01 AM)
April 17th, 1943 In a near carbon copy of yesterday, another SB-2c is downed by flak at Chungking and our NLF unit is attacked in Burma. Today only one wave of bombers hit the depleted infantry unit though. Off the coast of Burma, submarine RO-34 was hit by a B-17E and although has moderate damage, it isn't far from Rangoon and should be able to make it back to base in time for repairs.

FeurerKrieg -> April 18th, 1943 (3/27/2009 12:33:04 AM)
April 18th, 1943 Two waves hit our NLF unit in Burma. Today THREE SB-2c's are shot down over Chungking. I should also mention for the past few weeks, troops counts have been rising at Umnak and Dutch Harbor. Recon shows 50,000 men at Umnak. I have all islands up there under daily recon, so if I see those troop counts drop, I may have to assume an attack is coming.

FeurerKrieg -> April 19th, 1943 (3/27/2009 12:37:32 AM)
April 19th, 1943 Today we missed the SB-2cs. They came in two wave at Chungking, and none were shot down by flak. Two waves hit our NLF unit in Burma. Goodenough Island, off New Guinea, completed its airfield today. (sz 4)

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