RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund

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jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/19/2008 5:27:52 PM)
I´m stupid, stupid, stupid!!! [:(] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/03/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 24 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 8 Beaufighter VIC x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 4 damaged Beaufighter VIC: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 1 As usual. Every nigh 2-3 planes are torched on ground.. My sub is still sitting in Thursday Is and another ship is finished: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Thursday Island at 49,90 Japanese Ships SS I-175, hits 2 Allied Ships AK Carolinian, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW Bellechasse AK Empire Ranger AK Ernest Meyer AK Peter Kerr AK Mexican AK American MSW Tamworth DM Preble DM Gamble Allied ground losses: 17 casualties reported Guns lost 1 But now the sub is out of torps and is heading to Rabaul to rearm. Also most of the wolfpack which operated near Brisbane is on its way to Rabaul to rearm. Only 2 I-boats left there.. And here it comes! I guessed right. New wave of attacks against Gili Gili and PM came: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 70 Japanese aircraft losses E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed H8K Emily: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 58 I nearly started to celebrate when I saw this coming! But in a second I noticed there are no japanese fighters defending the base.. [:@][:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Port Moresby , at 53,91 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 24 Liberator VI x 64 F-5A Lightning x 6 B-17E Fortress x 219 LB-30 Liberator x 43 PB4Y Liberator x 80 B-24D Liberator x 503 Allied aircraft losses Liberator VI: 1 damaged B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged LB-30 Liberator: 1 damaged PB4Y Liberator: 1 destroyed B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged Japanese ground losses: 248 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Port hits 70 Port supply hits 66 Guess what? I clicked the wrong mision button!!! Instead of "LRCAP" I choosed "AF attack"![:@][:-] And so this unescorted juicy raid arrived unpunished as 450 fighters were sitting on the ground in Lae doing NOTHING. [:(] PjH doesn´t even know how lucky he was. And this time I can´t even blame the game..[;)]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/21/2008 11:56:41 AM)
Turns are calm now. We both are preparing for 2nd round. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/04/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 18 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 16 Beaufighter VIC x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 1 destroyed J2M Jack: 1 destroyed Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 1 Hmmm.. My night fighter sentai has already 4 kills.. He is still destroying more planes on the ground then he is loosing in the air, but I´m enjoying this small war celebrating every kill achieved by Ki-45 KAIa Nick. Allied CVs are still loitering near Cooktown: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 49,99 Japanese Ships SS I-35 Allied Ships DD Case DD Edwards DD Pringle CVE Prince William CVE Altamaha My sub was chased away from CVEs, but a few minutes later found new target: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 49,99 Japanese Ships SS I-35 Allied Ships DM Sicard, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DM Pruitt Fast minelayer went down afternoon.. Only Gili Gili attack today. That´s pity, because today I HAD fighters LRCAPing Port Moresby. Catalina spotted them, so the surprise is lost and tommorrow they will guard their home base - Lae. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 53 Japanese aircraft losses H8K Emily: 1 destroyed E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24D Liberator: 7 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 87 Only two regions are considered as "critical": *India:* PjH is massing his army north of Ahmadabad, while I´m massing my army east and north-east from it. His troops are under constant daily attacks and are loosing about 500men a day. Their disruption/fatigue and supply consumption must be pretty high. I hope I can hold my ground. *Darwin-Amboina:* I´m transporting reinforcements here as fast as possible. One division just finished loading and left Vladivostock, while another division and 4 artillery rgts were released from China Army and in 2 weeks should arrive in Vladivostock from where will be transported to this area too. Besides that the 21st division will be soon released from its garrison duty in Gilberts (substituted by amphibious bdes) and will be transported to Amboina also. Meanwhile some base forces garrisoned Babo/Sorong/etc. In Wyndham 2 Eng rgts finished loading and will join those base forces to help them with building forts. Small islands north of Darwin are garrisoned by Kure SNLFs. Also air force presence in stronger every day and more can be transported quickly from NG/Solomons. But the real defence here is still the Navy. KB is resting in Darwin and in 10 days will be joined by another Carrier divison build around Taiho/Unryu/Amagi because their air groups just finished training. The complication is that Darwin is unprepared to support such a huge fleet so more fuel and supply is on the way from Japan. So in one month I will have 4 divisions + many other additional units here, enough fuel and supply, bases covered by minefields, KB and LBA.. The question in: Will I get this month? [;)]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/23/2008 1:04:29 PM)
Well, nothing serious happened, so I will post full CR to show you all standard missions I´m usually deleting. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/05/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 13 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 9 Beaufighter VIC x 6 Japanese aircraft losses J2M Jack: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Runway hits 5 grrrrr...[:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Sarmi , at 48,78 Japanese aircraft J1N1-S Irving x 27 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35 No Japanese losses Port supply hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 35 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D Liberator: 8 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 15 Irkutsk is bombed daily, but usually I´m loosing much more planes: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Irkutsk , at 59,6 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 62 Ki-21 Sally x 188 Ki-49 Helen x 153 Ki-46-III Dinah x 7 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 4 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 9 damaged Allied ground losses: 119 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Runway hits 39 Training missions: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 313th Rifle Division, at 63,19 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 48 Ki-27 Nate x 32 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 1st New Chinese Corps, at 41,37 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 D3A Val x 8 A6M3a Zero x 27 B5N Kate x 33 Allied ground losses: 159 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Chinese Corps, at 44,34 Japanese aircraft A5M4 Claude x 31 A6M2 Zero x 24 Ki-27 Nate x 32 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 58 casualties reported Air attacks on army flanking Ahmadabad (India): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 20th Indian Division, at 24,7 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 9 Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 19 Ki-49 Helen x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 3 damaged Allied ground losses: 56 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 23rd Indian Division, at 24,7 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 15 Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 6 Ki-21 Sally x 9 Ki-49 Helen x 42 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 78 casualties reported Guns lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Indian Division, at 24,7 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 20 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Situation on Irkustk: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Irkutsk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 9875 troops, 275 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9251 Defending force 269166 troops, 2114 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 4175 Allied ground losses: 248 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Irkutsk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 13217 troops, 453 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4175 Defending force 521897 troops, 4620 guns, 306 vehicles, Assault Value = 9251 Japanese ground losses: 93 casualties reported That was a "boring" turn. Nothing happened, but the management was exhausting. I checked every base, every factory, every TF etc.. I´m trying to scratch as much LCUs and planes for Amboina-Darwin as I can, but I can´t took them from 1st line bases and I have only small reserves elsewhere. I checked every port to see what ships are there and why also as I´m a bit short on APs in Japan. I keep huge fleet of transports in Diamond Harbor and Darwin/Derby in case I would need to evacuate my army from there. This ties up a significant portion of my AP fleet (about 30%). Today I have found not less then 50 APs in ports all around my empire doing nothing at absolutely unimportant places and they were immediatly despatched towards Japan and Korea (some of them damaged though..). They are welcomed boost. Also some AKs joined them on their way.

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/23/2008 10:14:56 PM)
Today the allied air offensive against Ahmadabad was launched so before posting AAR I will do a summary of IJAAF and IJNAF in this theatre: IJAAF is represented by 3rd Air Division which is mainly divided between Bombay, Ahmadabad and Delphi. It has 10 fighter sentais, 7 bomber sentais, 5 transport sentais/chutais and some recon units. Total strenght is 666 planes [;)]. From this number 360 planes are fighters (Ki-44 and Ki-61) positioned as follows: - Delphi 2 sentai of Ki-61 (72 AC) -Bombay 2 sentai of Ki-61 (72 AC) *-Ahmadabad* 2 sentai of Ki-61 (72 AC) 4 sentai of Ki-44 (144 AC) Their experience is 75-90! Also IJNAF has strong contingent in this area. It is represented by 22nd Air Flotilla deployed also mainly in Bombay, Ahmadabad and Delphi. It has 6 fighter daitai (+1 chutai), 4 bomber daitai (+2 chutai) and some recons. Total strenght is 342 planes. From this number 171 planes are fighters (J2M and A6M3) positioned as follows: -Bombay 3 daitai of J2M (81 AC) 1 daitai of A6M3 (27 AC) *-Ahmadabad* 2 daitai + 1 chutai of J2M (63 AC) Their experience is 85-90! In total I have 1008 planes of all types in India including 531 fighters. With this forces I will try to stop RAF and USAAF as it is vital to keep my airfields operational so the bomber force can support my army. WITHOUT air support I doubt I can hold. WITH air support I might have chance. No matter how this will end I´m going to enjoy it!

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/23/2008 11:03:36 PM)
And here we go: AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/06/43 At first arrived sweep from Malir: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 76 Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 36 Allied aircraft Corsair IV x 9 P-40B Tomahawk x 12 P-40E Warhawk x 61 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 8 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 9 destroyed, 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses Corsair IV: 9 destroyed P-40B Tomahawk: 12 destroyed P-40E Warhawk: 57 destroyed I don´t know why he used only these "obsolete" planes instead of P-38G which would have probably better performance. Maybe he saves them for 2nd round.. When all allied fighters were shot down or chased away, 250 4E from Karachi arrived to meet what remained from my CAP: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 21 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 33 Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 13 Allied aircraft Catalina I x 6 Sunderland x 2 Liberator VI x 132 Beaufort I x 16 B-24D Liberator x 121 Japanese aircraft losses J2M Jack: 9 destroyed, 4 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 21 destroyed Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-46-II Dinah: 2 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed Ki-45 KAIa Nick: 7 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Catalina I: 3 destroyed Liberator VI: 40 destroyed, 52 damaged Beaufort I: 7 destroyed, 2 damaged B-24D Liberator: 30 destroyed, 53 damaged Japanese ground losses: 123 casualties reported Guns lost 7 Airbase hits 28 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 185 Also I don´t understand why so few fighters remained after the 1st battle. Originaly I had 147 fighters in the air. It is 52% of all availible fighters in Ahmadabad set on CAP 80. In the 1st battle I have lost 17 planes and 4 other were damaged. I should have 130 fighters left to meet the bombers, but I had only 63 instead.[&:] Both battles were fought in a.m. phase.. Nevertheless those 63 fighters inflicted heavy losses to RAF and I´m happy with their performance. [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/31.jpg[/image] This was bloody encounter. Especially for PjH. Most of my losses are planes destroyed on ground. In the air I have lost only 25 planes to his 167! Unfortunately 4E are unstopable and despite terrific losses they managed to get through and torched 83 planes on ground. AF is damaged 54/64. One more such strike and AF is closed.. [:(] This how my units fought: *1st sentai (Ki-61) shot down 7 enemies and lost 2 pilots* *204th sentai (Ki-44) shot down 24 enemies and lost 2 pilots* *64th sentai (Ki-61) shot down 15 enemies and lost 6 pilots* *47th sentai (Ki-44) shot down 25 enemies and lost 2 pilots* *33rd sentai (Ki-44) shot down 13 enemies and lost 3 pilots* *50th sentai (Ki-44) shot down 30 enemies and lost 1 pilot* *F1/3rd daitai (J2M) shot down 17 enemies and lost 1 pilot* *F2/3rd daitai (J2M) shot down 29 enemies and lost 0 pilots* *F3/3rd chutai (J2M) shot down 7 enemies and lost 0 pilots* The truth is that tommorrow will show if it was a victory or not. It can´t be said now. All fighter units were hit hard loosing most of their planes on ground. They need new planes and time to repair them and it can´t be done in Ahmadabad. I had to withdraw them and scatter them all around. All were divided into A,B,C parts so they will be repaired 3 times faster, bust still it will take at least 2-3 days until they can be thrown into the battle again. Instead of these shattered units I have flown in all remaining fighter units from Bombay and Delphi so now I have 5 sentai of Ki-61 (180AC), 3 daitai of J2M (81 AC) and 1 daitai of A6M3 (27 AC) in Ahmadabad. Bombay and Delphi are left without fighter cover. Recon planes will report it to PjH next turn. Allied capacities are unknown to me. I don´t know if he has enough planes to keep the pressure or nor. The best scenario is that he will send second wave tommorrow against Ahmadabad again without proper fighter escort/sweep and will meet my fresh fighters. And he could be exhausted then as I certainly will be. I doubt I will have enough operational fighters for 3rd round.. After a long time of doing nothing (despite many targets in range and beautiful weather) small part of my bombers in Lae decided to launch and attack: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Thursday Island at 49,90 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 12 G4M1 Betty x 19 G4M2 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 12 Spitfire Vb x 31 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged G4M2 Betty: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Empire Ranger MLE Manini, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage It is interesting that PjH has withdraw Corsairs and placed only Spitfires there [&:]. MLE is probably goner..

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/27/2008 10:11:07 AM)
Surprisingly calm turn. PjH said in his e-mail that he switched the target from Ahmadabad to Bombay. It would be disaster as I have 100 bombers there + 70 fighters, but all fighters (except 1 chutai) are training on 0 CAP and they would be sitting ducks. Fortunately bad weather saves me. Just for the record the only active chutai in Bombay (9 planes on CAP 90) put in the air 4 planes.. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/07/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Wellington III x 12 Beaufighter VIC x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 2 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 4 Hmm, this is strange. During this raid both Karachi and Ahamadabad were clouded. At night. From clouded base to clouded base at night! And still they are comming.. [:@][:@][:@] Oh, yes and torched a few planes again. [8\|] I have 3 subs sitting between Noumea and Brisbane (and another 5 on the way) waiting for new convoys, but surprisingly I scored near Thursday Is where I have only single sub: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 48,95 Japanese Ships SS I-35, hits 6 Allied Ships AK John Muir, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK John Drake Sloat LCI LCI-218 LCI LCI-216 LST LST-34 LST LST-26 LST LST-19 LST LST-16 AK Ascella AK Venus MSW Sage MSW Revenge MSW Requisite AGP Oyster Bay AGP Niagara AS Orion APD Dickerson DD Frazier DD Foote DD Converse Allied ground losses: 25 casualties reported Guns lost 1 *Well, I had* a single sub. I-35 is moderately damaged and is heading back to Rabaul.. A few allied subs pop up near Darwin. I have 2 ASW TF there and both were immedietly despatched to deal with them. Hunter became hunted and MSW went down: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 38,82 Japanese Ships MSW W.7, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PC Ch 10 MSW W.14 MSW W.4 MSW W.1 PC Matsuwa PC Sado PC Oki Allied Ships SS Cabrilla, hits 13 - unknown damage But he can´t stay in these waters anyway. I have 2 crack army bomber sentai on naval search..** Now I´m full of expactations of tommorrow. I wonder If PjH will try to send his heavies to Bombay again. I doubt it as he has to expect some counter measure from my side. The truth is that the only change I made is, that I put all fighters there on CAP 50. No big deal as I have less then 30 operational fighters there. But he can´t know it. The balance numbers will show him 80 fighters, but not their status. He could send his bombers to Delphi instead. There is the same situation as in Bombay. A lot of bombers and fighters, but only few of them are operational. I have no other option. I have enough operational fighters to hold only 1 base now and keeping Ahmadabad operational is vital, while Bombay and Delphi are not. Hard decision, but neccessary. It is always good to remember: "He who defends everything - defends nothing"

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/28/2008 11:15:55 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/08/43 I nearly got heart attack, when I start the replay and saw explosions in Babo´s minefields. An invasion??? Here??? How could he get here unnoticed? The base is not ready!!![X(][X(][X(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1090 encounters mine field at Babo (42,77) Allied Ships DD Van Ghent, Mine hits 1, on fire DD Pope, Mine hits 1, on fire DD Philip, Mine hits 1 Allied ground losses: 61 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Fortunatelly soon it was clear, this is just a raid: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coastal Guns at Babo, 42,77, firing at TF 1090 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1090 encounters mine field at Babo (42,77) TF 1090 troops unloading over beach at Babo, 42,77 115 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships DD Express, Shell hits 2, on fire DD Van Ghent, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Pope, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Beale DD Ammen, Shell hits 1 DD Abbot Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Allied ground losses: 384 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Fast transports unloaded parts of 9th australian division. Not enough to take the base and now I´m warned. At this point it seems as wasting. 3 DDs were hit by mines (2 are heavily damaged) and I expect them to be finished by LBA tommorrow. The remaining allied DDs are running home, but Betty daitai from Darwin located them: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 42,79 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 8 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 10 damaged Allied Ships DD Henley, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage - sinks! DD Abbot DD Maury, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage - sinks! And again my ASW TF was on the receiving end.: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 41,81 Japanese Ships MSW W.18, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PC Ch 32 PC Ch 23 PC Ch 22 PC Ch 7 PC Ch 1 MSW W.19 MSW W.11 Allied Ships SS Pompano Still it is better when his subs are sinking my ASW vessels then other ships. The troop convoy heading from Cairns to Thursday is was hit again, but surprisingly not by sub. My bombers from Lae decided to attack with 20% of the availible planes: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 50,92 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 12 G4M1 Betty x 12 G4M2 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged G4M2 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied Ships AP Zealandia CL Richmond, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CL Portland, Torpedo hits 1 AK Peter H. Burnett, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 26 casualties reported All three ships will live, but they will need some time in dry docks. BTW the AK hit yesterday by sub went down today with parts of 43th USA div aboard. Good! I like it! I badly misscalculated in India. Didn´t expect PjH to leave the same orders when he told me in advance about the strike. Not that I could do anything about that, but still it surprises me: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Bombay , at 20,10 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 10 Allied aircraft PBY Catalina x 7 Sunderland x 1 Wellington III x 2 Liberator VI x 75 B-24D Liberator x 64 Japanese aircraft losses J2M Jack: 15 destroyed H8K Emily: 1 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 9 destroyed Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 7 destroyed Ki-21 Sally: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Sunderland: 1 destroyed Liberator VI: 3 destroyed, 9 damaged B-24D Liberator: 5 destroyed, 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 172 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Airbase hits 18 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 129 Ouch! I lost many planes on ground, but fortunately not a single pilot. All fighters and nearly all bombers were evacuated to the rear and the port was emptied (except 3 barges). Some of my sentais and daitais, hit 2 days ago, are 50% operational again and so in 2-3 days I will have fighter force in good shape again.. And here is the current situation: [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/32.jpg[/image] The threat to Babo is serious and I have to respond even if it is just a fake. The KB sortied from Darwin and LBA reinforced Amboina, Darwin and Sarmi. It makes Babo very dangerous place for any allied ships. Fortunately I have a strong surface fleet in Amboina, which was now divided and CA/CL/DDs will move towards Babo (to prevent reinforcing) and BBs will go to Bulla. Bulla is empty and it is vital to stop any allied TF BEFORE it unloads. Both my best commander (Nishimura and Tanaka) are in charge of these two TF. KB has 800 planes aboard and is formed in 4 divisions again. It is my best defence now. Truly I don´t expect any other allied move here. I think he is just testing my defence but i will rather overreact then underestimate. Shunzan Nav Guard and IJN BF in Babo will shock attack tommorrow. I want to destroy this australian contingent asap! Besides that the division in Darwin was divided into A,B,C regiments and will be used to garrison Babo, Bulla and Amboina. Babo already being reinforced by air..

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (5/30/2008 12:02:49 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/09/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Wellington III x 12 Beaufighter VIC x 6 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 2 destroyed J2M Jack: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 6 Well, these attacks are unstoppable. AA makes nothing and night fighters are worthless. Bombing from 2000ft means I´m loosing 5-10 planes every nigh..[:@] Hmm, Bombay is closed now: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Bombay , at 20,10 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 4 Allied aircraft PBY Catalina x 5 Sunderland x 1 Wellington III x 7 Liberator VI x 81 P-40N Warhawk x 3 B-25J Mitchell x 5 B-24D Liberator x 65 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 4 destroyed Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington III: 1 damaged Liberator VI: 2 destroyed, 8 damaged B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 229 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 19 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 187 I can´t do anything about it[:(] Also Gili Gili was targeted today: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94 Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 38 Allied aircraft losses B-24D Liberator: 15 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Some ships were spotted near Gili Gili. I don´t know if it is a raiding party or subs.. Two damaged DDs which brought the raiding party to Babo were finished by bombers from Amboina: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 43,81 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 23 G4M1 Betty x 19 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Van Ghent, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Pope, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage And the poor aussies were pushed out of the base easily right into jungle: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Babo Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 5623 troops, 29 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 157 Defending force 1523 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61 Japanese max assault: 260 - adjusted assault: 112 Allied max defense: 44 - adjusted defense: 15 Japanese assault odds: 7 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 215 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Allied ground losses: 61 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! I would say about 3000 troops have been unloaded. They are now hiding near Babo without the supplies which means they are sentenced to death. 9th australian division lost good part of its combat power in this raid. Fortunately there were no more fast transport raids today. PjH lost 4 DDs and 3000 men in this operation in 2 days. It should show him, he will need to come back in strenght and really fight for it. It means he will have to muster the army and navy and it means I will have more time. Or he will switch to another target and will try to advance via East coast of NG/Solomons. My search planes reports 2 DDs 120miles SW of Gili Gili. It migh be another raiding party.. Today the 5th KB division (Taiho, Unryu and Amagi) left Japan and is heading to Amboina. It has 200 planes and once it will join KB, I will have 1000 planes! Now I can just hope they will fly.. [8\|]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/2/2008 10:38:17 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/10/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 50,92 Japanese Ships SS I-124 Allied Ships AP Zeilin, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Cushing DD Conyngham DD Blue DD Bagley DD Hughes I got another one. I love to sink APs! Allies might have enough AKs, but they are short on APs.. Hmm, much more subs appeared today between Darwin and Babo. I was lucky, but KBs position is revealed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 40,81 Japanese Ships AO Shiriya DD Inazuma DD Ikazuchi DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki CL Katori Allied Ships SS O24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 40,81 Japanese Ships CA Atago DD Makigumo DD Kazegumo DD Akigumo DD Wakazuki DD Niizuki DD Teruzuki CVE Taiyo Allied Ships SS O24 It seems like PjH was lazy to check his sub commanders as otherwise I don´t understand to such a poor perfomance of his subs so far. At this date they should start to be a real menace.. Well, I wasn´t lazy and japanese subs under the command of highly aggressive and skilled commanders are taking their toll. Neverthless I have to deal with them somehow. 2 ASW TF are running all around like mad, backed with 3 sentai of Ki-21/Ki-49 places in Darwin, Babo and Amboina. I could move in much more army bombers, but I want to keep some balance here as PjH was somewhat displeased when his subs were massacred by my carrier based navy bombers and I don´t know how he would react if I made the same with army bombers. I´m thankfull for every day of inactivity here. I´m slowly turning these undefended bases into defended bases, but they will never become real fortresses. Forts are mostly between lvl 1-2 and I doubt I will have enough time to build them higher then Lvl 4-5. The problem is lack of construction battalions. And it is not just about forts. AF and Ports facilities are also undeveloped and it means my troops suffer badly from malaria and I can not dump satisfying amount of supplies and fuel there. Once the allied attack will start, the resupplying of these bases will be nearly impossible. Having a division in good shelters behind lvl 9 forts sitting on the pile of supplies is one thing. Having a division camping in the muddy trenches full of poison spiders, always low on supplies, well, that is far away from perfection.. Oh, and I don´t have that division there either. Yet.. I don´t know exactly how many construction units I have, but I could easily use three times that amount. It is immediate dark side of my "russian adventure". I have 10-15 construction battalions there (building forts and bases) + 15 combat engineer units (sieging Irkutsk) which I would desperately need in SRA now!

castor troy -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/2/2008 12:14:21 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jumper AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/10/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 50,92 Japanese Ships SS I-124 Allied Ships AP Zeilin, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Cushing DD Conyngham DD Blue DD Bagley DD Hughes I got another one. I love to sink APs! Allies might have enough AKs, but they are short on APs.. Hmm, much more subs appeared today between Darwin and Babo. I was lucky, but KBs position is revealed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 40,81 Japanese Ships AO Shiriya DD Inazuma DD Ikazuchi DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki CL Katori Allied Ships SS O24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 40,81 Japanese Ships CA Atago DD Makigumo DD Kazegumo DD Akigumo DD Wakazuki DD Niizuki DD Teruzuki CVE Taiyo Allied Ships SS O24 It seems like PjH was lazy to check his sub commanders as otherwise I don´t understand to such a poor perfomance of his subs so far. At this date they should start to be a real menace.. Well, I wasn´t lazy and japanese subs under the command of highly aggressive and skilled commanders are taking their toll. Neverthless I have to deal with them somehow. 2 ASW TF are running all around like mad, backed with 3 sentai of Ki-21/Ki-49 places in Darwin, Babo and Amboina. I could move in much more army bombers, but I want to keep some balance here as PjH was somewhat displeased when his subs were massacred by my carrier based navy bombers and I don´t know how he would react if I made the same with army bombers. I´m thankfull for every day of inactivity here. I´m slowly turning these undefended bases into defended bases, but they will never become real fortresses. Forts are mostly between lvl 1-2 and I doubt I will have enough time to build them higher then Lvl 4-5. The problem is lack of construction battalions. And it is not just about forts. AF and Ports facilities are also undeveloped and it means my troops suffer badly from malaria and I can not dump satisfying amount of supplies and fuel there. Once the allied attack will start, the resupplying of these bases will be nearly impossible. Having a division in good shelters behind lvl 9 forts sitting on the pile of supplies is one thing. Having a division camping in the muddy trenches full of poison spiders, always low on supplies, well, that is far away from perfection.. Oh, and I don´t have that division there either. Yet.. I don´t know exactly how many construction units I have, but I could easily use three times that amount. It is immediate dark side of my "russian adventure". I have 10-15 construction battalions there (building forts and bases) + 15 combat engineer units (sieging Irkutsk) which I would desperately need in SRA now! you can definetely use the Army bombers for ASW duty as this is something he also does in our game. Every day one of my subs is hit by a Helen. If there´s a day when there was no hit, then two are hit the next day... [8\|] guess he wouldn´t complain if you did the same, while I´m sure he wouldn´t like it...

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/3/2008 12:29:46 PM)
no turn yet.. [:(] PjH is somewhat busy so I got only 2 turns in the last 5-6 days. Good that I have other games going to fill the gap.. Castor: I will give a chance to my ASW TF to deal with his subs at first. If they will disappoint me, I can allways bring more IJA bombers. But frankly said I don´t see a big difference between using KB on ASW duty and using several hundred IJA bombers in the same role. KB on ASW duty drived PjH crazy, what is understandable given the results it brought. And because I can expect the same results from my crack LBA... The problem is that PjH has the nasty habit to operate huge wolfpacks on very small areas and therefore the spot/hit rate is unbelievable high. I´m worried he will now fill every hex in the Darwin-Lautem-Babo triangle with a few subs and then will be surprised once my bombers start hitting them at the same rate as KB did. But maybe I´m wrong. We shall see..

castor troy -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/3/2008 2:38:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jumper no turn yet.. [:(] PjH is somewhat busy so I got only 2 turns in the last 5-6 days. Good that I have other games going to fill the gap.. Castor: I will give a chance to my ASW TF to deal with his subs at first. If they will disappoint me, I can allways bring more IJA bombers. But frankly said I don´t see a big difference between using KB on ASW duty and using several hundred IJA bombers in the same role. KB on ASW duty drived PjH crazy, what is understandable given the results it brought. And because I can expect the same results from my crack LBA... The problem is that PjH has the nasty habit to operate huge wolfpacks on very small areas and therefore the spot/hit rate is unbelievable high. I´m worried he will now fill every hex in the Darwin-Lautem-Babo triangle with a few subs and then will be surprised once my bombers start hitting them at the same rate as KB did. But maybe I´m wrong. We shall see.. of course you don´t see any difference between using all KB bombers or all Army bombers on ASW. I don´t see one either, both things are unreasonable and gamey to me. But not for Hortlund! He told me it´s perfectly reasonable and realisticalyy to use ALL his Army bombers on ASW so why should he complain if you do it. He hits one sub every turn in my PBEM. I would do it! Use 300 Army bombers in this area and watch the results! He can´t complain about a tactic he uses himself! [;)]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/3/2008 3:28:49 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy of course you don´t see any difference between using all KB bombers or all Army bombers on ASW. I don´t see one either, both things are unreasonable and gamey to me. But not for Hortlund! He told me it´s perfectly reasonable and realisticalyy to use ALL his Army bombers on ASW so why should he complain if you do it. He hits one sub every turn in my PBEM. I would do it! Use 300 Army bombers in this area and watch the results! He can´t complain about a tactic he uses himself! [;)] Maybe I will do it at the end. I want to see how many subs he will deploy at first. I will not send 300 bombers against 5-10 subs. But if he will deploy the same insane number as before.. Neverthless this time I will ask him if he is alright with it BEFORE I will do it.[;)] Actualy when I think about it I will raise this issue in our next e-mail exchange.

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/10/2008 2:14:29 PM)
PjH is extremely busy these days so nearly no turns can be expected for a while (about 1-2/week). So I will fill the "empty days" with a few theatre summaries. The first one is India: [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/33.jpg[/image] As you may see, the situation is not good. I´m holding my line (red), but still don´t know where will come the main strike (28 unit stack). I have no reserves. On the south I have only 3 mixed bdes as garrison (Ceylon, Madras, Panaji and Trivandrum) but they are so far away, that they can not affect upcoming battles. I have 9 divisions, 1 tank division and 4 tank regiments to face at least three times more of enemies (good part of chinese army is here). The terrain is not on our side. Mostly plains. Only SW of Ahmadabad are swamps and I hope a single division with bonus for this hard terrain can hold its ground against 10 enemy units (chinese corps + HQs). My only strong point is Ahmadabad with lvl 9 forts and 300 crack fighters. Leaking CAP served me very well in this area. There are no enemy strikes against my units, while allies under constant attacks..

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/12/2008 10:15:05 AM)
Australia: [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/34.jpg[/image] I still have significant forces tied up in this area. 14th and 16th Army with with 7 divisions, 1 tank division and 5 tank rgts. It is lot of troops, but I believe that holding northern Australia is worth of it. Otherwise I would have to use even more troops to garrison all bases in SRA.. As I expect PjH will be trying to advance towards Babo/Amboina, the LBA presence Darwin (21st air flotilla and 6th air division) is slowly growing. Currently there are 2 daitai + 1 chutai of G4M, 1 sentai of Ki-21 and 1 sentai of Ki-44-II. It is not much, but one week ago, there was only 9 recon planes. More planes are on the way from Manchuria and China..

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/12/2008 1:23:24 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/11/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Ahmadabad , at 24,8 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIC x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 1 destroyed Runway hits 1 *Usual story. AA fire is doing nothing and 2 planes were torched on ground again.. I have moved back my night fighters just for the feeling* I´m defending myself.. [:@][:(] Hmm, allied sub pop up in Saipan port and immedietly sink empty AK: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Saipan at 63,64 Japanese Ships AK Samarang Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Runner Recon planes reports this sub is part of huge TF of at least 10 boats heading west. I wonder what he is up to. Nearly all subs in Amboina-Darwin-Lautem triangle disappeared. Only 3 boats remained and one was hit by Ki-21 Sally on naval search today.. It is heating up in India. Enemy unit entered hex with our tank group: [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/35.jpg[/image]** All planes in the area are ordered to attack this unit (including G4M from Madras), while LCU are ordered to shock attack. It is probably just a recon unit which will reveal the exact strenght and composition to PJH, but I can´t do anything about that..

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/23/2008 1:42:19 PM)
Ahhh.. Finally it seems we are back on the track..! I really missed this game.. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/12/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Hansa, at 53,83 Japanese Ships DD Kasumi DD Arare DD Natsugumo DD Asashio CL Tama CA Kako CA Kinugasa BB Hyuga BB Yamashiro Allied ground losses: 163 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Another fruitless bombardment. And PjH is not reinforcing this base either.. [:(] I will wait one more week and then will take this base back. In USSR the situation is stable too. Daily bomber raids keeps russion engineers busy, while my own combat engineers rests outside the city. In 1-2 week they will be ready to attack again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Irkutsk , at 59,6 Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 64 Ki-21 Sally x 97 Ki-49 Helen x 96 Ki-46-III Dinah x 5 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 12 damaged Allied ground losses: 191 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 45 Meanwhile IJA will bleed here.. In India all bases were clauded a.m and all were clear p.m. So it means that not a single strike was launched against enemy.. I really don´t understand why missions against ordered ground target can fly only during a.m. phase (except sweep), while naval attack are being launched in both phases. Fortunatelly it wasn´t problem here as my enemy was only lonely Indian tank brigade: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 25,7 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 58500 troops, 521 guns, 1237 vehicles, Assault Value = 1419 Defending force 9254 troops, 39 guns, 480 vehicles, Assault Value = 269 Japanese max assault: 2734 - adjusted assault: 3726 Allied max defense: 275 - adjusted defense: 16 Japanese assault odds: 232 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 426 casualties reported Guns lost 13 Vehicles lost 5 Allied ground losses: 1333 casualties reported Guns lost 29 Vehicles lost 72 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Poor indian tankists were decimated by superior japanese tank force and chased away. This unit is out of combat for a few days (maybe weeks!) now. Good!

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/23/2008 2:04:50 PM)
One of those "calm" turns.. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/13/43 Only training runs today and nothing to post. This is how Irkuts siege looks like: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Irkutsk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 9803 troops, 297 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9836 Defending force 281884 troops, 2477 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 4819 Allied ground losses: 266 casualties reported As I said there was no action today, but still something cought my eyes. I have AV Kamikawa Maru sitting about 720 miles SW of Colombo and its Jake reports some unknown TF of at least 10 ships (AK/AP) spotted about 900 miles directly on south from Colombo heading NORTHEAST! So what is that? Lost convoy? Invasion fleet? What is its target? If the spotted course is correct it is heading towards Trincomalae or Madras. Or even Diamond Harbour! But where are covering CVs then? Fortunately Kamikawa Maru was running out of fuel and Kimikawa Maru just arrived to replace her. They shared the fuel (both are "in green" now) and I have ordered their Jakes (2x16 planes) to naval attack. Lets see what they can get tommorrow. Either I will get some transport ships or 200 helldivers will come down from the skies to torch my tenders and I will know it is a REAL danger.. For now I have rebased all availble G4M on Ceylon and Madras together with some fighters (J2M/A6M3). Also my local battlefleet (build around BB Fuso) left Colombo and will stay in Trincomalae. I feel a bit paranoid now.. [;)]

castor troy -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/23/2008 2:50:38 PM)
Using AVs for mid ocean air attacks with float planes seems a bit gamey to me. It´s strange enough if you see those CS launching two dozen float planes twice a day to attack shipping in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but AVs seems even more over the top. The were used to operate float planes at bases...

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/23/2008 3:31:19 PM)
Actualy Kamikawa Maru class operated commonly its planes on open seas. Early in the war they were used to provide CAP over invasion fleets and later were used for scouting with possibility of light bombing. Unfortunately they never get to any light bombing mission and were commonly stripped of their planes, but it was not caused by doctrine but by simple lack of availible float planes. You can find their history here: http://www.combinedfleet.com/Suijoki-Bokan!.htm I don´t think it is gamey. They were capable to do it. And the damage they can cause in the game is more just PITA then anything else..

castor troy -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/23/2008 5:31:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jumper Actualy Kamikawa Maru class operated commonly its planes on open seas. Early in the war they were used to provide CAP over invasion fleets and later were used for scouting with possibility of light bombing. Unfortunately they never get to any light bombing mission and were commonly stripped of their planes, but it was not caused by doctrine but by simple lack of availible float planes. You can find their history here: http://www.combinedfleet.com/Suijoki-Bokan!.htm I don´t think it is gamey. They were capable to do it. And the damage they can cause in the game is more just PITA then anything else.. I stand corrected! Just went through Kamikawa Maru´s history and am amazed how much engagements there were. Quotes like this one makes me wondering though: In the morning, three of KAMIKAWA MARU's F1M2s and three of her E13As fly to Bantam Bay, Java. Two of the F1M2s go on to Eretan Wetan. Two Petes from SANYO MARU join them there. In the early afternoon, five Hawker “Hurricanes” of 605 Squadron engage a lone Pete floatplane. After the combat, the Pete’s pilot claims three Hurricanes downed.

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/24/2008 3:52:35 PM)
It is heating up.. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/14/43 After a week of doing nothing despite the excellent weather and many undefended allied transports less then 10 hexes away, Betties from Lae decided to attack.. From many availible targets they choose TF made of 2 MSW sitting under CAP in Merauke. There is at least 10-15 transport TF in Thursday Is (and every single one more valuable then MSW!!!) and some more are on the open sea. Neverthless only 8 bombers from 90 availble took off escorted by 12 Zeroes from 27 availible. It is really discouraging.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 47,87 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 12 G4M1 Betty x 8 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 15 F4F-4 Wildcat x 15 P-40E Warhawk x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied Ships MSW Kalgoorlie MSW Dubbo All missed.. Definively not worth of loosing 6 elite crews.. [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/37.jpg[/image] The biggest news is that PjH was trying to build secret base in Timoeka right under my nose. He probbaly used fast transports to get troops there, but if he want to build an air strip in this century he needs heavy equipment. And it can´t be transported by fast transports. So he tried to sneak in a few AKs, but fortunately my recon planes spotted them and air force reacted: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 16 D3A Val x 27 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Walter Reed, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK William C. Claiborne, Bomb hits 1 AK Walter Colton, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage AK Vitus Bering, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 357 casualties reported Vehicles lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Thomas Nelson, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 73 casualties reported I´m sending KB there to finish the cripples and to prevent any further reinforcing. I will cut off this base and counter attack. This base would have disastrous effect on our deffense allowing allies to get P-47 and F4U in "contact" range and start jumping under their cover. I have 3rd division in Darwin, 30th divison divided between Babo, Amboina and Bulla and 6th division on the way with ETA 1 week. Also 21st divison is on the way from Gilberts, but it is still at least 2-3 weeks away.. But I have KB and nearly the whole battle fleet on my hand here. Only BB Ise accompanied by CL Yura + 4 modern DDs just left Amboina and is heading to Singapore becuse I´m really not sure what is going on in Bay of Bengal and Indian ocean: [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/38.jpg[/image] Bad weather prevented any strike from AV, while Betties in Colombo didn´t fly of course. So the composition of allied TF is still uknown. All I know is it is still heading towards Ceylon and no allied CVs or CVEs were spotted so far!! hopefully tommorrow I will be lucky and will get sme plnes into the air.. I just can´t imagine PjH would try to invade Ceylon without proper air cover.. [&:]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/29/2008 11:07:41 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/15/43 During the night nothing interesting happened. Only fruitless night air attack on Ahmadabad and naval bombardment of Hansa. But as the sun rises and the reports from launched recon planes started to arrive I knew the day is really promising. [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/40.jpg[/image] In India PjH is trying to out flank me with Chinese cavalry. I have despatched 3rd Tank division + 2 tank regiments to deal with this threat. Meanwhile Chinese cavalrymen are being bombed: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 26,6 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 24 Ki-21 Sally x 29 Ki-49 Helen x 27 Allied ground losses: 59 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Besides that the biggest news are, that allied TF heading to Ceylon turned around and now is sprinting southwards. I still don´t know if it is lost convoy or invaion TF, so my AV will pursue them and hopefully achieve some hits to see if the ships are empty or not.. But certainly it seems Ceylon is safe for now and air forces gathered there can be redeployed.. "Secret" allied base in Timoeka will get a lot of attantion in coming weeks: [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/39.jpg[/image] PjH is trying really hard to ship supplies and heavy equipment here. Another 2 convoys were spotted with Seebees, naval base forces and aviation regiment. Ki-21 from Biak and Hollandia attacked: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 45,85 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 25 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 4 damaged Allied Ships AK William M. Stewart, Bomb hits 2, on fire AK Taurus AK Regulus, Bomb hits 2, on fire DD Shaw AK William R. Davie, Bomb hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 56 casualties reported Nothing serious. They have to be finished tommorrow in the same way as surviving ships from yesterdays attacks were finished today by G4M attack from Amboina and Darwin: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 24 G4M1 Betty x 38 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Walter Colton, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Vitus Bering, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK William C. Claiborne, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 48 casualties reported Vehicles lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 40 G4M2 Betty x 4 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Walter Reed, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK William C. Claiborne, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 38 casualties reported Vehicles lost 2 A few more ships went down with all troops aboard.. And finally KB found its pray too. Big convoy was hit hard in a moment it left Merauke: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 45,87 Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 33 A6M5 Zeke x 8 D3A Val x 51 D4Y Judy x 21 A6M3a Zero x 45 B5N Kate x 69 Allied aircraft P-40E Warhawk x 7 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses P-40E Warhawk: 15 destroyed Allied Ships AK Eldorado, Bomb hits 14, on fire, heavy damage AK Don Isidro, Bomb hits 10, on fire, heavy damage PG Auricula, Bomb hits 9, on fire, heavy damage AK Hirondelle, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Kanlaon II, Bomb hits 15, on fire, heavy damage AK Arcata, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Idaho, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage AK Dellwood, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage AK Dona Nati, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 521 casualties reported Guns lost 12 Vehicles lost 7 Only 4 ships are confirmed sunk, but I´m sure more will follow.. My plans for this area are clear: 1) KB will block any resupply effort 2) Air attacks and surface combat TF will clear the port from defending PTs - yes, there are already PTs!! 2 TF of 5-6 were spotted today. How he had get them there is mistery to me. 4 CA, 1 CL+4DD under Tanaka are already on the way. 3) 30th division and C regiment of 3rd division are already embarking the ships in Darwin and will storm this base, before the airfield is finished. It is more then 600 AV and while PjH has no real combat unit there, I hope it will be enough..

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/29/2008 12:59:16 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/16/43 In India Chinese cavalry is under daily attacks, while my tanks arrived. Shock attack is ordered for tommorrow: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 26,6 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 23 Ki-21 Sally x 18 Ki-49 Helen x 23 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 109 casualties reported Guns lost 2 For some reason PjH launched 35 Lightnings from Thursday Is against Lae. He is reconning this base daily and is perfectly aware of the strenght of my CAP there. The result could be expected IMO: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lae , at 54,87 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 12 J2M Jack x 42 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 48 Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 35 Allied aircraft P-38G Lightning x 35 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61 KAIc Tony: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38G Lightning: 35 destroyed All allied fighters were shot down at the cost of 4 japanese fighters. And only 1 pilot is lost! Excellent! Airmen from Lae responded quickly and several G4M attacked undefended AK heading to Cairns: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 50,92 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 8 G4M1 Betty x 23 G4M2 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged G4M2 Betty: 1 damaged Allied Ships MSW Benalla AK Iowan, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Atlanta City, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Santa Rita, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage 2 AK went down immedietly.. [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/41.jpg[/image] PjH is really stubborn. The convoy lightly damaged by Ki-21 yesterday continued towards Timoeka and was hit really hard today by LBA and KB: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 46,82 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 24 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 8 damaged Allied Ships AK William R. Davie, Bomb hits 2, on fire AK Lipscomb Lykes, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Liberty Glo, Shell hits 4, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Litchfield, Shell hits 4, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK William M. Stewart AK William P. McArthur, Shell hits 4 Allied ground losses: 259 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 KB joins the party: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 46,82 Japanese aircraft A6M2-N Rufe x 4 A6M3 Zero x 33 A6M5 Zeke x 4 D3A Val x 68 D4Y Judy x 18 A6M3a Zero x 29 B5N Kate x 155 B6N Jill x 19 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 6 damaged Allied Ships DD Shaw, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Lipscomb Lykes, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Laida, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Liberty Glo, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Regulus, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Bay AK William R. Davie, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Litchfield, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK William P. McArthur, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage AK Taurus, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage AK William M. Stewart, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK William L. Garrison, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Scout, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 1293 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 46,82 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 2 B5N Kate x 25 Allied Ships AK Scotia, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Taurus, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Regulus, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 140 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 46,82 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 39 A6M3a Zero x 9 B5N Kate x 40 Allied Ships AK Taurus, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Bay, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Scout, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 547 casualties reported Vehicles lost 2 11 ships is confirmed sunk already with all hands aboard and only 3 AK remains.. And now the bad news! Suddenly much more PTs appeared in Timoeka! Yesterday there was 2x6 and today there is 3x12 and 3x6 what makes 54 PTs total![X(] Personaly I think it is totally crazy. And also I don´t believe PjH has transported them by sea, but I think he has build them from parked AK..[8\|] Great.. Planes from Hollandia and Biak were set to 100ft naval attack to deal with 2x6 PT TF spotted yesterday, but because a few dozens "instant" PT TFs were dropped from the space the air routine went crazy: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 2 No Japanese losses Allied Ships PT PT-251, Shell hits 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 10 No Japanese losses Allied Ships PT PT-256, Shell hits 8 PT PT-138, Shell hits 4 PT PT-254, Shell hits 8, on fire ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 3 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Thomas Nast, Shell hits 8, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 76 casualties reported Guns lost 5 I believe this was the floating PT factory.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft Ki-21 Sally x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 2 damaged Allied Ships PT PT-277 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships PT PT-300, Shell hits 16, on fire, heavy damage PT PT-283, Shell hits 12, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 24 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 2 destroyed, 14 damaged Allied Ships PT PT-336, Shell hits 12 PT PT-339 PT PT-335 PT PT-338 PT PT-341, Shell hits 4, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PT PT-337, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Even their flak is deadly.. [:@] [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/42.jpg[/image] 54 PTs is bad, but that is not all yet. To my surprise the airfield lvl 1 was finished today![X(] PjH has to be building this base much longer then I have thought.. Excellent move! Unfortunately PjHs excellent move means a lot troubles for poor Jumper. No more PTs straffing as there will be CAP of 50 Corsairs tommorrow. I have to close the AF at all costs. Air forces in Hollandia and Biak were significantly reinforced. 250 fighters and 180 bombers divided between these two bases will strike tommorrow (weather prediction is good). Surface combat TF under Tanaka is ordered to close in at full speed so he will arrive during the day. I want to test how well fight those PTs during the daylight. KB will still guard the supply path. Recon planes spotted US CVs heading NW, but I think it is just feint. PjH has only 1-2 fleet CVs and bunch of CVLs and CVEs. I don´t think he can challenge KB yet. Unless he had packed them with corsairs only and want to kill my crews..

castor troy -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/29/2008 1:58:29 PM)
don´t you have any hr about PTs? I´m the Allied against Hortlund and we have a hr of not more than 2x6 PTs per base no matter what size the base is. Better would be not more than 2x3 PTs...

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/29/2008 2:43:13 PM)
Wow, this day could be really interesting if the wetaher gods allowed.. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/17/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 26,6 Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 24 Ki-21 Sally x 29 Ki-49 Helen x 27 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 99 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 6th Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 26,6 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 KAIc Tony x 12 Ki-21 Sally x 15 Ki-49 Helen x 18 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 94 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Poor Chinese cavalry was hit right before our tanks attacked. Shaken cavalrymen had no chance to stop my "panzers" despite being supported by 1st Burma rifles bde: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 26,6 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 16658 troops, 86 guns, 780 vehicles, Assault Value = 554 Defending force 16880 troops, 129 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 389 Japanese max assault: 906 - adjusted assault: 1336 Allied max defense: 292 - adjusted defense: 48 Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1 Japanese ground losses: 354 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 7 Allied ground losses: 288 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! 2 Chinese cavalry units, 1 Burma Rifles Bde and a chinese HQ were chased away. My units are now heading back to join remaining units on the railway. After several days of chasing, my AVs were finally in position to launch a small attack: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 7,44 Japanese aircraft E13A1 Jake x 14 E7K2 Alf x 4 Japanese aircraft losses E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Empire Severn, Bomb hits 2, on fire AK Empire Charmian, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Jupiter CL Java AK Empire Galliard, Bomb hits 2 Allied ground losses: 91 casualties reported Combat ships included, troops aboard.. Well, I think it really was an invasion TF. And now is heading back to the south. It should have fuel problems soon.. As I hoped the weather was good and both my bases launched nice attack against Timoeka. I was really very surprised to find only Wildcats on CAP. Wildcats?[&:] At this date? At the base which is most important to keep open? Why not Corsairs? Or Thunderbolts? Or P-38 or.. Well while I really don´t understand why PjH is defending this base with obsolete fighters only, I can certainly live with that: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Timoeka , at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 40 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 72 Ki-21 Sally x 50 Ki-49 Helen x 25 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 22 F4F-4 Wildcat x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 22 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 15 destroyed Allied ground losses: 82 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 23 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Timoeka , at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 49 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 63 Ki-21 Sally x 18 Ki-49 Helen x 50 Allied aircraft no flights No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed PBM Mariner: 2 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 35 The base is not closed yet, but is hit hard. PjH either has to move fresh fighters or abandon this base. Tommorrow we will attack again. [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/43.jpg[/image] South of Timoeka, the sitation was really intresting. Again PjH surprised me and moved his CVs towards KB. I think he was lucky as a.m. both fleets were clauded and p.m. allied CVs were clauded. It saved them IMO, as KB attacked other TF instead. Transport TF parked in Merauke under the weak CAP (My recon reported Corsairs flying CAP here daily, so I suppose today they are LRCAPing his CVs) was hit hard: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 47,87 Japanese aircraft A6M2-N Rufe x 4 A6M3 Zero x 41 A6M5 Zeke x 10 D3A Val x 27 A6M3a Zero x 61 B5N Kate x 39 Allied aircraft P-47C Thunderbolt x 20 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 3 destroyed A6M5 Zeke: 2 destroyed A6M3a Zero: 11 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47C Thunderbolt: 14 destroyed Allied Ships AK Dona Nati, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Florence D., Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Hirondelle, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PG Cyclamen, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Dorothy Philips, Bomb hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 202 casualties reported Guns lost 1 The truth is that I´m sure KB is stronger then allied CVs, but I´m a bit nervous as sometimes my CVs launch only pathetic strike or don´t launch any strike at all. I have 292 fighters, 204 dive bombers and 215 torpedo bombers aboard now, but usually only 40% of availible planes strikes.. KB will fall back towards Timoeka. Its mission is to keep this base cut off and not fighting with allied CVs. Even if I would sink them all, my CVs would have to retire for fresh pilots and planes as crippling losses can be expected. In 2 days it will be joined by 5th division (Taiho, Unryu, Amagi plus escorts). It means another 200 planes. Then I might reconsider it. Or PjH will leave LBA support behind and will move deeper into our territory and I will have to attack. Currently allied CVs are supported by Corsairs from Merauke and probably by P-38G from Thursday Is (3 P-38 were lost to ops today). All G4M in Lae were rebased to Siador and today they launched a small strike: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 50,92 Japanese aircraft G4M2 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied Ships TK Imlay, Torpedo hits 1, on fire And here comes Tanaka against PTs: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Oyashio DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-132 PT PT-133 PT PT-134, Shell hits 19, and is sunk PT PT-135 PT PT-248, Shell hits 4, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Oyashio DD Isokaze Allied Ships AK Laida, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk AK Scotia, Shell hits 9, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk Allied ground losses: 931 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Oyashio DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-129 PT PT-130 PT PT-249 PT PT-250, Shell hits 1 PT PT-251, Shell hits 3, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero, Shell hits 3 DD Oyashio, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-138, Shell hits 4, and is sunk PT PT-252 PT PT-253 PT PT-254, on fire PT PT-255 PT PT-256, Shell hits 7, and is sunk PT PT-257, Shell hits 3, and is sunk PT PT-258, Shell hits 11, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Oyashio, on fire, heavy damage DD Isokaze Allied Ships AK Thomas Nast, Shell hits 20, and is sunk Allied ground losses: 452 casualties reported Guns lost 17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero, on fire DD Oyashio, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-259 PT PT-260 PT PT-261 PT PT-262 PT PT-263 PT PT-264, Shell hits 5, and is sunk PT PT-277 PT PT-278, Shell hits 2, and is sunk PT PT-279 PT PT-280 PT PT-281 PT PT-282 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero, on fire DD Oyashio, on fire, heavy damage DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-284 PT PT-285 PT PT-286 PT PT-287 PT PT-288 PT PT-295 PT PT-296 PT PT-297 PT PT-298, Shell hits 1, and is sunk PT PT-299 In the last 2 days I have sunk 13 PTs here. 30 is confirmend to remain and I belive there is still one more 10-12 PT TF I haven´t fought with as I run out of op points. It cost me 1 modern DD so far. It could be worse..[8\|] Tanaka will stay here until he will sink all of these bggers or he will run out of ammo. Oh and between Noumea and Brisbane fresh convoy was found..* [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 56,114 Japanese Ships SS I-21 Allied Ships AK Lillian Luckenbach, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage - SINKS PG Jasmine AK Thomas A. Edison AK Menkar I´m really curious what disater the next day will bring.. [;)]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (6/29/2008 3:00:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy don´t you have any hr about PTs? I´m the Allied against Hortlund and we have a hr of not more than 2x6 PTs per base no matter what size the base is. Better would be not more than 2x3 PTs... We had the same one: max 2x6 PTs per base and they can be build only in lvl 6 ports and higher. But as PjH somewhat missunderstood this HR we had issues with PTs from the beginning. And because I´m tired to raise this issue again, again and again as every 1st line base is swarmed with these pesky boats in unbelievable amounts, I´m playing as best I can against them.. Basicaly I think there is too many of them everywhere while he thinks it is just fine.. [;)]

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (7/3/2008 3:25:03 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/18/43 I was really surprised to see absolutely no night (or day btw) naval combat. I have Tanaka and his cruisers sitting at Timoeka with a few dozens of allied PTs and nothing happened.. Both fleets were just sitting at the same hex watching each others.. Strange.. Very strange.. [&:] New wave of air attacks against Timoeka. Fresh unit of obsolete fighters joins the fray: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Timoeka , at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 46 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 62 Ki-21 Sally x 38 Ki-49 Helen x 23 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 1 F4F-4 Wildcat x 4 Kittyhawk I x 9 Japanese aircraft losses J2M Jack: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Kittyhawk I: 9 destroyed PBM Mariner: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 84 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 25 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Timoeka , at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 26 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 63 Ki-21 Sally x 25 Ki-49 Helen x 33 Allied aircraft no flights No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed Allied ground losses: 68 casualties reported Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 36 Timoeka is out of bussiness. Not closed (it is nearly impossible to close lvl 1 AF when seebees are there), but unusable. I have moved some Ki-45b fighter bomber to Hollandia to have some attack plane against those PTs. They were training in China a few months and are now in solid 70-75xp. Unfortunately I have only one sentai on the whole map! The whole japanese empire can muster only 36 fighter bombers![:@] My CVs arrived at the hex as planned while US CVs stayed where they were. It seems PjH don´t want to leave his LBA support what is understandable. Neverthless he doesn´t hesitate to send another unprotected convoy into the harms way and Betties from Darwin were triggered: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 45,87 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 27 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Coast Trader, Torpedo hits 1, on fire PG Yarra AK Coast Farmer, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Cynthia Olson, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Day Star AK Cold Brook, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PG Tui, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 116 casualties reported Only 27 from 90 planes attacked, but it is at least something. Also their colleagues from Siador tried their luck and attacked ships anchored in Merauke: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 47,87 Japanese aircraft G4M2 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Florence D., heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Merauke at 47,87 Japanese aircraft G4M2 Betty x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M2 Betty: 1 damaged Allied Ships MSW Dubbo, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage 63 Betties availible and only 7 of them flies.. [:@] BUT they brought interesting news. There is NO CAP over Merauke and 130 planes was spotted (Merakue AF finished lvl 2 today so it seems PjH was operating 100-130 planes on Lvl 1 AF, while we have stacking limit till lvl 4). All of them are fighters and all of them are flying LRCAP over his CVs.. hmm.. No CAP.. I can´t resist.. [;)][:'(] 200 bombers were moved to Lae and will strike Merauke tommorrow. Hopefully we can get some of them on the ground.. Tanaka was given another chance to hit PTs and then retire towards Babo. 5th KB division will join the fleet also tommorrow and invasion convoy is slowly aproaching.

jumper -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (7/4/2008 9:08:22 AM)
I forgot to take pics (again) so I have to improvise a bit..[;)] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 08/19/43 Hey, with a view of a withdrawal to Babo my cruisers decided to fight finally.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-132 PT PT-133 PT PT-135, Shell hits 5, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero, Shell hits 1 DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-129 PT PT-130 PT PT-249, Shell hits 15, and is sunk PT PT-250 A SINGLE hit and Kagero is sys 20, flt 25 and fires 11 and is going directly into the drydocks. Great.. It was "normal " penetration hit from 40mm gun. No "severe damage caused" or anything like that. A single hit and modern DD is out of action.. [:-] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-252 PT PT-253, Shell hits 3, and is sunk PT PT-254 PT PT-255 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Timoeka at 45,81 Japanese Ships CA Chikuma, Shell hits 2 CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CL Oi DD Naganami DD Kagero DD Isokaze Allied Ships PT PT-259 PT PT-260 PT PT-261 PT PT-262 PT PT-263 PT PT-277, Shell hits 1, and is sunk PT PT-279 PT PT-280 PT PT-281, Shell hits 3, and is sunk PT PT-282 All right. 5 more PTs are down and 16 more are confirmed to remain, while there is probably one more 10 PTs TF I haven´t fought with. At least according to my recon planes.. So far one modern DD is sunk (Oyashio went down today..) and another one out of action for a few weeks. Tanaka is heading back to Amboina to rearm and refuel. *As I said I have to improvise a bit so we will make a short tour back to Europe to check what happened there so far:* [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/history_1.jpg[/image] Timoeka is being suppressed. No more CAP. Good! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Timoeka , at 45,81 Japanese aircraft J2M Jack x 33 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 49 Ki-21 Sally x 22 Allied aircraft no flights No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 38 casualties reported Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 8 Our surprise attack on Merauke worked well. Only a handfull of 2nd rate Kittyhawks on CAP and my crack bombers hit the AF hard. Unfortunatelly it was nearly empty as 120 fighters were all flying LR CAP above allied CVs. Only a handfull of them was cought on ground.. [:@][:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Merauke , at 47,87 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 25 A6M3 Zero x 3 J1N1-S Irving x 26 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 26 Ki-21 Sally x 89 Ki-49 Helen x 69 Ki-46-III Dinah x 6 Allied aircraft Kittyhawk I x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21 Sally: 3 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 11 destroyed P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed P-47C Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed Empire: 1 destroyed F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 325 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 19 Airbase supply hits 13 Runway hits 101 At least PjH now knows he is not safe here and has to dedicate some of them to defend their own base instead of his ships. And I was happy with the nigh fighters perfomance. 8 Kittyhawks was downed by J1N1-S Irving with no loss![&o] And back to Europe..[;)] [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/history_2.jpg[/image] All right. The situation is not bad. US CVs are not moving and are still where they were 2 days ago with full CAP supported by LRCAP from nearby bases which is already pretty fatiqued I suppose (6 Corsairs were lost to ops today[:D]). KB is complete with its 5th division just arrived (about 950 planes total!) and strong surface combat TF made of Yamato, Mucashi, Nagato and Mutsu, while invasion TF with 650 AV aboard is 2 days away from Timoeka. I have withdraw my bombers from Lae after their "unsuccesfull" mission against Mearuke and dispersed them all around. A few 90xp groups are set to 100ft naval attack in Biak and Hollandia to deal with PTs defending Timoeka. It is going to be interested soon.. *Meanwhile US troops learns on our allies how to make a real landings: [;)]* [image]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj119/xcincila/history_3.jpg[/image]

el cid again -> RE: Rising Sun or Sunset? - Jumper vs Panzerjaeger Hortlund (7/4/2008 10:06:59 AM)
you also forgot to mention what scenario you are playing?

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