castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/4/2009 5:30:52 PM)
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Today has seen the biggest joke since the beginning of the war... mines... no comment anymore... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/18/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 27 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Japanese Ships DD Asagumo, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CA Tone, Mine hits 1 DD Kasumi, Mine hits 1, on fire [sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 47 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Japanese Ships DD Fubuki, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 51 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85) Japanese Ships DD Oshio, Mine hits 3, on fire, heavy damage CA Ashigara, Mine hits 1, on fire [sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 91 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86) Japanese Ships DD Hamakaze, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage DD Hakaze, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif][sm=crazy.gif] today we lose 6!! DDs to mines. All confirmed sunk. Either immediately due to mines or finished off by LBA. What does that smiley mean? [sm=crazy.gif] Ah.. stupid... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1048 encounters mine field at Tongatapu Island (94,114) Allied Ships DMS Elliot DMS Wasmuth DMS Lamberton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After the mine stupidity then followed the shock of the day! The enemy is NOT going to invade Thursday Island! Miller is sending his carriers towards Northern Australia!!!!! [X(][X(][X(] Now this means major trouble. We have immediately started to retransfer all my aircraft back into the Timor area to fly massive attacks on the enemy carrier TFs. I guess this is a resupply mission for Wyndham, canīt think about anything else. We have spotted a dozen TFs already, they are divided in two hexes. Pretty sure this is due to the carrier based stacking limit of 450 ac. This means there is a mega armada coming North with some 900 ac, a dozen BBs at least, cruisers, dozens of DD, a spotted TK TF (probably AOs) but we havenīt spotted AKs so far. Most of the ships are identified as CAs but I guess those should be the AKs... This will be our decisive battle it seems. We will have the chance to sink a hell a lot of Allied combat ships but we will also lose hundreds of ac, probably some BBs and CVs of course also. Thereīs no doubt that if Miller wants to press this resupply mission through to Wyndham he can do it as the AKs surely will be the last ships that will be attacked. The only question will be at what cost in combat ships for him - and for us... [;)] As soon as the supply convoys made it to Wyndham, our try to take out all of Northern Australia will have failed. No chance to achieve something against the 3000 Allied av at Wyndham if they get 100.000 supplies. We will see, at the moment Iīm quite excited... Sub attack at 49,91 Japanese Ships SS I-1, hits 2 Allied Ships CV Lexington DD Downes DD Cassin DD Tucker DD Flusser Luck was on Lexingtons side, torps missed... [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 49,91 Japanese Ships SS I-1, hits 9, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Wilson DD Sterett DD Stack DD Lang DD Ellet DD Benham DD Morris DD Walke DD O'Brien DD Russell DD Mustin CL Boise CL Nashville CLAA Atlanta CV Yorktown CA Minneapolis CA New Orleans BB South Dakota as you can see, the enemy is using one CV TFs. This means we surely wonīt see a lot of CVs being knocked out but if a good number of my bombers would make it through Cap then the carrier will be toast for sure, probably the escorting modern BB also. I usually prefer to have a couple of my own carriers damaged than one sunk but Miller obviously thinks different about that. What also would be great if his carriers would get separated. What would be a major disaster would be all his carriers reacting into the same hex, we would then have a mega stacked hex with 900 carrier based ac and 400+ fighters on Cap. But that is something we can not influence so if it happens, it will be bad luck for me and luck for Miller. No matter what will happen, itīs the best thing that can happen to us at this stage of the war. All our daitais are experts and the enemy is still flying Wildcats instead of Hellcats. If we canīt do major damage now, we canīt do it even less in half a year and if we knock out a couple of carriers now, then this will delay the enemy for months. Well, a couple would probably not enough, it would be more like 4 or 5. Ah yes, the crappy Allied ASW immedieately sunk my sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Derby at 24,85 Japanese Ships CA Suzuya CA Kumano CA Aoba DD Yugiri DD Kisaragi DD Yayoi DD Kikuzuki DD Mikazuki DD Yuzuki Allied Ships LCT LCT-61, Shell hits 2, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CA Furutaka CA Takao CA Chikuma CA Tone Allied ground losses: 403 casualties reported Guns lost 10 Vehicles lost 1 Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 4 Port hits 4 Port supply hits 2 [&o][&o][&o] nuke! nuke! nuke! [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85 Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses SBD Dauntless: 2 destroyed F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships CA Mikuma CA Nachi CA Myoko Allied ground losses: 266 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 3 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Port hits 12 Port supply hits 5 [&o][&o][&o] nuke! nuke! nuke! [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85 Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses Catalina I: 1 destroyed Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships CA Haguro CA Chokai CA Maya Allied ground losses: 144 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 2 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 22 Port hits 6 Port supply hits 4 [&o][&o][&o] nuke! nuke! nuke! [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85 Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed Boomerang II: 1 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 2 destroyed F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Liberator VI: 1 destroyed Hurricane IIc: 1 destroyed B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed Beaufort I: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships CL Abukuma CL Isuzu CL Nagara CA Ashigara, on fire CA Atago Allied ground losses: 150 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 29 Port hits 2 Port supply hits 10 [&o][&o][&o] nuke! nuke! nuke! [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86 Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses Boomerang II: 1 destroyed P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed C-47 Dakota: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships BB Fuso BB Mutsu BB Nagato Allied ground losses: 1319 casualties reported Guns lost 7 Vehicles lost 1 Runway hits 7 Port hits 3 Port fuel hits 5 Port supply hits 2 [&o][&o][&o] nuke! nuke! nuke! [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85 Japanese Ships CA Aoba CA Kumano CA Suzuya Allied ground losses: 68 casualties reported [8|][8|][8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 25,83 Japanese Ships CA Haguro DD Shirakumo DD Ikazuchi DD Hatsushima DD Nenohi DD Hatsuharu Allied Ships SS Peto torps missed, weīre lucky too today... no surprise the enemy sub has to fear nothing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Thursday Island at 49,90 Japanese Ships SS I-153, hits 4, on fire Allied Ships DD Downes DD Cassin DD Tucker DD Flusser DD Reid DD Preston and another heavily damaged IJN sub... trying to make Rabaul after one hit and three near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 34,84 Japanese Ships BB Nagato DD Akikaze DD Murasame DD Kuroshio Allied Ships SS Haddo also Haddo missed, this is three hexes West of Darwin. I would take those torp hits on a BB and a CA if our sub wouldnīt have missed Lexington... our escorts are useles... there were six of them, only three show up... [8|] that was this turns naval action. For nearly no result we have lost 6 DDs to mines today, 2 CAs damaged from mine hits and enemy subs fired torps on a CA and a BB... what a great day... [8|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 33 No Japanese losses Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 30 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 A6M3a Zero x 49 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 78 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Thursday Island , at 49,90 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 2 TBF Avenger x 27 OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 2 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x TBF Avenger bombing at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Broome , at 21,85 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 134 G3M Nell x 36 G4M1 Betty x 81 Ki-46-III Dinah x 5 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 2 Boomerang II x 2 Spitfire Vb x 9 Kittyhawk I x 23 Hurricane IIc x 1 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 7 destroyed, 15 damaged G3M Nell: 13 damaged G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 18 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Boomerang II: 2 destroyed Spitfire Vb: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged Kittyhawk I: 28 destroyed Hurricane IIc: 3 destroyed Liberator VI: 1 destroyed B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed PBY Catalina: 2 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 5 destroyed Catalina I: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Airbase hits 14 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 114 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet after a dozen CAs doing a bombardment with pathetic results and another 114 runway hits, the airfield is still operational. Nearly impossible for the Japanese to knock out a level 8 airfield. I need 4Es too... My high exp Zeros still rule the air, this will change immediately when we will meet Corsairs and Thunderbolts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 23,84 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 2 SBD Dauntless x 17 Boomerang II x 3 Spitfire Vb x 8 Kittyhawk I x 27 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Asagumo, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 6 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet one of the DDs that hit a mine... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 22,84 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 16 Hurricane IIc x 3 Allied aircraft losses SBD Dauntless: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Fubuki, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet and another one that hit a mine... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 31,85 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 13 Boomerang II x 5 Kittyhawk I x 16 Beaufort I x 7 P-40E Warhawk x 26 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Hakaze, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet and another one... see! 6 DDs sunk... all due to mine hits... s t u p i d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 47,90 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 24 A6M3a Zero x 17 G3M Nell x 3 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 89 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 86 FM-2 Wildcat x 77 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged A6M3a Zero: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged G3M Nell: 3 damaged Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 37 destroyed, 15 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 36 destroyed, 14 damaged FM-2 Wildcat: 21 destroyed, 35 damaged Allied Ships BB North Carolina Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet like Iīve mentioned after last turn, many things could go wrong today and they did go wrong. Needless to say what I think about losing two dozen DDs to mines in Northern Australia alreday, of course also the weather sabotated us this turn. The other base was clouded the whole day, this one launched a strike in the afternoon. Looks like against the hex with US fleet carriers and CVEs. 57 acs knocked down, another 59 damaged. Means the CVs in this hex wonīt have more than 100 fighters on Cap tomorrow, but then they will be out of strike range already. But it makes me confident that my land based fighters can knock down the Cap and then my carriers will strike. The three Nells missed North Carolina... [image]local://upfiles/13774/CCEB4D81E44D48D3BE817A1D33AFAC64.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15759 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1868 Defending force 262795 troops, 1315 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6154 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22698 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2820 Defending force 180781 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5171 Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 52240 troops, 608 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1670 Defending force 54771 troops, 746 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1352 Allied ground losses: 75 casualties reported Guns lost 3 two more Allied divisions are spotted moving towards this hex... then there will be six! Allied divs 4 hexes South of Darwin... There will be something like 20 Allied divs in Northern Australia and Darwin... quite a force... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 8250 troops, 278 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3903 Defending force 132042 troops, 980 guns, 354 vehicles, Assault Value = 2991 Allied ground losses: 415 casualties reported Guns lost 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Derby Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 12011 troops, 68 guns, 548 vehicles, Assault Value = 1857 Defending force 37644 troops, 216 guns, 109 vehicles, Assault Value = 752 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pago Pago Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 28647 troops, 436 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 203 Defending force 1633 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8 Japanese ground losses: 174 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 14238 troops, 193 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1350 Defending force 75114 troops, 860 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 1670 Japanese ground losses: 65 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 1
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