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castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/5/2009 6:29:05 PM)
Screenshot of the situation at the moment. The enemy carriers have been spotted in these hexes for the second day in a row. Don´t know what Miller is up to, perhaps he´s been refulling or trying to get more of his damaged fighters to be repaired. He stays in Betty torp range, but outside of escort range, so I surely won´t send in the bombers... The question will really be if he will head North (where nearly all my LBA was transferred again) or if he will retire. [image]local://upfiles/13774/843A9B14EA824A5E85139E2F330939DB.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/5/2009 6:41:08 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/21/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Derby at 24,85 Japanese Ships AG AG-357, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Truant also moved some 50 barges with supplies to Derby (which makes up for some 1500 supplies) and only one is lost to a deck gun hit from the Brit sub. The barges have been refulled twice by my ships going there, I´m not using them without having fuel. They came from and will head back to Koepang (8 hexes) and will also be refulled by my ships on their way home. Miller doesn´t realize how important it is to kill of the supply carrying vessels going to Derby... All he would have to do is set everything at Derby to nav attack (1 hex) and Broome (3 hexes). This would then result in attacks on only the ships at Derby, even if I would have left KB in the area, which I haven´t after the losses yesterday... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 32 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 7 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 37 No Japanese losses Runway hits 42 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 80 J1N1-R Irving x 5 Ki-49 Helen x 166 Ki-46-II Dinah x 3 Allied aircraft F4F-3 Wildcat x 1 F4F-4 Wildcat x 5 Boomerang II x 6 Spitfire Vb x 5 Kittyhawk I x 10 P-40E Warhawk x 7 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 9 destroyed, 16 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 4 destroyed Boomerang II: 4 destroyed Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Kittyhawk I: 7 destroyed P-40E Warhawk: 10 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed Swordfish: 9 destroyed Beaufort I: 4 destroyed Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Airbase hits 19 Runway hits 113 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet land based Zeros and some coming from mini KB escort an IJAAF medium bomber strike to Derby. The Zeros do their job and the bombers achieve a nice hit rate. BUT, the airfield is still not knocked out! Unbelievable after more than 200 hits in two days! [X(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107 Allied aircraft TBF Avenger x 48 Kittyhawk I x 29 P-40E Warhawk x 27 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged Kittyhawk I: 2 damaged Runway hits 49 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Derby Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 55735 troops, 146 guns, 3077 vehicles, Assault Value = 1796 Defending force 37622 troops, 259 guns, 97 vehicles, Assault Value = 801 Japanese max assault: 3022 - adjusted assault: 2012 Allied max defense: 681 - adjusted defense: 701 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 6) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 4 Japanese ground losses: 1470 casualties reported Guns lost 9 Vehicles lost 96 Allied ground losses: 901 casualties reported Guns lost 19 Vehicles lost 7 we´re close to 3:1. Another 2 forts knocked down, the tanks have already received supply for another two attacks, the AKs keep unloading unharmed. [:)] At the moment, I´m 90% sure to finally take the base, this would be a milestone. But Miller can still fly in 5000 troops in one day from Wyndham but has obviously stopped doing that. Taking Derby and Broome would make life in Northern Australia far more easy to me. With the enemy carriers coming North (at least I guess they will come North) and the enemy at Wyndham being (probably) resupplied, this means we won´t be able to take Wyndham. I don´t see a chance to do so. But if we own Darwin, Derby and Broome, I guess I will be able to do an organized evacuation from Northern Australia without suffering that many losses as soon as I have to do so. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15820 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867 Defending force 266318 troops, 1368 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6271 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22640 troops, 264 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2823 Defending force 180891 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5161 Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 52493 troops, 612 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 2073 Defending force 82881 troops, 968 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2046 Allied ground losses: 122 casualties reported Guns lost 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 8335 troops, 280 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4173 Defending force 134825 troops, 986 guns, 356 vehicles, Assault Value = 2971 Allied ground losses: 175 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 14065 troops, 188 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2037 Defending force 95808 troops, 1021 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 2073 Japanese ground losses: 37 casualties reported Guns lost 2 here´s a current intel screenshot... [image]local://upfiles/13774/A484BA3D67AE4B349C0C15C34A7FEE39.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/5/2009 7:32:45 PM)
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! Enemy CVs approaching Darwin! [X(] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/22/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Derby at 24,85 Japanese Ships AK Hokuzyu Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Truant Truant kills one of my AKs at Derby today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 26,83 Japanese Ships CL Tenryu DD Ikazuchi DD Shirakumo DD Uranami Allied Ships LCT LCT-58, Shell hits 8, and is sunk LCT LCT-59, Shell hits 11, and is sunk LCT LCT-60, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage LCT LCT-62, Shell hits 22, and is sunk LCT LCT-63 LCT LCT-64, Shell hits 7, and is sunk LCT LCT-66 LCT LCT-67, Shell hits 10, and is sunk LCT LCT-128 LCT LCT-129 LCT LCT-130 LCT LCT-131 LCT LCT-132 LCT LCT-133 LCT LCT-134 LCT LCT-135 LCT LCT-136 LCT LCT-137 LCT LCT-138, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage LCT LCT-139 LCT LCT-140 LCT LCT-141 LCT LCT-142 LCT LCT-143 LCT LCT-144 LCT LCT-145 LCT LCT-146 LCT LCT-147 LCT LCT-148 LCT LCT-149 LCT LCT-150 LCT LCT-155 LCT LCT-156 LCT LCT-159 a small surface combat TF was sent to intercept an Allied barge convoy going West from Wyndham. Thought it would carry troops that were evacuated from Wyndham but unfortunately I guess it was bringing supplies to Wyndham and is now returning empty... Killing 7 barges isn´t worth the fuel my TF spent... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Derby at 24,85 Japanese Ships AK Raizan Maru, Shell hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Grunion another AK is history, still keeps unloading the 500 supplies aboard though. The dozen AKs that were sent to Derby were all on a kamikaze mission, if none will survive then it will only happen as expected. They unloaded far more supplies already than expected anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 32 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 8 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47 Ki-49 Helen x 3 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 42 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 55 Hurricane IIb x 16 P-36A Mohawk x 51 P-40B Tomahawk x 5 Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 4 damaged Hurricane IIb: 3 destroyed, 7 damaged P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged P-40B Tomahawk: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 23 casualties reported Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107 Allied aircraft TBF Avenger x 33 Kittyhawk I x 30 P-40E Warhawk x 30 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 3 damaged Kittyhawk I: 2 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 41,86 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 18 A6M3a Zero x 42 G4M1 Betty x 24 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 15 Allied aircraft Seafire x 59 [X(] Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed, 5 damaged A6M3a Zero: 4 destroyed, 10 damaged G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 16 damaged Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 10 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 23 destroyed, 13 damaged Allied Ships BB Revenge, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage BB Royal Sovereign BB Ramilles Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet the enemy TFs made a full speed run towards Darwin. Just last turn did I ask Paul if he´s too scared to move his CVs North and I´m expecting him to retire anyway. Well, he moved them in today and it seems they got pretty much separated. Nevertheless, we only launch one strike from New Guinea today as all other strike bases were clouded in (as was Noemfor in the morning where this strike came from). And unfortunately our strike goes in against a BB surface combat group. God damn! [:@] I was more than amazed to see only 59 Seafires on Cap and my bombers got through without much problem to put three torps into BB Revenge. We actually hit it four times but one torp was a dud. [:(] We nearly trade one of our escorts for one of the Cap fighters with the kill ratio slightly in our favour, which is excellent. Oh what would I have given for this attack going in against the Brit carriers and hitting one of the armored CVs with 3 torps. Three torps on an Allied BB is far from enough to be 100% sure that it will sink, even though it will have 15 hexes to Derby (a level 5 port). We will see if it will be attacked on the way there or if it will head South to Townsville which would be a bigger distance and we could hit it again out of Lae with long range torp bombers. More important than the hits on this BB is the fact that the enemy Cap again lost two dozen fighters with another dozen damaged. We will see what will happen the next turns, in any case it will be frightening, either for both of us or one of us will prevail... The situation is as follows: we have moved in hundreds of Zeros and Oscar IIs to fly escort for our Betties/Nells. They are stationed on several bases on New Guinea and Timor. Darwin received 380 Tojos to fly Cap there 18 float planes will fly nav search, we have 7 BBs and escorts there to cover the base against naval bombardments which Miller surely has planned as he used 25!!! Kingfishers to fly recon over the base. [8\|] 23 were shot down!!! [:@] Adm Tanaka is leading the BBs in a TF grouped around BB Yamato and Musashi. High exp admirals are in command of two more BB TFs (one with two Nagato class BBs and one with two Fusos and BB Ise). And we have moved in one of our "secret weapons". A TF of 5 Yugumo class destroyers was split off mini KB and moved at full speed to Darwin. The radar equipped DDs are tasked to spot expected bomber strikes from the enemy carriers early enough to enable our IJAAF fighters to scramble and intercept the enemy in big numbers. KB was in position North of Wyndham today so Miller could mean I would send it towards his carriers tomorrow but that would be suicide, KB will retire full speed to Koepang tomorrow. The plan is still the same as it always was, wearing down the enemy carriers (means their fighters to be more precise) and hit some of them with torp bombers. If we then see a good chance for KB to do real damage without having to fear to lose a couple of carriers also, then KB will join the party. As the enemy will be in strike range to Darwin tomorrow I expect them to launch massive bomber strikes with small numbers of escorts against my BBs at Darwin. Most of his fighters will probably fly Cap over the carriers to cover them against my LBA. Hopefully we will get a good number of Tojos into the air, without the Yugumos at Darwin we had a Cap of something like 160-180, which is not even 50% as usual. [>:] If the enemy bombers will come in without enough escorts then my Tojos will shred them, means the offensive capability of the enemy carriers will look pretty much different the day after. I don´t expect to stop the bombers though, this is Nikmod afterall. The only thing that can really hurt my BBs are torp bombers of course, while US CVs don´t carry really a lot of them, unfortunately Miller is going in with something like 4 Brit carriers also, means we will face something like 80 additional torp bombers with fully functional torps, which doesn´t make the situation any better. His BBs aren´t in a position already to move in to Darwin at night, so I don´t expect a naval engagement tomorrow. I do expect to see my BBs hit by several torps though. Darwin is a level 6 port and we have moved in a nav HQ (which brings the port to level 8), this means that the enemy has to achieve probably something like 4 or 5 torp hits on a BB to immediately sink it. With three torp hits I guess my BBs would have a fair chance to survive if being disbanded into port if not suffering further hits. As there are three BB TFs at Darwin all we can do is to hope to see more than one coordinated strike on one BB TF as five or six dozen torp bombers attacking only two BBs in a TF could mean both of them being lost after one strike. We have to take the risk, this is our chance to do serious damage. In three months, the first Hellcats will leave factory, everything will become worse then. The enemy has a level 5 port at Wyndham, but surely no naval HQ. But a level 5 port can be enough to save heavily damaged ships with the superior Allied damage control. NOW is the time to strike! And the enemy gives us the best chance we can get, striking from several bases with LBA and with our carriers afterwards. BANZAI! [sm=character0169.gif] [image]local://upfiles/13774/836A16F747F24C548958469C4BBF0948.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Derby Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 54706 troops, 138 guns, 3004 vehicles, Assault Value = 1709 Defending force 36145 troops, 242 guns, 85 vehicles, Assault Value = 742 Japanese max assault: 2754 - adjusted assault: 1182 Allied max defense: 686 - adjusted defense: 473 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 4) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Japanese ground losses: 950 casualties reported Guns lost 8 Vehicles lost 49 Allied ground losses: 1897 casualties reported Guns lost 15 Vehicles lost 12 while our adjusted av doesn´t look that good, it seems obvious that we will soon take the base. I expect it to fall after another two attacks. We already have enough supply for at least 5 more attacks as Miller failed to knock out our resupply attempt. Wouldn´t have been hard to kill those 12 AKs at all... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15812 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1865 Defending force 267823 troops, 1400 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6307 Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported looks like the enemy received a small unit as reinforcement here at Chungking as the av went up today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22655 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2825 Defending force 180521 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5150 Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 52568 troops, 612 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 2076 Defending force 82932 troops, 962 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2043 Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Guns lost 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 8339 troops, 282 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4243 Defending force 135807 troops, 1004 guns, 355 vehicles, Assault Value = 2983 Allied ground losses: 224 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Vehicles lost 2 there´s still enough supply at Wyndham to see the Allied av and troop strenght growing every turn... not good... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 14163 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2041 Defending force 95849 troops, 1020 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 2076 Japanese ground losses: 40 casualties reported Guns lost 1

bigbaba -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 4:29:48 PM)
whats up chris?i miss the daily victory proclamation from the imperial HQ! what happend with millers carriers? if you win this battle too, what can stop you until the end of the game? i mean nothing.

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 6:46:28 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bigbaba whats up chris?i miss the daily victory proclamation from the imperial HQ! what happend with millers carriers? if you win this battle too, what can stop you until the end of the game? i mean nothing. what´s up? [:D] well, doing a turn takes me 5 hours at the moment, guess 2,5 hours is the replay alone (Nikmod takes forever...), not to talk about the thinking I spend to give orders, checking everything ten times, looking at every daitai, every ship, every detail... and of course there´s the work on the AAR, taking screenshots, using paint.net... etc... and don´t forget the gf! I spent the whole evening with her yesterday but was able to do a looong turn on Sunday, update will follow now... even if I would sink EVERY Allied carrier on the map now, there is nothing that can stop the ALLIED. I started the war, I´ve lost it... been like this in real life, it´s like this in the game. You can´t "beat" the Allied, they just get too much material...

Q-Ball -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 6:59:13 PM)
The United States Navy didn't solve it's problems. It overwhelmed them.

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 7:07:02 PM)
Have to do the next updates in bits and pieces as I don´t know how to post more than one screenshot in one of the posts, so here we go... I don´t want to take away the whole surprise but with the recent developments you can imagine the next turns will see MASSIVE engagements.! AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/23/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 34,83 Japanese Ships SS I-158 Allied Ships DD Cushing DD Downes this attack on my sub alerted me as this means the Allied TFs again did a full speed run... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 65 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 31 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 8 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47 Ki-49 Helen x 3 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 52 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 50 Hurricane IIb x 9 P-36A Mohawk x 43 P-40B Tomahawk x 7 P-40E Warhawk x 3 Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 6 damaged Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged P-40B Tomahawk: 2 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107 Allied aircraft TBF Avenger x 32 Kittyhawk I x 22 P-40E Warhawk x 28 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 3 damaged Kittyhawk I: 1 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet so far, nothing but training runs and a HELL A LOT spottings of enemy TFs around Darwin... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here we go! Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84 [:)] [image]local://upfiles/13774/8291EDEE2D334C65AA9DB8DFB049CC27.jpg[/image] Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 295 [X(][:)][:)] Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 52 FM-2 Wildcat x 64 SBD Dauntless x 72 TBF Avenger x 33 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 32 destroyed, 59 damaged [:D] Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 42 destroyed [:D] FM-2 Wildcat: 59 destroyed [:D] SBD Dauntless: 38 destroyed [:D] TBF Avenger: 22 destroyed [:D] Japanese Ships BB Yamato, Bomb hits 5, on fire [8D] BB Musashi Aircraft Attacking: 6 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet 1 x TBF Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet so what? Seems like our plan is working just perfectly? As mentioned in the last post, we have positioned 7 of our BBs in three different TFs at Darwin to attract enemy strikes and to guard Darwin against enemy naval bombardments. It was amazing enough for me to see Miller NOT sending in his BBs (the British ones that know how to fight at night) to knock out some of my BBs and to try to do a bombardment. Miller knew I have the BBs there but I guess spotting more than just one or two scared him. Excellent! And what´s the best thing that happens? We nearly get 300 high exp Tojos into the air engaging the incoming strike from the US carriers that moved full speed to a position NW of Darwin. I guess Miller meant to catch KB that he probably expected to move to the Darwin area, but KB retired to Koepang on Western Timor. [:D] As you can see the rest of the enemy armada stayed East of Darwin as all the TFs with the merchants can´t move fast enough. The British carriers together with the US CVEs seem to cover the enemy BB TFs and the rest of the convoys. Can´t be any better, the Brit CVs are clouded in the morning, two strikes back to back on my Cap would mean serious trouble. Our radar equipped Yugumos spot the imcoming strike early enough and our Tojos scramble in big numbers from the level 8 airfield of Darwin, meeting the incoming strike from superior position and bouncing the enemy! BANZAI! The enemy fighters were shot down in dozens during our bounce phase, once again it´s unbelievable to see how powerful the bounce is in the game (too powerful). While I doubt that the FM-2s are flown by really high exp USN pilots, the F4F-4s should all have very experienced pilots. But being bounced for quite some time and on escort mission makes them easy targets and the IJAAF pilots score kill after kill. After watching the engagment for an hour, nearly all enemy fighters were shot down and we still had more than 250 fighters left, screaming at the enemy bombers now. As you know, the SBDs can´t hurt our BBs but I somewhat feared the TBFs. Many of them were shot down but in the end over a dozen TBFs came in low to drop their torps (all on Yamato) but all missed! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI! The day starts off with a nice aerial victory over the US carrier TFs. We have spotted squadrons from at least 5 US carriers in this attack. Losing a hundred fighters means the US carriers are more or less helpless now! [sm=00000003.gif] I just can´t believe that Miller really did this! You can´t go in against several bases with lots of LBA and KB in the area and keep your CAP level so low just because you think you could hit KB with a full strike (this strike on KB would have cost me several carriers I guess). But KB wasn´t there, so the strike went in against my BBs under 300 high exp Tojos. BANZAI!

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 7:19:13 PM)
Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 10 Swordfish x 3 TBF Avenger x 3 Beaufort I x 18 B-25C Mitchell x 41 B-25J Mitchell x 11 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Huzikawa Maru, Bomb hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Hokutai Maru, Torpedo hits 1 AK Hitati Maru, Bomb hits 10, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Holland Maru, Bomb hits 1 AK Hokuroku Maru, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet 3 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet then my AKs around Derby were once again target of Allied LBA... but it´s too late now Paul! My convoys had enough time to unload most of their supplies, the Allied now need a wonder to hold Derby against my tanks... [:)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85 Allied aircraft Boomerang II x 16 Wellington III x 49 P-38G Lightning x 29 B-25C Mitchell x 58 B-25J Mitchell x 25 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Hokutai Maru, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage AK Holland Maru, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet 4 x Wellington III bombing at 5000 feet situation now is as expected, none of my AKs will return to Timor I guess... well, perhaps one or two heavily damaged if they are lucky... but other than expected, they delivered enough supplies for at least a dozen attacks with my tank units. I expected the two convoys to be sunk after two turns at the latest and only if the first turn when they arrive sees bad weather over Derby and Broome... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 34,83 [sm=character0169.gif] [image]local://upfiles/13774/4DF897BED4154CFBBF7F327A10B625E8.jpg[/image] Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 107 G3M Nell x 33 G4M1 Betty x 29 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 13 [X(][X(][X(] FM-2 Wildcat x 15 [X(][X(][X(] Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged G3M Nell: 4 destroyed, 25 damaged G4M1 Betty: 9 destroyed, 11 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 7 destroyed FM-2 Wildcat: 5 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied Ships CV Lexington, Torpedo hits 3, on fire CV Essex, Torpedo hits 3, on fire BB Washington BB North Carolina CLAA San Diego Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Could someone enlighten me what my opponent is thinking? Holy crap, what percentage of Cap did he set? 10% 20%? But hey, it seems he still doesn´t get punished for doing it like this. Paul stated in his email after this turn that my Betties really missed a lot and I can only confirm that. Hit rate of my really high exp bombers was miserable. And as you can see, 3 IJN torps on a US CV means obviously nothing... CV Lexington even suffered a follow on ammo storage explosion, doesn´t mean the damned ship would be heavily damaged though. Months ago, Lexington already took three torps when the enemy tried to engage my LBA near Canton Island (where he lost two fleet CVs). At this point I was pretty confident that it would turn out to be a bloody affair for the Allied to move the fleet into this region. It´s like I´ve mentioned it earlier a couple of times. This is a region I would throw in the kitchen sink immediately. Not blind in anger, but still the kitchen sink... Hopefully the enemy flight decks are closed... still can´t believe there are only 28 fighters on Cap...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 7:35:56 PM)
Day Air attack on TF at 34,83 [sm=character0169.gif] Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 3 G4M1 Betty x 18 Allied aircraft FM-2 Wildcat x 2 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 2 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 10 damaged Allied Ships CV Yorktown CV Hornet BB South Dakota, Torpedo hits 2, on fire CA Astoria Aircraft Attacking: 1 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet we launch another strike from Dili and even though it is an unescorted one, there´s nothing to fear, only two crappy FM-2 are left to fly Cap. This time we attack the TF with Yorktown and Hornet, the carriers are both missed but two torps slam into the modern BB South Dakota... and do nearly no damage it seems... I can already say that flakfire of the enemy TFs is murderous, there´s not much left that could fly tomorrow... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84 [sm=00000003.gif] [image]local://upfiles/13774/2391D977B92C4DE2AFDD413DB950EF7E.jpg[/image] Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 276 [:)] Allied aircraft Seafire x 13 F4F-4 Wildcat x 49 SBD Dauntless x 16 TBF Avenger x 14 Avenger I x 74 [X(][X(][:(] Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 10 destroyed, 17 damaged Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 13 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 49 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 11 destroyed TBF Avenger: 14 destroyed Avenger I: 30 destroyed, 14 damaged this is the afternoon phase and now the British CVs and the US CVEs moved out of a bad weather front and launched a massive strike against my BBs at Darwin. Seeing this strike I was already sure I would lose either two BBs or three. Two, if this strike attacks one of the two two BB TFs, three if the three BB TF is attacked. Even though we suffered losses during the morning engagment with the Wildcats from the US CVs, we get an impressive number of Tojos into the air again. This must be something like 90-100% of the undamaged fighters at Darwin. Looks like my 5 Yugumos at Darwin made my day! The enemy is again bounced and this time we achieve an even better kill ratio against the enemy fighters. But you may not forget that those Wildcats are coming from US CVEs and probably don´t have a high enough exp to be a real match for the high exp IJAAF pilots flying those Tojos (actually I have my best Tojo sentais here). But still, seeing one enemy fighter after another going down in flames, I still was sure that a hell a lot of those British torp bombers would make it through my Cap to sink one of my BB TFs. British carrier based torp bombers are a real pain, those Avengers with working torps are far more dangerous than Kates as the Avenger has the same range, also a working torp but is far more durable than the Kate and therefor more will resist your Cap and flak. As soon as A L L of the enemy fighters were shot down for the loss of a ridicoulosly low number of Tojos, our fighters dove down on the incoming bombers that were mostly carrying a heavy torpedo, making them easy to hit targets. Nevertheless, it wasn´t that easy to actually take them down. But we still nearly had 250 Tojos that could knock down a good number of bombers (one of my fighter sentais turned back due to low morale, otherwise there would have been even more Tojos attacking the bomber formations). And then the absolutely unexpected happened! The British bomber squadrons started to turn back due to low morale! Holy god, what is happening here? How can they have low morale? They haven´t seen combat for months! This really made my day as the enemy started to turn back in the dozens and while I couldn´t believe my eyes, in the end, not a single bombers made an attack run on my BBs cruising around near Darwin! This means the enemy has lost nearly all of his fighters on all of his carriers already, I guess at this stage all the enemy carriers NW and E of Darwin have something like 50-75 operational fighters left. Don´t forget that we took dozens down near Thursday Island a week ago already. It really seems to turn out into a chance to achieve a totally unexpected and stunning victory! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI! [sm=character0169.gif]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 8:00:48 PM)
Day Air attack on TF at 24,83 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 7 Beaufort I x 10 B-25C Mitchell x 36 B-25J Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Akashi Maru, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Tokuwa Maru, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Ryuzan Maru, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Boko Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet more attacks on my AKs near Derby... this means nothing anymore... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 24,83 Allied aircraft SBD Dauntless x 7 Beaufort I x 10 B-25C Mitchell x 36 B-25J Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Akashi Maru, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Tokuwa Maru, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Ryuzan Maru, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Boko Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet 4 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet also the second TF is again targeted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 39,85 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Allied aircraft Seafire x 6 F4F-4 Wildcat x 27 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 6 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 1 damaged F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged we launch a ridicoulos strike from Northern New Guinea. This was when Miller was lucky, the big escorted strike against this hex was totally missing the target... This could have been the end of one or two CVs already, had nearly 100 Betties/Nells at the base this strike was coming from (and all were flying, saw very high fatigue next turn within all my daitais). [:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 39,85 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Allied aircraft Seafire x 6 F4F-4 Wildcat x 27 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 damaged the Betties sacrifieced themselve... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 34,83 Japanese Ships SS I-158 Allied Ships DD Cushing there would surely be better targets in this hex than a modern US DD... we were lucky the sub didn´t get sunk. Only one DD, could mean this is the single escort of either one of the two damaged US CVs or of BB South Dakota... what a pity... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 34,83 Japanese Ships SS I-158 Allied Ships DD Downes DD Cassin DD Tucker DD Flusser DD Reid DD Preston then we probably met an ASW TF... amazing to see my sub still alive... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack at 34,83 Japanese Ships SS I-158 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 CA Astoria wow, I-158 is either really lucky or the skipper really knows what to do... 11 modern US CVs is freightening to see when I have a sub in the same hex... I´m operating a little more than half a dozen subs in the area, no matter if I lose them or not, a torp hit from a sub on an enemy damaged capital ship could be the difference between the ship being sunk or saved... but my subs are in real danger of being sunk in this area, but I´ll take that risk. Couldn´t move in more subs in this short period of time, more than a dozen SS were operating North of Perth when I realized the enemy is coming North via Thursday Island... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Derby Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 54127 troops, 132 guns, 2974 vehicles, Assault Value = 1673 Defending force 33982 troops, 224 guns, 74 vehicles, Assault Value = 701 Japanese max assault: 2704 - adjusted assault: 1327 Allied max defense: 672 - adjusted defense: 592 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 [8D] Japanese ground losses: 729 casualties reported Guns lost 9 Vehicles lost 41 Allied ground losses: 1565 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 18 Bet Derby will fall tomorrow! Banzai! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15841 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866 Defending force 269659 troops, 1423 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6358 Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22707 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2825 Defending force 179963 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5131 Allied ground losses: 24 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 52777 troops, 616 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2088 Defending force 83119 troops, 959 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2045 Allied ground losses: 68 casualties reported Guns lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 8329 troops, 283 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4307 Defending force 136758 troops, 1015 guns, 355 vehicles, Assault Value = 2983 Allied ground losses: 329 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Vehicles lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 14293 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2042 Defending force 96122 troops, 1023 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 2088 Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Guns lost 1 and here´s the screenshot after the combat replay was over. The US CVs sitting West of Darwin, the Brit CVs sitting East of it, covering merchant convoys and some BBs. You may have noticed that we haven´t really been lucky with the numbers of strikes we were flying against the enemy carriers. Strikes either didn´t launch due to bad weather or they also missed the target. But nevertheless, the losses of the Allied carriers (especially fighters) were severe. AND THIS MEANS NOW IS THE TIME TO STRIKE!!!! [sm=character0169.gif] KB is in position at Koepang and is ordered to move full speed to a position South of Lautern, with the reacting set to 1 hex. 1 hex due to the fact that we will try to engage the British carriers and I want to be in torp range at all cost as the Brit CVs are 100% bomb prove. Doesn´t matter anyway if we are four of three hexes away of the British as their Avengers carry torps out to four hexes also. Expect the enemy fleets E of Darwin to move 4 hexes and to see the US CVs fleeing to Wyndham full speed. CV Essex, CV Lexington and BB South Dakota all took torps and hopefully they can´t move fast enough to reach Wyndham. Have limited my bombers everywhere to ranges that they don´t fly to Wyndham as there are 100+ Allied fighters on Cap (more than 50 Corsairs), so this would be similar to my "Cap trap" at Darwin. Hopefully we can catch at least one US carrier tomorrow. Hornet and Yorktown are undamaged (we also spotted Wasp), I´m sure they will be at Wyndham together with some surface combat groups tomorrow. IMO, Miller now has to RETREAT! No matter if he has to leave his merchants back or if he has to sacrifice his damaged ships. If he now stays he will lose A LOT! It´s 3/43 already but he doesn´t have dozens of fleet CVs and he also has to rely on his CVEs that he brought together with the Brit CVs. It´s not sure we will sink one of the damaged US CVs tomorrow, but if the British don´t retreat, or don´t move full speed towards Darwin then the will be in strike range of KB, in range of the bases on Timor and in range of the torp bombers I moved to Darwin today. [image]local://upfiles/13774/634FB19B36FA43EE820508B77DABE57B.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 8:06:04 PM)
And here are the air losses of today. As you can see, losses within the Allied carrier based ac were horrendous, I don´t expect the enemy carriers to be a real threat tomorrow when KB will be in position to strike (if the enemy moves as I expect him to do). There are not many enemy fighters left and while there are still a good number of carrier based bombers, as soon as they encounter more than 100 fighters going after them, they will turn back for sure. The biggest threat I see at the moment for KB will be LBA from Wyndham. There are Boomerangs and Lightnings there to fly escort and Miller could move 200 B-25 (not to talk about 4Es) to Wyndham which could mean trouble for KB. But we of course still have our BB TFs that could attract bomber strikes to Darwin that will still have 150 or more fighters on Cap there. Cap level there for tomorrow will be 70%, we need some Tojos to fly escort for the Betties. The only real threat for our airforce so far was flak fire, insane what those Allied TFs can put into the air... [image]local://upfiles/13774/7D53BD19A1C24FD2B7E03833F3E28D4B.jpg[/image]

veji1 -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 8:47:34 PM)
God !!Well done on your part but horrendous play from Miller. If he wanted to supply Wyndham he should have had all his fleets following the transports with massive CAP, lots of NAv search and no strike...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/7/2009 10:05:17 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: veji1 God !!Well done on your part but horrendous play from Miller. If he wanted to supply Wyndham he should have had all his fleets following the transports with massive CAP, lots of NAv search and no strike... We have a stacking rule for carrier based ac which is 450. Same as a level 9 airfield, so all his CVs in one hex isn´t possible. The easiest way would have been to decide to supply Northern Australia would have been coming from the WEST and not going up the EAST coast IMO.

Xxzard -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 5:29:58 AM)
gah----------- /drool------------- So we are going to have Brit CV's brutalized and US CV's stuck at Wyndham apparently.... ouch. [:D] Tojos did great all things considered, and looks like those Yugumos helped. Wow, this could be a game changer if everything gets taken out. Not like it'll win the war (unless he gives up like Mogami vs Honda) but hey, it ought to slow him down.

Ambassador -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 7:35:42 AM)
Wow, I'm absent a few days, and the decisive battle takes place ![X(] BANZAI !!! Bomb them, torpedo them, shell them, stun them, sink them, destroy them ![&o]

Rainer79 -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 9:22:23 AM)
Wow. I wonder what the Allies were thinking. The fighter settings were pretty much suicidal.

bigbaba -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 1:22:58 PM)
now thats a extremly good result so far. with the enemy carrier fleet slowed down and without claws, the mighty KB can now go in and finish the job. excellent fighter defense and fighter control over darwin! after this battle, a screenshot of your top pilots would be nice, chris.

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 4:01:21 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bigbaba now thats a extremly good result so far. with the enemy carrier fleet slowed down and without claws, the mighty KB can now go in and finish the job. excellent fighter defense and fighter control over darwin! after this battle, a screenshot of your top pilots would be nice, chris. If I don´t forget it I will take a screenshot when I will do the next turn, but there aren´t that many real aces around, guess the leading pilot has something like 12 confirmed kills. This is due to me taking out my sentais before they get completely shot up and lose most of their pilots. So far I could afford that. But I have dozens of pilots with more than 5 kills.

Q-Ball -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 4:16:09 PM)
I never thought of parking radar-equipped ships in a base hex to improve the CAP. Obviously it worked. Can the ships be disbanded, or do they have to be an active (but docked) TF? You learn something every day, but those Yugumos make a difference! They are more valuable for the Radar then anything else!

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 4:30:59 PM)
And now the real fun starts... [:D] most important turn of the war so far... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/24/43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1039 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86) Allied Ships DD Tucker, Mine hits 1, on fire [:D] lol, DD Tucker hits a VH2 at Wyndham. But the DD isn´t even heavily damaged and will live on... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 32,85 Japanese Ships SS I-158, hits 2 Allied Ships DD Morris DD O'Brien DD Walke DD Benham DD Ellet DD Cushing the enemy TFs around the US CVs are moving towards Wyndham... I-158 takes two near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 30,85 Japanese Ships SS I-34, hits 9, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships BB South Dakota, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage DD Frazier DD Gansevoort DD Gillespie DD Edwards DD Hammann this is one hex North of Wyndham, South Dakota was able to move 6!! hexes today, this after taking two aerial torps yesterday.... but this Type 95 could do some serious additional flt damage... [sm=00000003.gif] I-34 is sunk immediately in return... but this time it was worth it I guess... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 37,83 Japanese Ships SS RO-34, hits 3 Allied Ships CLAA Van Heemskerck DD Lansdowne DD Duncan DD Buchanan CV Victorious DD Nicholson DD Waller DD Taylor DD Strong This is North of Darwin, the British CVs move to a position one hex South of Tenimbar, which is strange as I´ve thought they would pass just one hex North of Darwin... 6 torps missed the CLAA and RO-34 takes three near misses in return that don´t do much more than 4 or 5 sys damaged points. The sub will be kept in operation... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66 Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 65 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Lautem , at 33,78 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 2 Ki-49 Helen x 139 Ki-46-II Dinah x 1 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 8 damaged Allied ground losses: 94 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 72 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet my medium IJAAF bombers didn´t launch yesterday to attack Lautern and while recon still tells me the airfield would be 90% damaged (this after not having bombed it for weeks) I feared that Miller could fly in either lots of bombers or fighters, or both to attack KB that was tasked to do a full speed run to a position two hexes South of Lautern. There were no aircraft and the base is surely 100% inoperational again... those bombers will now be kept in reserve to attack enemy shipping if needed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 27 A6M3a Zero x 8 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47 Ki-49 Helen x 3 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 49 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 48 Hurricane IIb x 9 P-36A Mohawk x 34 P-40B Tomahawk x 11 P-40E Warhawk x 5 Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged Hurricane IIb: 2 damaged P-36A Mohawk: 6 damaged P-40B Tomahawk: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 49 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet I have moved in two AA rgts by fast transport to bolster the AA defense here to interdict those training raids. Two AA rgts and two base forces and we still don´t do damage... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107 Allied aircraft TBF Avenger x 27 Kittyhawk I x 29 P-40E Warhawk x 25 Allied aircraft losses TBF Avenger: 2 damaged Kittyhawk I: 3 damaged P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 25,83 Allied aircraft Beaufort I x 3 B-25C Mitchell x 4 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Holland Maru, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Beaufort I bombing at 5000 feet bombers from Derby and Broome are still active against my shipping that brought the needed supplies to the tank units at Derby... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 24,81 Allied aircraft Boomerang II x 10 Beaufort I x 8 B-25C Mitchell x 3 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Tokuwa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Boko Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Beaufort I bombing at 5000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 3 Allied aircraft Seafire x 28 F4F-4 Wildcat x 58 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 damaged unescorted attack into the hex with the Brit CVs and US CVEs. Seeing only 86 fighters on Cap (of which the Wildcat pilots surely are second class when it comes down to experience) makes me confident for the day... one Nell turned around... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now let the real action begin... Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 [sm=character0169.gif] Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 6 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 100 Allied aircraft Seafire x 28 F4F-4 Wildcat x 58 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 45 destroyed, 10 damaged Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 20 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 21 destroyed, 16 damaged Allied Ships CV Victorious Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Like mentioned last turn I moved Betties to Darwin and I´ve set my Cap to 70% there to still have a big Cap to cover my BBs. This engagment started awfully though, my incoming strike got bounced for quite a long time and I guess the enemy achieved something like 25 kills before the first enemy fighter went down in flames. Would the enemy have got the bounce for the whole engagement I guess we would have lost 80 Tojos for 5 or 6 enemy fighters. Really unbelievable how powerful the bounce is in the game. And the Tojos proved to be totally outclassed when being on escort and being bounced. As soon as the Allied bounce ended we increased our kill rate and more and more enemy fighters were downed. The Betties made it through but missed the enemy carrier. Seeing 41 enemy fighters downed and another 16 damaged means major trouble for the enemy carriers in this hex as we also have KB in strike range now... [sm=sterb003.gif] Darwin´s strike arrived first because it´s only two hexes to the enemy TFs... [image]local://upfiles/13774/71C7F08D6C834980A1D7A8759AEEA956.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 4:31:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Q-Ball I never thought of parking radar-equipped ships in a base hex to improve the CAP. Obviously it worked. Can the ships be disbanded, or do they have to be an active (but docked) TF? You learn something every day, but those Yugumos make a difference! They are more valuable for the Radar then anything else! I´ve never tried it to disband them, also in this case I had them as separate TF in the hex. And yes, they DO work... [:)]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 4:47:48 PM)
Here comes KB... [sm=tank2-39.gif] Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 89 A6M3a Zero x 42 B5N Kate x 130 Allied aircraft Seafire x 2 F4F-4 Wildcat x 17 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 28 damaged A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged B5N Kate: 6 destroyed, 44 damaged Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 6 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 31 destroyed Allied Ships CVE Copahee, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage CVE Sangamon, Bomb hits 3, on fire CV Illustrious, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage CVE Nassau, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire CV Victorious, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage CVE Chenango, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CVE Altamaha, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage CVE Suwannee, Torpedo hits 3, on fire CVL Hermes, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage CLAA Caradoc CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet as you can see, KB moved exactly as far as I wanted it to move and reacted one hex. In the end we end up one hex closer than we thought we would end up, but that´s only because the enemy CVs moved one hex further North than expected. The enemy did NOT react. As you can see I´ve still got KB´s Cap set up really defensively because it´s still my primary objective to keep it save. Therefore I have a 80% Cap setting, leaving us with 42 Zeros for escort duty. I was amazed to see that many fighters still being airborne. But with the previous attack from Darwin the enemy Cap was totally out of position and disrupted, means WE got the bounce and we got it for a looong time, which meant we took down the Allied figthers at will. As mentioned a couple of times, KB´s pilots are surely the best on the map and the Zeros are still working perfectly to take on Allied carrier based fighters as long as we speak about Seafires or Wildcats. The enemy Cap is shot to pieces, our Zeros achieve a 37:1 kill rate. [8\|] No, I don´t like it, even if it´s in my favour. 37:1 is just way off... Nevertheless of the kill rate, the enemy Cap had no chance to really harm this strike and my bombers started to dive down on the enemy carriers. The first 250kg AP bombs started to bounce off the British carriers but there were also the US CVEs in this TF and this made my Vals not totally useless in this strike. If you ask me, Miller would have been better off having one CV TF with the Brit carriers and one with the US CVEs. Perhaps at least one would have survived then. This strike was devastating already and we´ve just started into the morning with perfect weather all around. The weather god is on our side today... CVL Hermes was already sunk after this attack, more of the carriers were already in sinking condition after just this strike... [image]local://upfiles/13774/9DA2391CE4394350A74286D41C0865A1.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 17 A6M3a Zero x 4 B5N Kate x 17 Allied aircraft F4F-4 Wildcat x 1 Japanese aircraft losses D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged B5N Kate: 3 damaged Allied aircraft losses F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed Allied Ships CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CVE Altamaha, on fire, heavy damage CVE Nassau, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CV Victorious, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CVE Chenango, on fire CVE Suwannee, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 1 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet KB did not launch one full strike against the enemy CVs it seems, we were hit by a small coordination penalty. I´m using one TF for my full complement of carriers, means a little more than 450 carrier based ac (453 at the beginning of this turn to be precise). 34 more bombers attack the already helpless and burning Allied carriers and while the bombers achieve a very disappointing hit rate, we still do some more damage... the bomb hits on the Brit CVs did no damage... but it´s not over yet...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 4:56:47 PM)
then more of the Betties show up that are based at Darwin, going after the British BB TF in the hex... Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 57 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 8 Allied aircraft Seafire x 2 F4F-4 Wildcat x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 7 destroyed, 43 damaged Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 1 damaged F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed Allied Ships BB Warspite, Torpedo hits 1, on fire BB Valiant, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage CL Mauritius CL Leander DD Norman Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet those Betties are all around 80 exp but they really have trouble to hit not that fast moving British BBs. This is due to their high fatigue, all are around 20 fat and that´s just too much to really see devastating results. But this is not the time to complain, Valiant seems to be doomed after this attack. As you can see, flak fire again was murderous, none of those daitais is still in good shape to fly further attacks tomorrow. Will have to swap them out. I´ve got all my daitais near the front set to "do not accept replacements", so this at least means I don´t draw more damaged planes that just use up the room at the airfield as this would be a problem due to our stacking limit. The TF three hexes East of Darwin is BB Revenge I guess which was hit by three torps earlier. Don´t know if it even moved one hex, seems like Miller has placed it there and hoped to draw a big strike on a more or less doomed BB anyway. Not one strike was flown against this target today. As you can see in this screenshot, the US TFs all move far towards Wyndham. Amazingly if you think about Essex and Lexington both taking three torps...[:(] [image]local://upfiles/13774/2126E44963744C4993E933EE99000F0B.jpg[/image]

veji1 -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 5:00:26 PM)
God, this is a massacre... Poor Miller...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 5:12:07 PM)
Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 104 G3M Nell x 13 G4M1 Betty x 28 Ki-49 Helen x 15 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged G4M1 Betty: 4 destroyed, 14 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 6 damaged Allied aircraft losses Seafire: 2 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed Allied Ships BB Valiant, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage BB Warspite, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CA Australia, Bomb hits 2, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet then the LBA from Dili joined the party again... [:D] no need to have 100+ fighters on escort it seems but we like it to be on the safe side... [;)] not that much torp bombers join this attack but enough to finish off BB Valiant and put two more torps into Warspite. Good to see at least a couple of Helens targetting something else than bomb prove BBs. [image]local://upfiles/13774/3511D9A0391543BA9B7EE60F269BFDD9.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft G3M Nell x 2 Ki-49 Helen x 25 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 2 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 20 damaged Allied Ships DD Balch AO Tappahanock DD Gridley AO Suamico AO Tallulah, Bomb hits 1, on fire AO Guadalupe DD Clark Aircraft Attacking: 1 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet 2 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet another strike from Dili that achieves nothing. I´m not surprised that we don´t hit the agile DDs but would have thought that the fuel loaden AOs wouldn´t be that hard to hit... just look at all my damaged bombers. Flak fire is really heavy, even from a TF like this one... bomb hits on the AOs would at least mean most if not all fuel will burn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 85 G4M1 Betty x 40 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 5 destroyed, 30 damaged Allied Ships DD Clark, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD McCalla DD Lardner DD Henley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AO Suamico, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AO Kankakee DD Mugford DD Craven, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Bagley, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Ralph Talbot Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet this one comes from Sorong on New Guinea. A strike at nearly max escort range and my Betties had a lot fatigue already from yesterday´s attack when they failed to locate the enemy. Nevertheless they achieve some hits on the DDs. I´m not really happy about my Betties targetting DDs, probably the worst target to attack. Nearly 90% of my bombers are either shot down or damaged again for perhaps one DD sunk if we are lucky. There are more important targets in this hex but again, it´s not the time to rant. [;)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85 [8\|] Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 75 Ki-49 Helen x 32 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AD Mormacdove, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet I didn´t like that one at all... This one is coming from Koepang and goes to Derby where Miller used this already damaged AD as feint to draw a strike. Amazing to see he didn´t put up Cap though. The AD is sunk of course... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied Ships BB Ramilles Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet small strike against the (probably) only undamaged British BB left North of Darwin... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 5:27:10 PM)
Day Air attack on TF at 30,85 [sm=character0169.gif] Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 G3M Nell x 15 Ki-49 Helen x 26 Japanese aircraft losses G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 3 destroyed, 20 damaged Allied Ships CV Essex, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Russell Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet 3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet that´s the reason I didn´t like it that my Koepang bombers attacked the AD at Derby with a big Cap as we´ve spotted TFs just one hex North of Wyndham, which means that´s exactly 8 hexes from Koepang and all my bombers are set to 8 hexes max as I don´t want them to attack a TF at Wyndham when there are 100+ Allied fighters in the air (including 50+ Corsairs). 8 hexes is the max range of the Helen anyway. Poor CV Essex ends up just one hex short from the port that would save her. Seeing this strike and seeing the first dozen of Helens missing the already damaged CV (3 torp hits yesterday) I feared to see the big CV escaping. But then a Nell put a torp into the burning ship, quickly followed by two more. The CV went down like a stone and the rest of the bombers failed to locate it. Took 6 torps to sink the best Allied CV on the map. Amazingly enough, the damned CV moved 6!!! hexes after being hit by three torps yesterday which brought her out of range of my bombers at Darwin (due to having them set to 5 hexes to stay in Tojo escort range). Without the bombers on Timor, the CV would have survived. It didn´t!! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI! [sm=character0169.gif] [image]local://upfiles/13774/AD35A156D16E4CC5830E98551BA53306.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 9 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 80 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged Allied Ships CV Indomitable, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CV Illustrious, on fire, heavy damage CVE Suwannee, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet we get more attacks in the afternoon, Darwin is again launching a strike. Indomitable wasn´t hit that hard before but takes another torp now... [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here comes KB again! [sm=tank2-39.gif] Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 72 A6M3a Zero x 40 B5N Kate x 81 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 1 damaged Allied Ships CVE Suwannee, Bomb hits 1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage CVE Altamaha, on fire, heavy damage CV Illustrious, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CVL Hermes, on fire, heavy damage CV Victorious, Bomb hits 4, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage CVE Copahee, on fire, heavy damage CV Indomitable, Bomb hits 5, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CVE Nassau, Torpedo hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet 3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet weather is also perfectly in the afternoon, KB strikes to really finish off the Brit/US CV TF North of Darwin... forgot to take a screenshot but it´s now always the same anyway. Was fun to watch though! [;)] One of the best turns for me in playing years of WITP PBEMs. Not just this one but also the previous three days as it really seems that everything more or less exactly worked as planned. At this stage, all three Brit CVs were already dead, either sunk or in sinking condition with no chance to survive. Not sure if there would be a US CV left that would survive without being hit again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 4 B5N Kate x 12 Japanese aircraft losses B5N Kate: 1 damaged Allied Ships CV Indomitable, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage CV Victorious, on fire, heavy damage CVE Suwannee, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet again a small strike from KB that was uncoordinated, now doing in Indomitable for sure. Those other two carriers were already sunk and the Kates failed to locate them... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 37,82 Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied Ships BB Valiant, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 5:40:50 PM)
Day Air attack on TF at 30,85 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 34 G4M1 Betty x 11 Ki-49 Helen x 8 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Allied Ships BB South Dakota, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet 3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet and Koepang again launches a strike! BB South Dakota which was hit by two aerial torps yesterday moved also six hexes towards Wyndham, was hit by a Type 95 sub torpedo and is now finished off by another two Type 91 aerial torps. The ship is confirmed sunk, the first modern US BB sunk! BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI! [image]local://upfiles/13774/7874F3CB8CF54F5A806FABE2D3425B9E.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Koepang at 28,77 Japanese Ships AK Tsuneshima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied Ships SS KXIV and the Allied strike back!! [;)] A supply loaden small AK is hit at Koepang but can be disbanded in port and will survive 100% sure. And that was it for the day!!! Can you imagine that you have not seen a single strike on KB? I couldn´t and it really took me a couple of seconds to really realize this! Miller must have set his bombers on his British CVs and US CVEs to stand down as he probably didn´t want them to attack my BB TFs at Darwin again just to get shot down in droves by my Tojos there. And today he surely has set all his remaining fighters on Cap. While I think he expected KB to join the fight yesterday (when he moved the US CVs in at full speed and when I moved KB back out of danger), I guess he didn´t expect KB to show up in that position this turn. Can´t explain it otherwise that I haven´t seen his carriers launching at least a small strike. Doubt it would really have had a chance to achieve much (if anything) but this way, all those bombers are lost also due to their ships being sunk. If they launch and the ships are sunk the surviving bombers in the air would at least fly out to Wyndham or Lautern. And there was also not a single attempt to bomb KB or the BBs at Darwin by LBA from Wyndham. Can´t imagine why to be honest. If not now throwing in EVERYTHING, when doing it then? I really feared 200 B-25 or (even worse) 4Es that would attack KB. Something like 150 Zeros on Cap would not have been able to stop them at all, not to talk about the possibility that they would be escorted by 100 fighters (Boomerangs and Lightnings). I would surely have shot down the escorts in high numbers but I would estimate 80% of the bombers making it through Cap. All that would have stopped them would be low morale. If a big strike would have attacked KB, this would have meant damaged if not sunk IJN CVs. There was no such strike, perhaps Miller feared that his bombers would attack my bombers at Darwin. What a turn, what a victory! But it´s not the decisive victory, the Allied will still win the war... but my odds to resist longer just went up...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 6:01:20 PM)
Ground combat at Derby Japanese Shock attack [:D][:D] Attacking force 53827 troops, 121 guns, 2956 vehicles, Assault Value = 1641 Defending force 31117 troops, 214 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 669 Japanese max assault: 2638 - adjusted assault: 1859 Allied max defense: 655 - adjusted defense: 575 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) [&o] Japanese forces CAPTURE Derby base !!! [&o] Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses Kittyhawk I: 8 destroyed Boomerang II: 3 destroyed Spitfire Vb: 5 destroyed P-40E Warhawk: 10 destroyed SBD Dauntless: 12 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed Dakota I: 1 destroyed Beaufort I: 2 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 742 casualties reported Guns lost 11 Vehicles lost 120 Allied ground losses: 2773 casualties reported Guns lost 12 Vehicles lost 15 and now let´s make this turn perfect! As expected my tanks took Derby now, there´s nothing that will stop them to take Broome also. 14 units were forced to retreat, the CD unit surrendered. Nice to see this full Australian div retreating also, it will be destroyed with the three bgds and the regiment of the 3rd Australian division when we will take Broome. The majority of my tank units were set to pursue the enemy, can´t see a chance that those Allied troops will survive. The enemy lost nearly 260 points for ground losses today... [image]local://upfiles/13774/31972A4A9CB949FA93DC496F942333E2.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chungking Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15821 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867 Defending force 271139 troops, 1446 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6415 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 22707 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2823 Defending force 179407 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5121 Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 52881 troops, 621 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2089 Defending force 83206 troops, 957 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2053 Allied ground losses: 34 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wyndham Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 8349 troops, 283 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4374 Defending force 137337 troops, 1024 guns, 353 vehicles, Assault Value = 2993 Allied ground losses: 91 casualties reported Guns lost 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Thursday Island Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6694 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 150 Defending force 640 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 36,88 Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 14315 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2046 Defending force 96179 troops, 1032 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 2089 Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Guns lost 8

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 6:08:10 PM)
As you can expect, the enemy losses in aircraft were huge today. Several enemy carriers sunk, dozens of enemy ac destroyed on the ground at Derby. In the last couple of days we have destroyed 786 Allied aircraft, mostly carrier based ac. We have lost 253 in the same timeframe, but mostly land based aircraft with a lot of our pilots survived. Well, not really a lot but it wasn´t nearly as bad as expected. Expected was to have nearly all my land based Zero and Betty daitais being completely shredded but the land based IJNAF is still in good shape, so we still can strike hard if needed. And we don´t have to train up every single daitai. [image]local://upfiles/13774/86D8A45CCFFE4E01B2C697871C5989BE.jpg[/image]

bigbaba -> RE: it goes on... (4/8/2009 6:46:18 PM)
2 words: game over![;)] great preformance, chris. congratulation for another victory.

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