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castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (4/16/2009 9:03:31 PM)
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AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 03/27/43
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TF 1018 encounters mine field at Tongatapu Island (94,114)
Allied Ships
MSW Oriole
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ASW attack at 29,83
Japanese Ships
SS I-15, hits 1
Allied Ships
DD Panther
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Griffin
DD Fortune
DD Electra
CL Mauritius
DD Pakenham
wow, I-15 survived... only one near miss...
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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66
Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 67
No Japanese losses
Runway hits 2
Aircraft Attacking:
29 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52
Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 15
A6M3a Zero x 126
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 101
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 35
No Japanese losses
Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 57
Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet
as you can see, fighter pilot training is on top of my priority list...
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107
Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 39
Hurricane IIb x 9
P-36A Mohawk x 24
P-40B Tomahawk x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 6
Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 3 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
P-40B Tomahawk: 6 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 28
Aircraft Attacking:
12 x P-40B Tomahawk bombing at 2000 feet
same goes for Miller, at least we take down some of the attackers...
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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107
Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 26
Kittyhawk I x 33
P-40E Warhawk x 26
Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 2 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 4 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 damaged
Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 38
Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 7th USA Division, at 36,88
Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 42
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,88
Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 16
No Japanese losses
Allied ground losses:
16 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
two attacks out of Darwin...
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [:D]
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Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 16
A6M3a Zero x 6
B5N Kate x 22
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Welles
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 1
DD Helm, Bomb hits 1
DD Ralph Talbot, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Lansdowne, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Walke, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Balch, Bomb hits 1, on fire
AO Cache, Bomb hits 1, on fire
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
2 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet
have ordered the KB to move to Koepang again to replenish and to get a shot at possible retreating Allied convoys from Wyndham. We end up in perfect distance to a lot of DDs that are escorting the still fuel loaden AOs towards Perth... this is the beginning of a massacre... [sm=character0169.gif]
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 42
B5N Kate x 12
G3M Nell x 28
G4M1 Betty x 76
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 30 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Maury, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Warramunga, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
DD O'Brien
DD Balch, on fire
DD Selfridge, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson
DD Mugford, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Napier, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue
DD Helm
DD Grayson
AO Platte, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Welles
DD McCall
DD Lansdowne, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AO Cache, on fire
DD Walke, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Ralph Talbot, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet
combined strike from KB and Koepang. How that works is beyond me as you should only get combined strikes if the ac launch from the same distance, in this case Koepang is 6 hexes from the target and KB 5... [8|]
Iīm glad that the Kates are bombing, that way I donīt lose as many as if they would go in low to torp the very agile DDs that put up quite a fierce flak fire. I got totally upset with this strike though! The TF you can see in the screenshot two hexes West of this one is a British BB TF. More than 100 IJN torp bombers nevertheless decide to attack the DDs which are the most difficult ships to hit for a torp bomber. Would the target routine have worked better for me this turn, Miller would have lost another one or two British BBs. Cest la vie...
What is totally amazing for me though is that Miller seems to retreat everything now and that could be quite a mistake IMO. As long as there would be British BBs at Wyndham (under a huge Corsair Cap), I would NEVER send in my surface combat TFs. Now it seems there are only PTs left and the supply convoy that started unloading at the level 5 port. This opens up the chance for me to strike a) against the supply convoy (that surely needs four or five days to completely unload) and b) to do a bombardment with my cruisers that are able to move six hexes...
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [:D]
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 73
B5N Kate x 45
Ki-49 Helen x 40
Japanese aircraft losses
B5N Kate: 1 destroyed
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged
Allied Ships
DD Napier, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Welles
AO Kankakee
DD Selfridge, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Mugford, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCalla
DD Helm, Bomb hits 1
DD Grayson
DD Patterson
DD Ralph Talbot, on fire, heavy damage
DD Warramunga, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lansdowne, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD O'Brien
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
now a combined strike from KB and Dili, again not from the same distance... more and more DDs get hit...
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [8D][8D]
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 52
A6M3a Zero x 5
B5N Kate x 33
Japanese aircraft losses
D3A Val: 2 damaged
B5N Kate: 1 damaged
Allied Ships
AO Cache, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Ralph Talbot, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCalla
DD Lansdowne, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCall, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Selfridge, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Grayson, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Welles, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD O'Brien, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Maury, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AO Tappahanock, Bomb hits 2, on fire
DD Helm, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Warramunga, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
2 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet
high exp divebombers are DD killers...
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [&o]
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 21
B5N Kate x 34
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
DD McCall, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lardner, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Walke, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AO Cache, Bomb hits 1, on fire
DD Welles, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lansdowne, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AO Tappahanock, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
1 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
2 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet
we are still in the morning phase and launch strike after strike... I wonder why the strikes get totally dispersed though... at the end of the morning, the Allied DDs were mostly floating wrecks...
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83 [:)]
Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 64
A6M3a Zero x 14
B5N Kate x 91
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
AO Cache, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Patterson, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Selfridge, on fire, heavy damage
DD Walke, on fire, heavy damage
DD Welles, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Helm, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
DD Maury, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage
DD Balch, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Blue, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lansdowne, on fire, heavy damage
DD Warramunga, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD Mugford, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCall, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage
DD Ralph Talbot, on fire, heavy damage
DD Lardner, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
4 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet
4 x B5N Kate bombing at 10000 feet
and KB launches a big strike in the afternoon, knocking out all DDs in the hex... looks like Miller will lose 14 first line destroyers today... but the British BBs are lucky, the 100+ IJNAF bombers at Koepang are clouded in in the afternoon...
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Day Air attack on TF at 27,83
Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 35
Ki-49 Helen x 15
No Japanese losses
Allied Ships
DD Maury, Bomb hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
DD McCall, on fire, heavy damage
DD Helm, on fire, heavy damage
Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
even the Helens can hit floating wrecks... McCall and Helm were already sunk... 14 Allied DDs down, 480 more to go... [;)]
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Sub attack at 25,83
Japanese Ships
SS I-170
Allied Ships
DD Foxhound
DD Panther
DD Norman
DD Nestor
DD Nepal
DD Griffin
DD Fortune
DD Electra
DD Pakenham
DD Jupiter
DD Inconstant
must have been a lucky day for my subs... this is the huge TF with at least one British BB in it...
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Ground combat at Chungking
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 15867 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863
Defending force 275200 troops, 1505 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6535
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Ground combat at 22,85
Japanese Shock attack
Attacking force 43665 troops, 114 guns, 2352 vehicles, Assault Value = 1377
Defending force 9256 troops, 69 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 225
Japanese max assault: 2202 - adjusted assault: 2723
Allied max defense: 173 - adjusted defense: 3
Japanese assault odds: 907 to 1
Japanese ground losses:
31 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
Vehicles lost 1
Allied ground losses:
1409 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Defeated Allied Units Retreating!
our tanks have now reached Broome. The base will probably fall with our first shock attack, but it will take four or five days until one of my TK rgts has encircled the base. Then there will be nearly two dozen Allied units trapped, including three bgds, a division, a rgt and some HQ units.[:D] Even if we wonīt be able to take out Wyndham, we do get some nice consolation prizes eh?
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Ground combat at 36,88
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 53139 troops, 632 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2083
Defending force 83083 troops, 947 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2040
Allied ground losses:
18 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
stalemate South of Darwin. If you think about the fact that the enemy has probably built level 2 forts here (same as we have) we would need at least a 3:1 to dislodge them. Thatīs pretty hard to achieve and donīt forget that due to a "design decision", a glitch or perhaps I should call it a bug, you canīt take down forts outside of base hexes, so this means even if our attack would achieve a 2:1, the forts would still stay at 2...
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Ground combat at Wyndham
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 8284 troops, 279 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4582
Defending force 137781 troops, 967 guns, 349 vehicles, Assault Value = 2937
Allied ground losses:
154 casualties reported
Guns lost 4
painful to see those troops getting supplies...
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Ground combat at Thursday Island
Japanese Bombardment attack
Attacking force 6644 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 149
Defending force 620 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15
seems like itīs quite hard to get rid of those USMC paras...
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Ground combat at 36,88
Allied Bombardment attack
Attacking force 14391 troops, 187 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2037
Defending force 96249 troops, 1032 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 2083
Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
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