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castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (9/28/2009 1:37:59 PM)
Op report for the aerial engagments over Kweiyang today. We have a new leader in our top pilot list, it´s 4/44 and we now have two pilots with 15 kills. Sounds funny, doesn´t it. In stock, I would have 10 pilots with over 50 kills easily I guess, so looking at the overall picture, A2A in this Nikmod version works far better than stock. Unfortunetely there are also more and more British/Australian aces flying in China and due to me having missed the chance to take them all out sometime mid 42 when they were low experienced and flying Hurricanes, we now face squadrons flying Spitfires (we can deal with the Vb but the VIII is a killer) and pilots that probably have experience in the 80s due to having flown lots of ground strikes when they were still flying their Hurricanes. Unfortunately, 12 months ago, I´ve thought the Chinese would be out of the war, until they started to kick thousands of Japanese av around, when we got our adjusted avs halved for being in an URBAN hex. I haven´t finished them off and haven´t put a lot of effort into it the last months but this has changed now. I will use the hammer again... [image]local://upfiles/13774/67F43C5D57C247AC8429140B4B4F175E.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (9/28/2009 1:51:00 PM)
Good news of the day, R&D of the Frank once again was succesful and the fighter is now due to 5/44. We have already advanced the production date of our new IJAAF fighter 3 months and this is very good news. This is only the second or third time I was able to advance an aircraft by three months in all my PBEM campaigns and I´ve done a lot of turns in the last five years. [:D] There´s the rumour that you can´t advance it by more than 3 months so we will see. Perhaps we will get the first fighters within this month, if not, then the first unit will be equipped with this fine aircraft within 4,5 weeks. I´m tempted to wait 7 weeks until I knock out the remaining enemy aircraft in China. I guess we could reduce our losses by at least 30% if we swap out the Tonies with Franks. I will occasionally bomb Kweiyang to keep the airfield damaged and will take on the enemy´s fighters when we will have three or four Frank sentais. This will also be a good test, as fighting highly experienced Spitfire VIII groups will show us pretty fast if the Frank is competive or not. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/03/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 37 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 29 Aircraft Attacking: 26 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 44 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 43 J2M3 Jack x 176 J1N1-S Irving x 98 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 44 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 159 Ki-61 Ic x 139 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 124 Aircraft Attacking: 31 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ulan-Ude , at 61,10 Allied aircraft Yak-9D x 85 Pe-2 x 217 Allied aircraft losses Pe-2: 3 destroyed, 21 damaged Japanese ground losses: 118 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 72 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Pe-2 bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 32nd Division, at 43,33 Allied aircraft Liberator VI x 30 B-25J Mitchell x 14 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 89 casualties reported Guns lost 4 Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet British bombers attacking my troops at Kweiyang, the bombers are stationed at Chungking... I wouldn´t burn supplies using those bombers, on the other hand, Chinese units don´t need supplies anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 26 A6M3a Zero x 27 P1Y Frances x 44 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 39 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 17,28 [X(] Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIC x 15 P-40N Warhawk x 64 [X(][X(] No Allied losses Japanese Ships AP Meizan Maru AP Ural Maru AP Ceylon Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire [8D] AP Amakusa Maru AP Bokuyo Maru Aircraft Attacking: 1 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet 2 x P-40N Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet now this was surprising... a convoy that has brought some troops to Madras was attacked by hordes of British and US fighter bombers. The enemy must have an awful bad experience as they missed one after another. I had no escorts in this TF and I thought my transports would be pretty much dead meat, but only a Beaufighter achieved a single 500lb bomb hit. That was really amazing to me. The TF will be four hexes further out in the Indian ocean and perhaps won´t be spotted anymore tomorrow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49285 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021 Defending force 53152 troops, 30 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 1086 Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109255 troops, 1345 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 2314 Defending force 83047 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1721 Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 14188 troops, 460 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5418 Defending force 113659 troops, 68 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2839 Allied ground losses: 121 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8541 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1086 Defending force 52685 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (9/28/2009 1:55:39 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/04/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 31 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 5000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 19 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 42 J2M3 Jack x 93 J1N1-S Irving x 97 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 47 P1Y Frances x 148 Ki-61 Ic x 103 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 35 casualties reported Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 209 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 56th Chinese Corps, at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 10 Ki-49 Helen x 45 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 83 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 2 Ki-49 Helen x 33 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 54 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet as you can see, we´re still flying ground attacks against the units at Kweiyang. That´s more or less funny, because while I think those strikes are useless, I´ve still ordered my bombers to fly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49266 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Defending force 53092 troops, 30 guns, 152 vehicles, Assault Value = 1087 Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109485 troops, 1353 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 2322 Defending force 83009 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1723 Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 14130 troops, 455 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5511 Defending force 129338 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3370 Allied ground losses: 297 casualties reported more and more Chinese units enter Kweiyang. We´ve spotted more than another dozen units marching South into Kweiyang. Guess in the end we will face more than 4000 Chinese av from units that are out of supply but still get an adjusted av ov more than 6.000. Just look at the laughable number of guns. There are over 40 Chinese units at Kweiyang already. Guess the average Chinese corps that is fighting me has something like one or two 80mm mortars... [8\|] but don´t forget their sticks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8525 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1087 Defending force 52646 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Allied ground losses: 2 casualties reported

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (9/28/2009 4:37:58 PM)
it seems to be an intense week, more action this turn... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/05/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 145 J2M3 Jack x 44 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 51 A6M3a Zero x 27 B6N Jill x 34 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 67 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 67 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 47 A6M5 Zeke x 24 J2M3 Jack x 48 J1N1-S Irving x 71 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 48 Ki-61 Ic x 32 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 100 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 56th Chinese Corps, at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 29 Ki-49 Helen x 63 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 46 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 22nd Chinese Corps, at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 28 Ki-49 Helen x 50 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 124 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 2nd Chinese Cavalry Corps, at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 3 Ki-49 Helen x 44 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 66 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet two out of three bases in China launched ground strikes, no enemy fighters present anymore. Looks like the losses within the enemy fighters were high enough to keep bigbaba from flying more LRCAP over Kweiyang... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and the highlight of this turn... Day Air attack on TF at 3,69 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 70 D4Y Judy x 77 B6N Jill x 130 Allied aircraft Corsair IV x 14 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zeke: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged B6N Jill: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Allied aircraft losses Corsair IV: 14 destroyed Allied Ships CVE Shah, Bomb hits 3, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Relentless, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Samphill, Bomb hits 1 AK Samoa AK Samsurf, Torpedo hits 1 Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet I´ve spotted a big TF (also spotted CVE Shah) when it was formed at Karachi. It was spotted at Karachi for at least two or three days and then it was spotted heading straight to the West moving away from Karachi. It then wasn´t hard to figure out that this TF would move South towards Australia (I was sure it wouldn´t be an invasion TF for Southern India and I was also sure it wouldn´t go to Ceylon as he would not dare to do this again). Hmmm.... let´s see. A TF made up by more than two dozen AKs or APs, probably with some DDs and a CVE that was spotted. Leaving Karachi, going West, then South, max speed two hexes per phase. Means that 2.5-3 weeks later this TF can be caught somewhere West of Timor. Send your carriers out early enough and you catch the TF somewhere West of Java. In this case we caught it West of Soerabaja in the middle of the Indian Ocean. This TF was twice spotted the last two days but for an unkknown reason my carriers did not launch a single strike. [8\|] This must have alerted bigbaba as the TF then changed course from going South to going South West. And today we launch a full strike in the morning... so far so good... but what do you think how I ticked out in front of my display when I saw 200 bombers going after the CVE when it only took 20 to sink it. Means I watched some 180 bombers failing to locate the CVE and returning home when there are at least three dozen other ships in this TF just nearby. I´m sorry, I know I used the word "stupid" quite often in this AAR already, but honestly, how stupid is it that a full strike turns back when they see a CVE sinking and leave the other ships alone? Stupid game design and one of the many oversights. It has been changed in AE I was told so this is one of the many improvements. It´s great when there are many people with common sense involved in a project, there were obviously not so many involved when WITP was designed. Or perhaps something like what is happening in this attack only strikes me. Perhaps I´m just a dumbass... what has been interesting also is the fact that the CVE launched 14 out of 14 available fighters, a 100% Cap rate as usual. Now I don´t know how this TF really looks like, but I guess the CVE is the only ship that has an air search radar (if it even has one). Nevertheless we see the usual Allied 100% Cap. The reason that those CVE Corsairs (probably newly arrived) had an experience of something like 50-60 and my Zeke pilots were above 85 made it a pretty one sided engagement. We lost two Zeke pilots though. [image]local://upfiles/13774/EFD24A054C484FB0812F722AE35E7742.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,69 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 14 B6N Jill x 18 No Japanese losses Allied Ships CVE Shah, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet more of the same... [sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,69 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 9 D4Y Judy x 23 B6N Jill x 15 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y Judy: 4 damaged Allied Ships CVE Shah, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Mandalay, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Samharle, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Quality Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 3 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet wow, we actually bomb three other ships. 25 bombers nevertheless turned back because Shah already sunk... [sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- and the afternoon phase... Day Air attack on TF at 3,69 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 85 D4Y Judy x 89 B6N Jill x 137 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 2 damaged Allied Ships CVE Shah, on fire, heavy damage DD Quality, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Redoubt DD Rapid, Bomb hits 2, on fire AK Samcalia, Torpedo hits 1 DD Quilliam, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Samfield, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Samtampa, Torpedo hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet 4 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet this time only 180 instead of 200 bomber tried to attack the already sunk CVE Shah... SOOOOOO STUPID!!!!!!!! There are so many deficiencies in this game it´s everytime again a world wonder that so many hard core players have been playing this game for soooo long... so the situation is as follows... we meet an enemy TF (we´ve spotted dozens of ships), launch two full strikes and sink one CVE and one AK and that´s it. This not because all of our elite bomber crews missed their targets, no, they decided to turn around because it´s not worth to attack AKs that are fully loaden with troops. Instead of completely annihilating this TF, we achieve NOTHING. I give a damn about sinking a lonely British CVE. But it´s once again a good prove how well the game works. There are so many borked routines it´s just a shame. If this CVE would not have been in this TF, I bet 90% of the ships would now be sunk or in sinking condition. If you know that and want to take every advantage you can then this is a good way to reduce the damage as much as possible, the worst case for you is to lose a CVE. I doubt that this was the reason for including this CVE though, he just wanted to bring it down to Australia to work together with the US CVEs. But the result of having this CVE in the TF is devasting... devastating for th outcome in regards of damaged done to the Allied. [8\|] Today we used up 23% of our max sorties, which means we can launch such strikes for ONE more day. As soon as your max sorties reach 50% you launch piece meal strikes, most of the time not worth it. 500 bomber sorties in one day against ONE single TF and all we get is one CVE and a rubbish AK. What do I expect tomorrow? I expect to see the DDs in the TF moving away at flank speed, being out of range tomorrow. The AKs will scatter and we will catch a couple of them and that´s it. It only depends on how many TFs bigbaba will form. I was hit by a stupid game routine (target routine) and if bigbaba forms three dozen single ship TFs then I will be hit by exactly this stupid game routine again as the engine just can´t handle it. Even in real life, this TF would have been completely annihilated when 500 high experienced CV based bomber would have attacked three dozen AKs coupled with a single CVE and some DDs. Even the Zeroes would have strafed the AKs in real life I guess but I can´t blame the game not doing it as this is just not how it was programmed. Even if the Zeroes would dive down to strafe something, they would all turn back without doing anything because they would target the CVE that was sunk at 7 am, while hundreds of bombers still search for it at 4 pm. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kweiyang Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 281257 troops, 2362 guns, 3286 vehicles, Assault Value = 5593 Defending force 128747 troops, 63 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3361 Japanese max assault: 6629 - adjusted assault: 2414 Allied max defense: 3036 - adjusted defense: 4165 Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 6) Japanese ground losses: 6384 casualties reported Guns lost 115 Vehicles lost 75 Allied ground losses: 1920 casualties reported Guns lost 9 to top off the day, we launch another attack at Kweiyang, seeing another one of the stupid results we are already used to. NO fort level was reduced (again!!!) and our adjusted av once again was a joke, just like the adjusted av of out of supply Chinese is a complete joke. I miss the words in English that I need to describe how WRONG this ground combat model is as we are speaking of troops that are OUT OF SUPPLY and WITHOUT ANY HEAVY WEAPONS LEFT!!! This is just plain wrong and Mr. G´s main advantage obviously is the fact that he desings niche games and the competitors (if there are any) don´t do it any better. [8\|] Those Chinese (in fact no matter if Chinese, Japanese, British, Russian, American, German or whatever) troops should have nearly no combat value at all. Giving them a 25% combat effectiveness due to being 100% out of supply is just stupid as this stupid factor still then gives them an adjusted av that is higher than their base av. And it´s not just stupid, it makes everything that "officials" posted on the forum ad absurdum. OR, mathematics are just different in the US compared to Europe. With European mathematics it´s quite hard to achieve those adjusted avs if the multipliers are what we have been told for five years already. We can only shake our head as the code will be kept hidden anyway, thus making it easier to complain but you´ll never know what really went wrong during coding (obviously a lot). Time to retreat, rest and recover, bomb the airfield to prevent fort building, wait for another 300 av being starved, move in with 8.000 av again, get shot to pieces by even more starved defenders, reduce another three or four fort levels, move out, the whole circle again and in three months I will take out Kweiyang. Then move on to Kunming and start at step 1 as there will be again level 9 forts and a couple of thousand completely starved (but fully combat ready) Chinese av. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49231 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019 Defending force 52897 troops, 29 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 1087 Allied ground losses: 55 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109471 troops, 1355 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 2324 Defending force 83316 troops, 64 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1728 Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8503 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1087 Defending force 52631 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (9/29/2009 10:41:39 AM)
what I expected to happen this turn, did happen... I´m not totally amused... [8\|] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/06/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 47 J2M3 Jack x 27 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 27 G4M1 Betty x 53 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 54 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 43 J2M3 Jack x 46 P1Y Frances x 162 Ki-61 Ic x 72 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 93 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 113 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 51 B6N Jill x 174 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 27 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- here we go...[8\|] Day Air attack on TF at 3,71 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 89 B6N Jill x 26 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Samtampa, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Samburgh, Torpedo hits 5, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet as expected, today the enemy TF was split up in dozens of single ship TFs... but hey, there were alos a few TFs with two ships... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,71 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 26 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samtampa, on fire, heavy damage AK Samburgh, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet oh how well the engine can handle it when a game exploiter forms up three dozen mini TFs... 141 aircraft (out of 450 in the whole CV TF) attacked those two AKs in the morning... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,70 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 15 B6N Jill x 15 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships DD Redoubt, Bomb hits 7, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Fal Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet this is what I particularly mean when I say "such game exploiting behaviour screws up the engine"... it just sucks... 1 bomber lol... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 15 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y Judy: 4 damaged Allied Ships DD Rocket, Bomb hits 2, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 10 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged Allied Ships AK Samur Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet this AK´s flak crew proved to be extremly well trained. 1 Jill shot down another 6 damaged. Not bad when 10 bombers attack... and miss... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,67 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 86 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Relentless, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet and it goes on... you may think one bomber was enough anyway, well, this DD was heavily damaged already... pm phase... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,67 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 47 No Japanese losses Allied Ships MSW Patna, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW Rampur, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet one third of my total torpedo bombers went after two MSW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 22 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y Judy: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samwater, Bomb hits 3, on fire AK Samovar, Bomb hits 7, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 25 B6N Jill x 14 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y Judy: 1 damaged B6N Jill: 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Samoa, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Samhain, Bomb hits 6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 3 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet very few ground losses all the time, but I guess that doesn´t matter anyway because all the troops are lost when the ship goes down... and the losses are not accounted as victory points. Still not accounted, what patch version was released already? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 18 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 3 damaged Allied Ships AK Sambur, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AK Samtucky, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 95 casualties reported Vehicles lost 7 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,73 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 23 B6N Jill x 14 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y Judy: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samlouis, Bomb hits 12, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 177 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet and that´s it... see below what we have spotted. And what we spot doesn´t mean that´s all that is there. I´m sure my funny opponent created more than two dozen single ship TFs... that sucks... [image]local://upfiles/13774/8F91C25B28CE4EC5ADE602A62CD667CE.jpg[/image] why I call him my "funny opponent"? Because when he seeks a PBEM opponent then he wants to have this house rule (copied out of one of his opponent wanted threads): no 1 ship TF-spamm to abuse the inability of the game engine when it comes on air attacks on multiple TFs what results in 100 bombers attacking one single AK for example this is FUNNY for me, because one one side he wants to have such a hr (not valid in this PBEM) and on the other side he´s using one of the numero uno game exploits to get away and compensate weak game play.[8\|] In this PBEM there is a hr about not forming dozens of INVASION TFs [>:] to exploit the weak target routine and as you have to be a lawyer all the time when you challenge someone, this of course means he has NOT broken any hr. Except the fact that he´s constantly breaking the hr about aircraft stacking limits. [>:] I can only repeat myself, would this PBEM not already be at this stage of the war and wouldn´t there be the chance to see an amazing campaign through the late years (considering the moves of my opponent I have doubts about that already anyway) I would long have stopped it. Oh well, it´s just another thing I have to swallow. Everyone plays how he thinks he should play, if it´s a good move or a bad move, that´s something the AAR readers have to judge. For me, sending a fat troop loaden TF (that has been spotted several times) down the Indian ocean without any serious covering force (he has enough CVEs and CVs to cover a troop convoy through this territory (he just has to use them) is just weak game play in every aspect. Of course exploiting the engine and forming dozens of single ship TFs that then are all going IN THE SAME HEX INTO THE SAME DIRECTION is just more of a prove of weak game play IMO. This what he may consider "scattering" is just a joke when he keeps all his ships together in the same hex moving together (perhaps even following each other [8\|]). If he scatters his convoy and send out all the ships in a dozen different directions, moving 4 hexes a day can (perhaps) be considered scattering in game terms but what he is doing is just trying to get away with weak game play and a clear exploit of the engine. And the "funny" thing is that he even knows it. Oh well... it´s all just hot air and nothing more, the Allied are trashed anyway and it will be a pleasure to kick their arse during their next invasion. But perhaps we will then meet two dozen CVEs following each other in the same hex in single ship TFs and all are loaded up with Corsairs to have a 720 Corsair Cap. Oh wait, there´s the stacking rule for carrier based ac... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49273 troops, 526 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021 Defending force 52876 troops, 29 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 1087 Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109604 troops, 1364 guns, 25 vehicles, Assault Value = 2330 Defending force 83233 troops, 63 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1739 Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8476 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1087 Defending force 52673 troops, 526 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021

n01487477 -> RE: it goes on... (9/29/2009 11:36:25 AM)
quote: There´s the rumour that you can´t advance it by more than 3 months so we will see. Perhaps we will get the first fighters within this month, if not, then the first unit will be equipped with this fine aircraft within 4,5 weeks. Totally untrue Castor, planes can be R&D'ed much more than 3 months, because of a now "known" but previously unknown exploit, which I didn't realise until I had it happen to me, I got one plane more than a year advanced (Nemo's EA mod)... As to your opponents play, while it is very very questionable and pretty much wrong IMO, I guess the positive way to look at it is that he fears you, knows he isn't as good as you and must act like this to defeat you even though he is playing as the Allies [8\|] Good luck --Damian--

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (9/29/2009 12:02:05 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: n01487477 quote: There´s the rumour that you can´t advance it by more than 3 months so we will see. Perhaps we will get the first fighters within this month, if not, then the first unit will be equipped with this fine aircraft within 4,5 weeks. Totally untrue Castor, planes can be R&D'ed much more than 3 months, because of a now "known" but previously unknown exploit, which I didn't realise until I had it happen to me, I got one plane more than a year advanced (Nemo's EA mod)... As to your opponents play, while it is very very questionable and pretty much wrong IMO, I guess the positive way to look at it is that he fears you, knows he isn't as good as you and must act like this to defeat you even though he is playing as the Allies [8\|] Good luck --Damian-- Hi didn´t know about this bug and hopefully I´m not doing anything to have it kick in. [&:] At the moment the R&D is at 614 ac per month (total production will be at something like 650-700) and this lead to three months acceleration so far. So perhaps it will even come online within the next weeks. Never achieved anything better than three months though and I also have never heard about a bug (thank god).

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/5/2009 9:46:01 AM)
I haven´t heard from my opponent for over a week. He told me he´s moving house but he would have his inet connection back within just a few days. I guess it takes longer or otherwise he´s dropped the game. I will wait another week for a reply, otherwise I´ll look for someone to take over the Allied.

Miller -> RE: it goes on... (10/6/2009 12:51:34 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy I haven´t heard from my opponent for over a week. He told me he´s moving house but he would have his inet connection back within just a few days. I guess it takes longer or otherwise he´s dropped the game. I will wait another week for a reply, otherwise I´ll look for someone to take over the Allied. I think you would have more chance of finding the Holy Grail........

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/6/2009 4:09:11 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Miller quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy I haven´t heard from my opponent for over a week. He told me he´s moving house but he would have his inet connection back within just a few days. I guess it takes longer or otherwise he´s dropped the game. I will wait another week for a reply, otherwise I´ll look for someone to take over the Allied. I think you would have more chance of finding the Holy Grail........ Hi Paul hehe, why do you think that? [;)] Perhaps a solution would be to swap sides? Me taking over the Allied (and either proving that I´m just a loud dumbass or proving what I think in terms of the Allied are still far from being defeated) and someone else taking over the Japanese in perfect condition. Now that would be interesting too. Of course I would like to play on as the Japanese as I want to get the fruit I´ve planted. edit: just rethought what I have written and this is of course BS as noone would take over the Japanese when I would know the password. Silly me... [sm=00000946.gif] cheers

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/9/2009 9:55:17 AM)
we´re back in action... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/07/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 146 Ki-49 Helen x 351 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 403 casualties reported Airbase hits 31 Airbase supply hits 14 Runway hits 196 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet we launch a massive strike in China. Combined strikes out of three different bases, range 6 hexes. As you can see, a massive amount of bombers has been moved into China, problem is that with the given situation and how the game is modelled, it doesn´t help me at all in regards of fighting the Chinese out of supply shock armies. All I can do is to use those bombers for anti airfield strikes to keep the Chinese from building up the forts from level 6 again. All those bombers were set to ground attacks for weeks, with no result. Either they don´t fly at all, if they fly, then only in small numbers and then they only attack two out of 40 inf units in this hex, so the effect is equally zero... [8\|] The enemy units must have been completely starved down, there´s still no flak fire from base forces. Many more units are marching down to Kweiyang so I´m not sure if it will stay a flak free place forever. If flak shows up, then we will have to attack from higher alt, but I guess the flak units would run out of supply in short time anyway. We will have Franks soon so if the remaining Brit/Aussie/Chinese squadrons at Chungking decide to fight us, then we will destroy them with massive strikes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 96 J1N1-S Irving x 36 B5N Kate x 8 Ki-61 Ic x 40 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 63 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 39th Division, at 43,33 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 84 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 101st Mountain Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x P1Y Frances bombing at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 27 P1Y Frances x 26 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 2 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 27 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 113 D4Y Judy x 22 A6M3a Zero x 50 B6N Jill x 177 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,78 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 22 B6N Jill x 14 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Castle, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Fal, Bomb hits 8, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 358 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet we now start to fight the "scattered" Allied convoy moving towards Australia. Dozens of TFs are spotted, most of them consisting of single ship TFs moving the same directio... [sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,78 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 23 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Fal, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet the first 59 bombers attacked two ships... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,76 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 25 B6N Jill x 14 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Rocket, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another 39 to finish an already damaged single DD... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,77 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 87 B6N Jill x 1 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships DD Rapid Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet hey, also a very nice strike... applause for my opponent for a very well thought out tactic...[sm=happy0065.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,78 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Citizen Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another one bomber strike? Must be because of three dozen single ship TFs... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,75 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 18 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Brutus, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Mandalay, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 45 casualties reported Guns lost 3 Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet wow! Another two ship TF? Is this a more than weak attempt to not have it looking completely gamey? Let´s form 12 x 2 ship TFs and another 48 x 1 ship TFs... then it won´t look gamey... pfff... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,75 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 27 B6N Jill x 18 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Mandalay, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage AK Empire Brutus, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 75 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet I think after this turn, all two ship TFs are destroyed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,75 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 18 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged Allied Ships AK Samsip, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage AK Samphill, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 161 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet from time to time we attack merchants that put up very heavy flak fire... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,75 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samsip, on fire, heavy damage AK Samphill, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet useless strike on already sunk ships... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,74 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 6 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samois, Torpedo hits 1, on fire AK Samharle, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 19 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,74 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 68 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samcalia Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another of those strange looking strikes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,78 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Regent Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet just like this one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,76 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 21 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y Judy: 2 damaged Allied Ships AK Samsurf, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 1 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet we´re in the afternoon, guess only one ship TFs left... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 5,74 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 14 No Japanese losses Allied Ships MSW Baroda, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,75 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 13 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samwater, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet seems like not all AKs were carrying troops... makes it even more strange for me as it seems the Allied in India only have very limited shipping and IMO it´s not worth it to use it for carrying supplies when you want to move more important troops to Australia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,75 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 22 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samhain, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet this one was also either empty or was carrying supplies... the ship won´t reach it´s target (which I expect to be Perth)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49251 troops, 526 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Defending force 52726 troops, 28 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 1082 Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109579 troops, 1360 guns, 25 vehicles, Assault Value = 2330 Defending force 83262 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1742 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8425 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1082 Defending force 52651 troops, 526 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Allied ground losses: 2 casualties reported

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/9/2009 10:27:11 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/08/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Empire Duchess, Shell hits 4 Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported well knowing that there is no real way to counter the one ship TF spam in the game, I nevertheless tried to do something, in this case trying to chase them down with cruisers. This is always what the advocates of the stupid single ship TF tactic advise if a player complains about this stupidity to exploit the engine... well, have a look at how well this works... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Sambridge, Shell hits 2, on fire Allied ground losses: 82 casualties reported Vehicles lost 5 the AKs just laugh about the cruiser´s gun fire... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Samur, Shell hits 2 Allied ground losses: 18 casualties reported Guns lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Samtrent as you can see, it´s completely senseles... I bet my cruiser ended up in the hex with at least two dozen single ship TFs... this doesn´t mean the cruiser would attack every single TF, there´s a max of what is attacked. Same number of ships in five different TFs and all would be attacked... once again I can only say: neither the routine for air attacks, nor the routine for naval combat can deal with single ship TF spam... glad my opponent knows that too... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro, Shell hits 1 Allied Ships AK Samteviot , Shell hits 1, on fire a single 3 inch hit on a big AK does nothing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Empire Swale, Shell hits 2, on fire Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Sampan, Shell hits 1 Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat at 3,79 Japanese Ships CL Noshiro Allied Ships AK Samos, Shell hits 1 Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 then the night phase ends with me being upset... [>:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 47 J2M3 Jack x 27 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 27 G4M1 Betty x 54 No Japanese losses Runway hits 56 Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 57 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 41 J2M3 Jack x 93 J1N1-S Irving x 71 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 48 P1Y Frances x 132 Ki-61 Ic x 107 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 225 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 116th Division, at 43,33 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 3 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 14 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 51st Division, at 43,33 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 4 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 15 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 15 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 107 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 47 B6N Jill x 171 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 24 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- then the morning starts off with sightings of dozens of single ship TFs... Day Air attack on TF at 2,79 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 22 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Sambridge, Bomb hits 11, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 59 casualties reported Vehicles lost 2 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet and then the bombers launch... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 2,79 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 13 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Sambridge, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,80 Japanese aircraft D4Y Judy x 23 B6N Jill x 14 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samtrent, Bomb hits 9, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet such strikes usually end up with 2/3 of the bombers not able to locate the target as it has been already sunk... therefor such strikes only reduce the available sorties of the carriers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,83 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 72 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Pathfinder Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet one of those "nice" strikes again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,83 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 20 B6N Jill x 18 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Regent, Bomb hits 10, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 153 casualties reported Guns lost 7 Vehicles lost 3 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another overkill strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 5,80 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 27 B6N Jill x 18 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Sampan, Bomb hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 2,79 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samos, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet one bomber, one hit... you can´t expect more I guess... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 2,79 Japanese aircraft B6N Jill x 12 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samos, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 94 casualties reported Vehicles lost 5 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet would be great if all my strikes would consist of max 12 bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,76 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samois Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet the lower the sortie rate is, the more of those absolutely strange strikes you get... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samur Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 21 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samokla, Bomb hits 8, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 236 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 1 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 8 B6N Jill x 8 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samokla, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 47 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 13 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 6 damaged Allied Ships AK Sammex, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported Vehicles lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet happy with those strikes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 62 B6N Jill x 1 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samouse Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet upset about strikes like this one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack at 2,106 Japanese Ships SS I-17, hits 1 Allied Ships AGC Blue Ridge AK Soochow AK Matthew Lyon SC SC-645 SC SC-642 MSW Whyalla MSW Strahan MSW Lithgow MSW Kiama AVD Ballard 8 hexes South West of Perth, but completely out of the shipping lanes around Australia, I-17 fired a salvo of 6 torps at AGC Blue Ridge but all torps missed the target... [:(] one near miss in return, so I shouldn´t complain, the sub lives on... I see my subs only as recon assets at this stage of the war and I would prefer if they don´t meet enemy TFs in the same hex. Perhaps I get the same chance again like near the Gilberts when bigbaba moved heavily damaged BBs around without a single DD as escort instead of heavily covering them (IIRC two then were sunk by subs and another one received further heavy damage), then I of course would use my subs offensively against the enemy again... so in fact, I have no idea what exactly this enemy TF is doing in this hex. And when looking at the position of the TF icon in the hex, I get the free intel that there are more enemy TFs in this hex together with my sub. Are those TFs perparing for a run North or are they even preparing for an invasion? With all those big TFs that were spotted around Tasmania (heading West) I was alerted already, Emilies are flying recon over Perth daily and we haven´t spotted lots of ships there so far, so all those TFs must have headed somewhere or are still due to arriving at Perth. In any way, we are in a state of alert at the moment and I guess the enemy has to gather all his TFs at Perth to refuel anyway before he sends them out for an invasion I guess. My bet at the moment is either Northern Australia or Timor. Both places are IMO completely out of the Allied´s possibilities and can lead to another disaster. But I´m open to be convinced about the opposite. While I also had big troop movements to India in mind, with the big convoy bringing troops FROM India towards Australia, I´m convinced that all those TFs won´t move towards India. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat at 3,81 Japanese Ships CL Agano Allied Ships AK Samur, Shell hits 9, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 121 casualties reported Not just Noshiro but also Agano were dispatched from KB to hunt down some single ship TFs during the night and day. While Noshiro was completely useless during the night, Agano performed better during the day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat at 3,81 Japanese Ships CL Agano Allied Ships AK Sammex, Shell hits 4, and is sunk Allied ground losses: 2398 casualties reported Vehicles lost 148 Sammex already was dead in the water and sank right after the cruiser showed up. Nice to see that we obviously sunk a big part of an armored unit. [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat at 3,81 Japanese Ships CL Agano, Shell hits 2 Allied Ships AK Empire Dirk, Shell hits 9, on fire AK Samouse , Shell hits 16, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 443 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Empire Dirk will surely live on but Samouse is in trouble after taking a dozen 6 inch hits... both AKs were firing back but both shells bounced off the CL´s armor... nice shooting nevertheless, must be quite hard to hit a light cruiser with a 5 inch gun on an AK from 18.000 yards... [:D] And that´s it for the day. We will pursue the fleeing ships for one more day, we´re only a good dozen hexes North West of Australia´s coast and I don´t want to get "too near" to Perth. My fuel is becoming low anyway and all those single ship TFs lead to a completely exhausted carrier TF with only 20% sorties left. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49237 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021 Defending force 52573 troops, 29 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1076 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109714 troops, 1363 guns, 25 vehicles, Assault Value = 2334 Defending force 83294 troops, 67 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1742 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8390 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1076 Defending force 52637 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021 Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Guns lost 1 as you can see, no more bombardments at Kweiyang, this is due to my orders to move all units out for R&R as my units just took too many losses against the Chinese that are just doing fine without supplies...

jwilkerson -> RE: it goes on... (10/9/2009 1:19:06 PM)
I once had a guy use 50 single "ship" PT boat TFs against me, I had about 12 ships including 2xOBB. I sank most of the PT boats, but took 2 torpedo hits on one of the OBB which was then sunk by airplanes since it could not get out of range of LBA. So this is why one of our house rules in our 2x2 AE game prohibits such tactics. On plus in AE though is that the air routines can combine targets from multiple TFs (as you've noticed), so at least on the air side there is some improvement. Even in real life though, performing a defensive split can be a valid tactic, but it is too powerful in the UV/WITP/WPO/AE series.

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/9/2009 1:49:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: jwilkerson I once had a guy use 50 single "ship" PT boat TFs against me, I had about 12 ships including 2xOBB. I sank most of the PT boats, but took 2 torpedo hits on one of the OBB which was then sunk by airplanes since it could not get out of range of LBA. So this is why one of our house rules in our 2x2 AE game prohibits such tactics. On plus in AE though is that the air routines can combine targets from multiple TFs (as you've noticed), so at least on the air side there is some improvement. Even in real life though, performing a defensive split can be a valid tactic, but it is too powerful in the UV/WITP/WPO/AE series. In this case I don´t even want to blame the game as it works quite good if there are not more than half a dozen TFs (of the same type and consisting of the same ships) in a hex. It´s a problem with the players (or at least many of them) that don´t want to lose - even if they make big mistakes - and then try to compensate that with exploiting the game engine. In this particular case it´s even more annoying as mentioned before, he (my opponents) insists in a hr when he looks for an opponent that denies such a tactic. It´s just a joke. You don´t have to game the engine if you don´t want to...[8\|]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/10/2009 10:06:48 AM)
I´m only receiving a turn a day so the game is awfully slow at the moment and this doesn´t make it more enjoyable at all... at least there´s still some action... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/09/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1056 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships AK Empire Niger, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage sub laid Type 88 mine heavily damages an AK at Perth... Emilies spot two TFs probably unloading at Perth... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 191 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 57 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 54 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Airbase hits 10 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 134 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 55 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 41 J2M3 Jack x 184 J1N1-S Irving x 97 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 44 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 135 Ki-61 Ic x 149 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 190 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 39th Division, at 43,33 Allied aircraft B-25J Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 2 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 115 D4Y Judy x 23 A6M3a Zero x 46 B6N Jill x 182 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 26 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,83 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 22 B6N Jill x 15 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Duchess, Bomb hits 13, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 246 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 3 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet still hordes of single ship TFs spotted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 23 B6N Jill x 14 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samur, Bomb hits 6, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 110 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet after 6 more bombs the AK disappeared... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 5,80 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 22 B6N Jill x 18 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samcalia, Bomb hits 11, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 117 casualties reported Vehicles lost 6 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 2 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 2,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 D4Y Judy x 27 B6N Jill x 13 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samteviot , Bomb hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 132 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x D4Y Judy bombing at 2000 feet 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet and another one with troops aboard... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,87 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 73 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships DD Pathfinder Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet the usual "strange" strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 6,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Swale, Torpedo hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet another one of those strange strikes... guess the hit is FOW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Dirk Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet as you can see, the single ship TF spam works just great... another one bomber attack, at least not with 80 Zeroes as escorts -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- afternoon air phase Day Air attack on TF at 4,78 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 66 B6N Jill x 1 Japanese aircraft losses B6N Jill: 1 damaged Allied Ships AK Samois Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet my carrier sorties seem to have become as much depleted that this is the only strike we flew in the afternoon. Checking the TF, the sorties are down to 25% but it seems it´s low enough that we don´t fly anymore attacks on the rest of the single ship TFs. Well, I´ve ordered my carriers to move back ot it´s homeport. While my opponent tried everything to game the game the losses inflicted by KB were severe. The CVE that was sunk is nowhere as valueable as all the troops that drowned. Hopefully we were able to sink at least a couple of units completely, some of them will live on and will be rebuilt. I didn´t keep track of how many AKs are confirmed sunk but I guess we took out four dozen AKs, most of them loaded with troops. The CVE and the couple of DDs and MSWs aren´t worth a lot. In the end it was a nice raid, total losses on our side are a couple of Zeroes and a dozen bombers that will easily replaced with high exp pilots from my training daitais. It was especially nice to see that we took out armored units. A pity there wasn´t an inf division on this convoy but there were one or two bgds that are now absolutely trashed and they will probably need half a year+ to be rebuilt. And by then, we will have nearly reached 1945 [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49287 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Defending force 52513 troops, 27 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1078 hopefully the Russian troops at Blagoveshchensk will have starved down to only a couple of assault points. At the moment, they don´t seem to lose a lot each turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109800 troops, 1369 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 2335 Defending force 83357 troops, 66 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1747 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8373 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1078 Defending force 52687 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1020 Allied ground losses: 2 casualties reported Guns lost 1

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/11/2009 12:05:49 PM)
we´ve done a couple of turns and reached the next point where my opponent doesn´t give a fcking damn about the hrs we´ve agreed to. This kind of stupid behaviour is just too much for me and it really pisses me off. This turn saw this: AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/14/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Nagoya , at 64,42 Allied aircraft B-29 Superfortress x 81* Allied aircraft losses B-29 Superfortress: 1 damaged Japanese Ships AP Netsuda Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Azuchi Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Zinzan Maru, Bomb hits 1 AP Zuiho Maru, Bomb hits 1 AP Syoryu Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire MSW Wa 104, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Hukko Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Junpo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Clyde Maru, Bomb hits 1 AK Takegawa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Kashimasan Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Akita Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Sinko Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire MSW W.33, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Dainiti Maru, Bomb hits 1 AK Takao Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Kokka Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Takunan Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage MSW Wa 13, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AK Kusuyama Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Takayo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Hokumyo Maru, Bomb hits 1 AK Ganges Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AP Taimei Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire AK Teikin Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire Port hits 3 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet now where did those B-29 come from? Chungking! Chungking doesn´t have an airfield big enough to have B-29 launching strikes from. What a surprise he "forgot" about this hr too, just like the one about airfield stacking (which he still deliberetly ignores more or less all around the map where I can´t tell it 100% for sure). Not to talk about the four dozen single ship TFs he created after stumbling into KB. [8\|] I was well aware about the fact that Chungking is in range of all my important industrial areas and I was more than amazed that the Chinese never built it up, it has still the same size like at the beginning of the war. He could have moved Liberators in to bomb my industry in China but he never did, so I did nothing to raise his attention. I didn´t even mention this "threat" in my AAR as it was a fact that my opponent was reading my closed AAR while I played him before Miller took over. No matter if an AAR is "closed" or not, it´s always more than a high risk to mention something as opponents "magically" then get to know of. Experienced too many surprises in the distant past that were too surprising to happen that often... not in this game as I try to keep the game at least a week ahead of the AAR and I don´t post too many important things about my future planning. I´ve sent this turn back with the hrs on page 1 of this AAR and told him he should redo the turn and once again told him either he sticks to the hrs or I will bail out of this game. Honestly, when Paul quit, this game should have been stopped.

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 1:47:51 PM)
The last turn when the B-29s came from a too small airfield was redone and we got a couple of turns done. And it seems to start getting a little bit more interesting again... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/10/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1026 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships DD Foote DD Eaton DD Fullam DD Dyson more and more TFs are spotted at and around Perth... more than 300 ships are reported being in port, the level 8 airfield has been filled up too and lots of TFs are spotted by my subs in this area... my Emilies reported 50+ Allied subs at Perth when there were no other ships, with so many ships disbanded in port it´s impossible to say what there is, though mostly probably AKs and APs. bigbaba is definetely up to something in this area and the funny thing is that you can´t hide such a buildup... [:D] while being on alert already anyway, we will further prepare our troops to counter an Allied offensive around Australia... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1064 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships MSW Vireo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 192 J2M3 Jack x 73 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 75 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 52 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 226 Port hits 5 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 53 A6M5 Zeke x 26 N1K1-J George x 42 J2M3 Jack x 176 J1N1-S Irving x 103 D4Y Judy x 26 A6M5c Zeke x 43 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 128 Ki-61 Ic x 145 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 337 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ulan-Ude , at 61,10 Allied aircraft Liberator VI x 36 Yak-9D x 96 Pe-2 x 231 Allied aircraft losses Liberator VI: 1 damaged Pe-2: 3 destroyed, 21 damaged Japanese ground losses: 107 casualties reported Guns lost 6 Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 104 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Pe-2 bombing at 16000 feet bigbaba obviously has moved the British Liberators to Ulan Ude now. There is the aircraft stacking house rule of af size x 50 + max 10%. Well, there is no hr about what happens if there is only one base left and the player has no other chance to move his ac somewhere. In this case, the last Russian base in the North has something like 1500 - 2000 ac at this level 8 airfield (6.500 airbalance!!!!) which is about 4-5 times the max amount of aircraft that are allowed there. bigbaba can´t move his Russian ac elsewhere so no complain about that (if he´s only using 400 of them - which I doubt when I look at the number of incoming ac and the number of fighters on Cap [8\|]) BUT besides this, he then moves additional British 4E bomber squadrons into this completely overstacked airfield. And to be honest, this is once again something that is well beyond my logic and understanding on what you should do. Just like I´ve said, you should be a lawyer and set up 894 pages of a house rule contract before you start a PBEM, with all eventualities in the contract - and you will still miss something. The same with the hr about single ship TF spam. The hr says "don´t do that with INVASION TFs". [8\|] Instead it should be "don´t do that with TFs". So it was just fine for him to do the single ship TF spam in the Indian ocean with his convoy as it wasn´t an "INVASION" TF... It´s a pain, nothing else... there are only two or three hrs in this game that are really important and it´s just annoying if you have to discuss them every couple of turns again and again and again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 24 P1Y Frances x 21 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 28 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 24 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 101st Mountain Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 20 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 2 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 11 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 P1Y Frances x 12 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 12th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 8 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 106 D3A Val x 27 A6M3a Zero x 72 B6N Jill x 165 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 27 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 7,83 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 1 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Empire Swale Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet as you can see, KB isn´t able to launch strikes anymore, despite of having 20% sorties left... the one ship TF spam worked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 3,83 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 69 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samouse , Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet two single bomber attacks in the morning...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 4,81 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 66 B6N Jill x 1 No Japanese losses Allied Ships AK Samois Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N Jill launching torpedoes at 200 feet and one in the afternoon... [8\|][8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49273 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021 Defending force 52322 troops, 24 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 1070 Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109928 troops, 1377 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 2338 Defending force 83348 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1752 Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8413 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1070 Defending force 52673 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1021

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 2:05:40 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/11/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 192 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported Airbase hits 14 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 217 Port hits 4 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet Clark field and Bataan airfield are still full of training daitais. Half of them has perfect experience and are veteran pilots that have fought many succesful battles already. They can be moved into the threatened area around Northern Australia within a couple of days as they´re just behind the front line... as soon as it heats up I will have the aircraft in place... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 58 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 45 J2M3 Jack x 190 J1N1-S Irving x 108 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 48 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 132 Ki-61 Ic x 156 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 291 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ulan-Ude , at 61,10 Allied aircraft Liberator VI x 27 Yak-9D x 94 Pe-2 x 247 Allied aircraft losses Liberator VI: 3 damaged Pe-2: 1 destroyed, 22 damaged Japanese ground losses: 113 casualties reported Guns lost 2 Airbase hits 17 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 74 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Pe-2 bombing at 16000 feet 440 ac max allowed, some 1.500 at the base and with the game stacking limits (not the hr) he get´s more than 550 into the air. Pretty much tells me that he´s not caring about the hr at this base at all as you have to set a hell a lot of squadrons to attack to get that many ac flying if four times overstacked...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 101st Mountain Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 18 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 57 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 27 P1Y Frances x 37 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 48 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 27 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 108 D3A Val x 27 A6M3a Zero x 76 B6N Jill x 163 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49246 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019 Defending force 51922 troops, 24 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 1062 Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 43,33 Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 109938 troops, 1377 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 2339 Defending force 83652 troops, 65 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1756 Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8424 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1062 Defending force 52646 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019 Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Guns lost 1

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 2:31:43 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/12/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 57 Ki-49 Helen x 111 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed, 20 damaged Allied ground losses: 199 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 69 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet only one base launched a strike today but in this case it was good as the Chinese obviously have flak now... and this unit has supply... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 61 J2M3 Jack x 31 J1N1-S Irving x 3 D4Y Judy x 33 A6M3a Zero x 30 B6N Jill x 4 G4M1 Betty x 54 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 64 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 60 A6M5 Zeke x 27 J2M3 Jack x 48 J1N1-S Irving x 71 D4Y Judy x 27 Ki-61 Ic x 36 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 8 Runway hits 100 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49241 troops, 529 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1017 Defending force 51828 troops, 23 guns, 146 vehicles, Assault Value = 1062 Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 2:36:56 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/13/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1012 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships PG Jasmine PC Tiger PG Swan lots of TFs arrived at Perth during the night... intel from my spy-mines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1021 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships DD Cony DD Converse DD Conner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1037 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships DD Murray DD Mullany DD Marshall -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 1058 encounters mine field at Perth (7,100) Allied Ships DD Barker DD Monaghan DD Reid DD Morris DD O'Brien DD Russell every single DD destroyed one or two Type 88 mines but not a single ship hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 47 J2M3 Jack x 27 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 27 G4M1 Betty x 54 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 46 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 64 A6M5 Zeke x 26 N1K1-J George x 47 J2M3 Jack x 191 J1N1-S Irving x 108 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 48 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 133 Ki-61 Ic x 170 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 51 casualties reported Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 10 Runway hits 152 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Petropavlovsk , at 84,32 Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 24 LB-30 Liberator x 48 PB4Y Liberator x 36 B-24J Liberator x 43 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 9 damaged LB-30 Liberator: 12 damaged PB4Y Liberator: 10 damaged B-24J Liberator: 17 damaged Japanese ground losses: 113 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 24 Airbase supply hits 10 Runway hits 160 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 10000 feet perhaps I´ll need more flak up in the North but with the Allied build up around Australia I´m 99% sure that there won´t happen much up North... and if so, it´s not a suitable place anyway and I have it fortified quite well... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ulan-Ude , at 61,10 Allied aircraft Liberator VI x 33 Yak-9D x 95 Pe-2 x 258 Allied aircraft losses Liberator VI: 3 damaged Pe-2: 2 destroyed, 25 damaged Japanese ground losses: 158 casualties reported Guns lost 5 Airbase hits 25 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 168 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Pe-2 bombing at 16000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 15 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 87 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 15 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 27 P1Y Frances x 40 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 109 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 27 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 114 D3A Val x 27 A6M3a Zero x 81 B6N Jill x 165 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 27 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49238 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019 Defending force 51457 troops, 24 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1054 Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 2:42:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/14/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 192 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 54 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 100 Port hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 48 J2M3 Jack x 144 J1N1-S Irving x 36 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 116 Ki-61 Ic x 135 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 186 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Petropavlovsk , at 84,32 Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 15 LB-30 Liberator x 27 PB4Y Liberator x 27 B-24J Liberator x 28 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 8 damaged LB-30 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged PB4Y Liberator: 15 damaged B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 41 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 66 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 10000 feet occasional flak loss... the 4Es are hard to down as ever... and I don´t want to think about the B-29 that is available also already... [sm=fighting0045.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49255 troops, 529 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019 Defending force 51485 troops, 24 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 1053 Allied ground losses: 33 casualties reported

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 3:01:31 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/15/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 146 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 193 Port hits 6 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 70 A6M5 Zeke x 27 J2M3 Jack x 144 J1N1-S Irving x 108 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M5c Zeke x 47 B5N Kate x 9 Ki-61 Ic x 106 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 223 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 101st Mountain Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 P1Y Frances x 13 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 10 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 12th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 24 P1Y Frances x 23 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 55 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 113 D3A Val x 27 A6M3a Zero x 78 B6N Jill x 164 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 27 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49275 troops, 529 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1019 Defending force 51302 troops, 23 guns, 150 vehicles, Assault Value = 1054 Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported the enemy at Blagoveshchensk is not dying away as fast as I would like it to be... only 150 troops less than last turn but they are 100% out of supply for sure and I´m even flying ground attacks... I would like to see them being starved down to only a couple of assault points to move my remaining three divisions out and keep only one of the mongolian cav divisions here to act as a prison guard...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 3:06:49 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/16/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 192 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 37 casualties reported Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 222 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Petropavlovsk , at 84,32 Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 LB-30 Liberator x 27 PB4Y Liberator x 23 B-24J Liberator x 29 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged LB-30 Liberator: 12 damaged PB4Y Liberator: 5 damaged B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Guns lost 1 Airbase hits 10 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 45 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing at 10000 feet at least the number of attacking bombers is dropping rapidly... while very few are lost, the bad weather in the North seems to put them in inoperational state pretty fast... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 110 D3A Val x 24 A6M3a Zero x 81 B6N Jill x 170 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 27 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49229 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1018 Defending force 51336 troops, 23 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 1058 Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported fast turn... our subs still spot TF after TF around Perth... huge buildup going on, I have no more doubt that Perth will be the staging base for the next big Allied operation...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 3:58:33 PM)
The Frank entered production today! BANZAI! We will nearly produce 700 of this advanced IJA fighter per month. As soon as all IJAAF fighter units will be equipped with this fighter we will build up a stock of 500 aircraft and then we will scale back production to around 350 per month. I will try to move the production start of the c-version by two months to get it 10/44. This will be a real improvement over the a-version as the c has a gun value of 14! Hopefully this will be enough to hurt Allied 4E bombers too. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/17/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 46 Ki-49 Helen x 107 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 22 damaged Allied ground losses: 167 casualties reported Airbase hits 14 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 64 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Kweiyang , at 41,35 Japanese aircraft Ki-61 Ic x 127 Ki-49 Helen x 225 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49 Helen: 3 destroyed, 19 damaged Allied ground losses: 167 casualties reported Airbase hits 23 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 158 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 189 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 52 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 35 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 174 Port hits 1 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-43-IIa Oscar bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 75 A6M5 Zeke x 27 J2M3 Jack x 144 J1N1-S Irving x 107 A6M5c Zeke x 48 B5N Kate x 9 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 36 Ki-61 Ic x 142 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 217 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Ulan-Ude , at 61,10 Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Liberator VI x 32 Yak-9D x 82 Pe-2 x 245 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Liberator VI: 3 damaged Pe-2: 3 destroyed, 16 damaged Japanese ground losses: 104 casualties reported Guns lost 7 Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 67 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Pe-2 bombing at 16000 feet moved in a Dinah recon chutai as I want to know how many ac there really are left at Irkutsk. Not that it would make any difference... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 26th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 27 P1Y Frances x 44 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 35 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 27 x A6M3a Zero bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 84 D3A Val x 27 D4Y Judy x 23 A6M3a Zero x 78 B6N Jill x 161 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49174 troops, 528 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1018 Defending force 51133 troops, 23 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 1054

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 4:05:33 PM)
This day saw a very interesting encounter... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/18/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 142 J2M3 Jack x 47 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 51 A6M3a Zero x 27 B6N Jill x 34 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 134 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 13 Ki-61 Ic x 81 Allied aircraft B-29 Superfortress x 131 Japanese aircraft losses J2M3 Jack: 5 damaged Ki-61 Ic: 37 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-29 Superfortress: 15 destroyed, 101 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet 2 x B-29 Superfortress bombing at 10000 feet [image]local://upfiles/13774/B00BEDC384174E0389002C7E6ABE12E9.jpg[/image] the first clash between the new American super bomber B-29 and Japanese fighters happens over Derby. I was more than shocked to see 131 of them already as I thought it would take some more time to see the first BGs attacking with "only" 150 [8\|] bombers coming out of the factories per month. Obviously the enemy received some bomber groups as reinforcements already. This strike was coming in from Perth, some 1500 miles! I had some ships in port and have been moving in more and more fighters into this area due to an expected Allied operation so the bombers met resistance over the base. With 5 Type 13 radar sets within my base forces we get a Cap rate of 45% [8\|]. Boy this really sucks. Cap was set to 80%. If I still don´t get decent Cap numbers (the Allied constantly get 100% Cap even if they set their fighters to a very low Cap percentage) then it´s just hopeless in future. In this case, nearly all bombers turned back, two dozen dropped their load but missed. Would have 50 dropped their bombs and would this base been reconned (or bombed) before then I would probably have lost more than a hundred undamaged fighters on the ground. The B-29 has a durability of 88!!! in Nikmod. This is another 20 more than other 4Es, which we have huge problems to fight. 13 bombers were shot down by fighters and another 2 were shot down by flak directly over the target. Another 20 crashed on their extremely long way home though, bringing up the total bombers lost to 35. Not bad but the insane range and bombload of this bomber will play a massive factor from now on. Dropping 10x500lb bombs on a target 27 hexes away is dropping 2 more 500lb bombs a B-24 can drop at 10 hexes in this mod. And it´s 6 more 500lb bombs at 27 hexes like a B-24 can drop at 14 hexes.[X(] More engagements will show, but what seems to be obvious in this engagement was the fact that the gun value 12 of the Jack is a notable difference to the gun value 10 of the Tony. The small number of Jacks shot down 3 bombers over the target, while the 6 times more Tonies only shot down 10 bombers over the target. A gun value of 10 is enough to more or less deal with Allied fighters (except Lightnings with their high durability), the four cannon armed IJNAF land based fighters Jack and George of course work even better against fighters but against 4Es and the super heavy B-29 a gun value of 10 is just not enough (I´m thinking about escorted strikes or big strikes against small Cap, when we won´t be able to do anything). This leads to a problem, as the Frank carries the same armament like the Tony (2x12,7mm MGs + 2 20mm cannons) giving it a gun value of 10. The Frank compared to the Tony has one hex more range, has the same armament, a slightly higher durability and is 10 mph faster and the Frank carries two 250 kg bombs which would make it a decent fighter bomber (no real need for a fighter bomber though) and a deadly kamikaze. Hopefully especially the more speed will make it an overall better aircraft (when fighting enemy fighters), the real improvement will be the next Frank version at the end of 44. The fact that there are 130+ B-29 at Perth even more convinces me that the enemy is going to attack soon. Expected target: Northern Australia, probably Broome, followed by Derby. Wyndham or Darwin is IMO out of scope as the further the enemy heads East (when coming from Perth), the more my bases on Timor come into play. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 75 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 48 J2M3 Jack x 95 J1N1-S Irving x 72 A6M5c Zeke x 47 P1Y Frances x 133 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35 Ki-61 Ic x 143 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Airbase hits 16 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 219 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 35th Rifle Division, at 69,23 Japanese aircraft P1Y Frances x 18 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P1Y Frances bombing at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 84 D3A Val x 27 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 78 B6N Jill x 162 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Aircraft Attacking: 24 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49205 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1018 Defending force 50953 troops, 23 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 1055

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/13/2009 4:13:03 PM)
Aircraft losses this turn. With 35 out of 131 attacking bombers lost, this would have been a disaster in real life. 26.7% loss rate. Wonder what the highest loss rate of B-29 strikes was. It´s not as severe in the game as it would have been in real life. I´m sure it won´t take long and the B-29 will kill hundreds of fighters on the ground and the fighter vs bomber loss rate will soon favour the B-29 4:1 or even higher. It all depends on how our Cap rates look like. [image]local://upfiles/13774/7530E03B1E914E7AB15270B4D3113E14.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/14/2009 9:39:50 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/19/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 192 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 148 Port hits 4 Port fuel hits 2 Port supply hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 75 A6M5 Zeke x 27 N1K1-J George x 47 J2M3 Jack x 192 J1N1-S Irving x 108 A6M5c Zeke x 48 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 134 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 36 Ki-61 Ic x 215 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 22 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 329 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft J2M3 Jack x 86 D3A Val x 24 D4Y Judy x 27 A6M3a Zero x 27 B6N Jill x 166 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 26 x J2M3 Jack bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49160 troops, 526 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1018 Defending force 50904 troops, 25 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1057 a complete useless turn, nothing happened...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/14/2009 9:59:09 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/20/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 192 J2M3 Jack x 74 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 78 A6M3a Zero x 54 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 163 Port hits 4 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 74 A6M5 Zeke x 27 J2M3 Jack x 143 J1N1-S Irving x 106 A6M5c Zeke x 5 B5N Kate x 9 P1Y Frances x 48 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35 Ki-61 Ic x 144 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Airbase hits 9 Runway hits 172 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49168 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1018 Defending force 50893 troops, 25 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 1054 Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported not much action but important info this turn. We not just spotted enemy carriers (we didn´t spot the carriers but a Glen was shot down A2A in this area), we also sent out Dinah IIIs to recon the railroad towards Derby and spotted over 20 units marching North East. As expected already, the Allied are going to attack our bases on Northern Australia. Troops are marching in, so I´m not sure what I should think about the TFs we´ve spotted North West of Perth. In any case, it will be fun. This is the point when we´ve decided to abandon Charter Towers near Australia´s West Coast. Expected Allied target(s) are Derby (primary) and Darwin (probably with the troops stationed at Townsville at the moment). We will be well prepared to fight the enemy. He won´t get anything without comitting a hell a lot of units and this is the best that can happen for us. While it seems to be the shortest way into the SRA (don´t want to think about 1000 B-29 on Northern Australia), it is also the best place for us to fight the Allied ground units. Several factors are favouring us. We can concentrate our troops on four bases, with the enemy spearhead probably only going at one or two. Our bases can "only" be reached by B-29s (unescorted) or by carrier based ac (which can´t stay forever and we can strike back at the carriers). We will be in full supply, supply for the enemy is in question as it´s quite a long way to their next bases. And we can bring in reinforcements by sea if needed. All in all, I can´t think about a better place to fight them as we are sitting behind level 9 forts (wonder if the Allied have the same problems taking down forts as we have). [image]local://upfiles/13774/743E004CFEB34E40BFAADB52EFFF49C2.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/14/2009 10:01:13 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/21/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 193 J2M3 Jack x 45 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 51 A6M3a Zero x 27 B6N Jill x 34 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 157 Port hits 1 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 48 P1Y Frances x 104 Ki-61 Ic x 70 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 57 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49171 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1017 Defending force 51011 troops, 26 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1057 Allied ground losses: 25 casualties reported not much happening regarding combat. We are further flying recon over the railline coming from Perth, are bringing more material into the areas around Northern Australia and Perth. The enemy TFs North West of Perth are still static. No idea what bigbaba is thinking or why he keeps them there...

castor troy -> RE: it goes on... (10/14/2009 1:09:02 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR 04/22/44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52 Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zeke x 165 J2M3 Jack x 47 J1N1-S Irving x 27 D4Y Judy x 24 A6M3a Zero x 27 B6N Jill x 16 G4M1 Betty x 53 Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 70 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 149 Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on Blagoveshchensk , at 69,23 Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 75 A6M5 Zeke x 27 J2M3 Jack x 142 J1N1-S Irving x 104 A6M5c Zeke x 48 B5N Kate x 9 Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35 Ki-61 Ic x 177 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 278 Aircraft Attacking: 36 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on 108th Region Fortress, at 65,32 Japanese aircraft D3A Val x 24 D4Y Judy x 27 B6N Jill x 27 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x D3A Val bombing at 2000 feet as you can see, we´ve greatly reduced the aircraft in training already, moved most of them into the Timor area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Air attack on TF at 92,99 Allied aircraft Wellington III x 9 P-40N Warhawk x 39 P-47C Thunderbolt x 9 P-47D Thunderbolt x 8 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AK Fuyukawa Maru, Bomb hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Wellington III bombing at 5000 feet seems like there´s no chance anymore to sneak an AK to Wallis Island to pick up the sound detector there that is stuck there forever... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Blagoveshchensk Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 49175 troops, 527 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 1016 Defending force 51035 troops, 26 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 1060 Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Colombo Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1217 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 36 Defending force 12360 troops, 99 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4 Japanese max assault: 32 - adjusted assault: 20 Allied max defense: 3 - adjusted defense: 178 [8\|][8\|] Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 9) Japanese ground losses: 136 casualties reported Guns lost 1 previous Allied evacuations and daily recon convinced me that it would be possible to do a succesful paradrop on Colombo (we already took the empty Trimcomalae earlier). Dumb as I am, thinking that at this stage of the war we could achieve something at least now and then, this paradrop lead to a disaster. Why? Because 50% of my transports were shot down immedietely by the Allied uber flak (two base forces) and the other 50% of my transports were damaged. At the end we lost three dozen Topsies. Don´t even want to talk about the fact that the defending units without any combat ability magically got their assault value multiplied by 60! [sm=crazy.gif] this is what is defending the base: [image]local://upfiles/13774/D532B87502404E538B0334587145FFAF.jpg[/image] knowing that the two base forces have 0 av, same as the aviation unit and the fragment of the HQ, it is more than amazing that they get an adjusted av of 178... [8\|] another para unit is at Trimcomalae and it is ordered to MARCH to Colombo. Won´t take much time overland through a clear hex and further on two hexes on the railline. Then we will have 80 av at Colombo, wonder if it will be enough to take out an enemy with 0 base av... this paradrop was a completely BS idea in any case...

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