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gladiatt -> RE: march in CentPac (10/21/2010 10:15:12 AM)


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ORIGINAL: flaggelant



hey,

have you considered organising some long range bombers (or recon) to fly search missions from mandalay to get some decent scouting reports on his fleet movement?
(or even on bombing missions, because its unlikely that he has CAP for his transports over there in "safe" waters).

- [:-] don't talk !! i am trying to have some nav search missions, but from Mandalay, China Sea is a bit far away and i can't see everything


do you ever use the "W" button to check zone of controle around the main battlefields? i usually check them to ensure (or disable) retreat routes

- I use this nearly every turn !!




- Errr, dear readers, sorry, due to serious real life issue, AAR is a bit delayed. Will try to update this week end (nothing sure sadly). Stay tuned, there are many things to tell for the period 11th - 19th march 1943.
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If you want to know what happen to me, just have a look at The THREAD!!! on AE forum, at this date (21 october).
Sorry for you and for my bad manners in the past.




flaggelant -> RE: march in CentPac (10/21/2010 8:46:41 PM)

sounds bad.. wish you much strength for the time coming




gladiatt -> BURMA (10/22/2010 8:41:40 AM)

11th - 19th march 1943

BURMA

Front lines didn't moved. There is still a No Man's Land between our ground troop. I dislike not hammering the japs but i have absolutely not the strengh to fight right now.
The japs west of Pagan still seem stucked but can't die either. Anyway, i'd rather tie them here rather than let them flee.

11th march, Jan ambush my daily air raid wich harassed his troops near Pagan.
44 Tony on LRCAP intercepted 2 raids of unescorted bombers, downing 38 for the losses of 2 Tony[sm=fighting0056.gif].
- 2 squadrons of 23th FG at AKYAB were set to escort but didn't fly.
- 3 squadrons of P-38 had the wrong range for escort. Stupid me . DOH .

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CEYLON
11th march, 20 Bettys (from Victoria Point i think) attack 4 PG on ASW dutty at Trincomalee, severely damaging 3 with bombs.
There is NOW a RAF squadron on CAP there. DOH .




gladiatt -> CENTPAC (10/22/2010 9:00:57 AM)



11th - 19th march

CENTPAC



Funafuti: i am still trying to close this airfield in order to protect my lines of communication between West Coast and Rest of the World. I would not like to see an airfield level 4 with bettys and topedoes here, so i try to hinder the building.
Problem is just 1 hex north there is also Nukufetau wich is maybe building (airfield still at 0, host float planes).

Air raid are conducted on 11th, 12, 17 and 18th march. The jap CAP change, from 3 Rufe and 4 zeros it became in the week 6 J2M Jack.
My bombers made 137 sorties, i loosed 3 planes, and destroyed 1 Jack on ground.

To help my raid, i sent 2 surface TF to made shore bombardement.
( question to anyone: does a naval bombardement help to rise the experience level of the crew ? )

On 12th march, 4CA and 2 CL score 4 hits on airbase and 27 on runway, destroying 1 Jack and 1 Emily.
On 13th march, another TF with BB Idaho, 1 CA and 2CL score 1 hit on airbase and 46 on runway.
The airfield seem to have a great number of engineers: my recon suggest that as soon as 15th march it is repaired !
On 18th march, 6 Bettys from Funafuti attack my CA TF closing once more to the target.
1 bomber is downed and 4 damaged by my flak, CL Richmond and Cleveland escape unharmed.
On 19th march, this TF bombard funafuti, scoring 7 hits on airbase and 67 on runway.

On 15th march, Tarawa, in jap hands, rise to level 4 Port. The same day, CL Agano hit a mine there.


SUBWAR

1 sub attack: S-41 missed CV Hiyo at Tulagi on 12th march.
The japs made 2 ASW attack, hitting 2 subs, none seem near to sink but both need repair.

Pretty nothing. I must also admit that i have nearly 60% of my avalaible subs repairing all around the map !
I hope to resume a more intense sub war in 2 or 3 months.
But that's also true that i would have like to make some harassement of the japs shipping....

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gladiatt -> JAPS PLANES FALL IN THE SKYES OF CHINA (10/22/2010 9:18:44 AM)



11th - 19th march 1943

CHINA

ON GROUND

- East of Chungking, lone and isolated 2 Chinese Div hadn't had time to reach my lines. Attacked by 7 japs tank regiments on 12th march, it is repulsed in the wrong direction [8|]. It then serve as jap training ground daily for hundred of planes (Nates, Jack, Sonia, etc)

- West of Chungking: i tried to repulse the 2 japs brigade there. But my reinforcing troops, wich had marching order "set to follow" are not well coordinated and are scattered.
Crossing the river north of the road, they triggered 2 spread and scattered shock attack on 17th and 18th march, wich failed with heavy allied losses (120 japs casualties for 600 chinese). Another deliberate attack on 19th march achieve nothing more .

- At Yunan. The japs managed to outflank me north of the town: 9th Ind Bde is now in the moutain hex.
In february, i was trying to send 2 warbands there before siege of Yunan, but my troops were at 58 miles when the japs bombardement reset my orders [8|]. Chinese units are now trying to ward the trail between Yunan and Miytkiyna to avoid complete surrounding.


AIR WAR IS HEATING AND THE JAPS SUFFER [sm=00000612.gif]

-13th march, at Chengtu, 18 I-16 down 7 J2M Jack out of 24 for no losses [X(]
- 15th march, at "Mount 4432", 20 Tony escorting 120 bombers down 3 of my I-16 on CAP and another one on 14th.

- 17th march, AVG/A and VMO 251 ambush the japs airforce near Yunan. Two waves gathering 39 fighters and 61 bombers encounter 30 allied fighters. AVG/A loose 3 planes, among them is 1LT Mac Garry, 39 Kills, wich is KIA. 1LT Lopez is at 1 point of becoming a legend: he score 5 kills today, reaching 49 !! VMO 251 also loose 3 planes.
But the tally is great : 36 japs are destroyed.

- 19th march, at mount 4432, VMO 251 and 28th RAF sq (SpitVb) ambush the japs daily raid. 47 allied planes loose 4 I-16 and down 11 Tony and 25 bombers.

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gladiatt -> SOMETHING HAPPEN IN NORTH OZ (10/22/2010 9:36:58 AM)


11th - 19th march 1943

NORTH AUSTRALIA

The japs mess with my forces, trying to stop Something....

I mean OPERATION SOMETHING (George Harrisson TM [;)] ).

Goal is to build Aru Island. As you can read from previous week, under the air threat caused by Amboina, and seeing the slow rate of building of this small base, i spread my assets also on Tenimbar Island, closer of Darwin and able to be supported. 1 Base force and 1 seabee are landed at each of these base, and a PT Boat TF try to cover both.

On 11th march, a jap TF is IN Darwin hex [X(]. Came unspotted !!!
A raid of 32 Allied bombers manage to hit hard. DD Minazuki suffer 1 bomb hit, CL Tatsuta 3 bombs hits of the 2000lb model, and 1 bomb hit (500lb) on CL Tama.
In the following night, i decided to fight with my 2 DD there. But in the night, they are surprised by the japs TF.
SURPRISED ???? Come on boys, i was looking for him, i had radar on both DD and CL Tama was a bright spot with it's fire, how could i been surprised ??? This game is sometime REALLY stupid.
These 2 DD manage to shoot only 1 shell of 4 inch on CL Tama, CL Kinu and 5 DD being unharmed. DD Kennison is sunk, DD Crane heavily damaged.
In daylight, 12th march, my airforce strike back, north of Tenimbar. 1st waves (19 bombers) score 1 hit on DD Yunag (on fire) and 1 bomb hit on CL Kinu (on fire). Second wave score 1 bomb hit on CL Kinu.
I must wait until 14th march before having reports of CL Tatsuta sinking, but not the others ships [X(][8|].


12th march, Aru Island is straffed by 27 zeros and 12 sallys. The raid come back on 13th, scoring 1 port hit.
14th march at Tenimbar, 13 zeros and 11 japs bombers fight 4 dutch Brewster 339 (none is lost [X(] ), and an AK is severly damaged with 100 casualties of a Seabee unit. Aru Island is also bombed on 14th march.
15th march, Tenimbar is attacked by 41 zeros and 15 bombers. This time, 12 P-38 of 24th FG/C are here, and down 11 zeos and 1 helen for no loss (but another AK is sink with 100 mens aboard).
-16th march, jap raid on Tenimbar, no loss on either side (Brewster on CAP only, P-38 are resting).

The first island to reach level 1 airfield will host Sptifire and probably a small squadron of A-20.

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gladiatt -> SOPAC IN ACTION (10/22/2010 9:42:55 AM)


11th - 19th march 1943

Luganville & Efate

11th march, 4 Bettys attacks MSW Pirie on ASW duty at Efate. 2 P-400 of 47th FS on LRCAP manage nothing, but the little ship has a good AA gunner ! It down 1 of the bomber and damage 2 others !! [&o].

13th march, 53 zeros and 25 Bettys face my CAP of 33 allied fighters above Luganville. 5 of my fighters are downed for 21 zeros, but the bettys manage to sink 2 australians MSW (among them, courageous little Pirie).


March seem to be a bad month for the jap air force, but this is not to a end, just read about operation TICKET TO RIDE

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gladiatt -> NEW GUINEA AND OPERATION TICKET TO RIDE (10/22/2010 9:50:09 AM)

11th - 19th march

New Guinea and Operation Ticket to Ride

Ticket to Ride aim to unload troops west of Gili Gili, avoiding possible nasty minefields at landing beach, and being more secure against surface TF that the japs could send against a landing.
We have no home rules against landing on non-base hex, and Jan had already used this trick many time by the past when conquering DEI ( near Tarakan, near Kuching, near Koepang). Now it's my turn. Although this is slow, this is a bit more secure, and for now i need to secure my operations; With time, maybe i will land directly on targets.

To provide cover to these landings, Rabaul should be closed or at least reduced, thus the attack of 10th march.
- 11th march, weather cause lack of coordination in my planes, only 32 P-38 of 24th FG/A and B sweep Rabaul, destroying 1 zero out of 15
-12th march, weather prevent any flight [:@].
(no, seriously, is there any part of this damn whole map where the weather is clear for more than 3 days in a row ? ).

THAN START ONE WEEK OF HAMMERING

General Kenney lead the 5th Airforce HQ in Port Moresby wich handle this bombing week. He is a good air leader with 70+ in airskill .

-13th march, 180 4E without escort (oups) face 14 zeros above Rabaul. 1 B-24 is destroyed, 15 damaged, but 38 japs planes are destroyed (air or ground), 224 hits scored on runway and 17 on airbase.
The same day, the Australian airforce launch 30 Liberators VI with 30 P-38 against Gasmata . 7 japs planes are destroyed, 16 hits scored on runway.

- 14th march, 68 B-17 of elite 43th BG and 5th BG attack Rabaul where 7 zeros try to defend the place . 2 Flying Fortress are lost to flak, none to air-to-air. 2 japs planes are destroyed on ground, 7 hits scored on airbase and 60 on runway. Airfield is supposed damaged to 65%.
Gasmata has it's air raid too : 4 zeros and 7 Tony face 46 P-38, 40 B-24 and 39 Liberators VI. 3 P-38 are lost for 34 japs planes destroyed (air and ground). 14 hits score on airbase, 59 on runway, airfield supposed to be 40% damaged.

In the same times, Transport TF are unloading some troops west of Gili Gili (26th PS Cav Regiment, 112th US Cav Regt, 5th Australian Tk Bn).

The japs try to react. A surface TF is spotted south of Gili Gili at Deboyne Island. 29 B-24 on patrol score 1 hit on DD Sagiri and 1 on DD Fubuki, both seen on fire (no sinking since).
Another TF is even closer of Gili Gili, and suffer a raid by 120 twin-engine bombers from Port Moresby.
DD Shiratsuyu suffer 6 bombs hits (on fire), DD Yugure one hit (on fire), DD Kari 15 bombs hits !! and 3 others DD are unharmed.
Only DD Kari will sink.
No jap raid occur during the night on my TF.

- 15th march, there are no CAP above both japanese base, wich are still hammered. The jap Flak, accurate 3 days ago, is weakening.
-16th marchn Rabaul and Gasmata bombed, 7 planes destroyed on ground. My TF near Gili Gili are still unloading.
- 17th march, weather prevent any flight against New Britain.
-18th march, bombing on both base resume. 2 japs planes destroyed on ground.

Sadly, as i didn't suspected/expected/guessed such an outcome, i had prepared nothing more to take advantage of this situation (except the forces walking slowly toward Gili Gili, ETA near end of April, capture maybe end of April).
KB was spotted at Tulagi until 16th march, had sailed back toward Funafuti/Ponape, and then disappeared (could be at Tarawa, Truck, or else) BUT can certainly react in a few day if needed, and i consider this a HUGE threat.



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NEXT

GET BACK is higly successful: AVG/B reached India, although it now need time to rebuild. A bunch of US AK can now help the reduced merchant navy here. AND gigantic bonus is the sinking of BB Fuso.

Lady Madonna will probably be next operation. It is not a intense offensive action (although may be it could be seen like that by a jap player), but merely preparing for future action. It still need to be prepared with caution. Forces are gathering slowly. This operation could strat in 1 or 2 months.




gladiatt -> JAPS CLOSE YUNAN AIRFIELD (10/30/2010 11:21:58 AM)

first of all : thanks to all who gave support about RL. Things are not settle/healed yet.

second: my opponant is once more in hollidays. I hope he enjoy. At first i thought it would slow the game and the AAR, but with the RL issue, this was a most welcome pause.

21th - 27th MARCH - YUNAN

- 21st march; my bombers , targetting the japs ground units came unescorted. 12 chinese B-25J are lost for 2 Tony , no result on ground.
- 22st march, the japs start an AIR OFFENSIVE against Yunan airfield.
91 japs fighters escort 47 Sallys. My 20 planes loose 10 but in spite of the odds, destroy 30 japs fighters and 5 bombers [sm=00000036.gif]. There are 13 hits on the airbase and 31 on runway.

-23th march, my orders were to counter-attack, trying to strike Kunming airfield in japanese hands.
22 chinese B25J and 110 4E (flying from Dacca) only score 7 hits on airbase and 25 on runway.

In the same time , the japs send 2 waves against Yunan, one from Kunming, the others one from Luang Prabang.
200 japs fighters and 120 bombers face my 8 planes (AVG/A was on needless sweep mission above Kunming).
The spitfire of 605 RAF squadron and F4U of VMO 251 exact a great toll to the japs. All my planes are shot, but 21 japs fighters and 2 bombers are destroyed. The Yunan airbase suffer: 18 hits on it, and 56 on runway.
For 605 squadron, reduced to 0 planes , the danger is to be destroyed, as it cannot be transfered elsewhere.

-24th march, at Kunming, the chinese B25J come unescorted ( OUCH), 11 out of 19 are destroyed by a CAP of 70 japs fighters covering the place since my raid of the previous day. At Dacca, weather stuck my 4E on ground [sm=00000003.gif]

Above Yunan, came 37 japs fighters and 101 sally. AVG/A is still defending the place, 7 P-38 take off. 2 planes are destroyed, one, damaged, will crash on landing (but pilot alive), and they down 12 japs.
The airbase suffer 4 hits, the runway 58, the damages are huge and can't be repaired overnight....the closing of the airfield is just a matter of time....

- 25th march
615 RAF squadron (Spitfire Vb) has come to relieve my airforce at Yunan. The japs raid gather 33 Tojo and 150 bombers. My 22 fighters ( with the remnants of VMO 251) loose 4 planes but down 11 jpas fighters and 14 bombers.

My counter strike against Luang Prabang came scattered. 40 US B25C (forget the unit, and lazy to check right now) , unescorted, loose 5 planes scoring no result, but the 110 4E on second wave destroy 12 japs planes (for loosing 6), scoring a few hits on airfield.

- 26th march at Yunan, my CAP of 12 planes manage to shoot 18 planes (14 bombers) out of a raid of 160 bombers, for the loss of 1 Spitfire. The flak at Yunan manage to damage 16 others japs . But with 32 hits on runway, my base is now trashed.
At Luang Prabang, once more my first wave of B25C suffer, loosing 6 planes. The second wave of 67 4E, while loosing 11 planes, destroy 9 japs, and score 35 hits on runway.

The same day, 26th march, the japs launch a deliberate attack on the town, with an OOB gathering 9900 AV ! [X(]
The attackers suffer a setback, with 8500 casualties and 200 guns, for 2500 chinese casualties and 70 guns.
But my forts are downed 1 level, to level 8, and it can't be repaired as long as the airfield is damaged.

- 27th march, probably being bored of suffering high losses from my fighters, Jan launch a sweep above Yunan, 90 fighters.
I had withdrawn all the planes that i could. AVG/A has disapeared: it has no more planes (same fate as 605 sq).
(on 28th march, a fragment of 34th FS with P-38 land on Yunan, in order to help AVG/A to withdrawn, but the unit will respawn in Sn Francisco, thus negating the advantage of operation GET BACK with AVG/B).....

At Luang Prabang, my 82 4E face 30 Tony. i lost 4 bombers, but destroyed 24 japs on ground or in the air.

The whole week in China has costed me 58 bombers and 28 fighters. The japs had lost 44 bombers and 110 fighters.
Although the industrial outputs of the japs allow this ( estimated production for the japs is twice mine: 800 fighters a month, and brand new models, and 700 bombers; my industry produce roughly 300 fighters, of wich half are craps. this is a topic that i find pretty hard to admit in this game, but anyway this game is good),
my opponant stated in a mail that his airforce suffer.... And it is not going to end.



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gladiatt -> RE: JAPS CLOSE YUNAN AIRFIELD (10/30/2010 11:25:11 AM)


in the same time as the fight for Yunan, japs airforce train in China on isolated units; the training is in great number, and maybe it could explain that the results of the japs are not so bad, according to the idea that the pilot pool should be dry now ???

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gladiatt -> RE: JAPS CLOSE YUNAN AIRFIELD (10/30/2010 11:27:15 AM)


my counter strike against the japs airfields

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gladiatt -> BIG FIGHT IN THE SKYS OF BURMA (10/30/2010 11:50:51 AM)


21- 27th march 1943

BURMA

ANDAMAN

6 raids gather a total of 86 sorties of B-24 from 115 RCAF squadrons and 93th US Bsq. The global result is 2 hits on airbase, 40 on runway, 9 allied bombers damaged, 1 nick destroyed and 5 others damaged. The airfield is supposed to be still at 100% damaged.


AKYAB

Since weeks i needed to re-supply the place wich was in dire need. A few Dakota were flying supply from Calcutta, but it was not enough.
So i tried to prepare a "hit and run" or "touch and go" operation.

On 26th march, a supply TF of 53000 tons coming from Bombay was near Chandpur, covered by a felw LRCAP.
The japs came after: 44 zeros and 55 Bettys fought a bunch of 38 allied fighters. My Buffalos suffered a lot, 7 are lost among my 16 losses. 7 AK are severely damaged by many torpedoes hits, 3 sink outright. 18500 supplies had been lost....
Akyab is still a costly place for me.
But for the japs too, and the toll is rising. The japs losses of 26 march amount to 18 zeros and 8 bettys.

On 27th march, the jap launch a really BIG raid on Akyab : 140 fighters and 35 Helens come to fight against my 130 fighters.
2 AK are hits by bombs, and the global amount of supply lost is now near 30000;
but the dogfight, altough very costly for me, is hard to stand for the japs : 47 allied fighters are downed, for 108 japs planes !!


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gladiatt -> miscleanous (10/30/2010 11:57:50 AM)


21st- 27th march.

Koepang.; a raid on 23th march is launch, but half my bombers get lost in the clouds, no loss but no result on airfield.

New Britain pounding of Gasmata and Rabaul still in action. 358 sorties on Rabaul, 754 on Gasmata: according to my recon flight, Rabaul airfield is closed, 100% damaged, Gasmata airfield only 70% damaged.

On 20th, spotting japs ships at anchor in Rabaul, the port is targetted. And DD Tokitsukaze is sink in port with 6 bombs hits.

Tenimbar and Aru
The japs raids of the week gather 57 bombers sorties, sinking 3 PT Boats.
Biggest raid came on 22th march, when 2 dutch Brewster and 1 australian Boomerang are lost in dogfight for 10 zeros and 4 japs bombers .
No surface forces came to disturbs the (too slow) building of these bases. Expecting to enter in service not before mid-april [8|]

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gladiatt -> Luganville (10/30/2010 12:01:08 PM)


26th march at Luganville

the japs launch a raid from Guadalcanal, against my subchaser TF.
38 zeros and 42 bettys face 64 allied fighters. Altough the bettys manage to sink 2 SC, this raid costed 1 P-40 for 32 zeros and 10 bettys.

And this is the last good news of this week, read further...

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gladiatt -> US NAVY DEFEATED AT FUNAFUTI (10/30/2010 12:21:09 PM)


Bravo Eric ( it's me), you are a dumb stupid idiot.
Overconfident, uncautious, all this costed me a lot ( altough i admit nothing irremediable).

22th march , BB Idaho, CA Indianapolis, 3CL and 3 DD bombard Funafuti island at night, destroying 2 planes on ground and damaging the airfield.

24th march, another TF, 4CA and 2CL came back bombarding, destroying 4 more japs planes and damaging the airfield.
But my recon tell that the repairs are VERY QUICK; still in my idea to slow at the most the building of this base (wich could threaten my LOC in CentPac), i decided to orders a new run of bombardement BEFORE these 2 TF get back to Pago Pago to resupply.
BB Idaho TF was to shore bombard Nukufetau, just north of Funafuti, because it could be build to support Funafuti....
For some reason (still unknow to me: i set orders to "retire", full speed, not refueling, so what did happen ???) the TF did not moved.

At dawn, 37 Liberators from Pago came to bombard Funafuti. But they are not welcome by the usual CAP of 7 planes.
34 zeros and 7 Rufes down 2 of my bombers. Were do these planes came ???? The answer is brutal : KB

Hell fall on BB Idaho and it's TF. Waves afeter waves, 363 sorties of Vals and Kate hammer the US Ships uncovered.
Flak is formidable. No less than 30 bombers are destroyed by the battleship, 70 others damaged.
But this is not enough. BB Idaho suffer 6 bombs hits and 7 torpedoes. CL Danae is hit by a torpedo, CA Indianapolis is hit by 2 bombs, is on fire and reduced to 8 Knots, CLAA Atlanta hit by a bomb and 2 Torpedoes.
At the end of the day, BB Idaho sink

On 25th march , the survivors flee south toward Pago, without air cover. But KB went south to give pursuit.
230 sorties of bombers finish CA Indianapolis ( 1 bomb and 4 torpedoes), CLAA Atlanta ( 2 torpedoes), CL Mauritius ( 1 bomb and 5 torpedoes), CL Danae ( 2 bombs and 4 torpedoes). All sunk. 3 DD reach Pago.
Winston Churchill is very disapointed because great efforts had been made to save all these brits cruisers after conquest of DEI, and they were sent to USA to repair. They never had a chance to make something useful....

AT PAGO, my US CV Fleet depart on 25th march at Flank speed, but refueling had costed me half my ops point.
My CV never reached the range to provide escort to my ships, and never entered range to strike KB back.
More: had i made one more hex toward KB, than i would had been in range of KB stike without being in range to strike back.

On 26th march, my opponant, wich spotted my fleet, withdrawn KB north, and according to a mail, fearing a huge airbattle wich could had ended one-sided.
After my failed charge of 25th, all surface ships lost and KB coming in range of Tarawa's betty, i also decided to withdrawn...

Once more, a huge mystaje has costed me much, and i am wondering how i can win (or simply not loose) this war.......

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rominet -> RE: US NAVY DEFEATED AT FUNAFUTI (10/30/2010 6:19:02 PM)

oops, bad luck [:(]




gladiatt -> TEASER !! (11/5/2010 12:03:29 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: rominet

oops, bad luck [:(]


Salut Olivier !
About game, i'd rather say "bad playing". I am not good, that's all....
If about life, no comment.

Olivier, je ne crois pas t'avoir jamais expliqué ce qui arrive dans ma vie. Cela ne t'interesse peut-etre pas, et je dis ceci sans aucune forme de regret ou d'amertume (apres tout chacun choisis avec qui il veut communiquer, et encore une fois je t'assure qu'il n'y a aucune forme de cynisme ou de critique dans mes propos). Si tu veux savoir, tu m'envois un message privé (attention, ca dépote).
Oui, bon, y'a aussi le forum AE sur "The Thread" qui en donne un triste appercu.
Et porte toi bien.

Guys, stay tuned, all you my thousands of readers ( [;)] )
RL is consumming my time like hell, but i will try an update this week end.
And i have (nearly) no shame to tease you for my AAR.


Despite attrition and game/engine troubles, US know a small strategic victory (small, really small)
(is it good enough for a trailer ? )




sprior -> RE: TEASER !! (11/5/2010 2:03:18 PM)

You have thousdands of readers? Jealous. I have 2.




gladiatt -> Another dogfight at Akyab (11/6/2010 5:14:52 PM)

28th march - 1st april (what ? Is there something wrong with not sticking to end of months ?? )

Akyab

After the huge raid of 27th march wich costed 108 planes to the japs, my forces can rest a few days, unloading supplys, refilling the ranks of the squadrons.
But on 31 st march, the japs launch a new air raid. 120 japs fightters give escort to 28 bettys, and face my CAP of 84 fighters.
1 british AK and 1 AP are torpedoed (AP still strugling to stay afloat), and 21 of my planes are destroyed, but 91 meatballs fighters and 4 bettys are destroyed !!!!

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sprior -> RE: Another dogfight at Akyab (11/6/2010 5:17:18 PM)

Nice intercept. Are his pilots suffering from a loss of quality?




gladiatt -> Yunan under bombs (11/6/2010 5:25:00 PM)


Yunan - end of march 1943

The japs are always in their goal to close the airfield AND hinder any repair of the land fortifications.
On 28th march 7 P-38 of 34th FS are still defending the base , downing 3 japs for 1 of them.
But at the end of the day, the airfield is so much damaged that i withdraw all the planes that i can.

On 29th march a japanese deliberate attack reduce my forts to level 7 but with odds 0/1. There are 11000 japs casualties for 2500 chinese.
Probably fearing my CAP that has costed them so much, the japs conduct sweeps above Yunan for 2 days, on 29th and 30th march, and there is no bombing of the airfield.
These 2 days are enough to repair a bit. 79th RAF squadron (SpitVb) and remnants of VMO 251 (Corsairs) are back to try to defend.
The jap sweep of 31th march, 55 fighters, loose 13 planes for 3 Spitfire, and another 3 sallys are downed by my fighters.

On 1st April, the japs results are better, several raids costed me 2 Corsairs and 8 Spitfire for 9 japs fighters and 3 bombers, despite terrible odds against me.
Another deliberate attack reduce my forts to level 6, but the japs suffer 6800 casualties for 1500 chinese

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gladiatt -> RE: Another dogfight at Akyab (11/6/2010 5:26:53 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: sprior

Nice intercept. Are his pilots suffering from a loss of quality?


i suspect yes. There are only a few area where his pilots are very skilled, but there is a quit obvious fall in result of his airforce. Stay tuned, i have planned to post the Victory point of March, it is instructing....




gladiatt -> raids on Luang Prabang (11/6/2010 5:31:22 PM)


LUANG PRABANG

A pat of the japs raids against Yunan came from Luang Prabang, so i decided to target this airfield.
Well, Mr Weather prevented it for 3 days [sm=00000003.gif] (i am not really sure, did i ever tell you that i HATE weather in India ??)
On 30th march, 102 4E from India score 72 hits on runway, encountering no CAP;
on 31th march, 21 B-25C of 341BG are added to the raids from Dacca (90 4E). At the end of the day, the airfield is damaged 60% and empty of planes.
ON 1st april, 12 Vengeance and 29 B-25C score a few hits on the base, but the 4E are again grounded by weather.



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gladiatt -> Aru & Tenimbar & Koepang & Andaman & Funafuti (11/6/2010 5:39:31 PM)


End of march

These 2 islands are raided daily by small squadrons of Helens and Sallys, with very rarely an escort of Zeros.
These bombers are straffing my PT Boats. The flak of these small boats is powerful enough to damage several japs planes !
On 31th march, 1 PT is sinked, but my dutch Brewster 339 on CAP destroy 3 japs bombers.

These island are still unable to host planes. For now, the japs efforts seems a bit weak (but caution !).


ANDAMAN
Raided 29th, 30th and 31th march, by a dozen of B-24 each time. The Nick on LRCAP can't stop me. A few hits are scored on the base, wich is supposed still near 100% damaged.

Koepang
is raided 28th and 31th march by dutch B-25. 3 bombers are lost for 1 jap fighter, the base is supposed near 100% damaged.

FUNAFUTI & NUKUFETAU
Around these island, my subs sink 3 barges and 1 AK. They are trying to spot KB, wich disapear on 31th march (according to Airbalance value of these base).
On 30th march, 26 B-24 from Pago bom Funafuti, but scoring only 1 hit on runway and 1 on airbase.





gladiatt -> OPPORTUNITY STRIKE (11/6/2010 5:53:41 PM)


OPPORTUNITY STRIKE

Seing that Rabaul and Gasmata airfield were kept closed, and that the japs was not trying any more to send ships in range of Port Moresby firepower, i decided to try something, ready to abort at the first problem/

Loading from several australians harbor, a handful of units sailed toward Port Moresby in the last days of march.
On 29th march, my TF crossed the straight at Kiriwina Island at night. A jap sub was hunted by my ASW TF. At day, i was sailing toward Buna.
The heavy surface TF that should protect my transport, for some reason, had stropped at Kiriwina !! (and they had "not refueling" orders, so what ?? [&:] ).
So i had to wait all day long that my BB catch again my transport, on 30th march.

On 31th march ( 1 ) 8 japs DD raid Kiriwina at night , and find an isolated TF of 3 AK , sinking 2 of them.
When daylight come, these ships had sailed back so quickly that i cannot spot them by air patrol !!
Anyway, 2 TF start shelling Gasmata , and my troops start to unload (37th ID, 31th US RCT, 8 th Australian Tk Rg, Ist US HQ Corps, and a base force).
A bunch of mine sink a PT Boat, but my APD, MSW and DD clear paths in these fields;
During the day (2 ) bettys from Guadalcanal come scattered. Weather has grounded my P-38 from Port Moresby, and i can relly only on my Flak, but even AK have now a bit of firepower.
1 AP, 1 AD, 2 AK, 1 MSW, 1 APD and more important 2 AO are sinked by the sorties of 54 bettys. 20 of them are supposed damaged.
Most of my troops are already ashore, so losses are not too heavy.

1st April is really April Fool !!
A TF of BB withdrawn despite my orders ( "do not withdrawn, you stupid captain!" ), and at dailight, is at Woodlark Island, without aircover. The bettys from Guadalcanal manage to hit BB New Mexico (1 torp) and Pennsylvannia ( 2 torps), and CL Raleigh ( 1 torp), but all these ships should reach safety in 1 or 2 days without sinking; they are out of war for some time, but at least they are not lost.

At the end of the day, GASMATA IS CAPTURED !!! the amount of damages of the base is far much greater than what my reccon showed me.

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gladiatt -> RE: OPPORTUNITY STRIKE (11/6/2010 6:06:14 PM)


Tally of the month : the jap airforce seem to have suffer ....

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sprior -> RE: OPPORTUNITY STRIKE (11/6/2010 10:44:49 PM)

Ouch, he can't keep up those losses for too long.




Arstavidios -> RE: OPPORTUNITY STRIKE (11/8/2010 11:50:53 PM)

Hi, I've just read your AAR
Some comments:
In my opinion you're too reckless in the way you use your forces and you've suffered too many needless losses.
For exemple you've sent a huge number of AK on suicide resupply runs that could have been avoided altogether.
either by evacuating the bases altogether or ussing your air units to ressupply.

You've got plenty of transports patrol aircraft and bombers that can all fly supply. Transports and patrol aircraft can also fly troops in and out. Use them massively. you can move enormous amounts of troops and supplies without risking a single ship.

When you really have no choice only risk single ship TF with a single small AK.
This way you should avoid most of your AK losses

about the air war: in my opinion you've wasting your air assets in too many small raids that have suffered heavy losses especially in fighters. Until 1943  you're quite tight on fighters so you should use them carefully.
also CAP inflicts proportionately more losses than air raids. So basically you're feeding his elite fighter force with live target while he keeps his bombers safe. Also a lot of his elite pilots will survive. He can afford to lose planes not pilots. You can afford to lose pilots but not fighters, until later in the war. As you can see Your CAP will kill almost any of his raids to the last plane. Even the KB will suffer massive losses on such a raid. Also your fighters have short legs. P40s ans P38s are precious to support your offensives. No point in wasting them in raids with no strategic value. Spitfires and hurricanes are killers.

Also most anzac bombers can be converted to Beaufort. beauforts ARE killers. Whatever comes within 4 hexes of them will die.

The Pacific is defenseless pretty much defenseless. You should save your assets and build up for offensive instead of wasting your transports and airforce one useless attrition runs that work to the Japanese advantage. Stop playing into the hands of the japanese.

by now you should have at least 20 divisions worth of troops in the Pacific.





Arstavidios -> RE: OPPORTUNITY STRIKE (11/8/2010 11:52:51 PM)

I wrote an AAR one of my pbem ampaigns. it was a May campaign but it could give you some ideas: it's fairly old but you should find it.

it's called "a dough nut to crack"

here's the link, i think it's an interesting read. Old AAR so some things changed with patches.
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/printable.asp?m=825057&mpage=1

Unfortunately I had two japanese opponents drop off.




gladiatt -> RE: OPPORTUNITY STRIKE (11/12/2010 1:29:38 PM)


a few answers

quote:

ORIGINAL: Arstavidios
For exemple you've sent a huge number of AK on suicide resupply runs that could have been avoided altogether.
either by evacuating the bases altogether or ussing your air units to ressupply.
You've got plenty of transports patrol aircraft and bombers that can all fly supply. Transports and patrol aircraft can also fly troops in and out. Use them massively. you can move enormous amounts of troops and supplies without risking a single ship.
When you really have no choice only risk single ship TF with a single small AK.
This way you should avoid most of your AK losses

- The use of bombers, patrol planes or transport planes is not a discovery for me, it was used since the first day of the war.
But an AK bring much more troop/supply than a squadron of plane in 15 days.
Resupplying forward base was feel as necessary to avoid lack of supply; a lone AK was doomed, many AK together could let me hope a few supply would be bring were needed.




about the air war: in my opinion you've wasting your air assets in too many small raids that have suffered heavy losses especially in fighters. Until 1943  you're quite tight on fighters so you should use them carefully.
also CAP inflicts proportionately more losses than air raids. So basically you're feeding his elite fighter force with live target while he keeps his bombers safe. Also a lot of his elite pilots will survive. He can afford to lose planes not pilots. You can afford to lose pilots but not fighters, until later in the war. As you can see Your CAP will kill almost any of his raids to the last plane. Even the KB will suffer massive losses on such a raid. Also your fighters have short legs. P40s ans P38s are precious to support your offensives. No point in wasting them in raids with no strategic value. Spitfires and hurricanes are killers.

- first of all: Hurricanes are no more killers: 320 mph for speed made them obsolete facing Tony or Tojos.
Than, it took me time to realize that a plane lost a lot of firepower when flying far away from base. I have probably not enough AIR HQ because the time to repair/refill squadrons seem huge. Anyway, i always try to make useful raids. I don't volontarily make useless raid, it is more probably a mistake of judgement.



Also most anzac bombers can be converted to Beaufort. beauforts ARE killers. Whatever comes within 4 hexes of them will die.

- Right, and my Beauforts have nailed some japs ships; but 4 hexes is now too short legged to catch something.

The Pacific is defenseless pretty much defenseless. You should save your assets and build up for offensive instead of wasting your transports and airforce one useless attrition runs that work to the Japanese advantage. Stop playing into the hands of the japanese.

- you are probably much more wiser than me, but i still try to build my offensive, in the medium or long term. Time will tell if i was stupid or i made things correctly. By the way, even if i still take losses in the air, i seem to remenber that the attrition in the air is in my favor...


by now you should have at least 20 divisions worth of troops in the Pacific.

- Yes, and then ? Divisions are walking. Pacific is an ocean; if there would be a long island, one hex wide, walking toward Japan, i would try to conquer it . But as the map is for now, i need base and planes to cover my ships to bring divisions for invasion.
No point in bringing 1 or 5 divisions by sea if 90% of the transport are sunk....






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