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Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/6/2010 12:32:05 AM)

18 May 42

Yeah, it's the 18th again. When we updated with the new patch, I did the data thing and it screwed up the subs. We had to go back two days to fix it. Please ignore the previous 18 & 19 May.

Pretty quiet turn today. The I-155 moved into the port of Darwin to find some xAKs that Ted was moving there, probably to send supply. She successfully put 2 torps into an xAK sinking her.

In Burma, Ted bombed the Magwe oil fields again, causing minor damage. The field was reduced by 1 to 43 of 300.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/6/2010 12:37:36 AM)

19 May 42

More quiet. The I-155 used up the remainder of her torps and just about all her shells damaging another xAK in the port of Darwin. She's heading back to rearm. A BB/CA bombardment force will hit tomorrow, hopefully cleaning up the rest of the merchants there before bombarding the base.

I took Pakanbaroe (Summatra) which has Manpower 1(1) and Resources 20(0). There's just a few beat up units left to kill scattered around the island and then Summatra will be mine.

I also took Christmas Island (the one near Java). Engineers are already building up the airfield so recon planes can be based there.

I've been waiting for the next turn all day. Some exciting things are about to happen. I get the Yamato and KB 2 will visit Adak.



cookie monster -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/6/2010 2:27:04 AM)

What are you going to do concerning naval points when the Yamato arrives. Are you gonna accelerate anything?



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/6/2010 3:34:15 PM)

Cookie, yeah, I'm going to accelerate some CVs.  Right now I have only 1 accelerated.  That should increase by 3 or 4.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/12/2010 2:50:15 PM)

Well, our schedules are synched, at least through the end of the year (which isn't saying much admittedly). I'll be out of town the first 3 weeks of January, which means no turns. [8|] I really need to get a laptop. The only highlight is that I'll be in DC the third week and Ted and I are finally going to get to meet face to face. About time. Anyway, we got 2 turns in yesterday and hope to get more in today.

20 May 42

Reinforcements

I finally got the Yamato! This allowed me to accelerate 4 CVs (making 5 total accelerated). I also have 5 or 6 DDs accelerated.

Burma

Ted bombed Magwe again and once again he hit the refinery reducing it to 62 of 100. The oil field is still pumping away at 43 of 300. [:D] He sent most of his bombers against Mandalay's airfield, causing more damage than I could repair. That's too bad but I can live with it. I have more construction and engineer units moving to the airfields I want to use as fighter bases, including Mandalay. I noticed he's got 3 fighter squadrons (2 Hurricanes and 1 Warhawk) sweeping Magwe and none protecting the bombers hitting Mandalay. I may try to ambush the bombers over Mandalay if they continue to hit the airfield there. We'll see what happens next turn.

I've allocated the 8 Division from Kwantung Army for Burma. All but the Artillery Regiment have been purchased. I'll have enough PPs to but the Artillery in 6 days. The division has moved to Pt. Arthur and a TF of fast xAPs is headed there to pick them up.

Mindinao

The 21 Division is on the island, along with the 146 regiment of the 56 Division and some artillery. The 146th took Suriago, capturing the 103 PA Infantry Regiment in the process. Below is the current status of Mindinao.



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Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/12/2010 3:28:50 PM)

21 May 42

Australia

Ted sent a dozen PT boats at Broome. I had a surface TF of 2 CA and 2 DD. Unfortunately for the PTs, they arrived during the day and never made it close enough to launch. The 8 survivors went home.

A handful of B-17Es attack my ground forces daily in N. Australia. Today the AA got lucky and downed one of them! The troops are nearing Katherine.

Java

Ted attacked Magwe's refinery again causing a couple more points of damage (now 60/100). Unescorted bombers hit Mandalay again. One more day of that and I'll ambush them.

SE Fleet

I finally attacked the 8 Marine Regiment isolated at Ndeni. I got 2:1 odds on the attack but there was a level of forts there. Ah well, at least I reduced the fort level to 0. I'll try again tomorrow. I did reduce the Marine AV from 72 to 36. I see some Marine POWs in my future. [:D]

I found a major port of Ted's. Vava'u. KB 1 (Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku & Zuikaku) is supporting the Ndeni attack. They will refuel tomorrow and head to Vava'u for a visit after Ndeni is liberated. They're 3 days sail from Vava'u and have not been spotted. The 3 TFs are single ship merchants. There's a shot below.

Aleutians

KB 2 (Akagi & Kaga) reached it's launch point yesterday but thunderstorms prevented a launch. Fortunately, they weren't discovered. Today the Akagi launched a full deckload (but the Kaga didn't [8|]). 4x KVs and 3 AMs were sunk. There are more TFs out there. I'm going to move KB and attempt another launch tomorrow, then hightail it out of there. One Val was an op loss and no pilots were lost.

Other Stuff

After sending the turn to Ted, I reviewed Tracker. I noticed that my Ha-31 production is slightly in the red. I'm going to increase production by 15 tomorrow. It's also time to increase Ha-35 production by 10. It's still good, but getting close to the break even point.

I got heavy radio chatter and discovered a TF popping out of the Karachi wormhole. No other info unfortunately. I'm preparing for the worst and am preparing the 22 Air Flotilla (81 Zeros and 117 Nells/Bettys) at Pt. Blair and Victoria Point, just in case. One of the Zero daitai is at Rangoon. I will probably use it (and probably a second) to ambush the bombers at Mandalay in 2 days then shift them to Pt. Blair.



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Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/13/2010 12:37:09 AM)

22 May 42

SE Fleet

Well, over 2300 US Marines just went into captivity. [:D] Does anyone know which division the 8 Marines belonged to? Just curious which division is hurting for awhile.

KB1 Just refueled and is heading for a rendevous with Vava'u in about 3 days time. The I-10 is one of the subs hanging around Vava'u keeping an eye on things. She sank an AK just east of the island for good measure.

Burma

Magwe's refinery was bombed for a loss of 2 and all 3 fighter squadrons flew sweep missions over Magwe. Some British bombers bombed Mandalay's airfield again. I moved a Zero daitai to Taung Gyi and ordered them to 100% LRCAP over Mandalay. Hopefully, I'll ambush some of the bombers and ignore the fighters. It'll only work once so I'll move them out after the turn tomorrow.

Aleutians

To start off the turn, the I-159 put a torpedo into a fuel laden TK. I don't think she sank, but we can hope for the best, can't we?

Today, both carriers launched full deckloads against 3 separate TFs. Ted lost 3 YPs, 3 DMS and 2 AMs. Overall, nothing really worthwhile, but I'll keep him reacting to me for a while. One Kate was an OP loss, but no pilots were lost. I have gained some nice experience these past couple of days.

Tomorrow, KB 2 will do a port attack against Adak, which is loaded with merchant shipping. Hopefully, I'll get some more shipping before vanishing to the SW.



ny59giants -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/13/2010 12:55:46 AM)

quote:

Well, over 2300 US Marines just went into captivity. Does anyone know which division the 8 Marines belonged to? Just curious which division is hurting for awhile.


2nd Marine Division.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/13/2010 1:00:27 AM)

Very good. Thanks.



Captain Cruft -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/13/2010 2:24:20 AM)

Mike,

Nice AAR, thank you :-)

As a fellow PDU off IJ player how do you feel about the KI-43 IIb? I am thinking it may be something of a decisive weapon (good or bad), simply because so many airgroups have to use it during the "decisive period". The question is - how to use it? Those 2 x 250kg bombs keep staring me in the face ...



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/13/2010 3:15:32 AM)

Thank you. To be honest, I haven't thought that far ahead. [;)] I'll check it out tomorrow. I pretty much use what I have to and hope my opponent is stuck with rotten aircraft as well. [:D]



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 2:55:42 PM)

23 May 42

Well, today was a day of commanders and weather not cooperating. [8|] 

Burma

My devious plan to ambush Ted's bombers..... yeah, right.  The Zero daitai stationed at Taung Gyi had orders for 100% LRCAP over Mandalay.  Those fighters never saw Mandalay.  They reacted to Ted's sweeps over Magwe.  They ended up shooting down ~6 Hurricanes and 7 Blenheim IVs for a loss of 10 Zeros.  Four of the Zeros were shot down and the rest were either OP losses or written off.  I had 3 pilots KIA and 1 WIA.  The planes are easily replaced.  I have ~150 Zeros in the pool.  The pilots, not so easily.  I have about a dozen IJNAF fighter pilots in reserve, but I'll do a cull in about 6 days so that number will increase dramatically.  Anyway, the Blenheims attempted to bomb the oil fields unsuccessfully.  The oil field stands at 43 and the refinery is at 57.

The unescorted bombers hit Taung Gyi's airfield causing moderate damage. [:@]

Aleutians

KB 2 was tasked with hitting the port of Adak, which is filled with merchant shipping and some damaged riff raff from the previous day's naval bombing.  Thunderstorms over Adak prevented an attack.  I moved KB 2 to the west and will try one more time tomorrow and then head for the barn regardless of it's success.

SE Fleet

I'm pulling out most of the forces at Ndeni.  Actually, all I'm leaving there is a construction unit and a Naval Guard.  Everyone else is heading to Truk to replenish/rebuild.

Other Stuff

Miri's oilfield is completely rebuilt!  It's now at 300 and the refinery is 150(150).  12 TKs (10x 1250 ton & 2x 7950 ton) are doing a good job of pulling the oil and fuel out of there (and the oil that flows there from Brunei).  The only oil field still rebuilding is at Soerabaja.  A shortage of supply in Java is preventing repairs from being completed.  Only a few points remain damaged though.

There is a general shortage of supply in Java, Singapore and Burma.  I have created a 100k cargo TF that will move supply from Japan to Singapore and return with resources.  It's a slow process but it does move supply (and resources) in the right direction.  I may create a second for a while to get the supply levels up out there more quickly.

Most of my levels of stuff are headed in the right direction this month.  Here are some of the important ones:

Supply:  +240k
Fuel:  +150k
HI:  +30k (This will increase faster soon.  See below.)
Resources:  +230k
Oil:  -60k (inevitable)
Armaments:  +13k
Vehicles:  +3k


Armaments - My armament totals will reach 100k in the pool tomorrow.  I currently have 620 armament factories.  I'll shut off 500 armament factories when I hit 100k.  I should still have minor increases, which is what I'd like.  The nice thing is that I'll increase my HI by an additional 3k per day.



witpqs -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 3:26:44 PM)

Hey Mike, how do you see a summary of pilots you lose in a turn?



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 3:50:47 PM)

If you open an air unit screen, look at the upper left part of the screen.  You'll see info on KIA/WIA/MIA.  It's something like this:

KIA ###/###
WIA ###/###
MIA ###/###

The first number is the number lost that turn.  The number on the right is the total to date. 

Sorry, I don't have a pic available to show you right now.



witpqs -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 4:04:03 PM)

Oh, OK - thanks. I thought you had some way to see global info for a whole turn (similar to the air losses screen).



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 4:26:41 PM)

Nope, but that would be nice.  I take notes during the replay and check out losses by unit afterward.  In this case it was easy.  Only one Zero daitai fought.



CapAndGown -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 5:07:52 PM)

Look on the "top pilots" screen. At the lower left will be a list of KIA/WIA/MIA.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 5:09:09 PM)

Sure, but you don't know what units lost the pilots.



erstad -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 7:02:02 PM)

quote:

My devious plan to ambush Ted's bombers..... yeah, right. The Zero daitai stationed at Taung Gyi had orders for 100% LRCAP over Mandalay. Those fighters never saw Mandalay. They reacted to Ted's sweeps over Magwe.


You might doublecheck that they are on LRCAP and not CAP. Escort/CAP allows a destination to be set as well. On more than one occasion, I've set what I thought was LRCAP only to realize I actually had CAP because I moved the wrong slider.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 7:47:58 PM)

That was the first thing I checked after the replay was over.  100% LRCAP. [8|]



CapAndGown -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 8:45:20 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

That was the first thing I checked after the replay was over.  100% LRCAP. [8|]


LRCAP will spill over to adjacent hexes just like regular CAP.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/14/2010 9:26:22 PM)

Yeah, I found that out the hard way.  The whole daitai seem a bit much though.  I want to flood the area with fighters (120-150) but can't get the airfields built up fast enough.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/15/2010 2:00:38 PM)

24 May 42

Sub War

Ted seems to have moved his merchant shipping lanes.  I no longer find any merchant ships north of New Zealand.  I pulled out my subs from the US west coast for two reasons.  First, they needed to be replenished and second, I want him to become complacent so they'll be successful when they return.  I have 7 subs scheduled to return in a week or so.  Hopefully, they'll find the waters plentiful.

The only sub attack today was off the coast of Colombo.  The I-11 found and sank an xAKL. 

Burma

Ted didn't even go after Magwe's oil or refineries today.  He spread out his attacks over several of my airfields.  That's really too bad because I don't have enough engineers in Burma to repair them quickly.  I'm going to LRCAP the southern most airfields he's bombing on occasion to whittle down the British bombers.  Once I do that, then I can make headway against the damage he's causing.  Have I said recently that I hate Burma?!

SE Fleet

KB 1 is just about a day's sail from being in launch range of Vava'u and the TFs in the area.  If they sail the entire 13 hexes tomorrow, they'll be within 6 hexes of the port.  They usually don't go that far.  We'll see. 

I've loaded all of the assaulting units from Ndeni with the exception of 3 Naval Guards and the construction unit.  I'll remove two of the Naval Guards when more transport arrives.  I plan on building up the forts (already to level 1) and the airfield to level 2.  Then I'll place an air support company and put some recon there.  Ndeni is just a speed bump, but Ted won't know that.

Australia

Baby KB is still hanging around Darwin.  Ted still is attempting to supply Darwin to make it into a fortress.  I bomb Darwin's airfield pretty much daily with Sallys to keep the damage level up.  As long as there is damage to the airfield, he's not building forts. [;)] Baby KB sank another xAKL.  I think it had already unloaded it's supply. [8|]

The only other thing of note in this area is that Warhawks, in squadron strength, are now escorting the B-17s that make their daily runs against my ground troops.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/15/2010 2:31:14 PM)

24 May 42 (cont.)

Oops, I hit the wrong button.

Central Pacific

This area has been very quiet.  I don't think Ted realizes how different AE is from WitP.  In WitP, I had a lot of Bettys/Nells protecting the area.  He learned that to his sorrow. [:D] Now I have 1 daitai of Nells.  Wake used to be a fortress, but not any more.  I used to have 2 daitai of Zeros, 2 of Nells/Bettys and recon in WitP.  Now I have exactly 2 Emilys stationed at Wake.  I haven't seen anything in this sector in months.  The only thing of note is that Wake's fort level is now at 5 and crawling toward 6.  If or when he takes it, I'll make him pay the price.  Once it hits level 6, I'll pull out the engineers and put more infantry there.

Aleutians

Well, KB 2 finally launched and it was glorious!  Well, it was fun, but not necessarily war winning. [:D] The 2 carriers launched full deckloads against the port of Adak (10 Zeros, 53 Kates (800kg bombs) and 48 Vals).  When the smoke cleared, here was the final toll:

4 subs (3 confirmed sunk and probably all 4)
3 xAPs (not sure if any sank)
3 xAKs (probably none sunk)
1 AVP
2 AMs
1 AS (probably sunk)
1 AG (probably sunk)

Not a show stopper (but it is nice to sink APs) but it'll hopefully cause Ted to divert escorts and air support to out of the way places.  The cost to me was 5 Vals and crews.  KB 2 is now headed back to the barn.  I hung around in one spot too long.  They'll head back to Kwajalein to repair the minor damage they've incurred and replace the minor losses (7 planes and 5 crews).  Then I'll consider another spoiling attack, maybe try to ambush a convoy around Johnston Island or somewhere else in the central Pacific.

Burma (again)

I forgot that I took Kalemyo, right on the Indian border.  It's just a dot base, but it was defended by an armored unit.  A brigade* of the 33 Division did the execution, destroying 52 vehicles.  Banzai!

* When I divide a division into it's A, B & C elements, I call it a brigade, even though it really is a reinforced regiment.  I do that to differentiate between 1/3 of a division and a regiment (when the division starts out as 3x regiments, and the divisional artillery, engineers and recon).  Just for less confusion even though it's not really accurate. 

Java
 
Not much going on here, and I've become complacent.  A Japanese TK (7950 ton variety) was hit by a Dutch sub torpedo.  She'll survive.  The convoy was headed back to Soerabaja to move fuel to Babeldaob (and then to Japan).  That's the once critical area where I don't have any ASW convoys.  That'll soon be rectified.

Other Stuff

Today my armament points exceeded 100k.  I shut off 500 (of 620) armament factories.  That should increase my daily HI reserves by ~3000.  Now my HI reserves should increase by over 100k per month.



CapAndGown -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/15/2010 3:28:33 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

SE Fleet

KB 1 is just about a day's sail from being in launch range of Vava'u and the TFs in the area.  If they sail the entire 13 hexes tomorrow, they'll be within 6 hexes of the port.  They usually don't go that far.  We'll see. 



They will not sail the 13 hexes. I have occasionally seen moves that were longer that I expected. But 13 hexes? For calculation purposes I count on 9 hexes in any one turn, and an alternation of 9 & 10 hexes for longer journeys. Then again, I am religious about using cruising speed. I try not to use mission speed except for bombardments.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/15/2010 3:36:17 PM)

I usually stick with mission speed.  I hope they don't go the full distance.  I'd like to be within a few hexes of launch range and go from there.



CapAndGown -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/15/2010 4:45:09 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I usually stick with mission speed.  I hope they don't go the full distance.  I'd like to be within a few hexes of launch range and go from there.


Your sys and engine damage will be significantly higher.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/15/2010 5:29:28 PM)

I understand that.  That's one of those tough decisions you need to make.  Sometimes I go with cruise for that reason, but sometimes time is of the essence.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/16/2010 2:59:50 PM)

25 May 42

Reinforcement:  52 JNAF AF Unit

Overall, this was a quiet turn, but more fireworks are going to happen soon.  I took Cotabato, Mindinao (Manpower 1(1)) and continue to clean up (or bomb out of existance) all the little bits and pieces of Allied units in the jungle around the SRA.  There are a 2 remnants of the former Pt. Moresby garrison (an Australian Militia Div and a BF) that are slowly being bombed to oblivion.  Total strength there is <500.  There's one unit left in Summatra.  I have an SNLF unit watching them with a tank regiment on it's way to finish the job.  There is one unit near Balikpapan and one near Tarakan.  Both are being bombed slowly to oblivion.  There's also the Philippine unit (Division I think?) on Cebu.  I'll take care of them once Mindinao is cleared.  Mindinao still has one base controlled by the Allies (though not for long).  Five units there with a couple more in the jungle.  There's also one unit outside Babo slowly starving.

It's killing me trying to take all those dot hexes scattered around the map.  Ted is devious and will ship an air support unit & engineers and stick some recon in the hex to spy on me.  I feel I have to take the hexes.  Right now I have 4 companies working on taking them.  I'm ready to add more.

Well, my HI pool increased by 4300, about 3k more than yesterday.  The armament pool increased by a modest 30, so 90 armament points were used of the 120 factories still producing.  Perfect!

I'm getting concerned with Ted's bombing of the bases in Burma that I want to use for fighter strips.  Mandalay, Gaung Tyi and Magwe are all damaged.  I can use the bases near Rangoon but only 3 of the 5 in that area are at level 2+.  Another engineer regiment just landed at Rangoon and will proceed to Prome to increase that airfield from level 1 to 2.

I have a delimma.  My intent was to use the 21 Independent Brigade as the garrison for Palembang.  Earlier, a bug hit and converted the support in that unit to engineers.  Now it's a really strange infantry brigade with ~160 or so engineers and no support.  I'm considering sending it to Burma as an engineer construction unit to work on airfields.  It'll need some support to keep it healthy (maybe 15 Army HQ).  Gamey?  I talked to michaelm and there's no way to fix it.

Future Plans

Right now I have 5 CVs and 5 DDs accelerated.  The cost is 2 Ro- class subs halted (as well as Shinano).  Not bad.  My intent is to continue with the plan.  I have an I- class sub arriving in a few days and my naval construction points are at +12 so I'm good.

KB 2 is headed back to Kwajalein after visiting Adak.  I have decided to divert it to Truk to expidite the repairs (which are minor actually).  I have an AR at Rabaul.  I will move it to Truk to take care of the couple of point of major damage incurred.  KB 2 will then go back to Kwajalein to keep it vigil over the central Pacific.

KB 1 is just outside of launch range of Vava'u.  I've got a couple of subs scouting the area and there are lots of little TFs in the area.  I'm going to just do a Naval Attack tomorrow.  After I clear the TFs, I'll hit the port, which has a lot of merchant shipping.  The 4 carriers should be able to a number on them.  Then, KB 1 will head to Truk for repairs.  They have minor damage as well, but more than KB2.  They've been at sea a lot longer.  By the way cap, they sailed 9 hexes yesterday.  You were right.

The Shokaku and Zuikaku are due upgrades in Jul 42.  I'll move them to the Home Islands in mid-June, unless Ted gets frisky of course.  Assuming the Pacific is quiet, Akagi/Kaga will be at Kwajalein and Hiryu/Soryu will be at Truk.  Not sure about Baby KB yet.

Speaking of Baby KB, they're still hanging around off the northern coast of Australia.  It's composed of Ryujo, Zuiho, Shoho and Hosho.  Junyo is still at the Home Islands.  She'll head to the SRA to join up with Baby KB escorted by Yamato and some DDs.  Yamato will go to either Soerabaja or Singapore, probably Singapore.  I'm thinking of using her to bombard Akyab.  Ted has a big airbase there.

Baby KB will have some real striking power:

Ship F/TB/DB
Junyo 18/18/18
Ryujo 28/19/0
Zuiho 18/12/0
Shoho 18/12/0
Hosho 14/6/0

Total 96/67/18

Pilot reserves.  I'll give a breakdown at the end of the month but the only concerns right now are IJN fighter and DB pilots.  I've gone to culling once a month so it's been almost a month since I culled the training units.  I'll do it again in a few days so things will look up shortly.  After the cull, I'll look at my reserves.  If I'm still hurting in the DB department, I may pull some Betty/Nell pilots with high NavB skill as DB pilot reserves.  We'll see.



Mike Solli -> RE: Here we go again! tc464 (A) vs. Mike (J) - No tc464 (12/18/2010 10:04:19 PM)

26 May 42

KB 2
This is the group that visited Adak. I got some intel saying there was heavy radio traffic at Midway. KB's direct route to Kwajalein took it close to Midway so I didn't want to be surprised. I detoured them a couple days sail due west then SW to avoid the area. A few days extra sail was worth it. They really aren't in any hurry.

Babeldaob

There's been a Dutch sub hanging around just off Babeldaob. She got lucky and put 2 torps into an xAK, sinking her.

SE Fleet

To make amends for the Dutch sub sinking the cargo ship, a merchant TF 3 hexes east of Tulagi spotted another Dutch sub and put her down for good with 2 depth charge hits and an near miss. I love killing those Dutch and S class subs early in the game! [:D]

KB 1 had orders for naval attack of Vava'u. They found 2 small TFs. The first was an ASW TF composed of the DD Benham and 2 AMs. The Benham took 1 250 kg bomb and the AMs both were sunk. Big deal. The only ship really worth anything was only lightly damaged. [8|] The second TF found was composed of 4 xAKs and an xAKL. One of the xAKs may have survived but I doubt it based on what happened the next day. Again I was disappointed because if there's anything Ted can afford, it's xAKs. I figured it was a supply convoy because I didn't get any intel on them carrying anything......at least until I reviewed the intel screen after the turn was over. There, to my delight and surprise, I saw 66 aircraft destroyed on the ground! I knew that didn't happen from airfield bombing so it had to be from this "minor" convoy. It turned out that the convoy was carrying 31 P-40Bs, 27 P-40Es and 21 P-39Ds! I hit the mother lode! The timing on that attack was perfect. I destroyed that convoy when it was 1 hex from it's destination. [:D] That's got to hurt.

Edit: No carrier aircraft were lost in this attack.

KB 1 will hang around one more day to hit the port.

Broome

Ted attempted to do a couple of port attacks against Broome today. The defenses were a chutai of the 50 Sentai flying Oscars. The 12 Oscars downed 3 of 15 Albacores. The surviving Albacores did minor damage to the port. The second attack was 18 Hudson Is and 3 of those were shot down too. They also did minor damage to the port. The construction battalion at that base was able to repair all of the damage. Even better, one of the pilots had his experience reach 81. He was promoted to TRACOM.

Burma

British bombers hit the oil field at Magwe, unsuccessfully again.



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