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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/30/2009 7:28:23 PM)
rechecked the manual and at least the first shock about the HI in Australia and it´s fuel needs has been reduced a bit. HI doesn´t need 10 fuel per 1 HI but 2 fuel. So this reduces the fuel need to somewhere around 1500+ per day in Australia I guess. But this still would mean you need the TK capacity of 90.000 tons just to move the fuel to Australia per month that is used by the HI there. Not encouraging at all. Over 1.000.000 tons of fuel just for the HI in OZ that does you no good at all. So where to put your fuel instead? Tasmania? Keeping Australia completely dry and shipping everything to Tasmania (or New Zealand seems to be the only possibility I see. [8\|] Still better than LOSING 1.000.000 tons of fuel per year when you hardly have enough tankers to fuel your fleet.

anarchyintheuk -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/30/2009 9:29:19 PM)
Seems kinda wasteful but I send supply to Oz instead of fuel. Tankers are almost too valuable to send that far and risk interception by KB. I haven't played a pbem of AE but the allied side's pace is definitely slowed. I have to wait until I can get enough escorts in place to form many tfs because of the threat from subs (they get better when the dc upgrades start in 2/42 or so). It's hard to move lcus around to react to the IJN/IJA. Good luck and it's great to see another aar from you.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/30/2009 10:38:14 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk Seems kinda wasteful but I send supply to Oz instead of fuel. Tankers are almost too valuable to send that far and risk interception by KB. I haven't played a pbem of AE but the allied side's pace is definitely slowed. I have to wait until I can get enough escorts in place to form many tfs because of the threat from subs (they get better when the dc upgrades start in 2/42 or so). It's hard to move lcus around to react to the IJN/IJA. Good luck and it's great to see another aar from you. I´m also moving supply to OZ which seems not to be much of a problem, enough AKs around and 100.000 tons are moved within a month. But I lack the fuel and without fuel in OZ, no offense, no defense, no nothing within 100 hexes of Brisbane. If I don´t move fuel there then the only possibility would be moving through the Pacific via island hopping and this is not within the scope of the USN until mid 43 at the earliest. Until then, the IJN can easily react and the KB is far superior. I´ve looked at the reinforcements and I get more or less nothing [:D]. Best escort I can provide are two DDs for my most valuable convoys and if it´s one going from the WC to OZ you won´t see those DDs for at least 9-10 weeks.

Xxzard -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 3:57:37 AM)
On the topic of CD guns-- the way they work in the game does not make much sense to me. On a small island they should be positively deadly in any numbers. The guns at Wake were certainly very dangerous to the invading forces. Sometimes that is the way it is in the game, but usually not. Some losses, but in the end, not crippling. Meanwhile, invasions of Java, for example, should almost certainly be unopposed. Given the length of coastline that needed to be defended, and the relative dearth of units the dutch experienced, they would be lucky to even realize an invasion had occurred, let alone have CD guns available. There would always be an unguarded beach to land at. A dozen guns won't effectively cover a 46 mile front, not by a long shot. In the game though, it seems both are treated about equal in terms of CD gun fire.

Smeulders -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 1:36:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy rechecked the manual and at least the first shock about the HI in Australia and it´s fuel needs has been reduced a bit. HI doesn´t need 10 fuel per 1 HI but 2 fuel. So this reduces the fuel need to somewhere around 1500+ per day in Australia I guess. But this still would mean you need the TK capacity of 90.000 tons just to move the fuel to Australia per month that is used by the HI there. Not encouraging at all. Over 1.000.000 tons of fuel just for the HI in OZ that does you no good at all. So where to put your fuel instead? Tasmania? Keeping Australia completely dry and shipping everything to Tasmania (or New Zealand seems to be the only possibility I see. [8\|] Still better than LOSING 1.000.000 tons of fuel per year when you hardly have enough tankers to fuel your fleet. If it's any consolation, your math is a bit off. According to witpStaff there is a deficit of about 2000 fuel a day in Eastern Australia. This is about 60,000 instead off 100,000 a month. It also seems historical that you have to do this. Leaving all of Australia without fuel for the duration of the war would have been unacceptable.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 3:41:58 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Smeulders quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy rechecked the manual and at least the first shock about the HI in Australia and it´s fuel needs has been reduced a bit. HI doesn´t need 10 fuel per 1 HI but 2 fuel. So this reduces the fuel need to somewhere around 1500+ per day in Australia I guess. But this still would mean you need the TK capacity of 90.000 tons just to move the fuel to Australia per month that is used by the HI there. Not encouraging at all. Over 1.000.000 tons of fuel just for the HI in OZ that does you no good at all. So where to put your fuel instead? Tasmania? Keeping Australia completely dry and shipping everything to Tasmania (or New Zealand seems to be the only possibility I see. [8\|] Still better than LOSING 1.000.000 tons of fuel per year when you hardly have enough tankers to fuel your fleet. If it's any consolation, your math is a bit off. According to witpStaff there is a deficit of about 2000 fuel a day in Eastern Australia. This is about 60,000 instead off 100,000 a month. It also seems historical that you have to do this. Leaving all of Australia without fuel for the duration of the war would have been unacceptable. it was just a rough guess of mine and I don´t use Staff or Tracker (tried to get this one running in WITP but failed with my first try so I gave up on this), so thanks for the exact info on this one. A quick view showed me 980 HI so probably I missed some sites. 60.000 fuel a month is still insane and is really putting a real constraint on my further operations if I plan them to go out of Australia (which I did so far). 60.000 tons of fuel per month would mean using more tankers going back and forth all the time than the British have in total. So the British tankers alone won´t be enough, even though I could spare most of them as the British fleet will be supported more or less easily with a couple of tankers coming from Abadan and going to Colombo. All I can say is that it was a real shock for me but as it stands now, there seems not much choice than to spend this huge amount of fuel every month to feed completely useless HI in Australia... what a mess.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 4:17:08 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 29, 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Port Moresby Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 10 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships xAKL Amakasu Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire DD Tatsukaze xAK Matsue Maru PB Takunan Maru #2 PB Shonon Maru #15 PB Shuko Maru #5 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Amakasu Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards PB Takunan Maru #2 firing at enemy troops 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging PB Takunan Maru #2 at 2,000 yards PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops seems like the enemy is unloading only supplies at this stage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Morotai at 81,100 Japanese Ships APD Tade Allied Ships SS KXVII SS KXVII launches 2 torpedoes KXVII diving deep .... APD Tade fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a pity, the torps missed... would have like to kill another APD... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 47 encounters mine field at Perth (49,147) Japanese Ships SS I-123, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D][:D][:D] everytime I hear the sound from a mine hit I start smiling during the replay and can´t wait to look at the report as mine hits aren´t shown during the replay... really nice to see an IJN mine layer sub to hit a mine at Perth... I guess the sunk before being able to lay mines as I´ve got several TFs in this hex and none spotted any mines... really nice! Must be sub number four or five being victim of mines in one of my base hexes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lahaina at 182,107 Japanese Ships SS I-2 Allied Ships DD Sands xAK Examiner DD Kane DD Hatfield SS I-2 is sighted by escort I-2 diving deep .... DD Kane fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatfield fails to find sub and abandons search Escort abandons search for sub our strong escort was enough to guard our troop convoy... the sub dared to linger around just two hexes off Pearl Harbour... got quite a lot of Catalinas on nav search around Hawai but they hardly ever spot a sub and I´m sure there are still a couple of them around... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lahaina at 182,107 Japanese Ships SS I-2 Allied Ships DD Sands xAK Examiner DD Kane DD Hatfield SS I-2 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Sands I-2 diving deep .... DD Kane fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hatfield fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and then the sub dared to fire torps at one of my escorts but missed... the DDs again couldn´t locate the sub in deep water... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Port Moresby Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 13 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships xAK Terukawa Maru, Shell hits 1 DD Tatsukaze xAKL Amakasu Maru, heavy fires PB Takunan Maru #2, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage PB Shonon Maru #15 PB Shuko Maru #5 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Terukawa Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards 6in CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAKL Amakasu Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards PB Takunan Maru #2 firing at enemy troops 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging PB Takunan Maru #2 at 2,000 yards PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops some CD guns open up fire and a PB is hit hard by a 6 inch shell... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Kuantan TF 58 troops unloading over beach at Kuantan, 51,79 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Port Moresby Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 10 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships xAK Venice Maru DD Tatsukaze xAKL Amakasu Maru, heavy fires PB Shonon Maru #15 PB Shuko Maru #5 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Venice Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops all guns miss... would like to see 50 shots fired instead of 10... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 66 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 71 [:(] Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 53 Buffalo I x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 7 destroyed [8\|][8\|] Buffalo I: 4 destroyed [8\|] Aircraft Attacking: 19 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 21000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 71 minutes AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 80 minutes No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 24000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 77 minutes No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 30500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 73 minutes what can I say... this is what I´ve feared for the last couple of weeks and it wasn´t unexpected... even the result isn´t unexpected at all, I knew how UBER the Zeroes are with their pilots in the 80s... The incoming raid was spotted by radar and we had over an hour to get into position... didn´t help, the following stratosphere air combat again went to the Japanese... the Japanese lost only 4 Zeroes above Rangoon, no idea how many really crashed on their way home... during the engagement, the Zeroes scored nearly 5:1 against the combined Cap of my Buffalos and the AVG. Depressing when you see your by far best fighter group being shot out of the sky like flies. We were at least diving on the enemy, otherwise it would have been even worse. The bounce is the all or nothing thing it seems, just like it was in WITP. Therefore both Rainer and me seem to try to fly as high as possible, I guess he thought I would fly Cap at 20.000ft and he cam in at 24.000ft... Pretty high for Zeroes on a sweep, no? It´s already clear to me that this won´t change until the end of the war, the only good thing is that in 43 I will get fighters that will perform better than the Zero, but by then the Japanese will produce fighters that can easily match ours and they will produce three times more than we´ll get... will see... If the enemy has lost half a dozen of his elite fighter pilots than that´s all we can hope for, means 6 dead out of the 350-400 on the map. We´ve lost more aircraft than pilots, I guess our pilot losses didn´t exceed 5 or 6 within the AVG and nearly the same number of Buffalo pilots... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 14 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 21 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Cavite USN Base Force ... Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22 Ki-27b Nate x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24 Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 2 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 4 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 20 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 17 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 15 damaged Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 14 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb the Lillies were hit hard by flak today (at least according to the loss list - don´t know if it´s anywhere accurate). The Sallies are clearly far tougher. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 13 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 12 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb if we could achieve these losses within the enemy bomber force nearly daily this would be great as it then would result in probably two hundred bombers lost over Singapore until our troops will surrender... but I guess Rainer will adjust his attack alt again soon if not immedietely... but his then would give us the chance to further build up our forts... it´s a trade off... [:D] at least Singapore is far from a freebee for him... [image]local://upfiles/13774/47BBF86E288241EC887777BFDA80AB09.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 4th Coastal Gun Battalion, at 76,109 (Ambon) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 22 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged Allied ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 22 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Port Moresby Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 14 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships xAK Matsue Maru, Shell hits 3, on fire, heavy damage DD Tatsukaze PB Shonon Maru #15 PB Shuko Maru #5, Shell hits 1 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Matsue Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards 6in CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Matsue Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tatsukaze fires to suppress enemy troops at 12,000 yards PB Shonon Maru #15 firing at enemy troops PB Shuko Maru #5 firing at enemy troops 6" Mk XI/XII Gun Coastal Battery engaging PB Shuko Maru #5 at 2,000 yards are three 6 inch hits enough to sink this transport? probably not... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Hollandia TF 251 troops unloading over beach at Hollandia, 93,116 Rainer starts to mop up empty bases on New Guinea already, which is quite surprising to me... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 12920 troops, 114 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 474 Defending force 4758 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 133 Japanese adjusted assault: 295 Allied adjusted defense: 91 [>:] Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 2) [:(] Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 396 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Allied ground losses: 301 casualties reported Squads: 8 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 21 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 4th Division 8th Base Force Defending units: A Coy/NG Rifles 49th Australian Battalion D Coy/NG Rifles B Coy/NG Rifles Lark Battalion Port Moresby Brigade 15th RAAF Base Force Rabaul Det. Base Force looks like there´s nothing we can do against this full IJA division... it´s a shame, it´s just too early to have a chance to defend PM... when I read AndyMac´s AAR against PzB then he´s talking about bringing reinforcements from the West Coast to PM and he´s at the same date in game. Lol, this would mean the Japanese wouldn´t attack before mid March as it takes nearly 6 weeks to bring troops from the WC to PM. I´m facing a full IJA division there at the end of December... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Temuloh (50,78) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3732 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127 Defending force 280 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5 Japanese adjusted assault: 128 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 128 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Temuloh !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+) Allied ground losses: 274 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 1 Units destroyed 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 56th Infantry Regiment Defending units: FMSV Brigade 3rd ISF Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Moulmein (55,55) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3366 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 151 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 30 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 30 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Moulmein !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 112th Infantry Regiment 55th Cavalry Regiment another base on Malaya falls to the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 106,123 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 31 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 16 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-) fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Allied ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Batangas (79,78) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1488 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 15 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Batangas !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: Kure 1st SNLF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1452 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 1703 troops, 25 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28 Japanese adjusted assault: 45 Allied adjusted defense: 10 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Ambon !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 4839 casualties reported Squads: 92 destroyed, 48 disabled Non Combat: 304 destroyed, 84 disabled Engineers: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 41 (34 destroyed, 7 disabled) Units destroyed 3 Assaulting units: Sasebo 1st SNLF Defending units: Molukken Garrison Battalion 4th Coastal Gun Battalion Ambon Base Force Ambon falls too and all my troops surrender... I had planned to intercept the enemy cruisers that have been in a support role here but I came a day late due to the game routine being really strange in AE it seems. In WITP your SC TF would take position at it´s max speed range the day before to sprint in at night... this seems to be wrong in AE and you have to get in position manually [&:] you learn something new every day... my TF ended up 2 hexes from Ambon on it´s way BACK out (completely nuts or what) instead of being there at night and move out at full speed again (the TF was three hexes off Ambon the turn before - which was even more nuts with the enemy CVLs in the area)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 4279 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 117 Defending force 15209 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 452 Japanese ground losses: 44 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: A Coy/NG Rifles Lark Battalion 49th Australian Battalion B Coy/NG Rifles D Coy/NG Rifles Port Moresby Brigade 15th RAAF Base Force Rabaul Det. Base Force Defending units: 4th Division 8th Base Force we´ve got a dozen 25 pounder guns here and I´ve though together with the other guns we could do some damage (expected 200 casualties per bombardment) but we don´t do any significant damage... seems like I´ve overestimated the 25 pdr artillery as Andy Mac once stated they would be real killers...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 4:34:45 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 30, 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 13 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 44 Buffalo I x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 1 destroyed Buffalo I: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 9 on standby, 6 scrambling) 12 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 30000. Raid is overhead AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 31000. Raid is overhead No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 26000. Raid is overhead No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 26000 and 30000. Raid is overhead massive Zero sweep yesterday and more show up today... don´t like that, really don´t like it... the fact that we outnumbered the Zeroes more than 4:1 and that we had again height advantage didn´t help that much though... the Zeroes are going in now just below 30.000ft! Woof... what have I said before? AE will turn out to have aircombat regularly being at alts that Europe hasn´t seen... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 66 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 38 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 24 Buffalo I x 7 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 3 destroyed Buffalo I: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 13 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 80 minutes AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 78 minutes No.21 Sqn RAAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 78 minutes AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 68 minutes No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes and here comes the main sweep... second day in a row, the Zeroes come in just below 25.000ft... our fighter squadrons are shot to pieces, including the AVG... all I can say is that we are really helpless... it just doesn´t matter how high the Zeroes come in, they defeat us again and again... only the kill rate will change from 4:1+ to 7:0 if we would be at 20.000ft and the Zeroes at 24.000ft... all in all, completely depressing results... 6 Zeroes are reported being shot down today with 8 yesterday... the AVG is down to roughly 2/3 of it´s aircraft... in this raid every single of our fighters was either shot down or damaged and many fighters were written off... pilot losses were nearly the same as last turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 46 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 16 damaged Allied ground losses: 66 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 46 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 11th PA Infantry Division ... Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... low level attacks at Clark Field, but our flak defense isn´t really strong there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 36 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 16 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 41 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 19 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb which can´t be said about Singapore... we´ve got pretty decent flak fire there and we also have another AA unit marching towards the fortress. This will give us another two dozen 40mm Bofors. Really good to see those bombers being hit hard... Rainer reacted quickly in going up 5.000ft compared to yesterday but our flak seems to more or less be as effective at 16.000ft as it is at 11.000ft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 7 damaged Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 16000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 5 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes AVG/2nd Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes and another 9 Zeroes were sweeping in the afternoon, taking out another AVG fighter... depressing... [:(] [image]local://upfiles/13774/E3201B4BF635460F8BA646690A1C5384.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Horn Island at 91,128 Japanese Ships BB Mutsu BB Nagato CA Kako CA Furutaka Allied ground losses: 43 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 1 Port hits 5 Port supply hits 1 BB Mutsu firing at Horn Island BB Nagato firing at Torres Strait Battalion CA Kako firing at Torres Strait Battalion CA Furutaka firing at Horn Island no doubt, Rainer also intends to invade the island West of Port Moresby... don´t care about this one, with PM being lost for sure, I don´t have use for Horn Island either... I will probably use it as a training target for my bombers, they will be set to train nav attack and will train ground bomb by learning by doing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Tabiteuea TF 184 troops unloading over beach at Tabiteuea, 137,134 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 15160 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 448 Defending force 4544 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 117 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 54 Allied adjusted defense: 59 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: disruption(-), fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 305 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 249 casualties reported Squads: 8 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 4th Division 8th Base Force Defending units: D Coy/NG Rifles B Coy/NG Rifles A Coy/NG Rifles Lark Battalion 49th Australian Battalion Port Moresby Brigade 15th RAAF Base Force Rabaul Det. Base Force pretty bad adjusted av for the Japanes, wonder why... pure luck probably and I guess we won´t hold for much longer... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kuantan (51,79) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 350 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 7 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 2 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese forces CAPTURE Kuantan !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-), disruption(-) Assaulting units: 4th JAAF AF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 4190 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 108 Defending force 14912 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 431 Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Lark Battalion 49th Australian Battalion A Coy/NG Rifles B Coy/NG Rifles Port Moresby Brigade 15th RAAF Base Force Rabaul Det. Base Force Defending units: 4th Division 8th Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tabiteuea (137,134) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1468 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 28 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 28 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tabiteuea !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 61st Nav Gd /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 4:41:36 PM)
Here´s one reason why Cap is helpless all the time... Fighters being set on Cap are accumulating insane fatigue, the devs can´t be serious... there was a good reason for this not happening in WITP which is playability. Not true in AE anymore and Cap is the number 1 reason to reach fatigue levels that can kill you without you being shot at by the enemy. How insane... My fighters are set to 60% Cap and I´ve maxed out the pilots, which means each AVG squadron had a dozen spare pilots before the Zeroes showed up. The Zeroes flew something like 16 hexes yesterday and everyone would tell you not to do the same the next day. Well, flying a back to back sweep with your full complement of fighters is accumulating less fatigue than having your squadron at 60% Cap with a dozen pilots in reserve to be rotated... this is just plain wrong, seriously. Makes Cap useless and surely is one of the reasons why Cap performs so awfully bad. But hey, this is hitting both sides so I´m hit by this for probably one year and the Japanese for the other three. Still makes the game hard to handle and playability again is on the losing side. Sweeps have been UBER in WITP already, the overly accumulation of fatigue for fighters flying Cap made sweep even more UBER in AE... not everything has become better, just because you´ve got more chrome during the replay doesn´t mean everything is ok now. [image]local://upfiles/13774/635299703FC04EA7BFA495BD612A9BE7.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 5:00:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 31, 41 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Djailolo at 78,100 Japanese Ships xAK Miyadono Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAK Konan Maru PB Hakata Maru #2 Allied Ships SS KXVII SS KXVII launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Miyadono Maru KXVII diving deep .... PB Hakata Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub heard the sound of a sinking ship so I´m sure this one is gone... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Horn Island 4 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CL Kashima DD Yakaze DD Akikaze CL Kashima firing at Horn Isl Det. DD Yakaze firing at Horn Isl Det. DD Akikaze firing at A Coy/49th Aus Battalion Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft and here comes the invasion... KB is still holding position South West of PM... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Horn Island TF 6 troops unloading over beach at Horn Island, 91,128 Japanese ground losses: 51 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /3 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /4 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 144th Infantry Rgt /8 there was an infantry rgt landing at Rabaul, a couple of days later there´s the 4th division landing at Port Moresby, followed another couple of days later by this regiment at Horn Island... THANK GOD THE PACE OF THE CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SLOOOOWED DOWN IN AE!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you... for those who haven´t noticed the date: it´s 31st of December 1941 and the war is 24 days old... lol, nothing more to say... can´t blame Rainer though, he´s only using what he was given and so far he´s doing a perfect assault around the map with the only exception being his operation in the Gilberts that was caught by my two carriers... and no, these landings aren´t done by fragments, those are FULL STRENGTH units... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Talaud-eilanden TF 268 troops unloading over beach at Talaud-eilanden, 79,97 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Davao at 80,92 Japanese Ships PB Showa Maru #5 Allied Ships SS KXVIII SS KXVIII is sighted by escort PB Showa Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub no DCs dropped... no danger here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 97,137 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 7 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 7 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 15000 feet I had an AVP at PM to aid the patrol ac I had there... I tried to get the ship out of there today but it is spotted and attacked immedietely... the only thing that saved it here was the fact that all the bombers got lost on the way to their target and only the escorts arrived... why they are "sweeping" is beyond me and I´ve got no clue how this works... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 45 Ki-27b Nate x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Airbase hits 7 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 17 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 31st PA Infantry Division ... Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ... Also attacking Clark Field ... looks like our flak units woke up today... supply is already at a pretty poor level, in total we´ve got some 30.000 supplies in the remaining three bases and this won´t last long at all... Singapore is still above 50.000 so this should last until the base will fall... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cooktown at 97,137 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 16 D3A1 Val x 9 Japanese aircraft losses D3A1 Val: 2 damaged Allied Ships AVP Heron, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk Aircraft Attacking: 9 x D3A1 Val diving from 1000' Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AVP Heron then some bombers showed up and the ship is sunk in no time... the enemy was diving from 1.000ft... so how does this work? [&:][&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jolo at 74,90 Japanese Ships DD Shinonome DD Ayanami Allied Ships SS S-41, hits 3 SS S-41 is sighted by escort S-41 bottoming out .... DD Ayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ayanami attacking submerged sub .... DD Ayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub S-41 takes 3 near misses and suffers half a dozen sys damage... still full complement of torps aboard so it would be nice if it would attack at some point... our S-class subs have been performing miserably so far... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,89 Japanese Ships CA Nachi CL Kitakami CS Chiyoda DD Yugumo DD Amatsukaze DD Maikaze DD Hayashio Allied Ships SS Permit SS Permit is sighted by escort Permit diving deep .... DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Maikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayashio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Maikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hayashio fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub is this baby KB? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Exmouth at 52,123 Japanese Ships SS I-155 Allied Ships AM Eland Dubois AM Jan van Amstel TK Angelina AM Abraham Crijnssen AM Pieter de Bitter SS I-155 launches 8 torpedoes at AM Eland Dubois I-155 diving deep .... AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Abraham Crijnssen fails to find sub and abandons search AM Pieter de Bitter fails to find sub and abandons search AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Eland Dubois attacking submerged sub .... AM Eland Dubois loses contact with SS I-155 SS I-155 eludes ASW attack from AM Eland Dubois SS I-155 eludes ASW attack from AM Eland Dubois AM Eland Dubois attacking submerged sub .... AM Eland Dubois cannot reach attack position over SS I-155 SS I-155 eludes ASW attack from AM Eland Dubois AM Eland Dubois fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub one of the subs with the wrong 8 torpedo tubes... surprisingly that all 8 torps missed the crappy AM... this is a TF with a couple of AMs and some of the short legged Dutch tankers (not much capacity but not worth losing either). The attack happened some 300 miles to the North of Broome... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Sambas (57,88) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 2716 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 104 Defending force 460 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Japanese adjusted assault: 60 Allied adjusted defense: 7 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Sambas !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses No Allied losses Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), morale(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 229 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 2 Assaulting units: II./124th Infantry Battalion III./124th Infantry Battalion Defending units: Sambas Base Force 106th RN Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Hollandia (93,116) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 324 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 4 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Hollandia !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: 3rd JNAF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 74,82 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 76 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 20 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 20 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy Defending units: 2nd PI Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 4180 troops, 66 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 106 Defending force 14929 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 432 Japanese ground losses: 82 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Lark Battalion B Coy/NG Rifles 49th Australian Battalion A Coy/NG Rifles Port Moresby Brigade 15th RAAF Base Force Rabaul Det. Base Force Defending units: 4th Division 8th Base Force looks like the Japanese are set to defend to rest and finish us off within the next couple of days... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Horn Island (91,128) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 3937 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 133 Defending force 787 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 19 Japanese adjusted assault: 102 Allied adjusted defense: 6 Japanese assault odds: 17 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Horn Island !!! Combat modifiers Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 25 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 1589 casualties reported Squads: 38 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 74 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 3 Assaulting units: 144th Infantry Rgt /1 Defending units: A Coy/49th Aus Battalion Torres Strait Battalion Horn Isl Det. no chance for Horn Island´s defenders... another nice catch for the enemy, racking up victory points... I´m also suffering 3-6 victory points lost each day for partisan attacks all around the map and with the fast movement of the enemy assaults I will be hard pushed to prevent the enemy from achieving a decisive victory at the end of the year. How much does it take now to achieve auto victory? The plus though is the fact that the enemy didn´t sink a single BB at Pearl [:D] so instead of scoring some 1.500 points there he scored only 100 for three subs, a DD and 60 aircraft... We have to count on our subs to score the most victory points during 42 but they have to remarkably increase their performance to do so...

Andy Mac -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 5:29:57 PM)
25 pounders are real killers compared to 18 pounders and 3.7" mountain guns.... They are best at suppression though somethign not really modelled well in game. At PM I am up to 3 forts already with over 500 'good' AV by end of December and its good AV as well had PZB not snuck that invasion force into rabaul he would have gotten a nasty shock. How is you opponent doing in PI and Malaya - PZB is like a steamroller I cannot stop him as he is being disciplined and methodical and that means hard to defeat. He takes few risks an early attack on PM is a BIG risk for the Japanese the allies are strong enough to counter it hard if they assume its an early target. Andy

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 6:39:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Andy Mac 25 pounders are real killers compared to 18 pounders and 3.7" mountain guns.... They are best at suppression though somethign not really modelled well in game. At PM I am up to 3 forts already with over 500 'good' AV by end of December and its good AV as well had PZB not snuck that invasion force into rabaul he would have gotten a nasty shock. How is you opponent doing in PI and Malaya - PZB is like a steamroller I cannot stop him as he is being disciplined and methodical and that means hard to defeat. He takes few risks an early attack on PM is a BIG risk for the Japanese the allies are strong enough to counter it hard if they assume its an early target. Andy Hi I guess I just don´t have enough of the 25 pounders at PM and with the assault value I´ve got there a hundred of them wouldn´t change the tides. My main problem in my PM adventure is that I just didn´t think it would be possible to advance so fast. Well, I thought there´s a difference to WITP and it really would also slow down the Japanese´s advance but obviously I´m wrong when I see a division and two rgts moving around in this region this early. Lesson learnt, this is something I did "different" from WITP (unlike other things) and it proved that I was wrong, seriously wrong about my assumptions. Don´t know about Malaya, I´ve retreated everything into Singapore and haven´t spotted an enemy division yet, his spearhead is still 4 hexes North of Singapore without being attacked or delayed. I prefer to bring back everything possible to Singapore intact. PI already has 920 enemy av at Clark and units just moved into Manila. I´m defending both sites as I can still move between them when enemy units entered my hexes (unlike in WITP and this is a great improvement IMO). No landings at Southern Bormeo or Java yet and nothing really moving on Rangoon spotted yet. But most of Sulawesi and the (North-)Western tip of New Guinea are taken out already. And there´s not much chance to intervene with his invasions due to the fact that either KB is nearby or baby KB (in the SRA) which carries some three dozen Kates that can put everything out of action quite quickly if you dare to move in something bigger than a DD. I can´t really see how PM early on is a risk for the Japanese though as long as the have KB around. You can´t intervene with LBA or your carriers, everythign would get whiped out, so the only thing left would be to have more troops at PM than the enemy which I missed due to my above mentioned wrong assumption of IJN capabilities in AE.

Q-Ball -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 8:12:57 PM)
Unless you are careful, you will regret attempting to defend both Clark and Manila. If I am the Japanese, I prep everyone for Clark, withdraw 2 divisions to a hex in between the two, then pounce on Clark before you can move. If you are shoved out of Clark, those forces retreat to Bataan, effectively splitting the USAFFE in two. I took Luzon Jan 20 in my PBEM this way. In my other PBEM, I moved everyone to Clark, and lasted until March 5th. In both cases, Japanese brought 4 divisions.

ny59giants -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 8:14:33 PM)
The 4th Division starts in Japan along with the 8th BF. Both are unrestricted, but he would probably need most of his APs to load them both up. The 144 Rgt is set for Guam, so afterwards just reload and head to target B. KB will probably head for Darwin and support invasions around Ambon and Timor. At least I would.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 10:42:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Q-Ball Unless you are careful, you will regret attempting to defend both Clark and Manila. If I am the Japanese, I prep everyone for Clark, withdraw 2 divisions to a hex in between the two, then pounce on Clark before you can move. If you are shoved out of Clark, those forces retreat to Bataan, effectively splitting the USAFFE in two. I took Luzon Jan 20 in my PBEM this way. In my other PBEM, I moved everyone to Clark, and lasted until March 5th. In both cases, Japanese brought 4 divisions. Thought I could move between Clark and Manila with the new ZOC rules? This would be major trouble if I couldn´t, the hex border is green in any case. [&:] I would be pretty much screwed if it wouldn´t work. As long as he has only the same av as I have in any hex (only true at Clark field) I can easily defend both places, perhaps I can lure him into an attack. If I outnumber him strongly, he won´t attack and just pound me with his LBA and his arty I guess. We´ll see, if the movement won´t work then I can´t do anything anymore anyway.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 10:43:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants The 4th Division starts in Japan along with the 8th BF. Both are unrestricted, but he would probably need most of his APs to load them both up. The 144 Rgt is set for Guam, so afterwards just reload and head to target B. KB will probably head for Darwin and support invasions around Ambon and Timor. At least I would. It seems it was not really hard to move the div, the rgt and the bf. We´re three turns ahead of the AAR and it looks like KB is heading South now, perhaps going to bomb Brisbane, I have no idea. KB isn´t needed around Timor as there´s not much I can do anyway. His three CVLs are like a death star so sending out my bombers is a complete waste so I guess he will cover his invasions with his mini KB. There are something like 20 av on Timor so what can one do to stop the enemy...

Q-Ball -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2009 11:12:25 PM)
You should be able to move between the two. But you have to move quicker than the Japanese. If you do that in Move mode, you expose the troops to more casualties from bombing. And if you don't notice the shift in time, he can mass against one half of your forces. You also have to prep your forces for both; the Japanese can pick, and you won't know what they picked until the hammer falls. Manila doesn't have the same terrain advantages it did in WITP. In fact, Clark, being rough jungle, is better terrain. If he captures Manila, he can't use the port anyway if you have Bataan. Better to let the Japs have Manila and move to Clark IMO.

Andy Mac -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 1:01:56 AM)
And as I just discovered v PZB moving in combat mode wit fatigued troops even on a good road takes an age,

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 2:24:52 PM)
So far I´ve only spotted some 1300 Japanese av in the PI and that isn´t enough to either take Clark or Manila. And I´m regrouping my troops now. Guess it will be a fighting withdraw now from Manila...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 2:33:24 PM)
Happy new year to everyone. Did the new years eve turn on Silvester real life... [:D] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 01, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Truk at 110,111 Japanese Ships PB Chiyo Maru #4 Allied Ships SS Pompano, hits 1 SS Pompano is sighted by escort Pompano diving deep .... PB Chiyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub .... PB Chiyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub I´ve got some subs around in the shipping lanes to and from Truk so perhaps we will kill off some shipping in the next weeks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Tulagi TF 112 troops unloading over beach at Tulagi, 114,137 after the first small invasion TF was killed off by two of my subs (AKLs that were shot to pieces with MG and gunfire), the enemy has come back and will take the empty Tulagi... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Saigon at 61,74 Japanese Ships PB Takunan Maru #8 Allied Ships SS Sargo SS Sargo is sighted by escort Sargo bottoming out .... PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub even if there´s only one escort, it really makes a huge difference... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet Rainer keeps sweeping to make sure I won´t have a couple of fighters in the air to engage his (escorted) bomber strike... Clark field won´t see Allied fighters in the air before 44 when I´ll be back... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 4 damaged Allied ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking 31st Infantry Regiment ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21 Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 12 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 21 damaged [:D] Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 10 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb our flak is learning to aim obviously... Singapore could be the grave of the IJAAF´s bomber force... don´t know about how many pilots are really lost in those attacks though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 42 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 22 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 23 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb you can only be sure about a flak kill when the bomber goes down during the replay... but when I think about my B-17s that suffered 20% losses of the damaged aircraft in one attack I can only hope that those Jap bombers with a durability halve of that of a B-17 will take more losses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 10 Ki-27b Nate x 10 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1695 troops, 144 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 790 Defending force 24102 troops, 464 guns, 490 vehicles, Assault Value = 896 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 191 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Formosa Inf. Regiment 48th Recon Regiment 48th Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 47th Infantry Regiment 65th Brigade 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 48th Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 14th Army 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 31st PA Infantry Division 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 192nd Tank Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 194th Tank Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 31st Infantry Regiment Subic Bay Defenses I Philippine Corps Far East USAAF 1st USMC AA Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 1st PI Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Mergui (53,62) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1112 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 22 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 22 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Mergui !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: III./143rd Infantry Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Talaud-eilanden (79,97) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 457 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 9 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Talaud-eilanden !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 777 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 887 Defending force 25002 troops, 242 guns, 512 vehicles, Assault Value = 790 Japanese ground losses: 75 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled) Allied ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 192nd Tank Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment Subic Bay Defenses 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st USMC AA Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion I Philippine Corps Far East USAAF Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st PI Base Force 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 65th Brigade 4th Tank Regiment 47th Infantry Regiment 48th Engineer Regiment 1st Formosa Inf. Regiment 48th Recon Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 14th Army 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 48th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 2:52:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 02, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Port Moresby at 98,130 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships BB Mutsu BB Nagato CA Kako CA Furutaka Allied ground losses: 78 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) BB Mutsu firing at 15th RAAF Base Force BB Nagato firing at 15th RAAF Base Force CA Kako firing at 15th RAAF Base Force CA Furutaka firing at 15th RAAF Base Force IJN battlewaggons support the invasion now... only the base force is targeted and not even hit hard... nav bombardements are more or less useless (except disrupting base forces that then could be attacked from the air without putting up good flak fire I guess)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 53 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 43 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 10 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 19 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged Allied ground losses: 25 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ... Also attacking 4th Marine Regiment ... excellent flak defense at Clark field today, probabyl due to the low attack alt of the bombers... pretty sure that all bombers are coming from bases on the PI so I doubt they reall suffer from the damage taken... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 5 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 100% of the incoming bombers hit... looks like bombing Singapore is a bad idea... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 7 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 22 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb also here, all but one bomber damaged... [:)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 9 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 11 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 16000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb even though the bombers are more or less all damaged daily, their total numbers incoming day after day seem not to be reduced... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 49th Australian Battalion, at 98,130 (Port Moresby) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 7 B5N2 Kate x 132 [:(] Japanese aircraft losses B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged Allied ground losses: 405 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 44 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 25 x B5N2 Kate bombing from 9000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Port Moresby Brigade ... Also attacking Lark Battalion ... my only combat worth unit on PM is knocked out... even if it would be a division, the disruption of the unit hit by such an airstrike would be in the 90s, making it completely useless for at least two turns. I gues with the KB around you would need at 600-700 av to fend off two high exp IJA divs. KB is the deciding factor here and the carriers can launch a lot of attacks with the Kates only... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Port Moresby (98,130) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 15044 troops, 132 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 440 Defending force 3961 troops, 65 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 72 Japanese adjusted assault: 306 Allied adjusted defense: 21 Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Port Moresby !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 87 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Allied ground losses: 2217 casualties reported Squads: 39 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 142 destroyed, 21 disabled Engineers: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 36 (36 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 5 Units destroyed 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 4th Division 8th Base Force Defending units: 49th Australian Battalion Lark Battalion B Coy/NG Rifles Port Moresby Brigade 15th RAAF Base Force Rabaul Det. Base Force Port Moresby is lost, it´s 2nd Jannuary... in the end I´m happy I haven´t moved in a couple of units more as I can´t see how I could have held against 4th division. I have ordered Brit 18th div to prep for Port Moresby and have set the convoy to move to Australia to unload and fom up with other ships to an amphib TF to be able to unload at PM. The convoy made it to Australia but it would have needed at least another two and a half or three weeks to really have 18th div at the base. Will use this one rare combat worthy division elsewhere now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1663 troops, 144 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 920 Defending force 23896 troops, 463 guns, 488 vehicles, Assault Value = 890 Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 133 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 65th Brigade 48th Engineer Regiment 1st Formosa Inf. Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 9th Tank Regiment Tanaka Detachment Kanno Detachment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 47th Infantry Regiment 48th Recon Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 48th Field Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 31st Infantry Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 192nd Tank Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 194th Tank Battalion 14th PS Engineer Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses I Philippine Corps 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st PI Base Force Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st USMC AA Battalion Far East USAAF 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment we´re at 1:1 against the Japanese agressors at Clark field and our troops are still confident sitting behind level 2 forts (more won´t be possible I guess due to the ongoing daily air attacks)... so what is "jungle rough" worth in the defense? The manual says it´s a 3x defensive multiplier compared to the only 2x multiplier Manila gets as urban light. No idea how the ground fighting really looks like in AE but at the moment I´m confident (which surely is a misinterpretation of the situation anyway [:D]) as a 3x multiplier on the defense should mean 2000 IJA av at least to take out Clark field against the troops I have there now and I can move in another 900 av from Manila. The main factor will be supply which we don´t have a lot even now before the fighting really starts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tulagi (114,137) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 3 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tulagi !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-) Assaulting units: 2nd Indpt SNLF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 67,87 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 210 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 4 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 60 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: I/81st Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 107th RN Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 739 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 884 Defending force 28595 troops, 268 guns, 515 vehicles, Assault Value = 920 Japanese ground losses: 120 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 31st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 14th PS Engineer Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 192nd Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st USMC AA Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Far East USAAF Clark Field USAAF Base Force 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 1st Formosa Inf. Regiment 47th Infantry Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment Tanaka Detachment 4th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 48th Engineer Regiment 48th Recon Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment Kanno Detachment 2nd Tank Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 48th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 3:53:19 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 03, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Hengchun at 83,67 Japanese Ships SC Ch 3 SC Ch 1 E Kiku Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 is located by SC Ch 3 E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub at the moment it seems all sealanes are empty of Japanese convoys and only ASW TFs are left... Rainer must have completely rerouted ALL of his shipping because out of a sudden everything just disappeared... [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Hengchun at 83,67 Japanese Ships SC Ch 3 SC Ch 1 E Kiku Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 3 S-38 diving deep .... E Kiku fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 3 attacking submerged sub .... SC Ch 3 cannot establish contact with SS S-38 SC Ch 3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub boy I really start to wonder if there´s a database error in this scenario... my MK10 torps seem to be as faulty as the MK14 and really really rarely do boom... [&:][&:][&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,119 Japanese Ships xAK London Maru, Torpedo hits 1 LSD Akitsu Maru xAP Huzi Maru xAK Shinkoku Maru xAK Kuraido Maru PB Shonon Maru #15 Allied Ships SS Pompano SS Pompano launches 4 torpedoes at xAK London Maru PB Shonon Maru #15 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub MK14 exploded on target but no damage noticed... not sure but it seems such hits are FOW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Quinhon at 67,70 Japanese Ships PB Takunan Maru #8 Allied Ships SS Sargo SS Sargo is sighted by escort Sargo diving deep .... PB Takunan Maru #8 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near San Francisco at 205,91 Japanese Ships SS I-26, hits 1 Allied Ships DD King xAP Santa Inez xAK Examiner DD Kane DD Hatfield SS I-26 launches 6 torpedoes at DD King I-26 diving deep .... DD Kane fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hatfield attacking submerged sub .... DD Hatfield fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub near San Francisco is funny in this case as it´s something like two dozen hexes out in the ocean away from SF... this is a high value troop TF that is returning to SF... Hatfield achieved a hit on I-26 and it is now reported as sunk but I guess that´s definetely FOW... Rainer is smart enough to keep his subs well off the West Coast out of air search range and still attacking my convoys now and then... all convoys going in and out from the WC are using different paths via set waypoints so my ship movement shouldn´t be predictable at all... and the good thing, the further away the subs are from the coast, the higher the chance they miss my convoys... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kavieng at 107,119 Japanese Ships ACM Tama Maru Allied Ships SS Searaven SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes ACM Tama Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another attack, another dud salvo... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet have moved out my aircraft as I didn´t want to run into another one of those massed stratosphere sweeps of Zeroes... and here they come... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 66 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 46 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 17 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet guess the Zeroes are coming from Bangkok... will move in fighters only if ships are going to Rangoon to evacuate troops... but as I´ve already spotted IJA units East of Pegu I guess it´s time to run soon anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Asiatic Fleet , at 79,77 (Manila) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 43 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 33 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 23 damaged Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb one of the daily Singapore runs and the flak strikes back... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Rangoon , at 54,53 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 12 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 24000 feet three sweeps on Rangoon today, 67 Zeroes were coming in... too many for my taste... if the air losses are correct then I´m quite satisfied with this turn as our flak definetely did it´s job and some Zeroes could be lost to ops too... notice the total air losses of both sides, the Japanese nearly have lost as many ac as we did. Clearly due to me doing a full scale Sir Robin... my air losses will go up drastically again when the enemy attacks Java as all those Dutch ac will be shot down then. This should account for 150-200 ac destroyed... [image]local://upfiles/13774/E369DF20B5044712AD6FB2D96BAA72D3.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Deboyne Islands at 99,141 Japanese Ships BB Hiei CA Chikuma CL Abukuma DD Isokaze DD Kasumi DD Arare DD Tanikaze DD Hamakaze Allied Ships SS Seawolf SS Seawolf is sighted by escort Seawolf diving deep .... DD Kasumi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tanikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hamakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tanikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub this is KB!!! After having covered the invasions of PM and Horn Island KB now swings South it seems... Rainer going for a run on Brisbane and (or) Sidney? My flak is ready and was reinforced by some units at both bases, also got lots of ac there but am not keen to send them out to act as training targets for KB´s UBER Zeroes. Also have got halve a dozen subs in the area that were tasked to move out for a patrol so they will now be placed into the expected path of KB going South... perhaps we´re lucky with a torp or we scare Rainer with lots of subs in the area... If he hits one of those bases, he won´t find a lot anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Emirau Island at 108,116 Japanese Ships DMS Taneko LSD Akitsu Maru xAP Huzi Maru xAK Shinkoku Maru xAK Kotobuki Maru #5 PB Shonon Maru #15 Allied Ships SS Searaven SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at DMS Taneko Searaven diving deep .... PB Shonon Maru #15 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another time PLOINK... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1251 troops, 92 guns, 93 vehicles, Assault Value = 908 Defending force 25805 troops, 502 guns, 487 vehicles, Assault Value = 975 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 85 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled) Assaulting units: 9th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 48th Division 4th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 14th Army 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 11th PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 194th Tank Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 91st PA Infantry Division 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment Subic Bay Defenses 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps 1st USMC AA Battalion Far East USAAF 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment I´ve only spotted two more units moving into Clark field yet... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 79,92 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3904 troops, 32 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 155 Defending force 118 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4 Japanese adjusted assault: 144 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 144 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), morale(-) experience(-) Attacker: Allied ground losses: 116 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 146th Infantry Regiment Defending units: 1st /101st PA Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manila (79,77) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2072 troops, 36 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 716 Defending force 12965 troops, 134 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 446 Assaulting units: 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 51st PA Infantry Division 3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 71st PA Infantry Division 3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion 41st PA Infantry Division 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment Cavite USN Base Force Manila USAAF Base Force II Philippine Corps Asiatic Fleet USAFFE PAF Aviation Defending units: 16th Engineer Regiment 9th Infantry Regiment Kimura Det 20th Infantry Regiment Kure 1st SNLF and the troops that are in Manila are by far not enough to scare me... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 719 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 971 Defending force 28515 troops, 267 guns, 513 vehicles, Assault Value = 908 Japanese ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 192nd Tank Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 11th PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 1st PI Base Force 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 1st USMC AA Battalion 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion I Philippine Corps Clark Field USAAF Base Force Far East USAAF 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 48th Division 65th Brigade 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 5:28:36 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 04, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laoag at 79,69 Japanese Ships PB Rokko Maru #2 PB Kyo Maru #13 PB Chohakusan Maru AMC Asaka Maru xAP Kongo Maru xAK Yoneyama Maru xAK Yasuteru Maru PB Shonan Maru #17 PB Shonan Maru #2 PB Shonan Maru #1 Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at PB Rokko Maru #2 PB Rokko Maru #2 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Shonan Maru #17 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonan Maru #2 attacking submerged sub .... PB Shonan Maru #1 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Shonan Maru #17 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Shonan Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonan Maru #2 attacking submerged sub .... PB Shonan Maru #2 is out of ASW ammo PB Shonan Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub I really start to hate my S-class subs... what´s wrong with them in this PBEM... only every fourth attack seems to be succesful, what an awful performance... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 53 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 33 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 9 damaged Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 4 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... the Japanese seem to be pretty resistant against op losses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 25 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb not much shot down today... holes in the aircraft are repaired with a handful paper and you can launch again tomorrow... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion, at 79,76 (Clark Field) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 8 damaged Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Akyab at 54,45 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 13 Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 9 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied Ships xAP Siberg, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage [8\|] xAP Santhia xAP Van Landsberge, Bomb hits 1, on fire [8\|] Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 12 (7 destroyed, 5 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 6 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo CAP engaged: No.488 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes this is one of the examples that seem to be true when it says "AE slows down operations"... so far I can only see how it slows down Allied operations. In this case, amphibious TFs try to unload at Akyab and even if it is an amphib TF all I get all the time is "TF xy can´t completely unload at Akyab"... heck, it not just doesn´t completely unload, the damn TFs don´t unload more than five soldiers a day... Not enough Buffaloes in the air and the UBER Betties sink two ships with bombs... I must be doing something seriously wrong, or better say I must be a damn bad player when I compare my situation to the situation of Allied players in other AARs... Aussie vs Amies AAR for example. The Allied have hundreds of av at Akyab and over a dozen units... how the hell did they get there when I only unload one gun and three squads per day there (and the supply vanishes completely [sm=Christo_pull_hair.gif] - no not going into the units) out of three TFs trying to unload... shaking head... five Betties were reported shot down in the end... [image]local://upfiles/13774/70B07B7340074AA490638E64A770E8A5.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Rangiroa at 177,176 Japanese Ships SS I-15 Allied Ships xAK Rona, Torpedo hits 1 xAK Rona is sighted by SS I-15 SS I-15 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Rona this is in the Society Islands!! What the hell is an IJN sub doing in the Society Islands... this is some 40 hexes off the normal shipping lanes! [8\|] no idea how well this sub spotting and reaction really works, don´t know if the sub just stumbled over this TF or what was going on... the AK was empty so it´s expendable, TF is on it´s way back to SF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 15524 troops, 269 guns, 179 vehicles, Assault Value = 908 Defending force 25670 troops, 502 guns, 486 vehicles, Assault Value = 970 Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 115 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled) Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled) Assaulting units: 9th Tank Regiment 48th Division 4th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 14th Army 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 11th PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment 194th Tank Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division 26th PS Cavalry Regiment Subic Bay Defenses Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st USMC AA Battalion I Philippine Corps 1st PI Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Far East USAAF 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pegu (55,53) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 16374 troops, 136 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 349 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 349 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Pegu !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: Imperial Guards Division 112th Infantry Regiment 15th Army 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion Imperial Guards div is one hex off Rangoon on 4th Jan... also really really slowed down it seems... 1st Burma division was rebuilt and is already save back in Calcutta, everything that is in Rangoon at the moment has been set to move out, marching North... no sense trying to fight the Imperial Guards division... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manila (79,77) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2072 troops, 36 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 716 Defending force 13584 troops, 134 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 499 Assaulting units: 71st PA Infantry Division 3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion 51st PA Infantry Division 3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 41st PA Infantry Division 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment Asiatic Fleet USAFFE II Philippine Corps Cavite USN Base Force Manila USAAF Base Force PAF Aviation Defending units: Kimura Det 16th Engineer Regiment 7th Tank Regiment 20th Infantry Regiment 9th Infantry Regiment Kure 1st SNLF 500 av at Manila is by far not enough to take the base... Rainer stated that he will be curious how it will work out to defend both Manila and Clark and already said he perhaps would only starve me to death... great... [8\|] this means he has enough troops to be sent around on the map to take whatever he wants and my troops just sit in the PI and starve away without having a chance to do anything... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 678 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 958 Defending force 29158 troops, 308 guns, 557 vehicles, Assault Value = 907 Japanese ground losses: 25 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 91st PA Infantry Division 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 192nd Tank Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses Far East USAAF 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment I Philippine Corps 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st USMC AA Battalion 1st PI Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 4th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 2nd Tank Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion only one damned division spotted on the PI... o n e...[8\|] and it doesn´t look like he´s flooding Malaya with strong units either, but this could just be us not spotting them yet... nearly all my units have arrived undamaged at Singapore and the fortress is now bristling with 1200+ assault value and lots of flak guns... now this will be interesting how it will turn out in AE. Enough supplies on hand for a prolonged fight. What I fear the most though is that Rainer will only keep my units rotting there, same as he´s thinking about doing in the PI. This would free up a lot of IJA troops again, enough to drive into vital regions on the map. Which brings up the question: as long as Singapore is Allied, can IJN TFs move through the passage or will they be target of the big guns? If the IJN can move at their wishes then it´s senseless to bleed the IJA in Singapore anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Malaybalay (80,90) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 962 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 340 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 20 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 20 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Malaybalay !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 102nd PA Infantry Regiment 103rd PA Infantry Regiment 3rd PA Constabulary Regiment 102nd PA Infantry Division III Philippine Corps

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/1/2010 5:51:23 PM)
AAR has caught up with the game now... it was a real crap turn... [:@] AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 05, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Rangiroa at 177,175 Japanese Ships SS I-15 Allied Ships xAK Rona, Shell hits 1, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage xAK Rona is sighted by SS I-15 SS I-15 attacking on the surface Society Islands... I-15 finishes the already dead xAK with another 6 torp salvo... this is good, no not losing the ship but the sub using another 6 torps on an already dead ship... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao Allied Ships SS S-41, hits 2 SS S-41 is sighted by escort DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub my S-class subs keep to be useless... two near misses, the sub has to retire with 12 sys damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships DD Tawakaze SC Ch 23 SC Ch 22 xAK Nihonka Maru DD Yugao Allied Ships SS Permit, hits 2 SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tawakaze DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub then a fleet sub attacks and hits but the torps were duds of course... must be a pretty valuable TF with a DD escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Truk at 111,110 Japanese Ships CM Tsugaru Allied Ships SS Pompano SS Pompano launches 2 torpedoes Pompano diving deep .... CM Tsugaru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub hey ho, another hit, another dud... [:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Auckland at 120,185 Japanese Ships SS I-10 Allied Ships TK Mobilfuel, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage SS I-10 is sighted by TK Mobilfuel SS I-10 launches 6 torpedoes at TK Mobilfuel and then this fridging ** starts... this is a TK I´ve formed up right at the start of the game which now proves to have been a very poor decision as I did not have any escorts on hand... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Auckland at 120,185 Japanese Ships SS I-10 Allied Ships AO Platte, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage AO Platte is sighted by SS I-10 SS I-10 launches 6 torpedoes at AO Platte I-10 not just sinks one valuable TK but also one of my big AOs... and the sub has still torps left, so with the mega effective react setting in AE I expect to lose another TK tomorrow... probably more subs coming in anyway... I have the bad feeling that the AAR about Australia´s industry that was started on the main forum with a quote of mine has made Rainer´s decision easy where to place subs as he´s probably sure now that I won´t move fuel in big quantities to Australia but somewhere else... and voila, there we go with a sub sitting in the shipping lane to Auckland, coming straight from the East... may I ask every reader not to take out anything from the AAR into the main forum, at least not with a quote of mine or saying that this or that is coming from my PBEM... this is a nice intel for my opponent and can cause me real trouble... the only good thing is that I figured out this turn that it is still possible to transport fuel with AKs just like it was possible in WITP... thought this was changed? Anyway, this has pretty much made my day as I will have plenty of AKs doing 12 knots to move big quantities of fuel to where I need it. I´m in the process or regrouping my tanker fleet now (will take two months probably) and then the TKs will go around with a pretty decent escort (fast and with a good endurance to stop the refuelling all the time - so we´ll end up using DDs or DMs probably). One thing is for sure, I won´t move the 67.000 tons of fuel to Australia to just feed the heavy industry there as it sounds too much to me to use 40 or 50% of my total TK capacity for doing this and I doubt that so many TK capacity was used in real life to do this... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 13 [:@][:@][:@] Allied aircraft Buffalo I x 16 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Buffalo I: 7 destroyed [8\|][8\|][8\|] Aircraft Attacking: 5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet** CAP engaged: No.243 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes No.488 Sqn RAF with Buffalo I (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes what can I say? Not much, a kill rate of 11:0 speaks for itself I guess... and again I´m hit by the assumption that the Japanese couldn´t move forward that fast... thought Akyab would only be in range of Mrs. Betty and Mrs. Nell, but no, there´s already an airfield supported by aviation support in the normal range for the Zeroes... great... [8\|] from now on I will revert to thinking in WITP terms for most things... and right now I can´t see much of what has changed for the Japanese. In two or three months the Japanese will produce more than enough fighters and bombers and with kill rates even higher than in WITP they will keep sweeping the floor with my airforce as seen in this engagement... a 11:0 against pilots in the mid 50s... great... There was a lot discussion going on about the performance of the P-39 and P-40, resulting in the P-40 doing better in AE even though the P-39 has by far the better stats for aircombat IMO. I´m already running low on fighters for the AVG, therefore I have upgraded one squadron to P-39. Yes P-39! Next mistake probably, but what can I really do... fighting at 1000ft against Zeroes is suicide, fighting at 30.000ft is not much difference... must be an overall perfect aircraft for the IJNAF...[>:] [image]local://upfiles/13774/94A1D4F4D4584E3FBDDF89F8DFC459D3.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 40 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 42 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged Allied ground losses: 28 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 32 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 28 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking 4th Marine Regiment ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19 Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb everytime I look at the airfield damage after such a raid there is none... the bombers aren´t hitting enough and I´ve got a good number of engineers at the base to repair the damage and further increase our fort levels... I only hope that the losses for the IJAAF are higher than I see in my aircraft loss list... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 6 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 6 damaged Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Miri at 63,84 Japanese Ships PB Shuko Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Skipjack SS Skipjack launches 4 torpedoes at PB Shuko Maru #2 Skipjack diving deep .... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the only time today when we could strike back... a sunk PB is a very small consolation prize though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Malacca (49,81) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1207 troops, 0 guns, 183 vehicles, Assault Value = 231 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 50 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 50 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Malacca !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: fatigue(-) Assaulting units: 42nd Infantry Regiment 1st Tank Regiment 14th Tank Regiment the IJA moves closer to Singapore... I think it will take him at least another week at least to get everthing in place to move across the river alltogether... still no division spotted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1875 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1433 Defending force 25544 troops, 502 guns, 485 vehicles, Assault Value = 958 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 103 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 9 (3 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 65th Brigade 9th Tank Regiment 38th Division 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 14th Army 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 91st PA Infantry Division 4th Marine Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 11th PA Infantry Division 31st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 31st Infantry Regiment 194th Tank Battalion Subic Bay Defenses 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st USMC AA Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Far East USAAF 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment another enemy division moved into Clark... will be interesting how much more will come in... at the moment I still feel confident that an attack wouldn´t do the Japanese any good but I guess I´m wrong in the end anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 50,79 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3727 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127 Defending force 117 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 58 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 58 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Allied ground losses: 106 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 56th Infantry Regiment Defending units: FMSV Brigade -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 9 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 684 troops, 88 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 944 Defending force 43529 troops, 431 guns, 731 vehicles, Assault Value = 1433 Japanese ground losses: 50 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 11th PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division 4th Marine Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion Subic Bay Defenses I Philippine Corps 1st PI Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Far East USAAF 1st USMC AA Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 65th Brigade 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 38th Division 2nd Tank Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/2/2010 6:29:16 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 06, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Tawi Tawi at 71,91 Japanese Ships xAKL Taisoku Maru, Shell hits 1, on fire Allied Ships SS Permit xAKL Taisoku Maru is sighted by SS Permit SS Permit attacking on the surface Hurst, A.M. decides to submerge SS Permit due to damage I just hate it when I get this message... why? Because this "routine" doesn´t seem to work really well... as many times before, this sub has only 3 sys damage which makes the sub like brand new... the sub submerged after one shell fired... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near San Francisco at 216,73 Japanese Ships SS I-1 Allied Ships DD Kennison DD Gilmer DD Kilty SS I-1 is located by DD Kennison I-1 diving deep .... DD Gilmer attacking submerged sub .... DD Gilmer loses contact with SS I-1 DD Gilmer loses contact with SS I-1 DD Kilty attacking submerged sub .... DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1 DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1 SS I-1 eludes DD Kilty by diving deep DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1 DD Kilty cannot reach attack position over SS I-1 DD Gilmer fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kilty fails to find sub and abandons search DD Gilmer fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub got an ASW TF operating out of SF now as two subs were spotted just a couple of hexes off the base, they obviously reacted and reacted while following a returning convoy and ended up too close to SF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships xAKL Taisoku Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS KX xAKL Taisoku Maru is sighted by SS KX SS KX launches 2 torpedoes this one sank immedietely... not a real important target as the xAKL aren´t really worthy targets but perhaps it´s one of the xAKLs that the Japanese can upgrade to patrol boats (which I don´t like at all...) how many of those transports can be upgraded to PBs??? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Buna TF 94 troops unloading over beach at Buna, 99,129 Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost in surf during unload of Maizuru 1st SNLF 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of Maizuru 1st SNLF /2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Koepang Japanese Ships CA Haguro CA Myoko CL Kiso CL Nagara DD Uruyuke DD Tatsuyuke DD Karukaya Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled CA Haguro firing at Dili Detachment CA Myoko firing at Dili Detachment CL Kiso firing at Dili Detachment CL Nagara firing at Dili Detachment DD Uruyuke firing at Timor Garrison Battalion DD Tatsuyuke firing at Dili Detachment DD Karukaya firing at Dili Detachment DD Karukaya firing at enemy troops here comes the assault on Timor... like I´ve said before, can´t see what I should do against it... there´s nothing on the island and we´re only one month into the war so it´s senseless thinking about the defense of it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Koepang TF 241 troops unloading over beach at Koepang, 68,116 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of Sasebo 2nd SNLF /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tahiti at 173,179 Japanese Ships SS I-15 Allied Ships xAK Don Isidro KV Dawson SS I-15 is sighted by escort KV Dawson fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another IJN sub REALLY far away from home... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near San Francisco at 216,73 Japanese Ships SS I-2 Allied Ships DD Crosby DD Gilmer DD Kilty SS I-2 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Crosby DD Gilmer fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub after being unsuccesfully attacked earlier this day, I-2 dares to attack one of our DDs but missing it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet I´m not dumb enough to still have my Buffaloes here to be slaughtered by the Zeroes at a 11:0 kill rate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 40 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 102nd PA Infantry Division, at 80,90 (Malaybalay) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 7 G3M2 Nell x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 54 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 3rd PA Constabulary Regiment ... I´ve moved some of my troops from Cagayan into the mountain hex South of it and it seems this is making Rainer a littel nervous... only one enemy unit at Davao... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 26 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 7 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 26 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ... Also attacking Clark Field ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 10 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 10 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 SC Ch 21 xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao Allied Ships SS KX SS KX is sighted by escort DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 40889 troops, 432 guns, 653 vehicles, Assault Value = 1442 Defending force 25425 troops, 500 guns, 482 vehicles, Assault Value = 948 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 448 Allied adjusted defense: 997 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 920 casualties reported [8\|] Squads: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 92 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Vehicles lost 31 (7 destroyed, 24 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1309 casualties reported [8\|][8\|][8\|] Squads: 4 destroyed, 85 disabled Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 168 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 95 (11 destroyed, 84 disabled) Assaulting units: 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 9th Tank Regiment 38th Division 4th Tank Regiment 48th Division 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 14th PS Engineer Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 192nd Tank Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 11th PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 1st PI Base Force Far East USAAF I Philippine Corps Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st USMC AA Battalion 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment looks like it´s a cake walk for the Japanese... of course the forts didn´t hold, of course we lose three times the combat squads than the enemy (disabled are like destroyed for us anyway). And the enemy doesn´t suffer at all... for me, losses within the defender have always been to high but this hasn´t changed since WITP... being on the defense behind some forts should be better than being on the attack in terms of losses IMO... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Singkawang (56,88) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 2716 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 104 Defending force 1384 troops, 17 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 40 Japanese adjusted assault: 52 Allied adjusted defense: 25 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 193 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 150 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: II./124th Infantry Battalion III./124th Infantry Battalion Defending units: West Borneo KNIL Battalion Singkawang Base Force Sambas Base Force 106th RN Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 69,106 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1184 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43 Defending force 536 troops, 10 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 10 Japanese adjusted assault: 16 Allied adjusted defense: 3 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 62 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 98 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: III./4th Infantry Battalion Defending units: Kendari Garrison Battalion Kendari Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 15 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 5 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-), fatigue(-) Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 571 troops, 88 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 851 Defending force 42645 troops, 432 guns, 721 vehicles, Assault Value = 1383 Japanese ground losses: 48 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled) Assaulting units: 91st PA Infantry Division 31st PA Infantry Division 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 194th Tank Battalion 31st Infantry Regiment 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion Subic Bay Defenses Far East USAAF Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st USMC AA Battalion 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 9th Tank Regiment 38th Division 4th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 48th Division 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 14th Army 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 378 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44 Defending force 2966 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122 Assaulting units: Timor Garrison Battalion Dili Detachment Defending units: Sasebo 2nd SNLF /4 Kure 2nd SNLF /8 the enemy lands 122 av in one day... [8\|]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2010 4:59:46 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 07, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tockangbesi-eilanden at 71,110 Japanese Ships DD Tachikaze APD Tade xAK Meigen Maru DD Namikaze DD Nokaze Allied Ships SS O19 SS O19 is sighted by escort O19 diving deep .... DD Namikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub enemy escorts (DDs especially) perform so much better on ASW up to now it´s really causing me headache as this means that my Dutch, British and S-class subs are prevented from attacking at least 50% of the time it seems... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Saigon at 61,74 Japanese Ships CA Takao CA Chokai CA Atago CL Isuzu DD Sagiri DD Arashio Allied Ships SS Sargo SS Sargo launches 4 torpedoes at CA Takao Sargo bottoming out .... DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arashio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arashio fails to find sub and abandons search DD Sagiri attacking submerged sub .... DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub torps hit the heavy cruiser but of course didn´t explode... I´m getting 90% dud salvoes, not just dud torps it seems... it´s really bad in this campaign, really bad, but I hope luck will change sides at some point... the difference between an AI game and a PBEM is drastically, in my AI test game I´ve sunk nearly a hundred ships with my subs until February, in this PBEM I will perhaps get 20... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Belep Islands at 106,155 Japanese Ships SS I-25 Allied Ships xAKL Mauban, Shell hits 1 xAKL Mauban is sighted by SS I-25 SS I-25 attacking on the surface Kurihara W. decides to submerge SS I-25 due to damage this time we´re the lucky one, this sub submerged before doing anything... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Belep Islands at 106,155 Japanese Ships SS I-25 Allied Ships xAKL Mauban, Shell hits 13, heavy fires, heavy damage xAKL Mauban is sighted by SS I-25 SS I-25 attacking on the surface Kurihara W. decides to submerge SS I-25 due to damage but then of course it surfaced again and sunk the xAKL... what a really smart routine... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 SC Ch 21 xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao Allied Ships SS KX SS KX is sighted by escort KX bottoming out .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and again the round went to the escorts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Cagayan at 79,89 Japanese Ships TB Kamo TB Kiji Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 3 TB Kamo firing at Cagayan TB Kiji firing at Cagayan my "offensive" on Mindanao seems to have made Rainer a little nervous, no idea what kind of operation this was... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships xAK Atutasan Maru APD Aoi DD Yukaze DD Sawakaze Allied Ships SS Pike, hits 3 SS Pike launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Atutasan Maru Pike bottoming out .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and duds of course...[&o][&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 20000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 36 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 40 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 27 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking 31st PA Infantry Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 17 damaged Allied ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 32 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb only 1 out of 10 damaged Sallies seems to be lost... so far IJA paper bombers suffer only 1/3 of my op losses even though all of them have a crappy durability... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Larantoeka at 68,114 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged Japanese Ships xAK Jinshu Maru Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb after a month of training our B-17 still can´t hit a slow merchant... will keep on training and as soon as the crews will reach "trained" status, they will be withdrawn... [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 99,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 5 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near San Francisco at 214,80 Japanese Ships SS I-21, hits 1 Allied Ships DD Kennison DD Gilmer DD Kilty SS I-21 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kennison DD Gilmer fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kilty attacking submerged sub .... SS I-21 eludes DD Kilty by diving deep DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub like I´ve said, IJN destroyers perform far better than ours so far... luckily the torps missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 SC Ch 21 xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao Allied Ships SS KX, hits 2 SS KX is sighted by escort KX bottoming out .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yugao attacking submerged sub .... SS KX eludes ASW attack from DD Yugao DD Yugao loses contact with SS KX DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub only our useless fleet subs tend to attack but their attacks are 90% failures... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Buna (99,129) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1511 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 62 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 27 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 27 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Buna !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: Maizuru 1st SNLF -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 10 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 2966 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 122 Defending force 956 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 44 Japanese adjusted assault: 20 Allied adjusted defense: 9 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-) fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: disruption(-), fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 65 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 374 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 23 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: Kure 2nd SNLF Sasebo 2nd SNLF Defending units: Timor Garrison Battalion Dili Detachment Koepang will fall with the next attack... and again, Rainer seems to be either psychic or very lucky, like earlier in the game at Ambon, we tried to intercept the enemy with far superior surface combat forces and again, the enemy left before we arrived... [&:] the "moving in to target" is also very strange in AE, no more taking position at full speed range away from the target and then moving in at night and out again... either this was changed or isn´t working anymore... the SC TF always just moves along at cruise speed and then ends up at whatever range this resulted in... will make hit and run pretty impossible as you can end up one hex from a base the night before you want to attack... so this has to be done manually now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 561 troops, 88 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 849 Defending force 42768 troops, 432 guns, 729 vehicles, Assault Value = 1392 Japanese ground losses: 66 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 7 (0 destroyed, 7 disabled) Allied ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 11th PA Infantry Division 91st PA Infantry Division 21st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 14th PS Engineer Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment Subic Bay Defenses 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Far East USAAF 1st USMC AA Battalion I Philippine Corps 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st PI Base Force Clark Field USAAF Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 9th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 38th Division 65th Brigade 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion the enemy at Clark pretty much outnumbers us now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 257 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14 Defending force 2917 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 117 Assaulting units: Timor Garrison Battalion Dili Detachment Defending units: Kure 2nd SNLF Sasebo 2nd SNLF

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2010 5:18:11 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 08, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Bataan at 77,77, Range 8,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Natori DD Satsuki DD Minazuki DD Fumizuki DD Nagatsuki DD Harukaze DD Hatakaze Allied Ships PT-31 PT-32 PT-33 MTB 9 Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 64% moonlight: 8,000 yards Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards DD Hatakaze engages PT-33 at 8,000 yards DD Minazuki engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards DD Satsuki engages PT-31 at 8,000 yards Range closes to 7,000 yards CL Natori engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards DD Hatakaze engages PT-32 at 7,000 yards DD Harukaze engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards DD Nagatsuki engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards DD Minazuki engages PT-33 at 7,000 yards DD Satsuki engages PT-31 at 7,000 yards Range increases to 8,000 yards DD Hatakaze engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards DD Nagatsuki engages PT-32 at 8,000 yards DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards Range increases to 9,000 yards CL Natori engages PT-32 at 9,000 yards CL Natori engages PT-31 at 9,000 yards DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards DD Fumizuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards DD Satsuki engages MTB 9 at 9,000 yards Range increases to 12,000 yards DD Fumizuki engages PT-33 at 12,000 yards DD Hatakaze engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards CL Natori engages MTB 9 at 12,000 yards DD Fumizuki engages PT-32 at 12,000 yards Task forces break off... the enemy has parked a SC TF outside the entrance to Bataan for over a week already to prevent me from bringing in any supplies... guess this way he doesn´t have to keep a single bomber on nav attack and can use them elsewhere as the new routines in AE will prevent me from moving through this hex for sure as every single AK would be picked off... so I decided to send out my PTs but they didn´t achieve anything but acting as targets... range didn´t close so all the little buggers escaped... but then they rerouted towards Soerabaja (homeport was Manila) as the enemy TF now blocked the way back... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Rabaul at 106,127 Japanese Ships xAK Kunitu Maru xAK Shinwa Maru xAK Taikei Maru xAKL Ujigawa Maru DD Yakaze Allied Ships SS Seawolf SS Seawolf launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kunitu Maru DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we´ve got 4 subs sitting at Rabaul now due to the reaction routine... don´t like that... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Bataan at 77,77, Range 21,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Natori DD Satsuki DD Minazuki DD Fumizuki DD Nagatsuki DD Harukaze DD Hatakaze Allied Ships PT-31 PT-32 PT-33 MTB 9 Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards Range closes to 19,000 yards... CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 19,000 yards Allied TF attempts to evade combat Range increases to 21,000 yards... Range increases to 21,000 yards... Allied PT Boat TF evades combat even though the PTs moved towards Java in the night, they then engage the enemy in the same hex as in the night again...[&:] react routine...[:(] I guess I will look at it some more time and will then decide to completely turn off EVERY reaction range on all my subs and surface combatants... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Salajar at 66,107 Japanese Ships DD Tachikaze APD Tade xAK Jinshu Maru DD Namikaze DD Nokaze Allied Ships SS KIX SS KIX is sighted by escort KIX diving deep .... DD Namikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Nokaze cannot establish contact with SS KIX Escort abandons search for sub as if we wouldn´t already be used to this... [:o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 102nd PA Infantry Division, at 80,90 (Malaybalay) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft G3M2 Nell x 7 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 72 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 7 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb what I don´t get either is the fact that every day we use up around 1000 supplies in Singapore... granted there are quite some troops and we´re building forts also, but I can only think about the air attacks also decreasing our supplies as the stock is really going down quickly... too quickly... but without achieving a hit on the supply dump there shouldn´t be supplies destroyed... perhaps this is also something that just doesn´t show up in the combat report exactly anymore (which would be completely BS again) and you´ve also have to watch the replay of stupid ground bombings to see how many supply hits the enemy achieves... is this what the developers mean about FOW?? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ... Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 29 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 13 damaged Allied ground losses: Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 99,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 72,90 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 APD Aoi xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao DD Yukaze DD Sawakaze Allied Ships SS Pike, hits 4 SS Pike is sighted by escort DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub would give a lot for so effective ASW... all my subs are more or less rendered useles... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Savaii at 147,156 Japanese Ships SS I-24, hits 2 Allied Ships xAP President Fillmore, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage xAP President Buchanan DD Rathburne SS I-24 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP President Fillmore I-24 diving deep .... DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Rathburne attacking submerged sub .... DD Rathburne cannot reach attack position over SS I-24 SS I-24 eludes ASW attack from DD Rathburne DD Rathburne attacking submerged sub .... DD Rathburne cannot establish contact with SS I-24 DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub while the enemy subs are killers of course, no matter if we have escorts or not... while a single IJN torp is enough to sink everyone below heavy cruiser size anyway, the hit rate of the Japanese subs is also twice as high as ours... the big AP sinks within two minutes of course... I-24 suffers two surely crippling near misses... [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Makassar Japanese Ships PC Ashi PC Ashi firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Makassar TF 266 troops unloading over beach at Makassar, 65,106 we´ve spotted what I would identify as mini KB moving East towards Palau, so I´m tempted to engage this invasion with my Dutch cruisers that are currently stationed at Soerabaja... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Johore Bahru (50,83) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 57 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 57 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Johore Bahru !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+) Assaulting units: 1st Tank Regiment enemy armored spearhead reached Johore Bahru... I doubt that the enemy will cross the river into Singapore anytime soon though, probably not within the next week as many units are spotted still two or three hexes North... and I doubt Rainer will cross without having all his units coming along together... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1867 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399 Defending force 23807 troops, 498 guns, 473 vehicles, Assault Value = 857 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 113 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 15 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled) Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 38th Division 9th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 48th Division 2nd Tank Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 14th Army 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 4th Marine Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 194th Tank Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 192nd Tank Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 11th PA Infantry Division 21st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 1st USMC AA Battalion I Philippine Corps 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Clark Field USAAF Base Force Far East USAAF 1st PI Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment we´ve ordered all our units at Manila to combat move on Clark field... they´re marching at 15 miles a day so it seems moving while set to combat isn´t really slow in this area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Rangoon (54,53) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 16370 troops, 136 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 229 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 229 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Rangoon !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: Imperial Guards Division 112th Infantry Regiment 15th Army 21st Medium Field Artillery Battalion nothing I could have done against a reinforced IG div in Burma... my troops are running North and 1st Burma div is sitting at Calcutta already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Singkawang (56,88) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 2636 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98 Defending force 1201 troops, 17 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 29 Japanese adjusted assault: 35 Allied adjusted defense: 7 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Singkawang !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 128 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 609 casualties reported Squads: 36 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 44 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 4 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: II./124th Infantry Battalion III./124th Infantry Battalion Defending units: West Borneo KNIL Battalion Singkawang Base Force Sambas Base Force 106th RN Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 10 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-) supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Jesselton (68,86) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 507 troops, 8 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 5 Japanese adjusted assault: 17 Allied adjusted defense: 7 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Jesselton !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 159 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: I/81st Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 107th RN Base Force 108th RN Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 529 troops, 85 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 850 Defending force 42958 troops, 431 guns, 728 vehicles, Assault Value = 1399 Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 31st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 11th PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 14th PS Engineer Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 91st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment Subic Bay Defenses 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Far East USAAF 1st USMC AA Battalion 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps Clark Field USAAF Base Force 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 3rd Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 9th Tank Regiment 38th Division 65th Brigade 4th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 14th Army 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Makassar (65,106) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 979 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52 Defending force 780 troops, 0 guns, 132 vehicles, Assault Value = 81 Assaulting units: Makassar Garrison Battalion Makassar Base Force Defending units: 8th Tank Rgt /2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 257 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14 Defending force 2935 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119 Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Timor Garrison Battalion Dili Detachment Defending units: Kure 2nd SNLF Sasebo 2nd SNLF

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2010 5:41:15 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 09, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Makassar Japanese Ships PC Ashi PC Ashi firing at enemy troops an amazingly weak escort for Makassar invasion IMO... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Miri at 65,86 Japanese Ships xAK Eihuku Maru PB Nako Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Skipjack SS Skipjack is sighted by escort Skipjack bottoming out .... PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub so far a rough guess would be that one IJN escort is enough to prevent my subs from attacking in 40-50% of possible times and my single escorts do this in 10-20% of the time so far... but this will all change... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawi Tawi at 71,91 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 APD Aoi xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao DD Yukaze DD Sawakaze Allied Ships SS Pike, hits 1 SS Pike is sighted by escort DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo DD Sawakaze is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Makassar at 65,106, Range 8,000 Yards Japanese Ships PC Ashi, Shell hits 10, and is sunk xAK Hokutai Maru, Shell hits 8, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk xAK Kasyu Maru, Shell hits 4, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk xAK Seikyo Maru, Shell hits 18, and is sunk xAK Shinkyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk Allied Ships CL Java CL De Ruyter CL Tromp DD Vendetta DD Banckert DD Van Nes DD Witte de With DD Evertsen DD Kortenaer DD Piet Hein Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 53% moonlight: 8,000 yards Range closes to 11,000 yards... Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards Japanese ships attempt to get underway CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards CL Tromp engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards CL De Ruyter engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards CL Java engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards DD Evertsen engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards DD Witte de With engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards DD Van Nes engages xAK Hokutai Maru at 8,000 yards DD Vendetta engages PC Ashi at 8,000 yards Range closes to 7,000 yards CL De Ruyter engages PC Ashi at 7,000 yards xAK Hokutai Maru sunk by CL Java at 7,000 yards Range closes to 4,000 yards xAK Shinkyo Maru sunk by DD Van Nes at 4,000 yards Range closes to 3,000 yards DD Piet Hein engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards DD Witte de With engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards DD Van Nes engages xAK Seikyo Maru at 3,000 yards xAK Seikyo Maru sunk by CL Tromp at 3,000 yards Range increases to 4,000 yards CL Tromp engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 4,000 yards Range closes to 2,000 yards CL Tromp engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards DD Van Nes engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards DD Van Nes engages xAK Kasyu Maru at 2,000 yards Combat ends with last Japanese ship sunk... as we were sure of mini KB not covering this invasion (very surprisingly given all the so far methodical invasions) we´ve sent in the Dutch to intervene with this invasion... the TF was caught unloading and was completely whiped out - as expected... no troops were destroyed and Makassar is lost anyway but at least we´ve sunk 5 enemy ships... would have preferred to meet a couple of escorts more, not just a single PC... so far I was satisfied... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this of course changed within three seconds... [8\|] Sub attack near Makassar at 64,106 Japanese Ships SS I-154 Allied Ships CL Java, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage [8\|] CL Tromp CL De Ruyter DD Witte de With DD Van Nes DD Vendetta DD Piet Hein DD Kortenaer DD Evertsen SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes at CL Java DD Piet Hein fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Evertsen fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kortenaer fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub if everything is just about die rolls then I´ve been really an asshole so far in this campaign as I´ve never hit a positive... got a fridging six DDs that of course do nothing... to top the BULLSHT off, this is one of the subs with a WRONG database entry and therefore the sub fires a mega spread of 8 torps... and then two IJN torps are enough to immedietely sink the light cruiser... things are getting me pissed off, 8 of those wrong subs around and I guess they´ve already accounted for over a dozen ships... my ASW stays a joke so far, therefore it´s funny to hear that IJN ASW is set to 0.65 effectivity early in the war... lol, how effective will it get then? Or better, how UBER effective will get Allied ASW then when thinking about how well IJN ASW is doing already... not in sinking my subs but in making them useless (speaking about the ones with working torps...) throw in the obvious ghost spottings all the time (still can´t figure out how TFs are spotted in the middle of nowhere all the time) and the mega effective sub react, search and destroy and it´s not surprising anymore that the enemy submarine force is taking a toll... but compared to other AARs my ship losses to IJN subs is still really, really light... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tarakan at 67,91 Japanese Ships APD Aoi, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage DD Sawakaze SC Ch 23 xAK Nihonka Maru DD Tawakaze DD Yugao DD Yukaze Allied Ships SS Permit Japanese ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at APD Aoi DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Permit then sinks an APD of the Tarakan invasion force... lucky shot it seems... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 44 encounters mine field at Rabaul (106,125) Allied Ships SS Seawolf, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage with the loss of the Dutch CL and this fleet sub hitting a Type 93 mine in Rabaul it was not really a good turn... the sub is crippled and all I can say once again is that I REALLY HATE IT WHEN MY SUBS REACT INTO ENEMY BASES... they hit mines and are far to vulnerable in base hexes so I just want them to STAY OUT!!!! Don Bowen said they shouldn´t react into bases with spotted mine fields and they also should not react into bases with ports bigger than small sizes... granted this minefield wasn´t spotted earlier but I´ve got subs in port all the time so this routine seems not to work at all... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 8 damaged Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 29 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 9 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 8 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking 21st PA Infantry Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 26 Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 14 Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 15 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Lark Battalion, at 99,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 5 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Mangaia at 153,185 Japanese Ships SS I-15 Allied Ships xAK Eldorado, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage KV Dawson Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled) SS I-15 launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Eldorado I-15 diving deep .... KV Dawson fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and our escort is useless once again... and due to the fact that this attack again happened in the middle of nowhere (I bet not a single ship crossed this hex in the campaign so far) I´m 100% sure that this attack is one of those miracle attacks when subs react to shipping somewhere in the middle of the ocean while shouldn´t knowing that there are even ships... [8\|] I can´t explain it otherwise and my subs seem to be doing the same... every single TF leaving or going to the West Coast is doing it at different directions and they are moving so far off "normal" shipping routes it is just more than strange to meet enemy subs every second turn (which then sink a ship of course)... this one sunk an AK with halve a construction btn aboard... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 1891 troops, 132 guns, 137 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412 Defending force 23670 troops, 496 guns, 470 vehicles, Assault Value = 855 Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 115 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled) Assaulting units: 48th Division 38th Division 9th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 65th Brigade 2nd Tank Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 192nd Tank Battalion 31st Infantry Regiment 194th Tank Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 91st PA Infantry Division 31st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 11th PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Far East USAAF 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 1st USMC AA Battalion I Philippine Corps 1st PI Base Force Clark Field USAAF Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manila (79,77) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 7504 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 499 Defending force 27231 troops, 273 guns, 169 vehicles, Assault Value = 857 Allied ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Kimura Det 20th Infantry Regiment 7th Tank Regiment 16th Engineer Regiment 9th Infantry Regiment Kure 1st SNLF Defending units: 1st PA Infantry Division 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 71st PA Infantry Division 3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion 41st PA Infantry Division 51st PA Infantry Division 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment USAFFE Cavite USN Base Force Manila USAAF Base Force II Philippine Corps Asiatic Fleet PAF Aviation my troops should reach Clark field next turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Mersing (51,82) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 525 troops, 0 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 46 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 47 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 47 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Mersing !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+) Assaulting units: 14th Tank Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 9 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-) fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 2963 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121 Defending force 639 troops, 8 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Japanese adjusted assault: 24 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Koepang !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) experience(-) Attacker: disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 342 casualties reported Squads: 25 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: Kure 2nd SNLF Sasebo 2nd SNLF Defending units: Timor Garrison Battalion Dili Detachment no chance for Koepang´s defenders... probably won´t take long and we´ll see Japanese airpower in this region... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 475 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 849 Defending force 43109 troops, 432 guns, 729 vehicles, Assault Value = 1412 Japanese ground losses: 74 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled) Allied ground losses: Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 21st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division 11th PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion Subic Bay Defenses 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Far East USAAF 1st USMC AA Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 48th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 38th Division 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 14th Army 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Makassar (65,106) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 974 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52 Defending force 960 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 80 Assaulting units: Makassar Garrison Battalion Makassar Base Force Defending units: 8th Tank Rgt /2 guess we won´t be able to hold against this tank rgt either... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Makassar (65,106) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 960 troops, 0 guns, 144 vehicles, Assault Value = 80 Defending force 1433 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 52 Japanese adjusted assault: 79 Allied adjusted defense: 5 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Makassar !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses No Allied losses Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+) Allied ground losses: 556 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 11 disabled Non Combat: 28 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 2 Assaulting units: 8th Tank Rgt /2 Defending units: Makassar Garrison Battalion Makassar Base Force yup, the first attack takes the base... really great adjusted av... [8\|]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2010 6:04:50 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 10, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kolaka at 67,107 Japanese Ships xAK Meigen Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage APD Tade xAK Shinsei Maru DD Namikaze DD Nokaze Allied Ships SS O16 Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled SS O16 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Meigen Maru O16 diving deep .... DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Namikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Namikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub got halve a dozen subs operating in this area (all with working torps) and hopefully I will get some more shots at this troop transport... looks like it is going towards Timor at the moment... the AK sunk right after the hits... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Tarakan - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 51 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships DD Tawakaze DD Yugao DD Yukaze SC Ch 23, Shell hits 2, heavy fires SC Ch 22, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage SC Ch 21, Shell hits 1, on fire Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) DD Tawakaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion DD Yugao firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion DD Yukaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion SC Ch 23 firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 23 at 2,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 23 at 2,000 yards SC Ch 22 firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 22 at 2,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 22 at 2,000 yards SC Ch 21 firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards DD Yugao firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards DD Yukaze firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft seems like Tarakan´s coast defense is the so far best working one the Japanese have engaged yet... both the 120 and 75mm guns have put out nice counterfire and at least one subchaser will be lost I guess... good to see the ASW vessels being attacked instead of the transports as the SCs can´t sustain that much damage and they are more important over the course of the campaign then some damaged AKs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Tarakan TF 282 troops unloading over beach at Tarakan, 67,91 Japanese ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 15th Nav Gd 17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 15th Nav Gd /3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Port Kembla at 91,170 Japanese Ships SS I-168 Allied Ships xAP Lurline, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [>:] Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled xAP Lurline is sighted by SS I-168 SS I-168 launches 2 torpedoes again a sub attack at a "strange" position... this fast AP came in unescorted (due to it being a fast liner) from the South to Sydney and was not going on any expected route... this of course helped nothing, just as the fast speed of this AP didn´t prevent a hit out of a mega salvo of 2 torps... [8\|] the ship carries a US HQ and arrived at Sydney but is in sinking condition... no idea if docking helps anything, can´t disband it as long as there are troops loaded, at least the unit will survive... high speed APs are as helpless against subs as are slow AKs, can´t see a difference at all and am not sure if it is even taken into account that those ships move quite fast... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Tarakan - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 67 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships DD Tawakaze DD Yugao DD Yukaze xAK Asosan Maru, Shell hits 2, heavy fires SC Ch 21, Shell hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage DD Tawakaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion DD Yugao firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion DD Yukaze firing at Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Asosan Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tawakaze fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards SC Ch 21 firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging SC Ch 21 at 2,000 yards DD Tawakaze firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Tawakaze at 3,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Tawakaze at 3,000 yards DD Yugao firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yugao at 3,000 yards DD Yukaze firing at enemy troops 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards 75mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging DD Yukaze at 3,000 yards guess this makes 2 subchasers sunk... the Dutch CD is doing very well here... many shots fired at the DDs but they were maneuvering hard to prevent being hit... the slower SCs were a nice target though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Babeldaob at 96,85 Japanese Ships xAK Senyo Maru xAKL Kuramasan Maru PB Zosen Maru Allied Ships SS Porpoise SS Porpoise launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Senyo Maru Porpoise diving deep .... PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub duds again... what else? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Tarakan Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships xAK Nojima Maru, Shell hits 1 DD Yugao DD Tawakaze 120mm CD Gun Coastal Battery engaging xAK Nojima Maru at 12,000 yards DD Tawakaze fires to suppress enemy guns at 12,000 yards Tarakan will be lost but at least it´s not a freebee for the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near San Francisco at 206,92 [8\|] Japanese Ships SS I-5, hits 2 Allied Ships xAK Alabaman, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage [8\|][8\|] AM Ungava Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) SS I-5 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Alabaman AM Ungava fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Ungava attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub no sense having an escort with our ships, it more or less never prevents the enemy subs from attacking, no matter if we include DDs, corvettes or something else... a mistery meeting with a sub in the middle of the Pacific again... how surprising to meet one... [8\|] a hard blow for us, we´ve lost halve of a tank rgt... one hit, the AK sinks immedietely...[:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Emirau Island at 107,117 Japanese Ships xAK Shinwa Maru xAK Kogyoku Maru xAKL Ujigawa Maru DD Yakaze Allied Ships SS Sealion SS Sealion is sighted by escort DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub torps missed... [>:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Emirau Island at 107,117 Japanese Ships xAK Shinwa Maru xAK Kogyoku Maru xAKL Ujigawa Maru DD Yakaze Allied Ships SS Sealion SS Sealion is sighted by escort DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub another attack was driven off immedietely... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Truk at 112,101 Japanese Ships TK Nisshin Maru PB Heimei Maru PB Kinsyo Maru #2 PB Hozugawa Maru Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger launches 4 torpedoes at TK Nisshin Maru Plunger diving deep .... PB Kinsyo Maru #2 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub then we hit a fat TK but no boom... hoorey... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet Rainer wants to make sure I never put up Cap again... nothing left here anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Subic Bay Defenses , at 79,76 (Clark Field) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 8 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 4 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 27 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet Also attacking 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion ... Also attacking 11th PA Infantry Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 27 Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 14 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 12000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 31 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 9 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 31 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ia Oscar x 3 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 21 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 21000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Singapore , at 50,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 10 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 24 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 9 damaged Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 19000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb a total of two bombers reported lost today... what a great result... perhaps we should turn off flak now... op losses aren´t severe for the Japanese at all... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Brunei at 65,87 Japanese Ships xAK Eihuku Maru PB Nako Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Skipjack, hits 5, heavy damage [&o] SS Skipjack is sighted by escort Skipjack bottoming out .... PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nako Maru #2 attacking submerged sub .... PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub two subs react into Brunei (what a great idea to do that, really!) and one is crippled in shallow water by a single PB that is dropping O N E depth charge at a time... but that´s enough in a base hex to be dangerous... once again, the into base reaction just pisses me off... happens daily... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tarakan at 67,91 Japanese Ships DD Tawakaze DD Sawakaze SC Ch 23 xAK Atutasan Maru DD Yugao Allied Ships SS Permit SS Permit launches 2 torpedoes at DD Tawakaze Permit bottoming out .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yugao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another attack on the Tarakan invasion but while we hit the DD (we seem to do that 80% of the time which seems quite high), the torps fail... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 40563 troops, 432 guns, 656 vehicles, Assault Value = 1415 Defending force 50793 troops, 767 guns, 637 vehicles, Assault Value = 1711 [:D] Japanese adjusted assault: 586 Allied adjusted defense: 1393 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2751 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 140 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 194 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 58 (1 destroyed, 57 disabled) Allied ground losses: 2366 casualties reported Squads: 13 destroyed, 109 disabled [:(] Non Combat: 17 destroyed, 181 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 6 (0 destroyed, 6 disabled) Vehicles lost 108 (18 destroyed, 90 disabled) Assaulting units: 48th Division 38th Division 65th Brigade 4th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 192nd Tank Battalion 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division 91st PA Infantry Division 31st PA Infantry Division 51st PA Infantry Division 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 194th Tank Battalion 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 31st Infantry Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment 41st PA Infantry Division 1st PA Infantry Division 11th PA Infantry Division 3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team Subic Bay Defenses 71st PA Infantry Division 3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 1st PI Base Force I Philippine Corps Cavite USN Base Force II Philippine Corps USAFFE Manila USAAF Base Force Asiatic Fleet Far East USAAF 1st USMC AA Battalion PAF Aviation Clark Field USAAF Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment the enemy launched another attack but exactly today all our troops from Manila arrived... the attack is driven off but the losses for us are more severe than for the enemy as he can recover... terrain and forts don´t make up the combat ability of the enemy... all of the supply from Manila was moved out... at least... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manila (79,77) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 7494 troops, 80 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 499 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Assaulting units: Kimura Det 9th Infantry Regiment 16th Engineer Regiment 20th Infantry Regiment 7th Tank Regiment Kure 1st SNLF the enemy bombards the empty town... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 9 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 440 troops, 83 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1550 Defending force 40384 troops, 432 guns, 732 vehicles, Assault Value = 1215 Japanese ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 194th Tank Battalion 31st PA Infantry Division 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 21st PA Infantry Division 1st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 14th PS Engineer Regiment 3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion 3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion 51st PA Infantry Division 192nd Tank Battalion 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 4th Marine Regiment 71st PA Infantry Division 41st PA Infantry Division 11th PA Infantry Division 91st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment I Philippine Corps PAF Aviation 1st PI Base Force Far East USAAF 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Asiatic Fleet 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment 1st USMC AA Battalion 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force Manila USAAF Base Force II Philippine Corps Cavite USN Base Force USAFFE 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 9th Tank Regiment 38th Division 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 65th Brigade 2nd Tank Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 14th Army 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1086 troops, 30 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 51 Defending force 2534 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 93 Assaulting units: VII KNIL Battalion Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion Tarakan Base Force Defending units: 15th Nav Gd /1 I./124th Infantry Bn /2 got two subs crippled (one by a mine and one by a single PC) in base hexes in the last two turns... both subs reacted into the base... great... [&o]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/4/2010 7:47:20 PM)
A good day for the Allied... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 11, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Koepang at 68,116, Range 8,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Hokaze DD Tachikaze, Shell hits 1, on fire DD Nokaze DD Namikaze, Shell hits 16, heavy fires, heavy damage APD Tade, Shell hits 13, and is sunk xAK Jinshu Maru, Shell hits 10, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Shinsei Maru, Shell hits 21, heavy fires, heavy damage xAKL Kosho Maru, Shell hits 29, and is sunk Allied Ships CA Houston CL Danae CL Dragon CL Mauritius CL Boise DD John D. Edwards, Shell hits 1 DD Paul Jones DD Parrott DD Whipple DD Stewart Japanese ground losses: 488 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 65 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 32% moonlight: 8,000 yards Range closes to 20,000 yards... Range closes to 17,000 yards... Range closes to 14,000 yards... Range closes to 11,000 yards... CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 11,000 yards Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards Japanese ships attempt to get underway CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards CA Houston engages DD Namikaze at 8,000 yards CL Boise engages DD Namikaze at 8,000 yards DD Hokaze engages CL Mauritius at 8,000 yards CL Danae engages DD Hokaze at 8,000 yards CL Boise engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 8,000 yards DD Namikaze engages DD Parrott at 8,000 yards Range closes to 7,000 yards DD Namikaze engages CL Dragon at 7,000 yards CL Danae engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 7,000 yards DD Hokaze engages DD Paul Jones at 7,000 yards DD Hokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 7,000 yards DD Namikaze engages DD Stewart at 7,000 yards CL Boise engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards DD Parrott engages DD Tachikaze at 7,000 yards CL Dragon engages APD Tade at 7,000 yards CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 7,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 7,000 yards DD Paul Jones engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 7,000 yards CL Dragon engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 7,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages DD Tachikaze at 7,000 yards Range closes to 6,000 yards DD Namikaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 6,000 yards CL Boise engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 6,000 yards CL Mauritius engages DD Namikaze at 6,000 yards DD Hokaze engages DD Parrott at 6,000 yards CL Danae engages APD Tade at 6,000 yards DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 6,000 yards DD Parrott engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 6,000 yards DD Parrott engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 6,000 yards Range closes to 4,000 yards APD Tade sunk by CA Houston at 4,000 yards DD Nokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 4,000 yards CL Mauritius engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 4,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages DD Hokaze at 4,000 yards CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards DD Whipple engages DD Hokaze at 4,000 yards DD Parrott engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages DD Namikaze at 4,000 yards Range closes to 3,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards CL Boise engages DD Tachikaze at 3,000 yards CL Mauritius engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 3,000 yards CL Danae engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards DD Stewart engages DD Namikaze at 3,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages xAKL Kosho Maru at 3,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages DD Nokaze at 3,000 yards Range closes to 2,000 yards DD Namikaze engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards DD Nokaze engages DD Whipple at 2,000 yards xAKL Kosho Maru sunk by CL Mauritius at 2,000 yards CL Dragon engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 2,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages xAK Shinsei Maru at 2,000 yards DD Stewart engages xAK Jinshu Maru at 2,000 yards DD Parrott engages DD Hokaze at 2,000 yards DD Hokaze engages DD John D. Edwards at 2,000 yards DD Namikaze sunk by CA Houston at 2,000 yards DD John D. Edwards engages DD Tachikaze at 2,000 yards DD Stewart engages DD Hokaze at 2,000 yards Japanese Task Force Manages to Escape Task forces break off... looks like my Sir Robin lulled my opponent into thinking I wouldn´t do anything offensive like. While it paid off to act offensively at Makassar two days ago it also paid off today. This TF was spotted going towards Timor by both subs and patrol aircraft. The strong escort convinced me of this TF bringing in an important unit, pretty sure this is a support unit to base bombers on Timor. We caught the enemy unloading and while we didn´t whipe out the whole TF tonight, the damaged done was severe. All transports are sunk and the LCU is lost. [&o] Like at Makassar the enemy operates without carrier support and this makes it costly. And it really suprises me that Rainer offers me this chances to hurt him as he really methodically marched forward for the first four weeks of the war. DD Edwards takes one 12cm hit but retires with only minor damage (4 sys and 10 flt). Our TF left the scene during the day as I don´t want to run into a long range Betty strike out of some recently taken jungle base. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tarakan at 67,91 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23 Allied Ships SS KXIII SS KXIII launches 2 torpedoes what a joke, torps failed to detonate... what´s wrong with my subs, compare that to the IJN and every IJN sub is 4 or 5 times more effective than mine...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Broome at 62,123 Japanese Ships SS I-160 Allied Ships xAK Clan Alpine, Torpedo hits 1 xAK Clan Alpine is sighted by SS I-160 SS I-160 launches 8 torpedoes at xAK Clan Alpine yeah great, the usual 8 torp sht... one hit but we´re on the lucky end this time, the big AK is only lightly damaged with 20 flt damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Truk at 109,113 Japanese Ships DD Tatsukaze Allied Ships SS Searaven SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at DD Tatsukaze DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tatsukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub got several subs operating near Truk as I´m pretty sure that more or less all shipping inbound for the South and South East Pacific will head into this region... the torps hit but of course failed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Tarakan at 67,91 Japanese Ships SC Ch 23, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-36 SC Ch 23 is sighted by SS S-36 SS S-36 launches 4 torpedoes an MK10 obliberates an already damaged subchaser though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Larantoeka at 68,114 Japanese Ships DD Nokaze xAK Jinshu Maru, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied Ships SS KXVI SS KXVI launches 4 torpedoes at DD Nokaze DD Nokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Nokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and then we miss... [8\|] this is the TF that was shot up at Koepang and is now heading North East... this is the second area where I´ve concentrated my subs (nearly all of them with working torps)... heading into the area between Southern Borneo - Sulawesi - Timor will be dangerous for any IJN shipping as a succesful sub attack could lead to serious problems as there´s no bigger port anywhere near for the Japanese... perhaps baby KB will show up after the two recent naval defeats and then our subs could score on a juicy target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 21000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Clark Field , at 79,76 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 38 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 15 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 7 damaged Allied ground losses: 99 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 46 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 30 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 8 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Asiatic Fleet ... Also attacking Clark Field ... Also attacking Subic Bay Defenses ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 10 B-17E Fortress x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb am operating the PI B-17s out of Darwin at the moment... the airfield is still a level 4 and therefore too small for the heavy bombers (requirement level5) and we´re attacking with reduced loads. The good news is that we´ll reach the level 5 field within the next two days. Will fly a couple of airfield attacks in the next one or two weeks as this should further delay enemy bombers on Timor... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Truk at 110,111 Japanese Ships xAK Venice Maru DD Tatsukaze Allied Ships SS Searaven SS Searaven launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Venice Maru DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another failed try, I´m not surprised anymore... PLOINK... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Enderbury Island at 159,149 Japanese Ships SS I-7 Allied Ships AP Henderson xAP President Taylor xAK Admiral Y. Williams DD Rathburne SS I-7 is sighted by escort DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Rathburne fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub there are two DDs and a corvette in this TF but DD Rathburne is always the only escort that tries to engage the sub... the others aren´t even showing up... what´s wrong?????[:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Truk at 111,110 Japanese Ships CL Kashima [:@] xAK Shinwa Maru xAK Kogyoku Maru xAKL Ujigawa Maru DD Yakaze Allied Ships SS Sealion SS Sealion launches 4 torpedoes at CL Kashima Sealion diving deep .... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and another HIT... but no explosion... forget the 90% dud rate, in this campaign it´s been at 95%+ so far... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manila (79,77) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 13594 troops, 134 guns, 90 vehicles, Assault Value = 500 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 413 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 413 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese forces CAPTURE Manila !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 9th Infantry Regiment 16th Engineer Regiment 20th Infantry Regiment Kimura Det 7th Tank Regiment Kure 1st SNLF the enemy takes the empty Manila... no supplies have been left behind but more than 100.000 fuel... don´t know how it really works in AE but in WITP you never conquered everything that was left behind so perhaps the enemy only got some of our fuel stocks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tarakan (67,91) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 2554 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98 Defending force 1930 troops, 46 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 51 Japanese adjusted assault: 62 Allied adjusted defense: 19 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tarakan !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses No Allied losses Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 68 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 851 casualties reported Squads: 10 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 32 (32 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 2 Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: I./124th Infantry Battalion 15th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: VII KNIL Battalion Tarakan Coastal Gun Battalion Tarakan Base Force the static CD unit surrendered, the other two units retreated... none of my Dutch bases seem to hold out... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 107,124 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 5 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 15 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: I/66th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: 2/1st Ind Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Clark Field (79,76) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 856 troops, 83 guns, 80 vehicles, Assault Value = 1587 Defending force 40650 troops, 432 guns, 734 vehicles, Assault Value = 1228 Japanese ground losses: 46 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 16 (4 destroyed, 12 disabled) Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 11th PA Infantry Division 71st PA Infantry Division 4th Marine Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 192nd Tank Battalion 91st PA Infantry Division Subic Bay Defenses 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 3rd/12th PA Inf Battalion 1st PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 31st Infantry Regiment 41st PA Infantry Division 51st PA Infantry Division 194th Tank Battalion 3rd/45th PS Inf Battalion 21st PA Infantry Division 86th PS Coastal Artillery Battalion 14th PS Engineer Regiment 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment Clark Field USAAF Base Force I Philippine Corps Manila USAAF Base Force PAF Aviation 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion USAFFE 1st PI Base Force 200th & 515th Coast AA Regiment Cavite USN Base Force Far East USAAF Provisional GMC Gp II Philippine Corps 1st USMC AA Battalion Asiatic Fleet 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 48th Division 9th Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 38th Division 65th Brigade 2nd Tank Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 14th Army 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion with the 500 av at Manila the enemy will have parity in av here at Clark Field... wonder if he will move in more...

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