RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy

RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (Full Version)

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition >> After Action Reports

Message

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/23/2010 12:39:17 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Nov 29, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Lautem at 73,115 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships LCT-130 LCT-130 is sighted by SS I-179 SS I-179 cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT gonna send the British ASW TF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Torishima at 107,68 Japanese Ships AM Wa 107 AM Wa 106 xAK Asama Maru #2 xAK Brasil Maru E Hatsutaka E Niizaki Allied Ships SS Sturgeon SS Sturgeon is sighted by escort Sturgeon diving deep .... E Hatsutaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Niizaki fails to find sub and abandons search E Hatsutaka attacking submerged sub .... E Hatsutaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsutaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsutaka fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Taytay at 72,77 Japanese Ships TK Hirota Maru TK Oyashima Maru PB Yamahagi Maru #3 Allied Ships SS Paddle SS Paddle is sighted by escort Paddle diving deep .... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bataan at 77,77 Japanese Ships SC Ch 37 SC Ch 24 E Asagao SC Ch 41 Allied Ships SS Flasher SS Flasher is sighted by escort Flasher diving deep .... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao attacking submerged sub .... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub and abandons search E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iba at 73,75 Japanese Ships PB Yamahagi Maru #3 TK Hirota Maru TK Oyashima Maru Allied Ships SS Robalo, hits 1 SS Robalo launches 6 torpedoes at PB Yamahagi Maru #3 Robalo diving deep .... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 attacking submerged sub .... SS Robalo eludes PB Yamahagi Maru #3 by diving deep PB Yamahagi Maru #3 cannot reach attack position over SS Robalo PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub taking a direct hit Robalo got to retire with 7 sys 24 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIb Helen x 28 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 66 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 18th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 PV-1 Ventura x 56 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 43 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... we keep flying these ground attacks, we keep on being clueless if they´ve got any effect... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 11 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 11 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 36 B-24J Liberator x 32 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 22 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 83 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 B-24J Liberator x 13 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 52 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 21 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 43 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb while we bomb all enemy airfields in range that are bigger than size one the enemy only keeps small numbers of recon or patrols at these bases... means there´s nothing left of the IJNAF/IJAAF within 20 hexes of Timor... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 23 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Haiphong , at 68,57 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 17 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 1 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * CAP engaged: No.17 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes the single Hurricane bites the dust... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 28 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships DD Tawakaze E Kuretake DD Hokaze Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger is located by DD Tawakaze Plunger diving deep .... DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tawakaze loses contact with SS Plunger SS Plunger eludes ASW attack from DD Tawakaze DD Tawakaze cannot establish contact with SS Plunger DD Hokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tawakaze cannot establish contact with SS Plunger SS Plunger eludes DD Tawakaze by diving deep DD Tawakaze loses contact with SS Plunger DD Tawakaze cannot establish contact with SS Plunger DD Tawakaze loses contact with SS Plunger DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lautem at 73,115 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships LCT-178 SS I-179 cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT got to withdraw the LCT TFs again, otherwise the ASW TF is not going to do anything... why, no idea but it´s the same we had earlier, as long as the LCT are in the same hex as the sub, the destroyers just watch the LCT being sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships DD Hokaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger is located by DD Hokaze Plunger diving deep .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze cannot establish contact with SS Plunger DD Hokaze cannot reach attack position over SS Plunger SS Plunger eludes ASW attack from DD Hokaze DD Hokaze cannot establish contact with SS Plunger DD Hokaze cannot establish contact with SS Plunger DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2794 troops, 229 guns, 190 vehicles, Assault Value = 3391 Defending force 43314 troops, 484 guns, 538 vehicles, Assault Value = 1381 Japanese ground losses: 79 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd Australian Division 754th Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 1st USMC Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd Marine Division 767th Tank Battalion 3rd Australian Division 4th Australian Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Marine Division 1st Australian Division 3rd Motor Brigade 146th USA Base Force 134th Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 104th USN Base Force 154th FA Bn 119th USAAF Base Force 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 168th Field Artillery Regiment 4th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment II Australian Corps 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force 97th Field Artillery Battalion I Australian Corps 249th Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 225th USN Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 5th Division 16th Division 18th Division 14th Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th RF Gun Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 48th Field AA Battalion 52nd Construction Battalion 8th Area Army 40th JNAF AF Unit am doing bombardments now, perhaps they´ve got some effect...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/23/2010 12:45:44 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Nov 30, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59 Japanese Ships E W-13 SC Ch 44 SC Ch 40 AO Naruto TK Eiho Maru TK Ayagiri Maru TK Tachibana Maru TK Tatibana Maru TK Ogura Maru #1 E Tatsuko E Yomogi PB Kinsyo Maru #4 Allied Ships SS Halibut SS Halibut launches 4 torpedoes at E W-13 Halibut diving deep .... E Tatsuko fails to find sub and abandons search E W-13 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-13 fails to find sub and abandons search E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub missed the last three or four chances to score on a tanker... SS Grunion was hit by air ASW, retiring with 21 sys 34 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59 Japanese Ships E Kiji E Hato DD Yukaze E Kamo Allied Ships SS Halibut SS Halibut is located by E Kiji Halibut diving deep .... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... SS Halibut eludes ASW attack from DD Yukaze DD Yukaze cannot establish contact with SS Halibut SS Halibut eludes DD Yukaze by diving deep DD Yukaze loses contact with SS Halibut E Kamo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze cannot establish contact with SS Halibut DD Yukaze cannot reach attack position over SS Halibut SS Halibut eludes DD Yukaze by diving deep DD Yukaze loses contact with SS Halibut SS Halibut eludes DD Yukaze by diving deep DD Yukaze cannot establish contact with SS Halibut DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Lautem at 73,115 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships LCT-376, Shell hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled LCT-376 is sighted by SS I-179 SS I-179 attacking LCT-376 on the surface Hirasata, Yasumi decides to submerge SS I-179 due to damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Lautem at 73,115 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships LCT-360 LCT-360 is sighted by SS I-179 SS I-179 cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT my DDs should wake up... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 20 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 18 Ki-49-IIb Helen x 25 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 44 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 25 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * [8\|] it´s consistent... consistently borked... should I provide a "safe"? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 28 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lautem at 73,115 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships LCT-130, Shell hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled SS I-179 attacking LCT-130 on the surface losing a LCT now and then is no problem but it seems we´re losing too many of them now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Lautem at 73,115 Japanese Ships SS I-179, hits 1 Allied Ships LCT-163, Shell hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled LCT-163 is sighted by SS I-179 SS I-179 attacking LCT-163 on the surface [:(] and everything is happening with my DDs in the same hex but they just refuse to attack as long as the LCT are in the same hex... strange if this is happening only by accident... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2810 troops, 229 guns, 190 vehicles, Assault Value = 3471 Defending force 43048 troops, 483 guns, 537 vehicles, Assault Value = 1395 Japanese ground losses: 31 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Australian Division 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 2nd Australian Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Marine Division 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Australian Division 4th Australian Division 3rd Motor Brigade 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion I Australian Corps 177th USAAF Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment II Australian Corps 4th Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 225th USN Base Force 104th USN Base Force 249th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 134th Field Artillery Battalion 168th Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 5th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 16th Division 18th Division 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 14th Tank Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Area Army 52nd Construction Battalion 8th RF Gun Battalion 48th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit We´re losing trucks in our bombardments... note the Mavis that were shot down today, we´ve put a Corsair squadron at Dili on 50% LRCAP over the hex West of Dili where the Japanese were retreating too and the Corsairs shot up the Mavis unit doing evac duty... not that I really care with this evacuation, the enemy units are trashed anyway and having a div rebuilt won´t happen before the end of 44, I just want to intervene a bit and get some easy kills... also means the enemy has too keep up producing some aircraft... [image]local://upfiles/13774/75564F9AAEF14AFBB5D327CAF2F40F92.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/23/2010 1:30:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 01, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bataan at 76,77 Japanese Ships E Asagao SC Ch 37 SC Ch 24 SC Ch 41 Allied Ships SS Pompano SS Pompano is located by E Asagao Pompano diving deep .... E Asagao attacking submerged sub .... E Asagao is out of ASW ammo SC Ch 41 fails to find sub and abandons search E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Alor at 70,112 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships DE Electra DE Decoy DE Express DE Encounter SS I-179 is located by DE Electra DE Express fails to find sub and abandons search DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and the day the DDs end up alone with the sub because I´ve ordered all my LCT back to Selaroe the DD attack the sub immediately... yeah, happening by accident... to be honest, it´s been years that I´ve thought all these things would happen by accident... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Aogashima at 111,66 Japanese Ships DD Shiokaze E Kuri E Hasu xAK Kamitu Maru xAK Taketoyo Maru xAK Lisbon Maru xAK Panama Maru xAK Yamahuku Maru xAK Asakasan Maru xAK Tokai Maru xAK Seattle Maru DD Numakaze E W-27 Allied Ships SS Amberjack, hits 1 SS Amberjack launches 4 torpedoes at DD Shiokaze DD Numakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Shiokaze fails to find sub and abandons search E W-27 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 27 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 20 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 59 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 36 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 18 Ki-49-IIb Helen x 24 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 55 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 24 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 18th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 16th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 103,68 Japanese Ships PB Shinko Maru #3 xAK Toei Maru xAK Surabaya Maru xAK Kiyo Maru xAK Hague Maru E Hirashima E Shirakami Allied Ships SS Lapon SS Lapon launches 4 torpedoes at PB Shinko Maru #3 E Hirashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hirashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub not really a famous day for our subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 73701 troops, 1203 guns, 2148 vehicles, Assault Value = 3535 Defending force 43216 troops, 482 guns, 541 vehicles, Assault Value = 1402 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0 [&o] Allied adjusted assault: 1783 Japanese adjusted defense: 2523 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2895 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 161 disabled Non Combat: 93 destroyed, 213 disabled Engineers: 10 destroyed, 16 disabled Vehicles lost 144 (56 destroyed, 88 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Allied ground losses: 2414 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 139 disabled Non Combat: 50 destroyed, 263 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 56 disabled Vehicles lost 143 (21 destroyed, 122 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 193rd Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 754th Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 4th Australian Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Marine Division 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 2nd Australian Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade I Australian Corps 97th Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 104th USN Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 225th USN Base Force 146th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn 226th Field Artillery Battalion 134th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 168th Field Artillery Regiment 4th Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 18th Division 14th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 8th Tank Regiment 5th Division 16th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Area Army 8th RF Gun Battalion 52nd Construction Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 48th Field AA Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit forts are down now with the enemy still getting an excellent adjusted av but the tide has changed now... expect another two or in the worst case three attacks to finish them off and finally take the base...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/24/2010 3:34:43 PM)
2nd Dec and we´ve got quite a surprise today... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 02, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Torishima at 110,67 Japanese Ships E Mikura E Kuri E Hasu xAK Kamitu Maru xAK Taketoyo Maru xAK Lisbon Maru xAK Yamahuku Maru xAK Asakasan Maru xAK Tokai Maru xAK Seattle Maru DD Numakaze DD Shiokaze E W-27 Allied Ships SS Mingo SS Mingo is sighted by escort Mingo diving deep .... DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Shiokaze fails to find sub and abandons search E W-27 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Numakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Numakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Numakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Numakaze is out of ASW ammo DD Numakaze is out of ASW ammo DD Numakaze is out of ASW ammo DD Numakaze is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub having such a heavy escort I guess that´s a troop convoy again... not a single xAP spotted though... would it otherwise be worth it to have such an escort for some freighters? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balikpapan at 66,98 Japanese Ships E Kuretake DD Tawakaze DD Hokaze Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger is located by E Kuretake Plunger diving deep .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships xAK Toba Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PB Kinsyo Maru #2 PB Taiko Maru PB Saiko Maru PB Kenkon Maru xAP Teifu Maru xAP Naminoue Maru xAP Kobe Maru xAK Natisan Maru xAK Mexico Maru xAK Kinugawa Maru xAK Atutasan Maru xAK Aobasan Maru xAK Goyo Maru DD Akikaze E Tsubame E Saga Allied Ships SS Sand Lance Japanese ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled SS Sand Lance launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Toba Maru Sand Lance diving deep .... DD Akikaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Tsubame fails to find sub and abandons search E Saga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Saga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Saga attacking submerged sub .... E Saga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Saga fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we then actually hit another troop convoy that seems to mostly have PB as escorts... PB are the most useless escorts of the Japanese, followed by SC... E and DD are another story... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Daito Shoto at 100,70 Japanese Ships xAK Toei Maru xAK Nitii Maru xAK Syunsei Maru xAK Chile Maru E Hirashima E Shirakami Allied Ships SS Dorado, hits 1 SS Dorado is sighted by escort Dorado diving deep .... E Hirashima attacking submerged sub .... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hirashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hirashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 26 [X(][X(][X(] Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 8 Spitfire Vc Trop x 7 Spitfire VIII x 16 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 65 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 15 destroyed [:)] Allied aircraft losses Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 13 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 13 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 13 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes and here´s this turn´s surprise... I had to look twice at the replay until I really realized that the fighter I haven´t seen before in the replay was a Frank! [X(] It´s Dec 43 and the enemy sends in his first Frank unit... Not that surprising when you get to hear that 2 or 3/44 is the normal date for Franks to appear but until today I wasn´t aware of the Japanese producing this fighter already, let alone having a unit(s) equipped with it... when the first shock was over I happily realized that the Franks were coming in at 6000ft and lost their dive within a couple of passes with the dive changing side for the rest of the engagement... the 26 Franks were falling everywhere while being dived by Thunderbolts, they had not even a slight chance... now this is the best Japanese fighter and when looking at the stats, it´s definetely a great aircraft (superior to lots of my fighters, except the really best ones) and I´m sure that Rainer hasn´t equipped a poor unit with it (he surely has equipped one of his best units with this new fighter) but due to ending up against the never ending dive, even Warhawks would have shot down the Franks at will... in the end it was a massacre with kill rates comparable to Oscar vs P-47 encounters... the result was as surprising as the appearance of this fighter, the reason for the result is clear as always: the never ending dive... to me, it then just always ends in loops that are off, no doubt that the Franks were hopelessly outnumbered (thanks to the non working coordination routine that isn´t working at all during sweeps) but if you then end up taking down more than two dozen Franks for 3 Allied fighters lost seems a bit too much to me... as soon as the replay was over I checked Japan for Frank factories and counted them up, current production capacity is around a hundred Franks per month, which again is very conservative for a Japanese player. There are some 130 Tojo, a couple of dozen Tony, 150 Zeke, and dozens of George, Nick and Jack factories. In total, the enemy probably got a fighter production capacity of something like 400-450 fighters per month. Rather conservative for a Japanese player but probably roughly as many fighters we get per month. I´m sure Rainer wasn´t pleased with the first Frank mission... in this case, the 6000ft attack didn´t work at all... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 20 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 7 Spitfire Vc Trop x 6 Spitfire VIII x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 57 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 34440 and 41500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 33440 and 37440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 33440 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 33440 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 33440 and 37440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 34440 and 35440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 35440 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes then the next single squadron´s coming in, again at 6000ft, again having the dive initially but losing it after some time... equal dive time for both sides and with the happy time for both sides, also the result looks ok... The Tojos lost but only at a 2-3:1 rate which probably is more reasonable than the dive loops that end up somewhere between 8-10:1... and while 10:1 rates might still have happened in real life, you should not take real life Oscars with green pilots in 44 and compare this with elite pilots flying Franks in late 43 in this PBEM as this is more than just a huge difference IMO... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 27 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 22 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 20 [:(] Ki-49-IIa Helen x 26 [:(] Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 11 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 50 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 6 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 damaged Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed on ground Spitfire VIII: 4 damaged Spitfire VIII: 2 destroyed on ground [:(] P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 31 damaged P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 5 destroyed on ground [:(] Liberator GR.III: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 45 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 18 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 38440 and 39740. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 34440 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 35440 and 37740. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 33000 and 37440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 33440 and 37740. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 34440 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 34440 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 35440 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 33000 and 39440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 78 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers then the inevitable happens... while so far we didn´t face enemy bombers over Hanoi, this time also bombers showed up after the two sweeps coming in first.. with still 70 fighters in the air our boys didn´t do bad and also mauled some of the escorting units, the bombers made it through more or less unharmed and then dropped their laser guided bombs as usual, achieving something like a 60% hit rate with their crappy bombers... if we could achieve something like this with our 4Es then I would only need 1/3 of them at best and could forget about all the missing USAAF medium bombers... with the not working radar, this meant bad news of course, we did great in the air, but even with 80% Cap 20% rest, we end up with dozens of fighters on the ground waiting to get bombed because even if you first have wave after wave coming in, each time it seems to "surprise" the Cap again with the fighters just trying to scramble (which fails of course)... over a dozen of my really precious fighters are lost on the ground with more of them being written off... you can only be happy the enemy using only a handful of bombers and not using 150... why he doesn´t is beyond me... even if the average 1:3 performance of his first line fighters against the P-47 and Spit VIII is ok for Rainer, he won´t really get anyway as I can sustain these losses, but if he would send 150 bombers together with the same number of fighters just once, he would whipe out the resistance at Hanoi in one day, robbing us of a 2.5 months P-47 replacement for the loss of probably some 70-90 aircraft... he can afford to lose 100 aircraft, I can´t afford to lose more than 100 P-47 and dozens of Spitfire VIII in one day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 3 [8\|] please get rid of this in the next patch... PLEASE [:(] Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 11 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 47 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 35000 and 35600. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 35440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 34440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 62 minutes 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 33000 and 38440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes the three remaining Franks coming in were just as lucky as the two dozen earlier this day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 15 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 12 Ki-49-IIb Helen x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 57 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 22 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 12 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 14 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 11 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 44 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 6 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 5 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 34440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes the fact that a good dozen unescorted Helen then show up probably didn´t make it better for the enemy, while having the luck that many of them turned back before the replay even popped up due to not having escorts... none of these 14 made it to target nor back home... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 20 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 F4U-1 Corsair x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb if I compare my bombers´ hit rates with those of the enemy´s then I can only keep on shaking my head... we can´t even nearly match the enemy´s results... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 14 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 34 B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 25 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 77 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb and all these piece meal strikes sooner or later will result in massacres... radar and bomber killers like cannon armed Georges, I don´t even want to think about it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 37 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 56 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 seriously, are the devs really thinking this wouldn´t be rdicoulos? It´s no different in any of the other AARs so this is just a consistently strange working routine that really should be looked at... it just takes away so much from the game... if it can´t be enhanced, ok, but at least it should be looked at... [:(] Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 10 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 42 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 35440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes the result wasn´t surprising... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 40,500 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 can´t believe this is what it should be when speaking about design decisions... it´s just weird, really weird... Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 9 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 37 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 35440. Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes we´re still in the morning at this point and wave after wave is coming in... in this case, the silly three fighter fragment is coming before the main part shows up... while the other fighters came in at 6000ft (without any success today!!) this Zeke unit comes in at their ceiling... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 39,500 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 9 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 32 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Raid is overhead can´t say the Zekes really did well but they more or less held their own... so far the Tojos still are performing best, followed by Zekes and Oscars... I don´t want to really judge the Frank yet as today´s outcome sure won´t be the norm... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 34 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 9 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 37 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 10 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Rainer really sent in most of his available fighters today it seems, this one shows up in the afternoon... while I usually am happy about Oscars meeting our armored fighters bristling with cal.50 in this case it was by far not as one sided as usual which can be easily seen by the Allied fighters shot down... usually you see downed Oscars in the replay with no or very few P-47 downed (many damaged though and also lots getting written off) but in this case even the (wrong) combat report shows a 2.5:1 kill rate... the Oscar unit was shred in the end but while having the dive (at 6000ft [8\|]) for probably 80%+ of the engagement they really shot up our fighters and there was nearly nothing left after this fight... would these Oscars have come in with all the other fighters before the bomber strike it could have been very bloody, even though only some 50-60 bombers were tasked to attack... the total tally today was two dozen P-47 lost and halve a dozen Spits (don´t care about the Hurricanes, these are like Throwaways and total useless for me)... with the exegaration in the loss list for enemy ac lost I expect to have achieved a 2:1 in the end, which is by FAR not good enough to sustain it over a longer period... the P-47, the Spit VII and the Corsair are the only competitive fighters for Cap at the moment. I get 57 P-47 per month, only a handful of Brit Spit VIII and have got no USMC squadrons in this area of course... so if talking about P-47 only, we have to achieve a 4:1 to be satisfied... 4:1 in total (including bombers shot down), so a 3:1 against fighters only still is somewhat "ok"... if the enemy would try to bleed the P-47 with sweeps only and we achieve a 3:1 using them, then a monthly replacement of P-47 would take down something like 175 enemy fighters and this probably will bring the enemy sweeps to a halt soon, especially if you think about the enemy pilots being lost if they are shot down over Hanoi... the enemy surely hasn´t got a pilot shortage, but losing more than 200 (if you also count the fighters shot down by Spits and Hurricanes) then even the reserve pilot pool will start feeling this at some point... I´ve always thought I would never run out of 70 skilled USN pilots in my reserve pool but there were so many new carriers showing up in the last months that the pool is down to just a couple of 70 air skilled pilots with not even all pilots in the squadrons replaced with 70 standard pilots, same is true for navbmb (Dauntless and Helldivers) and navtrp (Avenger) pilots... and it´s not like I would have lost many of these pilots, not at all were our losses severe, but we are fielding some 1250 carrier based ac at the moment which means with the losses and the pilots to be replaced when the carriers arrived we had to put some 1400 pilots into these units! [X(] You don´t have to wonder that the reserve pool starts lacking 70 skill pilots at some point and we have been doing training from day one of the campaign... [image]local://upfiles/13774/F426D6E0FEED450FBBFC9F6A4438A23A.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 10 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 28 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * glad that all these fighters were used against Vinh and not against Hanoi... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 69,74 Japanese Ships xAK Koryu Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage E Wakatake PB Tokotsu Maru xAK Mogamigawa Maru xAK Yamaura Maru DD Okikaze E Yaeyama Allied Ships SS Tuna Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled SS Tuna launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Koryu Maru Tuna diving deep .... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub and abandons search DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a freighter full of troops goes down... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8359 troops, 278 guns, 397 vehicles, Assault Value = 3371 Defending force 39850 troops, 472 guns, 473 vehicles, Assault Value = 1196 Japanese ground losses: 115 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Marine Division 767th Tank Battalion 3rd Australian Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Australian Division 754th Tank Battalion 2nd Australian Division 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 5th Australian Division 4th Australian Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Marine Division 2nd Marine Division 3rd Motor Brigade 181st Field Artillery Regiment 249th Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 146th USA Base Force 226th Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 4th Field Artillery Battalion 104th USN Base Force 225th USN Base Force I Australian Corps 134th Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 3rd Tank Regiment 16th Division 18th Division 8th Tank Regiment 5th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th RF Gun Battalion 52nd Construction Battalion 48th Field AA Battalion 8th Area Army 40th JNAF AF Unit

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/26/2010 11:02:28 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 03, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jesselton at 68,85 Japanese Ships DD Shinonome DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus launches 4 torpedoes at DD Shinonome Grampus diving deep .... DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Uzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 67,97 Japanese Ships DD Hakaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze DD Hokaze Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger launches 4 torpedoes at DD Hakaze DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 106,67 Japanese Ships SC CHa-58, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SC CHa-34 xAK Siberia Maru xAK Kyoto Maru xAK Hikosan Maru xAK Asaka Maru #3 xAK Eihuku Maru SC CHa-63 SC CHa-60 SC CHa-52 Allied Ships SS Peto SS Peto launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-58 Peto diving deep .... SC CHa-63 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-60 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-52 attacking submerged sub .... SS Peto eludes SC CHa-52 by diving deep SS Peto eludes ASW attack from SC CHa-52 SC CHa-52 loses contact with SS Peto SC CHa-52 cannot reach attack position over SS Peto SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 attacking submerged sub .... SS Peto eludes ASW attack from SC CHa-52 SC CHa-52 cannot reach attack position over SS Peto SS Peto eludes SC CHa-52 by diving deep SC CHa-52 cannot establish contact with SS Peto SC CHa-52 cannot reach attack position over SS Peto SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub boom... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Chittagong at 52,41 Japanese Ships SS I-154 Allied Ships xAK Nurani, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAK Nurani is sighted by SS I-154 SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes at xAK Nurani stupidity on my part to use an unescorted convoy in this area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 35 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 5 carrier based squadrons trying (and failing) to escort a land based strike from Darwin... OMG, could this be stopped please? You just don´t want to see you carrier based squadrons trying to escort land based strikes whenever the carriers are in range... and the range is 7 hexes, so either you stand down the Hellcats or you stand down the LBA strikes... pfff... this routine annoys me again and again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 48 [X(] Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 65 [X(] Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 6 Spitfire Vc Trop x 6 Spitfire VIII x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 69 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 4 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire Vc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 4 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * 6 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * 13 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 12 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes this is one of these "new" funny engagements we´ve got in this PBEM with the enemy being at 6000ft exclusively... as you can see, all but two of our squadrons are flying HIGHER than the incoming raid... the funny thing is, that ALL but these two squadrons got DIVED by the enemy... wow, you really have to be convinced to think this routine isn´t totally borked. And the weirdest things of all is the fact that you then see during the replay "347th FG/67 dives from 42000ft"... "Tojo dives on P-47"... yeah, it´s really working well... but hey, none of my fighters at 6000ft got dived... have long accepted that there is no logic behind this all but not only this, it seems to be bugged as well or why do you first get a message that your squadron is diving down on the enemy that is constantly followed by the ENEMY´S fighters diving on yours? Have my squadrons passed the lower flying enemies and have slowed down to have the enemy catch up? Borked, borked, borked... oh well... at least Rainer was able to get a big sweep today instead of the single squadron sweeps... how did he do this? Well, as always, he just tried to do it as complicated as possible because this gives you the best chances to get more ac over the target at once than any of these super doper tips how to "coordinate"... he just has put his squadrons on as many different airfields as possible... we had four lines of incoming strikes... FOUR... all incoming strikes had the dive (except on our fighters at 6k [sm=crazy.gif]) but the dive at least ended at some point when we then could rack up some kills too... in the end it was a more or less even fight with us taking losses we can´t sustain... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 21 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 24 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 8 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 2 Spitfire Vc Trop x 4 Spitfire VIII x 7 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 42 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 6 destroyed, 4 damaged Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 8 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 5000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 116 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 138 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 85 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (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 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes then the bombers showed up, the enemy escorts being mostly dived by our fighters and shot to pieces... the bombers that made it through Cap achieved nothing in bad weather... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 6 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 13 Allied aircraft Spitfire Vc Trop x 3 Spitfire VIII x 6 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 29 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 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 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Raid is overhead 3 planes vectored on to bombers No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Raid is overhead 2 planes vectored on to bombers 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers not over yet, some more enemy bombers to be shot down but most of them made it back... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIb Helen x 18 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 48 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb these are the strikes that the Hellcats tried to escort, revealing the carriers´ position... if the enemy can´t spot your carriers, you then get your Hellcats trying to do senseless escorts of LBA strikes that usually fail but reveal your carriers´ positions... [:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 67 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 100 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 21 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 46 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 31 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 48 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 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 11 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 29 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 64 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 21 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 3 Spitfire Vc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 7 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 44 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 6 destroyed [X(] CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.60 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead 311th FBG/529th FBS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Raid is overhead and another 6000ft sweep in the afternoon, this was a really devastating one... why? Because we had a dozen messages of our squadrons DIVING from 40000+ft down on the enemy immediately followed by "FRANK firing on P-47"... yes, our fighters at 6000ft were NOT dived by the Franks... is it funny or is it just silly? While the Franks took it on the chin last time, this time they really shred our P-47... [:(] WITP had altitude not being a factor at all in fighter vs fighter engagements, all that was counting to get the dive was detection level and you the more radar the better the dl... the results were the usual bounce festivals by Allied fighters due to radar just everywhere... now we´ve got altitude being a factor (the idea is great) but how it works is just either silly or bugged... when I look at the messages during the replay it seems to be bugged... total losses might seem ok but we really start lacking P-47 replacements and I´ve already converted a squadron at another front to P-40 again to fill up the pool a bit... it´s clear that the enemy can sustain these overall losses longer than we can sustain P-47 lost and there´s no other fighter at the moment I can use for Cap that really is up to the task... [image]local://upfiles/13774/06CE9FD3B44F480C8CC12B0361E5E4F0.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 106,67 Japanese Ships SC CHa-63 SC CHa-46 SC CHa-34 xAK Wakatu Maru xAK Thames Maru SC CHa-60 SC CHa-52 Allied Ships SS Peto, hits 1 SS Peto launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-63 SC CHa-63 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-60 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-52 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-63 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-63 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-63 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-63 attacking submerged sub .... SC CHa-63 is out of ASW ammo SC CHa-63 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub fourth attack on an escort today, none at a worthwhile target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Chittagong at 52,41 Japanese Ships SS I-154 Allied Ships xAK Nurani, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage xAK Nurani is sighted by SS I-154 SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes the ship is sunk now, took I-154 16 torps to do that... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships DD Hokaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze Allied Ships SS Bowfin SS Bowfin is located by DD Hokaze Bowfin diving deep .... DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tawakaze loses contact with SS Bowfin DD Hokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tawakaze cannot reach attack position over SS Bowfin SS Bowfin eludes DD Tawakaze by diving deep SS Bowfin eludes ASW attack from DD Tawakaze SS Bowfin eludes DD Tawakaze by diving deep SS Bowfin eludes ASW attack from DD Tawakaze DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8317 troops, 278 guns, 395 vehicles, Assault Value = 3443 Defending force 39945 troops, 468 guns, 475 vehicles, Assault Value = 1206 Japanese ground losses: 99 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 6 (3 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 2nd Marine Division 4th Australian Division 2nd Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 5th Australian Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 193rd Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Australian Division 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd Australian Division 754th Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd Motor Brigade II Australian Corps 134th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 154th FA Bn 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 168th Field Artillery Regiment 104th USN Base Force 226th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 225th USN Base Force I Australian Corps 146th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 18th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 5th Division 8th Tank Regiment 16th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 48th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th Area Army 52nd Construction Battalion 8th RF Gun Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/26/2010 12:16:16 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 05, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Ketapang at 54,95 Japanese Ships DD Asashio BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Michishio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Albacore, hits 6 SS Albacore launches 6 torpedoes at DD Asashio Albacore bottoming out .... DD Hibiki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Akatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Akatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare attacking submerged sub .... DD Akatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub wonder if there will ever be the moment when we actually hit a capital ship... Rainer has been passing over my subs with his TFs so often already, every other PBEM would have probably seen at least three BB/CV heavily damaged or sunk... we haven´t had a single success so far... can´t do more than having my subs at the right spot... [:(] attacking the wrong target and suffering damage means Albacore is heading home... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 F4U-1 Corsair x 6 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 54 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Japanese ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... switching to ground attacks again, effect unknown, expected to be very light or non existant... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 21 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 37 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ambon , at 76,109 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 50 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 38 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-II KAI Helen: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 61 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 13 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-II KAI Helen: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb if we torch enemy aircraft on the ground then usually Dinah recons or some transports... we hardly ever meet enemy fighters at airfields in range of my heavies and that´s quite understandable... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 18 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 4 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 14 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 13 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 19 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 86397 troops, 1511 guns, 2142 vehicles, Assault Value = 3397 Defending force 37098 troops, 468 guns, 456 vehicles, Assault Value = 1041 Allied adjusted assault: 1224 Japanese adjusted defense: 1305 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0) [:(] Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 3720 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 242 disabled Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 254 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 18 disabled Guns lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled) Vehicles lost 31 (10 destroyed, 21 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1153 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 66 disabled Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 120 disabled Engineers: 7 destroyed, 45 disabled Vehicles lost 92 (23 destroyed, 69 disabled) Assaulting units: 5th Australian Division 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 754th Tank Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Marine Division 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Australian Division 2nd Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 3rd Australian Division 4th Australian Division 3rd Motor Brigade 177th USAAF Base Force 226th Field Artillery Battalion 151st Combat Engineer Regiment II Australian Corps 168th Field Artillery Regiment 104th USN Base Force 4th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 225th USN Base Force I Australian Corps 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 154th FA Bn 97th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 146th USA Base Force 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 134th Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 8th Tank Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 16th Division 18th Division 5th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 48th Field AA Battalion 52nd Construction Battalion 8th Area Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit we don´t get the needed odds and the adjusted av looks quite bad but the losses are absolutely in favour of our troops... Lautern is about to fall with three more divs being wrecked... would be four divs plus nearly two dozen other units being lost on Timor (and Koepang is still on the list with some 20000 troops there)...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/26/2010 12:44:04 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 06, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tanegashima at 105,68 Japanese Ships SC Ch 39 TK Ceram Maru E Nadakaze E Shimakaze Allied Ships SS Balao, hits 1 SS Balao is sighted by escort Balao diving deep .... E Nadakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59 Japanese Ships E W-16 E W-11 E W-8 E W-6 E Karii TK Ojikasan Maru TK Kotai Maru TK Takane Maru TK Shiranesan Maru TK Anjo Maru TK Kyokuho Maru TK Risshun Maru TK Otowasan Maru DD Asakaze E W-23 E W-15 Allied Ships SS Halibut, hits 15, and is sunk SS Halibut launches 6 torpedoes at E W-16 [8\|] DD Asakaze attacking submerged sub .... E W-23 attacking submerged sub .... E W-16 attacking submerged sub .... E W-15 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-23 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-16 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Asakaze is out of ASW ammo SS Halibut forced to surface! E W-23 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-16 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-15 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-23 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-15 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-16 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-15 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-23 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-16 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-15 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-23 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-16 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-15 firing on surfaced sub .... DD Asakaze firing on surfaced sub .... E W-23 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-16 firing on surfaced sub .... E W-15 firing on surfaced sub .... DD Asakaze firing on surfaced sub .... E W-23 firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves sub is confirmed sunk... if she at least would have taken a tanker down also... I can imagine how 44 is going to be like with all the modern E, I fear the sub operations against enemy convoys will come to an abrupt halt and subs will only be used where our LBA rules the Sea... by then, I hopefully have cut off the SRA with our advance, at least that´s the plan... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Ambon - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 271 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CA Frobisher CA Hawkins, Shell hits 3 CL Columbia, Shell hits 2 CL Cleveland CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Trenton LST-339 LST-38 LST-344 DMS Elliot LST-350 CA Frobisher firing at 4th JAAF AF Bn CA Hawkins firing at Kure 7th SNLF Kure 7th SNLF firing at CA Hawkins CL Columbia firing at Kure 7th SNLF Kure 7th SNLF firing at CL Columbia Kure 7th SNLF firing at CL Cleveland CL Cleveland firing at Kure 7th SNLF CL Concord firing at 4th JAAF AF Bn CL Marblehead firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Trenton firing at 4th JAAF AF Bn Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 4,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards we´re landing a Corps at Ambon, everything is 100% prepped... I was again shocked when I saw lots of enemy batteries firing at our ships... Kure 7 obviously got 8 and 12cm guns that scored some hits that damaged the superstructure on two of our cruisers... you do not want to do any landing without lots of fire support from cruisers... 8 and 12cm guns picking our APA or LST as targets could quickly become a mess... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Ambon TF 297 troops unloading over beach at Ambon, 76,109 Allied ground losses: 173 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 39 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 36 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 22 (0 destroyed, 22 disabled) Vehicles lost 12 (0 destroyed, 12 disabled) 13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 43 lost from landing craft during unload of 41st Infantry Div /5 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Marine Div /4 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Marine Div /9 8 Naval Support troops lost overboard during unload of 2nd RAN Base Force nothing severe happening during unloading, we had more combat squads disabled than we´ve expected... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Ambon - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 233 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CA Frobisher CA Hawkins CL Columbia CL Cleveland, Shell hits 1 CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Trenton, Shell hits 4 LST-335 LST-38 LST-339 LST-450 DMS Elliot LST-344 Allied ground losses: 131 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CA Frobisher firing at 4th JAAF AF Bn CL Columbia firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Kure 7th SNLF firing at CL Cleveland CL Cleveland firing at Kure 7th SNLF CL Concord firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Kure 7th SNLF firing at CL Trenton CL Trenton firing at Kure 7th SNLF Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 4,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Balabac at 70,83 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki DD Minazuki DD Yayoi Allied Ships SS Triton, hits 20, and is sunk [:(] SS Triton launches 6 torpedoes at DD Uzuki Triton bottoming out .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... SS Triton forced to surface! DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves bad day for the Silent Service, we lost two subs today for no result... my name is Dönitz... [:(] the loss is again result of a sub attacking some escorts, when does this stop? never, that´s how it works... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIb Helen x 16 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 F4U-1 Corsair x 18 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 72 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 70 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lautem , at 72,115 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 18 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Ambon Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 19 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-474 LST-468 LST-461 LST-460 LST-339 LST-38 LST-335 LST-344 LST-474 fired at enemy troops LST-468 fired at enemy troops LST-461 fired at enemy troops LST-460 fired at enemy troops only supply is coming ashore at this point, using APA and LST really is great, it doesn´t even take the whole day to unload a couple of divisions plus support, at the end of the day we usually unload only supply... one LST sunk outright after hitting underwater rocks... grounding so far has been more of a threat to our LST than enemy coastal batteries... this LST should be the only ship lost in this operation as the invasion TF is going to steam South under cover of the carrier fleet tomorrow... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6978 troops, 159 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 257 Defending force 43876 troops, 698 guns, 1284 vehicles, Assault Value = 1761 Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: Kure 7th SNLF 14th Garrison Unit 14th Naval Guard Unit 9th Field AF Construction Battalion 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 56th Const Co 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 64th Field AA Battalion 26th Fld AA Gun Co 58th Construction Battalion 19th Army 6th Air Division 4th JAAF AF Bn Defending units: 41st Infantry Div /14 18th Combat Engr Rgt /1 2/7th Armoured Rgt /1 2/4th Armoured Rgt /1 2/8th Armoured Rgt /1 2/6th Armoured Rgt /1 4th Marine Div /15 25th Infantry Div /14 4th Armoured Bde /9 XIV US Corps /1 16th RAAF Base Force /1 2nd RAN Base Force /1 going to be a cakewalk... overkill again but there´s not much we can do about it, we usually prep three divs plus support for a "normal" target with some 20-30000 expected enemy troops, two divs plus support for weak targets and for really tough targets like Timor we go with as many divs and support we think is needed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 32491 troops, 703 guns, 798 vehicles, Assault Value = 3348 Defending force 34232 troops, 467 guns, 450 vehicles, Assault Value = 856 Japanese ground losses: 188 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 4th Australian Division 1st Marine Division 1st Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 2nd Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade 119th USAAF Base Force 104th USN Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment I Australian Corps 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 134th Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 249th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 225th USN Base Force 154th FA Bn 4th Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force II Australian Corps 146th USA Base Force 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 168th Field Artillery Regiment 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 8th Tank Regiment 18th Division 5th Division 16th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 48th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th Area Army 40th JNAF AF Unit what we initially landed at Lautern would have been sufficient to take the place but it would have taken long and my units would probably have been wrecked but with the 5 OZ divs taking Dili it was clear that we can move in more troops easily... no matter which base would have lasted longer either we could have moved reinforcements in from Lautern to Dili or the other way around... the day we decided to invade Timor with force was the day when the Japanese defenders were doomed... when Timor is cleared the enemy will have lost five divisions (one is sitting at Koepang on the West tip of Timor) one or two bgds and two dozen support units, going from AA, base forces, tank units and HQs... even if these units are going to be rebuilt, losing five divs plus all the other units is a severe loss and as it looks now, it has bought the Japanese nothing... we are advancing North on the front East of Timor and our assault on Timor is going well with our troops being in ok shape after the enemy will collapse... as we have to prepare these units for 100 days for their next target anyway (if they invade directly at their target) all the units will be fully combat ready again anyway... the OZ divs are the exception as these five divs are understrenght and it takes awfully long to bring them to full strenght, they are all at around 2/3 strenght, fielding some 300av each and the fact that it takes so long also makes me quite confident that a couple of fragments of Japanese divisions will take a year for sure to be at 100/100 again and by then we are going to enter 45... [:)] as soon as Timor is lost we are freeing up some 6000av and these will keep moving directly into the SRA... what the enemy needs now is the Japanese´s decisive battle with a decisive Japanese victory, otherwise most of the SRA will be lost in the next six month with our long range patrol bombers being able to strike at shipping in the South China Sea... together with our Chinese bases in Vietnam we then could close down the South China Sea completely which would mean all oil/fuel/resources from the SRA would not reach Japan anymore... I doubt that a Japanese counterinvasion somewhere would make much sense, it´s more than hard to beat 3 or more Allied divs at this point and even if he would, this wouldn´t be decisive... what the Japanese need now is total carrier superiority again and as it stands now and this won´t be easy to achieve as we are fielding some 1200 carrier based ac, all in one place as the one who splits his force is the one to lose his force...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/29/2010 1:52:46 PM)
CV Intrepid arrived in Eastern USA today and another CVE at Portland... this brings our total strenght of carrier based ac to somewhere around 1350 with another British CVE sitting in India without being used... four CVE will leave the West Coast in two weeks to meet Intrepid and BB Iowa to move to the front... we are using more or less the whole fleet at one spot and that´s in the Timor/New Guinea front... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 07, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 60,79 Japanese Ships PB Chitose Maru PB Tatsumiya Maru PB Eiko Maru SC Ch 16 xAK Teisen Maru xAK Meiu Maru xAK Yamabuki Maru xAK Kusuyama Maru xAK Oregon Maru E W-14 PB Yokae Maru PB Ogashima Allied Ships SS Trout SS Trout launches 6 torpedoes at PB Chitose Maru E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yokae Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Ogashima fails to find sub and abandons search E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Shinonome DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Cero SS Cero launches 6 torpedoes at DD Shinonome Cero diving deep .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 24 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Tank Regiment ... the only purpose of these attacks is ground bombing training... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 16th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 8th Area Army, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 55 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 14 Airbase supply hits 13 Runway hits 121 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb good result for the Libs today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 21 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 14 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 22 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb working radar will kill us sooner or later... the patch is out already but the next three weeks in the AAR have still been done pre patch... [image]local://upfiles/13774/A225BAF476F7418386A13E2B20DE00BA.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 86573 troops, 1516 guns, 2197 vehicles, Assault Value = 3420 Defending force 34289 troops, 467 guns, 450 vehicles, Assault Value = 880 Allied adjusted assault: 719 Japanese adjusted defense: 1507 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 0) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 3101 casualties reported Squads: 28 destroyed, 250 disabled Non Combat: 40 destroyed, 138 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 12 disabled Vehicles lost 138 (109 destroyed, 29 disabled) Allied ground losses: 352 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 38 disabled Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 68 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled Vehicles lost 78 (27 destroyed, 51 disabled) Assaulting units: 762nd Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 3rd Marine Division 4th Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Australian Division 5th Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade 223rd Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 225th USN Base Force 146th USA Base Force 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 134th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 177th USAAF Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 151st Combat Engineer Regiment I Australian Corps 226th Field Artillery Battalion 104th USN Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 16th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 18th Division 5th Division 8th Tank Regiment 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th Area Army 48th Field AA Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit we again miss the needed adjusted av but when looking at the losses for both sides then this doesn´t matter as the enemy is pretty much trashed while our troops only took minor losses... the enemy is about to collapse while they held out longer than expected anyway... all our units still look good so another one or two attacks won´t matter much... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 40836 troops, 684 guns, 1274 vehicles, Assault Value = 1769 Defending force 12625 troops, 184 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 251 Allied adjusted assault: 1919 Japanese adjusted defense: 655 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 5) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 4 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: [&:] Japanese ground losses: 1111 casualties reported Squads: 28 destroyed, 38 disabled Non Combat: 34 destroyed, 128 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Vehicles lost 17 (3 destroyed, 14 disabled) Allied ground losses: 491 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 22 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 108 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Vehicles lost 115 (1 destroyed, 114 disabled) Assaulting units: 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/8th Armoured Regiment 41st Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 4th Marine Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 25th Infantry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade XIV US Corps 2nd RAN Base Force 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: Kure 7th SNLF 14th Garrison Unit 14th Naval Guard Unit 19th Army 64th Field AA Battalion 56th Const Co 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 9th Field AF Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 26th Fld AA Gun Co 58th Construction Battalion 6th Air Division 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 4th JAAF AF Bn next hotspot is Ambon, our attack goes very well, adjusted av looks great... this due having a HQ and all units fully prepped, as long as the HQ doesn´t consist of motorized squads it seems to work just fine, doesn´t work at all if it´s one of those HQs with motorized support which I posted in the tech forum, unfortunately never got official attention... I´m going to just ignore it and won´t use any of these Army HQs anymore that come along with motorized support only... perhaps a bug is brought up in a year saying these HQs don´t work, just going to make me smile when thinking about how many times I´ve complained about something here when then someone says "why was there noone notizing this"... lol, land based radar, weather outside bases and search archs come to mind... the good thing about this issue is the fact that I just don´t need these HQs, only one available at the moment, with a couple more of them coming as replacements, I´m just going to put them somewhere to rot... what´s just as strange is the fact that I never get any positive or negative multipliers shown in the combat report when I´m the attacker... "never" is an exegaration, but you probably can count them on two hands in this full AAR of over 30 pages... this is odd, but hey, surely wad? [8\|] I don´t even get (-) when my adjusted av are something like 30%... odd, just odd... feel free to count the instances when I had a (+) or (-)...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/29/2010 2:09:56 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 08, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub vs Sub: SS Finback attacking SS I-179 at 73,112 - near Wetar Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships SS Finback SS Finback launches 6 torpedoes at 3,000 yards sub missed... while the number of sub vs sub attacks was equal for both sides, since we´ve got radar, we get five times more attacks than the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 10 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * 10 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 5th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 27 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 3rd Tank Regiment ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 8th Tank Regiment, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Regiment, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb these attacks are only creating op losses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 28 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb clear sky, what a performance... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 21 B-24J Liberator x 37 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 3 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 14 Runway hits 42 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 20 B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 26 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-II KAI Helen: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 55 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 14 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 35 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb it´s "screw up time in the Pacific" again... so many strike packs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/2D2EB0C339934C14B7995C7242F07708.jpg[/image] my patrol ac keep falling out of the sky at a rate I can´t replace... this is just crap, please give me WITP´s routines for this... the pilots aren´t even as fatigued as pilots that have to fly Cap for two days and the way my squadrons are made up, every pilot flies 2 or 3 missions per week... but hey, it sure is realistic to have hundreds of PBY crash... this is one instance when WITP just had it the better way around, fatigue and CAP and fat or op losses during nav search... there was this magic word "playability" in WITP that misses AE completely it seems... no idea if it was too much in real life to fly two nav search missions PER WEEK, I seriously doubt it... but that way in the game, I´m losing all my PBY replacements, no aircraft on the map got as many op losses as patrols when they´re used... well, transports got the same insane op losses but these aren´t used the whole year... my PBY got a 100% op loss rate, all replacement aircraft are lost to ops at some point... silly? there are these days when I wonder about what and how this all was tested... or how much credit was given to the replies that actually came from the testers... but hey, I´ve also thrown search archs overboard minumum halve a year before it became an official bug... [:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 8268 troops, 278 guns, 392 vehicles, Assault Value = 3399 Defending force 30812 troops, 464 guns, 371 vehicles, Assault Value = 640 Japanese ground losses: 117 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 15 (14 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 5th Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 4th Australian Division 2nd Australian Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 3rd Marine Division 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd Australian Division 754th Tank Battalion 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Australian Division 1st Marine Division 767th Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade 146th USA Base Force 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 134th Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 225th USN Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 181st Field Artillery Regiment II Australian Corps 104th USN Base Force 4th Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion I Australian Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force 154th FA Bn 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 5th Division 8th Tank Regiment 18th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 16th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 48th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th Area Army 40th JNAF AF Unit not that much left of the enemy divisions... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 39852 troops, 684 guns, 1273 vehicles, Assault Value = 1732 Defending force 10648 troops, 175 guns, 146 vehicles, Assault Value = 196 Allied adjusted assault: 1517 Japanese adjusted defense: 1459 [X(] Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 4) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+) Attacker: [8\|][&:] Japanese ground losses: 467 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 50 disabled Non Combat: 41 destroyed, 70 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Vehicles lost 10 (1 destroyed, 9 disabled) Allied ground losses: 516 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 28 disabled Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 108 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Vehicles lost 119 (12 destroyed, 107 disabled) Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Marine Division 25th Infantry Division 2/8th Armoured Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 2nd RAN Base Force XIV US Corps 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: Kure 7th SNLF 14th Garrison Unit 14th Naval Guard Unit 2nd Mortar Battalion 26th Fld AA Gun Co 6th Air Division 56th Const Co 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 64th Field AA Battalion 9th Field AF Construction Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 19th Army 4th JAAF AF Bn was impressed by the enemy´s adjusted av especially after suffering a defeat yesterday... the fact that the enemy suffered from our 2:1 yesterday doesn´t even mean he would get a (-) for disruption, no the adjusted av is even 2.5 times higher than yesterday´s when the enemy was attacked for the first time... funny ground combat... not surprising that we of course didn´t get any (+) or (-) as the attacker... how did I call it last turn? ODD? But hey, that´s just one thing that I have been noticing for 35 pages of this AAR (only 24 months of war with 99.5% of the combat reports posted)...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (11/29/2010 2:31:40 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 09, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships xAK Tamahoko Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage xAK Ryuun Maru xAK Argun Maru xAK Hokumai Maru xAK Yamadori Maru xAK Kogane Maru E Aotaka E Yurijima Allied Ships SS Sand Lance SS Sand Lance launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tamahoko Maru Sand Lance diving deep .... E Aotaka fails to find sub and abandons search E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub got a freighter... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Busuanga at 76,79 Japanese Ships DD Hayate DD Oite DD Sawakaze DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Flasher SS Flasher launches 6 torpedoes at DD Hayate Flasher diving deep .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... SS Flasher eludes ASW attack from DD Asanagi DD Asanagi loses contact with SS Flasher DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi cannot establish contact with SS Flasher SS Flasher eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep SS Flasher eludes ASW attack from DD Asanagi DD Asanagi cannot establish contact with SS Flasher DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 63,78 Japanese Ships AMC Akagi Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage xAK Kotoku Maru xAK Kosei Maru xAK Kazuura Maru xAK Brisbane Maru E Hishu Allied Ships SS Bluefish SS Bluefish launches 6 torpedoes at AMC Akagi Maru E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu attacking submerged sub .... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and we also get one of the big Japanese AMC today... wonder why the AMC was included in this convoy, either a troop transport or as a target to draw our subs´ attacks but that wouldn´t make much sense I guess as there are enough xAK to be sunk, no need to use an AMC as a bait... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Puerto Princesa at 71,78 Japanese Ships PB Yamahagi Maru #3 TK Hirota Maru TK Oyashima Maru Allied Ships SS Billfish SS Billfish launches 4 torpedoes at PB Yamahagi Maru #3 Billfish diving deep .... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 attacking submerged sub .... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub there would have been the real targets... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 109,69 Japanese Ships E W-25, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAK Kosei Maru xAK Sinko Maru E W-33 E W-29 Allied Ships SS Mingo, hits 3 SS Mingo launches 6 torpedoes at E W-25 E W-33 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-29 attacking submerged sub .... E W-29 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-29 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-29 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-29 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we also get an E today, Mingo got away without notable damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Taytay at 72,77 Japanese Ships SC Ch 24 SC Ch 37 E Asagao SC Ch 41 Allied Ships SS Paddle SS Paddle is located by SC Ch 24 Paddle diving deep .... E Asagao fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 11 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * 11 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 29 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 56 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tourane , at 66,65 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 9 Allied aircraft Liberator II x 12 Liberator B.III x 12 B-24D Liberator x 9 B-24D1 Liberator x 21 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 9 damaged Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses Liberator II: 3 damaged Liberator B.III: 1 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 18 Airbase supply hits 10 Runway hits 78 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes ordered the heavies at Rangoon to fly this long range strike against this enemy base at the South China Sea coast... we catch a nice number of Tojos on the ground with only a meager Cap in the air... most of the bombers were in this strike, we still take advantage of the enemy having no Cap due to defective radar... guess it will be absolutely the other way around soon because if the enemy gets airborne we won´t torch them on the ground and we will start losing by far more bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 29 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-II KAI Helen: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 45 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 17 B-24J Liberator x 22 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 38 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 47 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 60 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 20 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tourane , at 66,65 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 162 minutes that´s the first follow on strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tourane , at 66,65 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 17 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes and here´s the second one... so having 79 bombers results in three waves aka strike packs... and this was a GOOD day with the conditions being more or less perfect... I really am keen to hear all the outcries when people realize what´s going to happen with land based radar actually working, will take a while though as most obviously didn´t even notice that land based radar wasn´t working for MONTHS...[:D] if land based radar is anywhere comparable with ship based radar then I expect to see all the Cap scrambling most of the time... [image]local://upfiles/13774/675569A2F34A494681B4465176DE1E17.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 75545 troops, 1293 guns, 2071 vehicles, Assault Value = 3465 Defending force 30822 troops, 461 guns, 366 vehicles, Assault Value = 645 Allied adjusted assault: 1178 Japanese adjusted defense: 623 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: [8\|][&:] Japanese ground losses: 2091 casualties reported Squads: 17 destroyed, 107 disabled Non Combat: 67 destroyed, 172 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled Vehicles lost 165 (143 destroyed, 22 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Allied ground losses: 184 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 15 disabled Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 55 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 75 (26 destroyed, 49 disabled) Assaulting units: 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 3rd Marine Division 754th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 3rd Australian Division 1st Marine Division 1st Australian Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Australian Division 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade 134th Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 97th Field Artillery Battalion 225th USN Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment I Australian Corps 146th USA Base Force 226th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 104th USN Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 177th USAAF Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 8th Tank Regiment 18th Division 5th Division 16th Division 3rd Tank Regiment 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Area Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 48th Field AA Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit we just so missed the needed 2:1 to take the base, I expect the base to fall next time we attack... the enemy is already having units destroyed which means the end is near... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 38884 troops, 684 guns, 1264 vehicles, Assault Value = 1683 Defending force 9401 troops, 168 guns, 146 vehicles, Assault Value = 154 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Allied adjusted assault: 1825 Japanese adjusted defense: 250 Allied assault odds: 7 to 1 (fort level 2) Allied forces CAPTURE Ambon !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: [8\|][&:] Japanese ground losses: 1191 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 36 disabled Non Combat: 103 destroyed, 52 disabled Engineers: 38 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 54 (54 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 68 (68 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 208 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 27 disabled Non Combat: 51 destroyed, 47 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Vehicles lost 73 (22 destroyed, 51 disabled) Assaulting units: 2/7th Armoured Regiment 25th Infantry Division 41st Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/8th Armoured Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Marine Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 2nd RAN Base Force XIV US Corps 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: Kure 7th SNLF 14th Garrison Unit 14th Naval Guard Unit 26th Fld AA Gun Co 9th Field AF Construction Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 6th Air Division 64th Field AA Battalion 56th Const Co 19th Army 4th JAAF AF Bn the defenders at Ambon had no chance against the corps we´ve landed there... our troops are in excellent shape and are going to destroy the enemy units in the next weeks, already preparing for their next target... also the Ambon invasion was a full success, more invasions in this area to come... as always, we didn´t get a (+) or a (-) as combat modifier... absurd to never get these while the defender seems to always get them... I should check if we got them when we were the defender or if it´s "side" related which I doubt... at least I hope so...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/2/2010 2:07:39 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 10, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Shinonome DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Sand Lance SS Sand Lance launches 4 torpedoes at DD Shinonome Sand Lance diving deep .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub if the subs get away with this then you can live with it but it´s always at risk to be sunk for nothing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 69,74 Japanese Ships xAK Kosei Maru xAK Kazuura Maru xAK Brisbane Maru E Hishu Allied Ships SS Pogy SS Pogy is sighted by escort E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 70,74 Japanese Ships E Hishu xAK Joyo Maru xAK Hauraki Maru xAK Kotoku Maru xAK Hitati Maru xAK Kano Maru Allied Ships SS Perch SS Perch launches 2 torpedoes at E Hishu Perch diving deep .... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and it takes just way to many attempts to achieve something so it´s just not worth it and I would really preferre my subs not attacking escorts that often... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 102,70 Japanese Ships AO Iro, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage DD Asagiri E Omae AO Kyuko AO Kyokuto Maru AO Shiriya AO Sata AO Ondo DD Yuzuki DD Mochizuki DD Mikazuki Allied Ships SS Haddock SS Haddock launches 6 torpedoes at AO Iro DD Yuzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Mochizuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Mikazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Mikazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub that´s a real target and the AO was full of fuel... [:)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 69,83 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki DD Minazuki Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus launches 4 torpedoes at DD Uzuki Grampus diving deep .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 28 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 16 Spitfire Vc Trop x 10 Spitfire VIII x 29 P-40K Warhawk x 16 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 62 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 2 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 41000. Raid is overhead 5318th PAU/FS with P-40K Warhawk (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 32000. Raid is overhead 8th FG/35th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 37000. Raid is overhead 23rd FG/75th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 32000. Raid is overhead enemy coming in at 6000ft, trading fighters at 3:1 in our favour... even a Hurricane was able to down a Frank today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 10 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 73 Ki-84a Frank x 3 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 13 Spitfire Vc Trop x 10 Spitfire VIII x 17 P-40K Warhawk x 15 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 57 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 1 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * 1 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 5318th PAU/FS with P-40K Warhawk (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 8th FG/35th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 33440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes 23rd FG/75th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters between 33440 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes as expected, the Franks weren´t the only ones to come in today... also some Oscar units show up, coming from three different directions they make it to arrive together over the target, something they aren´t able if they would come from the same base... lol [8\|] as always, Oscars more or less are nothing more than targets, even though we lose some fighters during the replay and some more being written off due to damage... Oscars work very well if you want to wear down enemy Cap and are willing to accept losses, but if it´s only to destroy enemy fighters then your paying with far too many of your own fighters for it... been a full victory over Hanoi today, while losing 6 precious SpitVIII hurts, we didn´t lose a single P-47 today while these beasts shot down something like three dozen enemy fighters... with such losses the enemy will soon end these strikes for sure and this is pre patch, so no working radar yet... [image]local://upfiles/13774/B0DE98FBA7A34E9BA7AF4DD577254E17.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 29 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 66 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 F4U-1 Corsair x 17 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 39 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 8th Area Army ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 5th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 18th Division, at 72,115 (Lautem) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 54th Division, at 70,115 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Jesselton at 67,85 Japanese Ships DD Yayoi DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Darter, hits 21, and is sunk [8\|] SS Darter launches 6 torpedoes at DD Yayoi Darter diving deep .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Uzuki is out of ASW ammo DD Uzuki is out of ASW ammo DD Uzuki is out of ASW ammo SS Darter forced to surface! DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves that´s what I mean... it´s so senseless to have subs attacking escorts or dedicated ASW TFs all the time as it´s just too dangerous to do these attacks for no gain... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 85851 troops, 1524 guns, 2192 vehicles, Assault Value = 3482 Defending force 28490 troops, 452 guns, 240 vehicles, Assault Value = 502 Allied adjusted assault: 1332 Japanese adjusted defense: 411 Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Lautem !!! [&o] Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 5922 casualties reported Squads: 104 destroyed, 78 disabled Non Combat: 205 destroyed, 58 disabled Engineers: 107 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 174 (172 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 186 (186 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 593 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 49 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 98 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Vehicles lost 54 (4 destroyed, 50 disabled) Assaulting units: 5th Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Australian Division 1st Australian Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Marine Division 1st Marine Division 3rd Motor Brigade 226th Field Artillery Battalion 225th USN Base Force I Australian Corps 134th Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 104th USN Base Force 249th Field Artillery Battalion 146th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn 168th Field Artillery Regiment 4th Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force II Australian Corps 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 16th Division 18th Division 5th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Area Army 48th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit finally! Lautern is in Allied hands again and the enemy is kicked out of the base but hasn´t got a retreat path so is going to be destroyed in the coming weeks... another three divs, a bgd and support that is destroyed (more than halve a dozen units were already destroyed during the fighting)... the loss of Timor isn´t as severe as the loss of all those troops on the island IMO as they were all lost for no gain at all, my troops are all still in excellent shape and will be 100% combat ready when they are prepped for their next target anyway... losing five divs, a bgd, several tank units and two dozen support units on Timor is something the Japanese sure are going to feel, especially when all the bases in my line of advance are neither built up nor adequately defended... while I doubt it, when I look at the map it seems Rainer still hasn´t realized that I´m only two or three more bases away in my advance North to cut off the SRA completely... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 37177 troops, 681 guns, 1209 vehicles, Assault Value = 1646 Defending force 7042 troops, 118 guns, 58 vehicles, Assault Value = 124 Allied adjusted assault: 742 Japanese adjusted defense: 112 Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1142 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 73 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 66 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 20 (5 destroyed, 15 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 23 (4 destroyed, 19 disabled) Assaulting units: 2/6th Armoured Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 41st Infantry Division 2/8th Armoured Regiment 4th Marine Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 25th Infantry Division 4th Armoured Brigade XIV US Corps 2nd RAN Base Force 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 14th Garrison Unit Kure 7th SNLF 14th Naval Guard Unit 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 6th Air Division 9th Field AF Construction Battalion 19th Army 58th Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 26th Fld AA Gun Co 64th Field AA Battalion 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 4th JAAF AF Bn Ambon is the furthest Northern base at the moment with my troops being ready to invade Ternate, another 6 or 7 hexes further North, bringing us into heavy bomber range of Balikpapan already, so the Sea lanes South of Borneo are going to be closed for enemy convoys or will be at least very dangerous... not to talk about the fact that Menado (potential level 9 airfield) is only defended by some 5-10000 Japanese troops and I´ve got a full corps prepped to attack here... if Menado is built up, all of Borneo is in heavy bomber range... from Menado it´s only a small step onto Mindanao, a place you can´t defend as we can land a big force whereever we want and wear down the enemy on the rest of the big island... and Mindanao is the doorstep to the Philipines, while it´s enough for us to take one or two of the big bases on North East Borneo that can be built up to level 9 airfields... this would mean the South China Sea is closed and all of the SRA cut off because with our Chinese advance into Vietnam, we got a level 9 airfield at Hanoi, smaller airfields at Haiphong and Vinh so we could launch anti shipping strikes from these bases if enemy shipping is going further North in the South China Sea... as it stands now, the strategic situation is grim for the Japanese and I haven´t taken back a single base in the Central or South Pacific as I just don´t need to...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 11:48:52 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 11, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships xAK Nitii Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAK Toei Maru xAK Surabaya Maru xAK Kiyo Maru xAK Hague Maru E Hirashima E Shirakami Allied Ships SS KXIV, hits 4 SS KXIV launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Nitii Maru E Hirashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami attacking submerged sub .... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub light damage, retiring to Darwin... SS Snapper hit by air ASW 13/9/4, retiring to Darwin... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tanegashima at 102,66 Japanese Ships E Omae AO Kyuko AO Kyokuto Maru AO Shiriya AO Sata AO Ondo DD Yuzuki DD Mochizuki DD Mikazuki Allied Ships SS Flying Fish, hits 1 SS Flying Fish is sighted by escort DD Yuzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Mochizuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Mikazuki is out of ASW ammo DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 74th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 21 Ki-49-Ia Helen x 21 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 72 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-49-Ia Helen bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 94th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 74th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 94th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 74th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kweilin , at 76,54 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 14 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 57 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 25 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 10 Airbase supply hits 11 Runway hits 68 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb pure training raids... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 43 B-24J Liberator x 44 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 14 Runway hits 113 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 B-24J Liberator x 13 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 63 No Allied losses Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 46 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 36 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 74 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb all the available bombers have been in the air again today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 26 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 99,72 Japanese Ships xAK Kohoku Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAK Sensan Maru xAK Kunitu Maru SC Ch 10 Allied Ships SS Trigger SS Trigger launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Kohoku Maru Trigger diving deep .... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub two freighters hit today with only two subs knocked out but not sunk, must have been a good day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lautem (72,115) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 45798 troops, 770 guns, 1363 vehicles, Assault Value = 3462 Defending force 23710 troops, 311 guns, 99 vehicles, Assault Value = 380 Allied adjusted assault: 450 Japanese adjusted defense: 215 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 7301 casualties reported Squads: 418 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 423 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 16 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 30 (20 destroyed, 10 disabled) Vehicles lost 23 (23 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 7 [X(] Allied ground losses: 561 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 31 disabled Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 41 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Vehicles lost 32 (20 destroyed, 12 disabled) Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 754th Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 4th Australian Division 1st Marine Division 767th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 5th Australian Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd Australian Division 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 151st Combat Engineer Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd Motor Brigade 226th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 168th Field Artillery Regiment 177th USAAF Base Force I Australian Corps 154th FA Bn 119th USAAF Base Force 146th USA Base Force 104th USN Base Force 134th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 225th USN Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion 223rd Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 97th Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 16th Division 18th Division 5th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 40th JNAF AF Unit 8th Area Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 48th Fld AA Bn /1 unexpected retreat of the enemy... had a tank unit South West of Lautern that entered Lautern today, which meant Lautern having a retreat path to Koepang... not that I would really complain, a retreat causes huge losses so it probably speeds up the process of destroying all these units... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36993 troops, 681 guns, 1208 vehicles, Assault Value = 1636 Defending force 5738 troops, 107 guns, 53 vehicles, Assault Value = 71 Allied adjusted assault: 721 Japanese adjusted defense: 103 Allied assault odds: 7 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 422 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 41 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 56 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 107 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 21 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Vehicles lost 25 (5 destroyed, 20 disabled) Assaulting units: 2/8th Armoured Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 25th Infantry Division 41st Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 4th Marine Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 2nd RAN Base Force XIV US Corps 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: Kure 7th SNLF 14th Garrison Unit 14th Naval Guard Unit 2nd Mortar Battalion 6th Air Division 19th Army 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 58th Construction Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 4th JAAF AF Bn 64th Field AA Battalion 26th Fld AA Gun Co /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 12:05:18 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 12, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 102,68 Japanese Ships DD Matsukaze E Ukishima E Kyosai TK Azuchisan Maru TK Namba Maru TK Mutsuyo Maru TK Kinmon Maru TK Fukko Maru E Takashima E Hoko Allied Ships SS Balao SS Balao launches 6 torpedoes at DD Matsukaze Balao diving deep .... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Takashima attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Takashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Hoko attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Perth at 45,147 Japanese Ships SS I-39 Allied Ships PG Hindustan AM Cairns PG Clive SS I-39 is located by PG Hindustan PG Hindustan fails to find sub and abandons search PG Clive fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Clive fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Clive fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Clive fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Clive fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Clive fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Michishio DD Asashio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Templar, hits 24, and is sunk [8\|] SS Templar is sighted by escort Templar diving deep .... DD Hibiki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Akatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Arare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yamagumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Hibiki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Akatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yamagumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hibiki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hibiki attacking submerged sub .... SS Templar forced to surface! DD Akatsuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Arare firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yamagumo firing on surfaced sub .... DD Akatsuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Arare firing on surfaced sub .... DD Arare firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yamagumo firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hibiki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Akatsuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Arare firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yamagumo firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hibiki firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves next sub sunk...[:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 36 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 31 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 54 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 26 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 24 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 28 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 2 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 41 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 74th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet got 6000av marching on Psingiang (South of Changsha), trying to dislodge five enemy units... some 1000-1500 av, level 6 forts expected there and it´s a rough terrain hex so even our troops being fully prepped I expect this to be a tough fight and if the fight isn´t over in a couple of days we´re going to fail because the enemy will then have enough time to move in reinforcements from nearby bases... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 74th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 11 Ki-49-Ia Helen x 15 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 119 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49-Ia Helen bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36833 troops, 681 guns, 1205 vehicles, Assault Value = 1624 Defending force 4670 troops, 98 guns, 52 vehicles, Assault Value = 23 Allied adjusted assault: 891 Japanese adjusted defense: 13 Allied assault odds: 68 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1134 casualties reported Squads: 18 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 60 destroyed, 24 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/8th Armoured Regiment 4th Marine Division 25th Infantry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 2nd RAN Base Force 1st USN Naval Construction Regiment XIV US Corps 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 14th Garrison Unit Kure 7th SNLF 14th Naval Guard Unit 19th Army 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 58th Construction Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 4th JAAF AF Bn 64th Field AA Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 6th Air Division 26th Fld AA Gun Co /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd Mortar Battalion Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 64th Field AA Battalion Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kure 7th SNLF Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58th Construction Battalion Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! Japanese Unit(s) surrounded at Ambon Japanese Unit(s) Wiped Out at Ambon by attrition!!! enemy units are collapsing now, base building is in full process, Ambon can be built up to a level 6 airfield...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 12:32:54 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 13, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 98,65 Japanese Ships E Fukue E Hirado E Wakamiya Allied Ships SS Dragonet SS Dragonet launches 6 torpedoes at E Fukue Dragonet diving deep .... E Hirado attacking submerged sub .... E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... E Hirado fails to find sub and abandons search E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub stop it, just stop it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Talaud-eilanden at 79,96 Japanese Ships DD Asashio BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Natsugumo DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Grayback SS Grayback launches 6 torpedoes at DD Asashio DD Hibiki attacking submerged sub .... DD Akatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hibiki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the enemy is moving KB around again, this probably is the SC cover for the carriers... I´ve told Rainer a couple of times already how insanly lucky he is because I can´t remember having ever had a PBEM when I had someone moving dozens of times over my subs with dozens of capital ships while the subs never get a succesful shot... at some point we just have to score on a BB or CV... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 10 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet pretty light sweeps, should fly some LRCAP again... focussing on Hanoi though, all fighters tasked to Cap our main airfield in the area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 77th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 21 Ki-49-Ia Helen x 21 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 39 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-49-Ia Helen bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 18th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 77th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 18th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 77th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 28 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 3 damaged Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Shock attack [X(][X(][X(] Attacking force 409 troops, 13 guns, 153 vehicles, Assault Value = 98 Defending force 17237 troops, 296 guns, 78 vehicles, Assault Value = 270 Allied adjusted assault: 1 Japanese adjusted defense: 101 Allied assault odds: 1 to 101 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-) Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 612 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 40 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 31 (31 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion [8\|] 767th Tank Battalion [8\|] Defending units: 18th Division 5th Division 16th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 48th Fld AA Bn /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th Area Army 40th JNAF AF Unit /1 I was shocked and as surprised as my opponent about this attack popping up... obviously we´ve got a map error here, these tank units were moving out of Lautern to follow the Japanese South East of Lautern... the game obviously treats this as a river crossing but there is no river, at least not on the map, don´t know about real life... all the other tank units have had their orders cancelled as I don´t want to have another shock attack tomorrow... expect the enemy to attack us tomorrow, both units are 90% disrupted and aren´t combat ready... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ambon (76,109) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 37173 troops, 681 guns, 1226 vehicles, Assault Value = 1620 Defending force 1184 troops, 0 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 3 Allied adjusted assault: 423 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 423 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 357 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 49 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/8th Armoured Regiment 4th Marine Division 25th Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 2nd RAN Base Force 1st USN Naval Construction Regiment XIV US Corps Eleventh USAAF 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 4th JAAF AF Bn 19th Army 6th Air Div /1 KB is moving again, either coming South to deal with Boela´s level 8 airfield and Ambon´s level 4 airfield or going East to Babeldaob... the reason for this trip is unknown, KB was coming from Java... Rainer knows that I´m concentrating all efforts in this region as it´s the only one that really hurts the enemy... as long as KB is nearby I won´t send my amphib TF anywhere near as I just don´t want to risk to lose the precious APA but I sure am going to send my carriers as we have long been in a position being able to deal with the Japanese, we field something like 1200 carrier based ac at the moment... flak is something not existing so that´s not really an advantage for us, so we have to rely on having more ships, probably 200-300 more carrier based ac that are harder to down and we have our 4E bombers in range to if we´re sending in the carriers... we´re already ready for our invasion TF for Ternate, but this operation is postponed now due to KB parking right nearby... the fleet is based at Boela at the moment, ordered to head South as we´re escorting the APA... [image]local://upfiles/13774/6A12E7679E394BC099ABD99BBB76DA5E.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 12:35:45 PM)
both sides´ Cap took down lots of enemy patrol aircraft... this is a severe loss for us, we can hardly replace all the PBY op losses every day, let alone halve a dozen being shot down by Cap in a day... [image]local://upfiles/13774/FC4E5A87FF8E416EBE15D2FA84467F1F.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 12:46:52 PM)
Lost the report for the 14th, KB was steaming West and nothing happened... BB Iowa arrived in Eastern USA today... going to meet Intrepid and some CVE to transit with a heavy DD escort to the front... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 15, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships DD Arashio BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Asashio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger launches 4 torpedoes at DD Arashio Plunger diving deep .... DD Hibiki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Akatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hibiki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Akatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare attacking submerged sub .... DD Yamagumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Arare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yamagumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub like I´ve said, Rainer is a pretty lucky guy, he keeps shipping over my subs and just nothing happens other than some DD being targeted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 68,97 Japanese Ships DD Tadeyame BB Mutsu BB Nagato DD Tatsuyuke DD Myojinami DD Uruyuke Allied Ships SS Nautilus SS Nautilus launches 4 torpedoes at DD Tadeyame DD Tadeyame fails to find sub and abandons search DD Myojinami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uruyuke fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uruyuke fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uruyuke fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uruyuke fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uruyuke fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and another time just one hex further West... how many chances do we need to score on a capital ship? 100? I had three carriers and two battleships torpedoed already and everytime it happened by accident because his subs just stumbled over my ships in the middle of nowhere while they had an insane number of escorts all the time... the Japs just keep on moving over my subs as if they wouldn´t exist... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Aogashima at 112,66 Japanese Ships E Kunashiri, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage E Shimushu E Oki Allied Ships SS Corvina, hits 5 SS Corvina launches 6 torpedoes at E Kunashiri Corvina diving deep .... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub sinking an E class escort isn´t a real consolation, the sub is knocked out, retiring with 13 sys 10 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Calayan at 82,71 Japanese Ships DD Sawakaze DD Oite DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Muskallunge SS Muskallunge launches 6 torpedoes at DD Sawakaze Muskallunge diving deep .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi loses contact with SS Muskallunge DD Asanagi cannot reach attack position over SS Muskallunge SS Muskallunge eludes ASW attack from DD Asanagi DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Aogashima at 113,66 Japanese Ships E Hirado E Wakamiya Allied Ships SS Bonefish, hits 3 SS Bonefish is sighted by escort E Hirado fails to find sub and abandons search E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,74 Japanese Ships xAK Johore Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage E Wakatake PB Tokotsu Maru xAK Mogamigawa Maru xAK Yamazuki Maru xAK Kinai Maru DD Okikaze E Yaeyama Allied Ships SS Grayling SS Grayling launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Johore Maru Grayling diving deep .... DD Okikaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and a freighter sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iba at 77,75 Japanese Ships DD Hayate DD Oite DD Sawakaze DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Scamp SS Scamp launches 6 torpedoes at DD Hayate Scamp diving deep .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... SS Scamp eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep SS Scamp eludes ASW attack from DD Asanagi DD Asanagi cannot establish contact with SS Scamp DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... SS Scamp eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep DD Asanagi loses contact with SS Scamp SS Scamp eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep DD Asanagi cannot establish contact with SS Scamp DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,74 Japanese Ships E Wakatake PB Taian Maru xAK Mogamigawa Maru xAK Yamaura Maru DD Okikaze Allied Ships SS Grayling, hits 2 SS Grayling launches 4 torpedoes at E Wakatake Grayling diving deep .... DD Okikaze attacking submerged sub .... E Wakatake fails to find sub and abandons search DD Okikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Okikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub second sub knocked out today, heavy damage, 35 sys 46 flt 3 eng... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 72 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 18 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 18 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 18 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet have moved the carriers further West and they again try to escort LBA strikes... god how stupid... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 45th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 45th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 21 Ki-49-Ia Helen x 26 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 87 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 26 x Ki-49-Ia Helen bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 55th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 45th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 55th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 45th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 26 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 F4U-1 Corsair x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 33 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 48 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Koepang ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 31 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 44 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 31 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 35 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 28 No Allied losses Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Koepang , at 68,116 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 25 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb should keep my 4E on nav attack as they would take care about all Zekes on Cap on their own... no need to send precious fighters you´re just going to lose, just send four dozen 4E, they can sweep the skies of Zekes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 30 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 2 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 30 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 32625 troops, 540 guns, 681 vehicles, Assault Value = 1226 Defending force 13766 troops, 115 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 459 Allied adjusted assault: 716 Japanese adjusted defense: 709 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 4) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 996 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 44 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 31 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Allied ground losses: 300 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 24 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Americal Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 33rd Infantry Division Sixth US Army 224th USN Base Force 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 41st Field AA Battalion 4th JAAF Base Force the enemy isn´t able to really inflict losses within our attacking troops and the base is about to fall... all of Timor is going to be liberated soon and the remaining Japanese units that retreated out of Lautern and Dili aren´t a threat...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 12:58:36 PM)
BB New Jersey and BC Renown arrived today but Renown is waiting for an upgrade that takes 45 days... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 16, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 10 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet four squadrons of P-47 could really wreck havoc over Vinh... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6 Ki-49-Ia Helen x 25 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 162 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 25 x Ki-49-Ia Helen bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 74th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 74th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Corps ... our troops arrived at Pingsiang... Japanese in China are throwing everything against us... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 65th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 6 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 21 Ki-51 Sonia x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-51 Sonia: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 94th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 65th Chinese Corps ... even useless Sonias... amazing to see these aircraft, probably a training squadron... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 F4U-1A Corsair x 3 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 31 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 27 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 30 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 5 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 27 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb don´t know why Rainer is flying these daily attacks on Vinh in such a careless manner, first a dozen Zeroes followed by unescorted bombers, this just asks for a disaster... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 B-24J Liberator x 28 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 38 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 11 B-24J Liberator x 26 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 66 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 P-40K Warhawk x 11 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 26 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 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 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 23 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/1FDFF0EDD0E04408A4F39A5E7ADE2372.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Quinhon at 66,69 Japanese Ships TK Ojikasan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage [:)] E W-11 E W-8 E W-6 E Yanagi TK Kotai Maru TK Takane Maru TK Shiranesan Maru TK Kyokuho Maru TK Amagi Maru #2 DD Asakaze E W-23 E W-16 E W-15 Allied Ships SS Dace, hits 1 SS Dace launches 6 torpedoes at TK Ojikasan Maru DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-16 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-16 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asakaze attacking submerged sub .... E W-23 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-16 attacking submerged sub .... E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-16 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-16 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub nice one finally again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 11999 troops, 160 guns, 38 vehicles, Assault Value = 277 Defending force 200 troops, 13 guns, 130 vehicles, Assault Value = 96 Japanese adjusted assault: 49 Allied adjusted defense: 33 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 363 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 20 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 18th Division 16th Division 5th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 48th Fld AA Bn /1 8th Area Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit /1 Defending units: 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 767th Tank Battalion too late, the enemy tried to kick our tank units around that had to cross an imaginary river South East of Lautern... the tank units recovered some disruption and were able to hold... pretty close call though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 32389 troops, 541 guns, 681 vehicles, Assault Value = 1221 Defending force 12903 troops, 107 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 402 Allied adjusted assault: 476 Japanese adjusted defense: 349 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1178 casualties reported Squads: 10 destroyed, 54 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 80 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Allied ground losses: 563 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 24 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 82 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Vehicles lost 28 (2 destroyed, 26 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division Americal Infantry Division 33rd Infantry Division 224th USN Base Force Sixth US Army 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 41st Field AA Battalion 4th JAAF Base Force not a single time did we get an acceptable adjusted av here, even though all troops are 100% prepped... it´s the same as we had earlier in the war when we had fully prepped combat units but without a HQ... therefore I repeat my claim, 6th US Army isn´t working as a HQ as you can´t be that unlucky to constantly fail all die rolls... 6th US Army HQ consists only of motorized support ("normal" HQs consist of support squads), therefore I think HQ without support squads don´t work... raised a thread in the tech forum, nothing more I can do... don´t care about it anymore, will never use a HQ again that consists of motorized support... we get the usual attack without any (+) or (-) which is just as odd as it ever was... how much testing went into this product? There are so many things too obvious to be overlooked, I don´t get it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 188366 troops, 898 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6961 Defending force 36738 troops, 264 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 1297 Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 56 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 77th Chinese Corps 94th Chinese Corps 87th Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Corps 65th Chinese Corps 21st Chinese Corps 49th Chinese Corps 28th Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 25th Chinese Corps 8th Route Army 18th Chinese Corps 2nd Chinese Corps 4th Chinese Corps 93rd Chinese Corps 3rd New Chinese Corps 7th War Area Central Reserve 12th Group Army 26th Group Army Defending units: 70th Division 116th Division RGC Tax Police Regiment 41st Division 13th Army lobbing some intelligence shells into the enemy positions, the enemy defense is nothing unexpected, a 1100 av that is combat worthy, the Tax Police rgt probably isn´t a real combat worthy unit... 5:1 in av, forts and rough terrain... we´ll see...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 1:12:18 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 17, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Chichi-jima at 107,73 Japanese Ships SC CHa-34 SC CHa-46 xAK Siberia Maru xAK Kyoto Maru xAK Osaka Maru xAK Mitimei Maru xAK Wakatu Maru xAK Thames Maru SC CHa-60 SC CHa-52 Allied Ships SS Cabrilla SS Cabrilla launches 6 torpedoes at SC CHa-34 Cabrilla diving deep .... SC CHa-60 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jesselton at 68,85 Japanese Ships SC Ch 39 TK Shimotsu Maru TK Ceram Maru E Nadakaze E Shimakaze Allied Ships SS Apogon SS Apogon is sighted by escort Apogon diving deep .... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Shimakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tandjoengselor at 69,95 Japanese Ships DD Hakaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze DD Hokaze Allied Ships SS Grenadier SS Grenadier is located by DD Hakaze Grenadier diving deep .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Boela at 78,110 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft D4Y1 Judy x 9 Allied aircraft P-40K Warhawk x 2 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 F4U-1 Corsair x 4 F4U-1A Corsair x 2 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y1 Judy: 6 destroyed Allied Ships xAP Clan Macbean CAP engaged: VMO-155 with F4U-1 Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead VMF-216 with F4U-1 Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead VMF-217 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 36900 Raid is overhead VMF-222 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 36900 Raid is overhead VMF-215 with F4U-1 Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead VMF-422 with F4U-1 Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 35th FG/40th FS with P-40K Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 80th FG/90th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Raid is overhead have moved some more engineer units to Ambon and the TF is leaving, being two hexes off Ambon the TF is attacked by a Judy chutai coming from Ternate (being reported as 100% damaged)... the Judies were unescorted and we had leaking Cap from both Ambon and Boela that took care of the dive bombers... not one of the Judies survived, the loss list reporting three more shot down than having attacked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 2nd Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 11 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 22 Ki-49-Ia Helen x 25 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 153 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 25 x Ki-49-Ia Helen bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 18 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 11000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb 4 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 3rd New Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 28th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 25th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 49th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 3rd New Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 3rd New Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 28th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 3rd New Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 65th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 19 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 21 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 17 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 17 Ki-51 Sonia x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 109 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 19 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 17 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 87th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 8th Route Army ... Also attacking 74th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 94th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 77th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 20th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 65th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 87th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 8th Route Army ... Also attacking 65th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 87th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 8th Route Army ... Also attacking 74th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 94th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 77th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 65th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 87th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 8th Route Army ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th Chinese Base Force, at 79,55 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 20 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 83 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 45th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Base Force ... Also attacking 45th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Base Force ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 18th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 18 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 49 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 11000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 10 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-51 Sonia: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb the enemy is really attacking with everything now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 27 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 2nd SNLF , at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 21st Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 30 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 damaged Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 30 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 32 P-40K Warhawk x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/FCF0F0FD27834316B92CA26F98AA7F03.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Aogashima at 112,66 Japanese Ships E Hirado, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage E Sado E Wakamiya Allied Ships SS Sturgeon, hits 5 SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at E Hirado Sturgeon diving deep .... E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... E Wakamiya fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... E Wakamiya attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub another E is hit and sunk but we also got Sturgeon retiring now with 9 sys 20 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 31767 troops, 541 guns, 679 vehicles, Assault Value = 1182 Defending force 11725 troops, 106 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 345 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Allied adjusted assault: 575 Japanese adjusted defense: 689 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1230 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 72 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 38 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Allied ground losses: 604 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 50 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 42 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled) Assaulting units: Americal Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 33rd Infantry Division Sixth US Army 224th USN Base Force 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 41st Field AA Battalion 4th JAAF Base Force after having achieved 1:1 odds in the previous attacks with minimal losses we only get a 1:2 this turn while having one div hit hard... again, the adjusted av is total BS, again I claim HQs with motorized support only not working... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 188033 troops, 897 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6932 Defending force 36713 troops, 264 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 1295 Allied adjusted assault: 6767 Japanese adjusted defense: 4443 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 6) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 5 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: [8\|][8\|][8\|] Japanese ground losses: 1993 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 87 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 127 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Allied ground losses: 4432 casualties reported Squads: 38 destroyed, 647 disabled Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 335 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 24 disabled Assaulting units: 4th Chinese Corps 28th Chinese Corps 2nd Chinese Corps 20th Chinese Corps 21st Chinese Corps 25th Chinese Corps 8th Route Army 77th Chinese Corps 65th Chinese Corps 18th Chinese Corps 49th Chinese Corps 94th Chinese Corps 87th Chinese Corps 93rd Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 3rd New Chinese Corps 7th War Area 12th Group Army Central Reserve 26th Group Army Defending units: 116th Division 70th Division RGC Tax Police Regiment 41st Division 13th Army attacking Pingsiang, nothing unexpted happening... we suffer lots of disablements but these are spread out within all the attacking units so we´re looking good... our adjusted av is more or less equal to our base av and the enemy isn´t getting better adjusted av than expected... without combat eng, the Chinese have to rely on getting at least a 1:1 to take down a fort level... the enemy suffers nearly no losses so we can expect the same result next time we´re going to attack... the usual no (+) no (-) for us as attacker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 79,55 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 20964 troops, 118 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 593 Defending force 43728 troops, 331 guns, 89 vehicles, Assault Value = 1612 Allied adjusted assault: 119 Japanese adjusted defense: 4351 Allied assault odds: 1 to 36 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-) Attacker: disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 47 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 3265 casualties reported Squads: 8 destroyed, 299 disabled [8\|] Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 424 disabled [8\|] Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Assaulting units: 45th Chinese Corps 55th Chinese Corps 4th Chinese Base Force 36th Group Army 18th Chinese Base Force Defending units: 23rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Armored Car Co 22nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 22nd Division 110th Division North China Gsn Brigade 2nd RF Gun Battalion moved two corps into this hex to attack 8th Armored Car Co and what happens? Exactly today when we order our attack, some six more enemy units show up in the hex, stopping our attack cold... what a day... our two Corps are trashed and no doubt are going to be kicked North...

anarchyintheuk -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/3/2010 3:31:00 PM)
Couple of questions: What is your supply situation in China? Your Chinese army should have a pretty good group of experienced lcus by now. What's their average xp? What skills are your attack bomber pilots training for? As always, enjoying the aar.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/4/2010 4:09:23 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk Couple of questions: What is your supply situation in China? Your Chinese army should have a pretty good group of experienced lcus by now. What's their average xp? What skills are your attack bomber pilots training for? As always, enjoying the aar. hi Supply situation in China is ok, got a couple of hundred thousand supplies in China, some 150000 were flowing into Indochina. While it always can be more, there is no lack of supply anywhere at the moment. Indochina´s bases use 2000 supplies per DAY though as the bases have to be built up and there are also quite some troops there. Chinese exp still is pretty poor, not to compare with the normal 90+ exp or Japanese veteran units. Average exp probably is somewhere between 45 and 50. The attack bombers get crews having 70 lownav and 70 lowgrd skill. Am using three or four fighter squadrons at the moment training these 70 lownav 70 lowgrd pilots to 70 strafe too. Alltogether it takes no less than 8 or 9 months !!! to train an attack bomber crew as it is now. Every other pilot I have to train is at least 4-5 months faster ready for combat. First you have to train them 3 months for lownav, then 3 months for lowgrd and then another 3 months to reach 70 strafe. The only reason I train them for three needed skills is the fact that attack bombers were bugged for all the time this PBEM has been going until the patch (AAR hasn´t caught up with the game that is now patched up). And with the limited experience in using attack bombers now, they still seem to be strange to me as I´m now using them from 10000ft and they hit like wild while NOT having any grdbmb skill they would need from 10000ft. In fact they seem to use lowgrd skill instead.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/6/2010 4:15:32 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 18, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 68,77 Japanese Ships E Asagao SC Ch 24 SC Ch 41 SC Ch 37 Allied Ships SS Tautog, hits 24, on fire, heavy damage [8\|] SS Tautog is located by E Asagao E Asagao attacking submerged sub .... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 attacking submerged sub .... SS Tautog forced to surface! SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... E Asagao firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... E Asagao firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 41 firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... E Asagao firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 41 firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... E Asagao firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 41 firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... E Asagao firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 41 firing on surfaced sub .... SC Ch 37 firing on surfaced sub .... Contact with submarine is lost my subs are sinking on a daily basis now... SS Tautog is confirmed sunk... don´t know what magic date 12/43 is but we´ve lost three subs in just a couple of days... to make it worse, SS Scorpion is hit by air ASW today, retiring with 49 sys 19 flt 11 eng and with that high sys dam, the sub is in danger of sinking... I can perfectly understand Allied players stating that sub war has completely come to a halt in 44 due to the allmighty and countless E vessels... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships DD Hakaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze DD Hokaze Allied Ships SS Grenadier SS Grenadier is located by DD Hakaze Grenadier diving deep .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze cannot reach attack position over SS Grenadier DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze loses contact with SS Grenadier SS Grenadier eludes DD Hokaze by diving deep DD Hokaze loses contact with SS Grenadier DD Hokaze loses contact with SS Grenadier SS Grenadier eludes DD Hokaze by diving deep DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jesselton at 68,85 Japanese Ships DD Shinonome DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus is located by DD Shinonome Grampus diving deep .... DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Uzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jesselton at 68,85 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus is sighted by escort Grampus diving deep .... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Koshiki-jima Retto at 100,60 Japanese Ships E Kiji DD Yukaze E Kamo Allied Ships SS Bonefish SS Bonefish launches 6 torpedoes at E Kiji Bonefish diving deep .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 62,77 Japanese Ships PB Myoken Maru TK Mirii Maru TK Toan Maru TK Ogura Maru #3 PB Ryuto Maru PB Muroran Maru Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at PB Myoken Maru Sculpin diving deep .... PB Ryuto Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub so useles... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 55th Chinese Corps, at 79,55 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 20 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 15 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 102 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 45th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 55th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 45th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 55th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 22 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 35 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 F4U-1 Corsair x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 84 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 10 damaged Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 51 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 87th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-30 Ann x 6 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 21 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 12 Allied aircraft P-40K Warhawk x 10 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 31 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-30 Ann: 4 destroyed Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 3 destroyed Ki-48-IIa Lily: 7 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-40K Warhawk: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 11000 feet 4 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet * CAP engaged: 5318th PAU/FS with P-40K Warhawk (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 32000 Raid is overhead 8th FG/35th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (11 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 32000 Raid is overhead 23rd FG/75th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (10 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 32000 Raid is overhead moved in some squadrons from Hanoi to fly LRCAP over Pingsiang as it was obvious that the enemy was going to bomb our troops there... we really chew up the enemy formations, the P-47 once again proves to be a real killer with 8 cal.50... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 74th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 26 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 11 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 11 Allied aircraft P-40K Warhawk x 2 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-IIa Lily: 7 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 1 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: 5318th PAU/FS with P-40K Warhawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 87 minutes 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 128 minutes 8th FG/35th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 228 minutes 23rd FG/75th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 183 minutes Also attacking 20th Chinese Corps ... to my total surprise, the 26 escorting Oscars were bypassed with the bomber formation really being shot up... 5 bombers made it to target to drop their load... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 22 B-24J Liberator x 59 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 119 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 21 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 49 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 P-40K Warhawk x 10 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Japanese ground losses: 4 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 22 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb these attacks on bases around New Guinea are nothing but suppression attacks as I don´t want the IJNAF to become active in this area... bad day for the IJNAF: [image]local://upfiles/13774/A2BCD6E46358469886A39DC0E6DA8FA9.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 79,55 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 43448 troops, 331 guns, 57 vehicles, Assault Value = 1608 Defending force 17858 troops, 118 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 353 Japanese adjusted assault: 497 Allied adjusted defense: 411 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: [8\|][8\|] Japanese ground losses: 252 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 1681 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 62 disabled Non Combat: 13 destroyed, 181 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Assaulting units: 8th Armored Car Co 23rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 22nd Division 110th Division 22nd Ind.Mixed Brigade North China Gsn Brigade 2nd RF Gun Battalion Defending units: 45th Chinese Corps 55th Chinese Corps 4th Chinese Base Force 36th Group Army 18th Chinese Base Force amazingly my highly disrupted units here were able to hold after being totally shred during their attack yesterday... no doubt the next Japanese attack will dislodge them though... one of the Corps got no combat ready squads left... same as always, it´s only the defender that seems to get (+) or (-)... why the attacker nearly never gets any (+) or (-) is only something the devs know... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 167578 troops, 821 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6290 Defending force 35213 troops, 264 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 1184 Allied adjusted assault: 4938 Japanese adjusted defense: 8059 [8\|] Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 5) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 965 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 89 disabled Non Combat: 26 destroyed, 53 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Allied ground losses: 8325 casualties reported [8\|] Squads: 22 destroyed, 659 disabled Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 874 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 38 disabled Assaulting units: 20th Chinese Corps 93rd Chinese Corps 28th Chinese Corps 18th Chinese Corps 87th Chinese Corps 4th Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 77th Chinese Corps 8th Route Army 25th Chinese Corps 65th Chinese Corps 94th Chinese Corps 2nd Chinese Corps 21st Chinese Corps 49th Chinese Corps 3rd New Chinese Corps 7th War Area Central Reserve 12th Group Army 26th Group Army Defending units: RGC Tax Police Regiment 70th Division 116th Division 41st Division 13th Army the attack at Pingsiang fails miserably... enemy adjusted av nearly gets multiplied by 7 after having "only" 4000 adjusted av during our last attack... this attack went so bad in terms of disabled squads while not achieving anything that the whole operations is cancelled now... as it stands now, we´ve lost only a handful of combat squads but ongoing attacks will completely wreck our units and with only 200 squad replacements per month we can´t afford it... if we wouldn´t lose a single combat squad for the rest of the war we would not be able to fill out all our units with combat squads with the given replacement rate and our units will always stay highly understrenght... we are now concentrating on defending our backyard... at least the IJAAF was hit hard today...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 12:21:51 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 19, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Busuanga at 76,79 Japanese Ships AO Shioya, Torpedo hits 1, on fire SC Ch 39 TK Shimotsu Maru TK Ceram Maru E Nadakaze E Shimakaze Allied Ships SS Flasher, hits 1 SS Flasher launches 6 torpedoes at AO Shioya Flasher diving deep .... E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Shimakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Shimakaze is out of ASW ammo E Shimakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Shimakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo E Nadakaze is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub we still do quite well against enemy tankers in total, especially when the escorts are out of ammo... not sure the AO is going down, empty ship and no heavy damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tanegashima at 103,67 Japanese Ships E W-24 PB Taiko Maru TK Palembang Maru TK Arita Maru TK Teiyo Maru DD Murakumo DD Isonami E Saishu Allied Ships SS Peto, hits 1 SS Peto is sighted by escort DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Isonami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Saishu fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Isonami fails to find sub and abandons search E Saishu fails to find sub and abandons search DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Murakumo is out of ASW ammo DD Murakumo is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub no success here but escorts low on ammo too... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 26 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 20 Spitfire Vc Trop x 10 Spitfire VIII x 29 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 48 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 12 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Raid is overhead 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 15 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 15 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 37000. Raid is overhead the game is patched but the AAR at this point still is without the new patch and working radar... got all the fighters on 80% Cap 20% rest and get around 45-50% of the fighters in the air which is enough to deal with this incoming Frank sweep... the Franks were at 6000ft but this time the "magic" alt failed and after a very short time of Franks diving on my aircraft (the usual question of how that is possible when our ac in the air were mostly higher up) the Franks were shot to pieces by our P-47 which proved to be killers again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 3 [8\|][8\|][8\|] Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 14 Spitfire Vc Trop x 10 Spitfire VIII x 28 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 43 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 35440 and 36440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 33440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 59 minutes No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 40000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 35440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes the usual funny way the dev thinks of realism... no matter if Allied or Japanese, it just always looks the same... same silly... how does this actually pass beta phase? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Haiphong , at 68,57 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 33 Allied aircraft Spitfire Vc Trop x 3 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 28 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 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 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes attempt to draw some Cap to Haiphong, all Spits damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 21st Division, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft P-40K Warhawk x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 41st Field AA Battalion ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 41st Field AA Battalion ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 41st Field AA Battalion ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking Kure 2nd SNLF ... Also attacking 41st Field AA Battalion ... Also attacking 21st Division ... nil effect... nil... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th JAAF Base Force, at 68,116 (Koepang) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 15 P-40K Warhawk x 11 F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... Also attacking 4th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 21st Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 60 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 15 B-24J Liberator x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 62 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Talaud-eilanden at 82,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 4 Allied aircraft losses PB4Y-1 Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese Ships xAK Hasuna Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires Aircraft Attacking: 4 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb the PB4Y are coming from a level 4 airfield which is too small for them, therefore attacking with "reduced" reduced load. Dropping two bombs each, the bombers still managed to score a hit in bad weather... there are three more ships reported in this TF but as 9 out of 10 times we get the usual "bomber unable to locate target due to range or weather"... wonder how ships ever got sunk in real life if land based bombers failed that often... Rainer complains about the same thing, usually his bombers end up with this message... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Hanoi , at 68,56 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 26 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 18 Spitfire Vc Trop x 9 Spitfire VIII x 28 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 47 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 8 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.5 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.79 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Raid is overhead No.136 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Raid is overhead 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32000 , scrambling fighters to 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 15 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes some Tojos that didn´t attack in the morning were coming in in the afternoon... also this time, the 6000ft turned out to be a bad altitude as the Tojos were just shot to pieces by my diving fighters... really wonder what determines the tactical situation, A2A stays elusive to me... and the results are nothing but loops all the time, totally off the mark with the pendulum swinging in boths directions (sides)... don´t know how it was tested, perhaps only looked at the totally borked combat reports which just don´t tell you anything if you don´t look at the combat replay and count up the losses yourselve... why it was thought to have this kind of FOW in the report is beyond me as the replay still seems to be more or less spot on... makes me even more wonder how ppl can play this game without replays... it´s been a total disaster for the Japanese over Hanoi and I bet at some point these attacks will just stop... and we´re in the process of moving in some more base forces with radar and these radar sets are going to work in three weeks of this point of the AAR... then we can rely on more or less all Cap in the air with settings of 40%... at these rates the enemy just is on the receiving end... with only one P-47 lost for probably nearly three dozen enemy fighters downed by the P-47 (is this something you can call loop? [8\|]) the enemy will soon stop these attacks as today we haven´t lost any aircraft we can´t replace easily... without the dive, all the A2A would look three stages better, as it is now, it´s just rubbish, worse than WITP when we get into these ridicoulos loops... and you never know before if you are going to have any tactical advantage, no matter how the conditions for both sides look like because even though you see a clear tactical advantage it can mean just nothing and it´s all just about some funny die rolls that can (and do) go totally crazy it seems... P-47 taking down far more than 30 enemy fighters (Franks and Tojos) for one loss within the P-47 is crazy to me... [image]local://upfiles/13774/49502E77C5FB4380AB223D04A78FE1A1.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 34 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 70 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Manokwari attack was total overkill today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 79,55 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 43416 troops, 331 guns, 89 vehicles, Assault Value = 1589 Defending force 16541 troops, 118 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 290 Japanese adjusted assault: 1274 Allied adjusted defense: 299 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 283 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 38 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 28 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: 3699 casualties reported Squads: 80 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 401 destroyed, 28 disabled Engineers: 13 destroyed, 3 disabled Guns lost 7 (5 destroyed, 2 disabled) Units retreated 5 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 110th Division 22nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 8th Armored Car Co 23rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 22nd Division North China Gsn Brigade 2nd RF Gun Battalion Defending units: 45th Chinese Corps 55th Chinese Corps 36th Group Army 4th Chinese Base Force 18th Chinese Base Force as expected, my Chinese "Army" was pushed back today towards Hengyang... my real Army that failed at Pingsiang is now moving West, also back to Hengyang to be distributed in nearby bases to act defensively... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 31356 troops, 541 guns, 679 vehicles, Assault Value = 1152 Defending force 10587 troops, 105 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 291 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Allied adjusted assault: 453 [8\|] Japanese adjusted defense: 135 Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Koepang !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-) Attacker: [&:][&:] Japanese ground losses: 1574 casualties reported Squads: 16 destroyed, 55 disabled Non Combat: 82 destroyed, 92 disabled Engineers: 30 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 51 (51 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 49 (49 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 259 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 17 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 35 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: Americal Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 33rd Infantry Division Sixth US Army 224th USN Base Force 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 41st Field AA Battalion 4th JAAF Base Force we finally take Koepang... not a single time has our adjusted av been anywhere near our base av even though all troops were 100% prepped and everything was just perfectly... again I claim a HQ with motorized support not to be working as a HQ, I can´t find another reason as my other HQs work just perfectly and I get excellent adjusted av with the same given conditions just all the time... of course, as the attacker there were again no (+) or (-)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 72,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6622 troops, 103 guns, 896 vehicles, Assault Value = 626 Defending force 777 troops, 16 guns, 27 vehicles, Assault Value = 4 Allied adjusted assault: 297 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 297 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 690 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 153 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 20 (20 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 32 (32 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 4 Assaulting units: 1st USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 8th Area Army 48th Fld AA Bn /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese Unit(s) Wiped Out at Dili by attrition!!!

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 12:33:40 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 20, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub vs Sub: SS Truant attacking SST Yu-9 at 69,96 - near Donggala Japanese Ships SST Yu-9 Allied Ships SS Truant SS Truant launches 6 torpedoes at 4,000 yards a pity, our latest sub vs sub attacks failed... Rainer keeps using these SST to supply his frontline bases, doubt they´ve got any effect as a single 500lb bomb hit can destroy more supplies than a SST can carry... really wonder why Rainer even built these SST, I would halt them to save the nav points... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Fukue-jima at 99,59 Japanese Ships xAKL Chosen Maru xAKL Yamayuri Maru PB Menado Maru Allied Ships SS Bonefish SS Bonefish is sighted by escort PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Menado Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 34 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 13 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 22 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 32 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 2 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 32 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th Chinese Corps, at 82,54 (Pingsiang) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 12 Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 15 Ki-51 Sonia x 9 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 18th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 27 P-40K Warhawk x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 18 B-24J Liberator x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 24 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 63 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 82 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 38 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb attacking just the usual targets... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 B-24J Liberator x 26 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Ternate is pretty far to the top on the list of the coming invasion targets as we want to make our way further North asap... in between of jumping further North we are going to expand the front in this area more to the West and East to take away some danger from our shipping in this "corridor"... other than having KB in the area, there´s just no sign at all that the Japanese are heavily reinforcing or building up the area around Mindanao... if we succesfully jump onto Mindanao or Borneo (means only two steps forward) then the game is lost for the Japanese IMO... and they need a decisive victory before we do that... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 21967 troops, 331 guns, 476 vehicles, Assault Value = 1125 Defending force 8023 troops, 57 guns, 46 vehicles, Assault Value = 169 Allied adjusted assault: 492 Japanese adjusted defense: 45 Allied assault odds: 10 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 307 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 18 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 27 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Allied ground losses: 97 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: Americal Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 33rd Infantry Division 224th USN Base Force Sixth US Army 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 41st Field AA Battalion 4th JAAF Base Force /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 12:45:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 21, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Culion at 75,79 Japanese Ships DD Hayate DD Oite DD Sawakaze DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Rasher SS Rasher launches 6 torpedoes at DD Hayate Rasher diving deep .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Sawakaze attacking submerged sub .... SS Rasher eludes ASW attack from DD Sawakaze SS Rasher eludes ASW attack from DD Sawakaze SS Rasher eludes DD Sawakaze by diving deep DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub I don´t like it, I just don´t like it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Yayoi DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Sand Lance, hits 8, and is sunk SS Sand Lance is located by DD Yayoi DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Minazuki is out of ASW ammo SS Sand Lance forced to surface! DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves and that´s the reason for it... enemy DD and E have become so dangerous, they nearly can compete with US ASW it seems... sub number four being sunk within one and a halve (?) weeks... together with the damaged ones we suffer nearly daily, it´s more like Kriegsmarine in the Pacific at the moment... this was Sand Lance´s first patrol, didn´t score a single time IIRC... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Yayoi BB Fuso BB Yamashiro BB Ise AV Akitsushima [&:][&:][&:] CA Tone CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CA Ashigara CA Mogami CA Mikuma CA Suzuya CA Kumano AS Jingei CL Agano CL Noshiro CL Sendai CL Naka CL Nagara CL Isuzu CL Natori CL Yubari DD Makigumo DD Makinami DD Takanami DD Tamanami DD Suzunami DD Onami DD Fujinami DD Kishinami DD Hayanami DD Kiyonami DD Okinami DD Hamanami DD Asashimo DD Kagero DD Kuroshio DD Oyashio DD Yukikaze DD Hayashio DD Maikaze DD Shiranui DD Amatsukaze DD Urakaze DD Hamakaze DD Nowaki DD Hagikaze DD Tanikaze DD Yudachi DD Samidare DD Kawakaze DD Umikaze DD Suzukaze DD Hatsuharu DD Nenohi DD Hatsushima DD Inazuma DD Shirakumo DD Shirayuki DD Uzuki ?? is located by DD Yayoi [&:][&:] DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub can someone enlighten me what this is??????????????????? a BUG? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Donggala at 68,97 Japanese Ships CV Soryu [:@][:@][:@] BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Oshio DD Asashio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Truant, hits 1 SS Truant launches 2 torpedoes at CV Soryu DD Hibiki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Akatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yamagumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub it´s just insane to me how often Rainer moved his carriers over one sub after another while getting away with it all the time... we had so many chances to attack that every other PBEM would have seen at least two carriers sunk with some more being damaged but the last time we scored on a CV(L) was a year ago... KB keeps on moving over our subs and I guess Rainer feels pretty safe... luck has to change sides at some point and I can only hope it´s changing to the other extreme then... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 70,96 Japanese Ships DD Shikinami BB Kirishima BB Hiei CLAA Tatsuta CLAA Tenryu DD Uranami DD Niizuki DD Aogumo DD Oboro DD Amagiri Allied Ships SS Trespasser, hits 1 SS Trespasser launches 6 torpedoes at DD Shikinami Trespasser diving deep .... DD Aogumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Amagiri fails to find sub and abandons search DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Oboro fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Oboro attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Truant failed, just a couple of hexes further East it´s Trespasser´s turn then, but the sub attacked a destroyer... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kiungshan , at 71,61 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 20 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet * CAP engaged: 11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes just gotta love it how sweeps work... coordination routine for bomber strikes is one thing that can be argued about but "coordination" for sweeps is just totally BS... yes, BS! [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 22 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 32 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 40 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 32 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 60 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 101 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb the USN medium bombers are training their grd skill... learning by doing... all of them got 70 lownav skill to be used against enemy shipping... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samah , at 69,63 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7 Allied aircraft Liberator II x 15 Liberator B.III x 15 B-24D1 Liberator x 57 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed, 6 damaged Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses Liberator II: 4 damaged Liberator B.III: 2 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 111 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 11th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes halve a dozen Tojos on Cap aren´t a match for our heavy bombers that achieved quite a nice hit rate on extended range... well done... this will change with working radar... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samah , at 69,63 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 4 damaged Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 26 P-40K Warhawk x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 37 B-24J Liberator x 4 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 92 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 60 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Japanese ground losses: 23 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 91 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 15 B-24J Liberator x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samah , at 69,63 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-17F Fortress: 1 damaged B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 24 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samah , at 69,63 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb lots and lots of single squadron attacks... this is when I would argue about the "coordination" routine with "coordination" being pretty much a joke... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/3E693727346147A9B318905BFD031E27.jpg[/image] KB claimed a couple of Catalinas... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 70,96 Japanese Ships DD Ishikaze BB Haruna BB Kongo CA Kako CA Kinugasa CA Aoba CL Oyodo DD Hatsuzuki DD Susukaze DD Hikokaze Allied Ships SS Trespasser, hits 3 SS Trespasser launches 2 torpedoes at DD Ishikaze DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Susukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hikokaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ishikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub there we go with the next chance to attack a capital ship... another destroyer is attacked... that´s the reason why Rainer probably feels safe... [:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 21842 troops, 331 guns, 476 vehicles, Assault Value = 1120 Defending force 7409 troops, 51 guns, 46 vehicles, Assault Value = 129 Allied adjusted assault: 173 Japanese adjusted defense: 21 Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 704 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 46 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 37 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled) Allied ground losses: 62 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division Americal Infantry Division 33rd Infantry Division 224th USN Base Force Sixth US Army 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 4th JAAF Base Force 41st Fld AA Bn /2

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 12:58:06 PM)
as you could see from the combat report, KB has set sail again and has left the area around Soerabaja and is moving East... don´t know the exact reason for it, perhaps relocating to Babeldaob to react against our moves either further North or against the bases East of Bolea (doubtful as we could bring all our heavies to the battle in this case)... KB is moving in at the best possible moment as we are heading North with our Ternate invasion fleet... the amphib TF will now move to Boela to stay under the cover of lots of Corsairs while our carrier fleet will move North to attempt an attack on KB. We are fielding some 1100 carrier based ac with more than 550 Hellcats with around 200-250 on CVEs. Got another 300 carrier based ac but these are on carriers either on transit or doing an upgrade in Sydney (2 CV). We can also "rely" on heavy bombers from Ambon and Boela but most of them sure get the usual "bomber fail to locate target due to range or weather". I expect the Japanese to have something around 900-1000 carrier based ac in total, unsure about the spotted fleet that clearly is KB but I guess Rainer is using all his CV, CVL and CVE in one spot, just like I´m doing it. I am not taking back my carriers, if the enemy wants to fight then here we are. If we can fight with our precious APA invasion TF out of range then this is something I preferre over having my APA in the line of fire. My TFs weren´t spotted as we keep the Japanese bases out of order in this region so Rainer shouldn´t be aware of my carriers going North with the invasion force tasked to take Ternate. If he just keeps on moving East we are not going to be in range, if he swings South East to perhaps kill some of my LCT or some other low value TF in the area then he might get a nasty surprise. If nothing happens in the next days then be it, we are going to take out Ternate for sure as there´s only a small garisson and we´ve got a full Corps coming in again. and the game is getting a bit more interesting again... [;)] [image]local://upfiles/13774/209CCB150BFC47FC9D83BA29DB5AC316.jpg[/image]

PzB74 -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 1:55:52 PM)
That AV in the UBER TF indicates that it's probably a transport tf - and a transport tf can hold 50 ships.. Makes sense, in a way [:'(]

CapAndGown -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 2:31:01 PM)
It is an escort TF most likely.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 2:37:24 PM)
quote: ASW attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Yayoi BB Fuso BB Yamashiro BB Ise AV Akitsushima CA Tone CA Chikuma CA Myoko CA Haguro CA Nachi CA Ashigara CA Mogami CA Mikuma CA Suzuya CA Kumano AS Jingei CL Agano CL Noshiro CL Sendai CL Naka CL Nagara CL Isuzu CL Natori CL Yubari DD Makigumo DD Makinami DD Takanami DD Tamanami DD Suzunami DD Onami DD Fujinami DD Kishinami DD Hayanami DD Kiyonami DD Okinami DD Hamanami DD Asashimo DD Kagero DD Kuroshio DD Oyashio DD Yukikaze DD Hayashio DD Maikaze DD Shiranui DD Amatsukaze DD Urakaze DD Hamakaze DD Nowaki DD Hagikaze DD Tanikaze DD Yudachi DD Samidare DD Kawakaze DD Umikaze DD Suzukaze DD Hatsuharu DD Nenohi DD Hatsushima DD Inazuma DD Shirakumo DD Shirayuki DD Uzuki ?? is located by DD Yayoi DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub I´m not sure if this TF really exists in this form. There are 38 DDs alone. And these are the "spotted" ships. And then look at the messages below the ships. Never seen something as weird. To me it seems like something got screwed up here as it can´t even be KB with all the escorts passing by as KB is (while in the same "area") somewhere else. To me, this TF together with the weird message below makes no sense and IMO Rainer is a too experienced player to make up such an AI style TF. [&:]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/7/2010 2:37:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PzB That AV in the UBER TF indicates that it's probably a transport tf - and a transport tf can hold 50 ships.. Makes sense, in a way [:'(] a transport TF can hold 100 ships btw. [;)]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/9/2010 1:57:38 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 22, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 217 encounters mine field at Lautem (72,115) Allied Ships AM Firm, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:(] AM Fidelity AM Advent AM Vireo AM Quail AM Kingfisher AM Bittern AM Starling 47 mines cleared enemy sub minelayer visited Lautern and an amphib TF passing through the hex cleared the eggs but one AM was unlucky in hitting one... the vessel sank immediately... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Gorontalo at 71,96 Japanese Ships CVE Chuyo [:@][:@][:@] BB Mutsu BB Nagato DD Tatsuyuke DD Tadeyame DD Myojinami DD Uruyuke Allied Ships SS Thresher, hits 1 SS Thresher launches 6 torpedoes at CVE Chuyo Thresher diving deep .... DD Tadeyame attacking submerged sub .... DD Myojinami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uruyuke fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tadeyame attacking submerged sub .... DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tadeyame fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub did I say that I think Rainer would be unnormally lucky when it comes down in shipping his carriers over my subs on and on and on? Guess he goes over a dozen subs back and forth but either the subs don´t attack at all, are driven off or when they finally attack, they fail miserably... the CVE was missed with a six torp salvoe... in return, the sub takes a hit and retires with 5 sys 14 flt 8 eng... [:@] god damn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,75 Japanese Ships DD Okikaze E Wakatake PB Tokotsu Maru PB Taian Maru xAK Mogamigawa Maru xAK Teikoku Maru E Yaeyama Allied Ships SS Cod SS Cod launches 6 torpedoes at DD Okikaze Cod diving deep .... DD Okikaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Yaeyama attacking submerged sub .... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama attacking submerged sub .... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub that we keep on attacking escorts en masse instead of attacking the real targets in a convoy is nothing new either... of course the subs fail doing this in 95% of the time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Cisco SS Cisco is sighted by escort DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Sangi at 77,96 Japanese Ships DD Kyukaze Allied Ships SS Sawfish, hits 1 SS Sawfish is sighted by escort DD Kyukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kyukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kyukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kyukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kyukaze attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub next sub hit... 9 sys 23 flt...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Taytay at 74,80 Japanese Ships TK Ceram Maru, Torpedo hits 1 SC Ch 39 TK Shimotsu Maru E Nadakaze E Shimakaze Allied Ships SS Rasher SS Rasher launches 4 torpedoes at TK Ceram Maru E Nadakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub finally a small success but the tanker was empty and doesn´t seem to be in danger of sinking... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 70,83 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Cisco, hits 4 SS Cisco is sighted by escort Cisco bottoming out .... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub and another sub retiring after four near misses... 11 sys 1 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 55th Chinese Corps, at 80,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-IIa Lily: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 4th Chinese Base Force ... Also attacking 55th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 22 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 29 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 2 damaged Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 32 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 29 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb the fact that we moved two Chinese Corps with a couple of crappy AA guns into Vinh was enough to "force" the IJAAF to attack from higher alt, changed their standard alt of 6000ft to 11000ft and the hit rates are going down dramatically... interesting that a couple of flak bursts were enough to scare the bombers to a higher alt... these AA MGs couldn´t really harm the attackers so the result is far better than expected... [:D] so the reason for these attacks with laser guided bombs is pretty obvious now, it clearly was the 6000ft as this gives you by far better results as 10000ft... could make it worth attacking with my heavies from 6000ft but this then leads to lots of losses due to balloons as these are far more dangerous than enemy flak... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 25 B-24J Liberator x 3 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 3 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 70 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 20 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 37 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 63,76 Japanese Ships DD Okikaze, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage PB Tokotsu Maru PB Taian Maru xAK Mogamigawa Maru xAK Nichiyu Maru xAK Tatutaki Maru E Yaeyama E Wakatake Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at DD Okikaze Sculpin diving deep .... E Yaeyama fails to find sub and abandons search E Wakatake attacking submerged sub .... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub wow, we even get a DD today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 21775 troops, 331 guns, 476 vehicles, Assault Value = 1123 Defending force 6683 troops, 44 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 89 Allied adjusted assault: 275 Japanese adjusted defense: 11 Allied assault odds: 25 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1586 casualties reported Squads: 41 destroyed, 17 disabled Non Combat: 23 destroyed, 36 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled) Allied ground losses: 34 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Americal Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 33rd Infantry Division Sixth US Army 224th USN Base Force 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division Kure 2nd SNLF 4th JAAF Base Force 41st Fld AA Bn /2 remaining resistance is fading away... Timor is ours, Dili has long reached a level 9 airfield and now it´s time to also build up Koepang... already aiming at the islands NW of Koepang, this brings Soerabaja in P-38 range while B-24 can reach the base from Koepang (extended range though)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kure 2nd SNLF Wiped Out at Koepang by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th JAAF Base Force Wiped Out at Koepang by attrition!!! Japanese Unit(s) Wiped Out at Koepang by attrition!!! KB watch: [image]local://upfiles/13774/B09E971222784BADBDD09A6CAD935376.jpg[/image] KB moved 9!! hexes to the East this turn. 9 hexes? There are CVE reported, so what is Rainer doing? Moving flank speed? Obviously, but why? [&:] I thought there could be the possibility of KB swinging further South but the chances to see KB coming closer to my bases were small, with 12 hexes from Ambon this is already pretty close but he can feel save as only heavies from Ambon or Boela could attack while not achieving anything else than wearing down the enemy Cap. As you can see, my carriers ended up in a position to intervene with the possible move South of KB but as it looks now, the enemy carriers are moving East. Also my fleet is set to move further North East to force a carrier battle. Also positioning some subs in the expected path of KB...

Page: << < prev 33 34 [35] 36 37 next > >>

Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

1.171875