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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/9/2010 2:22:47 PM)
As if my PBY op losses wouldn´t be severe enough (losing 100% of my replacements), having enemy carriers nearby means losing nearly a monthly replacement per DAY! Wonder how enemy carriers were ever spotted in real life when you lost all your patrol ac by ops and dozens of them in no time over enemy carriers. [8\|] Absolutely the same for both sides of course. Would be great if there could be slightly more realism. As it stands now, my crews are flying around 2/3 of the missions that were flown in real life according to some i-net sources but I suffer horrendous op losses with hundreds of PBY lost to ops so far. If KB stays in range for a week, I would either lose 6 months Catalina replacements or I would have to stand all patrols down and be 100% blind. Odd... while I could find lots of sources stating aircraft x spotted enemy fleet I haven´t found anything about both sides patrols or float planes being comletely whiped out. And I´ve spent quite some time searching for this on the internet just recently. Well, guess either the sources of the devs aren´t available to me or it didn´t happen. [image]local://upfiles/13774/2CEE3B14E0D54DCE8C0BA4D56B8A0126.jpg[/image]

crsutton -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/9/2010 3:00:19 PM)
I don't know why my PBY losses are not as high as yours. I have had one or two turns where they took a beating while on patrol over heavy concentrations of fighters, but I am not short of cats and have about 90 in the two pools in mid 43. For the most part my cats and PBYs pretty much shrug off CAP. Now my opponent on the other hand, is getting his patrol aircraft reamed out by my CAP. Sometimes I shoot down ten a turn. Flak gets a few as well. I really have not done much to tweak my patrols. Only, cautious commanders, train them up a bit in search and perhaps ASW or torpedo, usually 40% search and nothing else. Sometimes higher for periods. If there is a lot of CAP around I fly them at higher altitudes. It is rare that I lose a recon either. I tried the cats on naval attack and they are deadly when attacking-even with little or no torpedo skills. However, even with cautious commanders they will attack into any hornet's nest and I just can't affort to lose them this way. In fact, all of my naval bombers will attack into heavily defended bases with cautious commanders-somewhat negating their role in naval interdiction as I can't have them shot down attacking PBs in a base with a thousand fighters. I wish to hell commanders would show a little more discretion.......

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/9/2010 3:21:21 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 23, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jesselton at 68,85 Japanese Ships DD Yayoi DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus launches 6 torpedoes at DD Yayoi Grampus diving deep .... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Uzuki is out of ASW ammo 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 bad idea but happening several times daily... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Maiana at 134,129 Japanese Ships xAK Tuyama Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 36 SC Ch 33 SC Ch 20 xAK Alaska Maru PB Kaiun Maru SC Ch 48 SC Ch 43 Allied Ships SS Flier Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled SS Flier launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tuyama Maru PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 48 fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 43 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 43 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 43 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 43 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 43 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub sinking a troop carrying freighter is nearly as nice as sinking a tanker... anyone know if troops being sunk on ships now counting as VP or are they still not being counted as it was in WITP? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Daito Shoto at 103,68 Japanese Ships xAK Asuka Maru xAK Koto Maru xAK Tarushima Maru xAK Mikage Maru xAK Ginyo Maru E Wakataka E Ishizaki Allied Ships SS Balao SS Balao is sighted by escort Balao diving deep .... E Wakataka fails to find sub and abandons search E Ishizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishizaki attacking submerged sub .... E Ishizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb as it stands now, we are repairing damage at Vinh faster than the enemy can inflict it... having a couple dozen useless AA MGs at Vinh proves to be a great idea... [:)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Babeldaob at 87,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 317 [X(] Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 16 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses PB4Y-1 Liberator: 7 destroyed, 7 damaged Japanese Ships CVE Taiyo BB Haruna CVL Nisshin CV Amagi Aircraft Attacking: 5 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 1 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 2 on standby, 6 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 13 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 14 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 11 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 11 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes Amagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes there we go! KB kept racing East, again doing a 9 hex move in one turn! This is really surprising to me because high speed moves is something I try to really avoid as it so far always has caused damage I wasn´t really happy with. Due to thinking about the possibility of having a carrier clash today, we´ve moved 9 PB4Y squadrons (all we have) to Ambon and Boela and have set them to nav attack. As always, we get "bombers fail to locate target due to range or weather" for most of them (this seems to be just standard for both sides) and 16 USN Liberators start off attacking KB. I was pretty shocked when I saw more than 300 Zekes in the air on Cap. Pre warning time was pretty bad, guess the strike wasn´t picked up by radar. Seems like 1000ft could be a good way to attack as this was also proved by 9 Nells attacking at 1000ft with one penetrating a 400 Hellcat Cap. I´m unsure what carriers field the "Ku S-x" units, guess these are coming from the converted CVL and from CVE? Guess all enemy carriers had at least some Zekes on Cap so lets do a quick count. Estimated strength of enemy carrier based ac on the identified carriers is around 900, plus the carriers with the "Ku S-x" units. All in all, it seems the enemy is fielding some 1000 carrier based ac, which is more than I would have expected. The carriers are grouped in at least three different TFs. We sure have min a hundred carrier based ac more than the enemy in our fleet that is moving North with a big advantage in fighter numbers, probably 150-200 fighters more than the enemy. Not only do we have more fighters, ours are also more potent in taking down enemy aircraft and absorbing damage. The main advantage of the enemy was and still is their torpedo bomber which is worth at least two or three of my bombers when able to break through Cap. The high % of enemy Cap indicates that the enemy was not aiming at attacking my carriers but rather to defend the fleet from my LBA, which the Cap did... to some extent... [:D]Out of 16 bombers, 6 made it to target to drop their bombs, while the bombers took out DOZENS of enemy fighters, sending them home damaged. If you want to sweep the sky of enemy fighters, use 4Es. Don´t use your fighters, you are just going to suffer horrendous losses, use your 4Es. Guess four or five dozen heavy bombers are enough to wear down a 300 Zeke Cap. The only thing you really want to see is the bombers coming in BEFORE your carrier strike. As you can see in the screenshot, our carrier fleet moved to the ordered position but AGAIN, they did NOT react! [:@] This is happening repeatedly in this PBEM. So we end up in 9 hexes distance of the enemy carrier force and our fleet is just sitting there even though the enemy fleet was spotted again and again and again. It really seems that carriers only react if aircraft from their TFs spot enemy carriers, otherwise they do just nothing. But how stupid would that be? And how is this supposed to work? If I have to be in escorted SBD range (7 hexes) then I don´t need my carriers to react because my bombers ARE IN RANGE then anyway (even though dropping 500lb bombs). And my floatplanes only got crappy range anyway. That´s what my PBY are for and that´s why I lose them in the dozens every turn! So what the ** is happening that my carriers never ever react as long as the enemy carriers stay outside of my carrier based search ac? How odd is this really designed? My carriers moved 3 hexes at night and another 3 hexes during the day, and all of them are set to "react 2", none of them refuelled or did anything else. Yet they only kept sitting at their destination hex. My oh my, there are so many instances when the game does totally stupid things (or the way it´s designed is stupid if it is like mentioned above) that I can´t stop shaking my head. So there goes the enemy carrier fleet, moving on while being 100% safe as long as they don´t end up within SEVEN hexes because at greater range my carriers don´t do anything anyway, no matter what react setting they´ve got. But what happens if the enemy ends up within range? The it doesn´t matter what react setting you have ordered, your carrier TFs start stupidly reacting around to close the range, no matter if you want it or not, no matter what orders you´ve given, most times screwing things up by getting separated, leaving your amphib TF alone or moving far enough to also end up in enemy LBA range even though you wanted to avoid this by all cost. I AM PISSED and there is good reason for it... again... where´s the smiley I´m looking for... there: [sm=nono.gif] it´s off once again, everything was just going perfectly, with 9 hexes away from KB, KB being spotted more than a dozen times, my LBA attacking KB and my carriers set to "react 2"... what happens? Nothing but my LBA being shot down and my carriers again staying in place... so silly... [image]local://upfiles/13774/2045349802CD4BFE970EC262BEEF3B3B.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 29 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Babeldaob at 87,97** Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 257 Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 9 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses PB4Y-1 Liberator: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged Japanese Ships CVL Shoho CL Abukuma CVL Zuiho Aircraft Attacking: 8 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 3000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 12 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 14 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 11 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 11 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 50 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 4000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 3000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 38000 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 3000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes Amagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes this is in the afternoon, we start off with a dozen PBY spotting KB, detection level must have sky rocketed at this point... what happens with my carriers? Nothing, they just stay in place... so silly... so what´s next? Yeah, exactly... "bombers fail to locate target due to range or weather"... ok, so we lose the next halve dozen PBY for nothing else than to know that KB is there... our carriers stay in place, no matter what and our LBA ends up with the same messages my opponent gets too when trying to attack with LBA... in the morning 16 attacking USN Liberators faced 317 Zekes on Cap, now in the afternoon, the laughable 9 bombers that made it to the target (out of 98 available bombers in range, a whopping 25 made it to target today [&o]) only faced remaining 257 Zekes which again shows what a couple of heavies are able to do with enemy Cap... out of these 9 bombers an unbelievable 8 made it through Cap and dropped their load... all were missing (thank god) due to being shot up by Cap and flak and not really good weather... I´m unsure how much I like the uber abilities of these 4e monsters, glad they didn´t score any hits on a carrier as this would be just too much for my taste... I don´t want to keep my 4Es from nav attack completely because this would leave the Japanese with their Nell/Betty/Frances which are able to perform just as off as my 4E are able to take out enemy fighters so this should compensate for it... again, why my carriers don´t react is just beyond me... what a turn with lots of losses just for nothing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Bien Hoa , at 61,70 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 3 Allied aircraft Liberator II x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 46 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Ki-21-IIb Sally: 6 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses Liberator II: 3 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 7 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 17 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 53 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 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-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 21st Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 11000 Raid is overhead attacking a Sally base that launched a strike against Vinh in the morning... some good results... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Bien Hoa , at 61,70 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 6 Ki-61-Ib Tony x 6 Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 12 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Liberator B.III: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 246th Sentai with Ki-61-Ib Tony (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 21st Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 11000 Raid is overhead follow on strike of a series of piece meal strikes... of course, now that we stirred up a hornets nest, the piece meal strike face a bigger Cap than the initial "big" strike... the results are obvious of course... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Bien Hoa , at 61,70 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 1 Ki-61-Ib Tony x 3 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 5 damaged Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 246th Sentai with Ki-61-Ib Tony (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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 66 minutes 21st Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (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 11000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 67 minutes more of the same... I still don´t know if these kind of strikes should mirror squadrons losing their formation completely or if it should mirror waves... in both cases I find the outcome rather strange because squadrons didn´t get lost all the time (how often did this really happen?) and waves should be waves... there´s just no sane reason to create waves smaller than a dozen bombers that then get shot up by enemy Cap when you can have seriously sized waves being able to defend themselves... while I was looking for a good explanation for it, I have yet to find one on the forum... and this is when I think that some things made more sense in WITP, even though there you had 1000 bomber strikes in the Pacific facing 300+ fighters on Cap... remember that this is still with no working radar... and I don´t want to think about how it looks like with working radar... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Bien Hoa , at 61,70 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-61-Ib Tony x 5 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 8 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 6 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 246th Sentai with Ki-61-Ib Tony (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 21725 troops, 331 guns, 476 vehicles, Assault Value = 1120 Defending force 4929 troops, 19 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 46 Allied adjusted assault: 205 Japanese adjusted defense: 7 Allied assault odds: 29 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 665 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 25 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 43 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 39 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division Americal Infantry Division 33rd Infantry Division Sixth US Army 224th USN Base Force 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division that´s all what is left and this unit should banzai soon...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/9/2010 3:30:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: crsutton I don't know why my PBY losses are not as high as yours. I have had one or two turns where they took a beating while on patrol over heavy concentrations of fighters, but I am not short of cats and have about 90 in the two pools in mid 43. For the most part my cats and PBYs pretty much shrug off CAP. Now my opponent on the other hand, is getting his patrol aircraft reamed out by my CAP. Sometimes I shoot down ten a turn. Flak gets a few as well. I really have not done much to tweak my patrols. Only, cautious commanders, train them up a bit in search and perhaps ASW or torpedo, usually 40% search and nothing else. Sometimes higher for periods. If there is a lot of CAP around I fly them at higher altitudes. It is rare that I lose a recon either. I tried the cats on naval attack and they are deadly when attacking-even with little or no torpedo skills. However, even with cautious commanders they will attack into any hornet's nest and I just can't affort to lose them this way. In fact, all of my naval bombers will attack into heavily defended bases with cautious commanders-somewhat negating their role in naval interdiction as I can't have them shot down attacking PBs in a base with a thousand fighters. I wish to hell commanders would show a little more discretion....... as you can see on the screen above, I´ve already lost 429 PBY to OPS (only USN, with more of other nations) and I really miss the reason for it. I mostly use skill 70 nav search pilots, having them fly two missions max per week with the given settings but they drop out of the sky like flies die in winter. Recons do slightly better, I can at least replace these losses with perhaps a dozen each month. But nav search is insane, no matter if I use patrol ac or radar equipped patrol bombers. I don´t know if setting them higher will reall help when they end up over KB with 300 fighters in the air. Someone just recently posted it doesn´t matter if you set them at 1000ft 10000ft or 30000ft, they all spot the same which was quite irritating to me. If setting the PBY to their ceiling helps in avoiding being whiped out over enemy carriers then this would enhance realism but on the other hand, if I only have them flying at max alt this is pretty much unrealistic too I guess. Enemy bombers and patrols are shot down just as mine. We´ve killed probably more than a hundred Nells on nav search over my Capped bases on New Guinea in the passed months. Same goes for Emilies and Mavis.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 10:30:44 AM)
Happy xmas... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 24, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Babeldaob at 91,96 Japanese Ships DD Kyukaze Allied Ships SS KX SS KX launches 2 torpedoes KX diving deep .... 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub KB was moving further to Babeldaob, yet another time running over my subs not having to fear anthing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Babeldaob at 91,96 Japanese Ships CV Hiryu BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Oshio DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS KX, hits 12, heavy damage [:(] SS KX launches 2 torpedoes at CV Hiryu DD Hibiki attacking submerged sub .... DD Akatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to 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 Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hibiki attacking submerged sub .... DD Arare 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub 24th Dec, no present for me and Rainer is just as lucky as he ever was... there will come the time when it will swing into the complete opposite, it just has to... his fleet moves over a dozen of my subs on the way from Java to Peleliu... in return the sub is in sinking condition of course... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Quinhon at 69,69 Japanese Ships PB Yokae Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PB Eiko Maru PB Chitose Maru SC Ch 16 xAK Teisen Maru xAK Kyokko Maru xAK Yamabuki Maru xAK Kusuyama Maru xAK Oregon Maru E W-14 PB Ogashima PB Tatsumiya Maru Allied Ships SS Shad SS Shad launches 6 torpedoes at PB Yokae Maru Shad diving deep .... E W-14 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Ogashima fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Ogashima fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Ogashima fails to find sub and abandons search PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub hurrey, we get a PB instead... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Taytay at 73,81 Japanese Ships TK Mirii Maru TK Ryoei Maru TK Ogura Maru #3 PB Ryuto Maru PB Muroran Maru Allied Ships SS Rasher SS Rasher launches 4 torpedoes at TK Mirii Maru 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 attacking submerged sub .... 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 we even miss a tanker today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 63,78 Japanese Ships E W-11 E W-8 E W-6 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 Bluefish SS Bluefish is sighted by escort Bluefish diving deep .... DD Asakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E W-23 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-16 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and are driven off... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 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 28 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 23 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 25 Ki-84a Frank x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 32 Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 25 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses 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 Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 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 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 23 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 Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 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 Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 63 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 11 Runway hits 136 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 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 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb despite a rainy day we really trash the airfield today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 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 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 43 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 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 Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 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 14 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 1st Chinese Cavalry Cavalry Division, at 81,53 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 15 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 11 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Sorong is also high on the target list, probably going to take out that place within the next couple of weeks... Sorong isn´t a threat but can be built up to level 8 and is going to be a nice airfield to cover the Eastern flank of our advance... only a small garisson is holding the place, won´t be a problem I guess... two divs plus support are tasked for this target and everything is 100% prepped already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 15 B-24J Liberator x 30 Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged B-24J Liberator: 1 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 2 Airbase supply hits 4 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-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 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 Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 11 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 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Ternate is the next place we´re going to land... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Partial cloud 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 25 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 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 8 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: Overcast Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 12 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 68,72 Japanese Ships PB Eiko Maru PB Chitose Maru SC Ch 16 xAK Teisen Maru xAK Meiu Maru xAK Yamabuki Maru xAK Kusuyama Maru xAK Oregon Maru E W-14 PB Ogashima PB Tatsumiya Maru Allied Ships SS Skate SS Skate launches 6 torpedoes at PB Eiko Maru Skate diving deep .... E W-14 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Ogashima fails to find sub and abandons search PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Koepang (68,116) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 30938 troops, 542 guns, 681 vehicles, Assault Value = 1119 Defending force 4446 troops, 18 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 23 Allied adjusted assault: 545 Japanese adjusted defense: 5 Allied assault odds: 109 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2954 casualties reported Squads: 212 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 238 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (5 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 33 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division Americal Infantry Division 33rd Infantry Division Sixth US Army 224th USN Base Force 19th RAAF Base Force Defending units: 21st Division that´s it for 21st Div... while there are some guerilla units left on Timor, the majority of the enemy units have been whiped out... final tally was five divs, a bgd, halve a dozen tank units, lots of base forces and some HQs... all in all it was quite a loss for the Japanese, we have lost a couple of LST and that´s it... can´t say that the defense of Timor was a success for the Japanese IMO... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese Unit(s) surrounded at Koepang

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 10:41:55 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 25, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 9 Ki-84a Frank x 14 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 9 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 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 19 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near San Francisco at 216,73 Japanese Ships SS I-29, hits 3 Allied Ships xAP Starr King, Torpedo hits 1, on fire xAP Katoomba xAP Marella xAP Zealandia xAP Rajula xAP Stephen J. Field xAP Robert Morris xAP Ruth Alexander xAK Salamaua xAK City of Manchester xAK City of Yokohama xAK West Notus AM Quatsino SS I-29 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP Starr King AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Quatsino attacking submerged sub .... AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Quatsino fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub big troop convoy is returning to SF and again a sub lurking off our main base on the West Coast... the heavy escort I had didn´t help much but it doesn´t matter as the big troop ship is going to make it if not attacked again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 7364 troops, 103 guns, 931 vehicles, Assault Value = 636 Defending force 16341 troops, 208 guns, 46 vehicles, Assault Value = 397 Allied adjusted assault: 249 Japanese adjusted defense: 251 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2225 casualties reported Squads: 13 destroyed, 120 disabled Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 99 disabled Engineers: 8 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled) Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 51 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 68 (16 destroyed, 52 disabled) Assaulting units: 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 5th Division 16th Division 18th Division this is what is left of the Jap divs that defended Lautern... they´re about to collapse... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lao Cai (68,53) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 173 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 14 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 13 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 13 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Lao Cai !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 50th Indian Para Bde /2 dropping 50th Indian paras on this dot base North of Hanoi as I´ve got some base forces incoming from Kunming, using the trails through the mountains to get onto the railline starting at Lao Cai... we´ve lost again more than halve a dozen PBY today as KB finally changed direction again and is now heading WEST! [&:] I´m really not sure what Rainer is doing as it now seems that KB is heading back to Java... so other than having a couple of subs heavily damaged, having lost a couple of dozen PBY and PB4Y not much has happened... [image]local://upfiles/13774/BEF8AC8B5C254E9484F9821B8A33888C.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 11:02:30 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 26, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bataan at 77,77 Japanese Ships DD Asanagi DD Oite DD Sawakaze Allied Ships SS Flasher SS Flasher launches 4 torpedoes at DD Asanagi Flasher diving deep .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tokara Retto at 99,62 Japanese Ships E Hato DD Yukaze E Kamo Allied Ships SS Haddo, hits 1 SS Haddo launches 6 torpedoes at E Hato Haddo diving deep .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamo attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... 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... Escort abandons search for sub [8\|][8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Damar at 76,113 Japanese Ships SS I-37 Allied Ships LCT-143 LCT-361 LCT-320 SS I-37 cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT I-37 diving deep .... Sub escapes detection I have found a way to guard my LCT from enemy sub attacks... these barge TFs consist of 8 LCT and 2 PT and the PT force the subs to attack submerged but it´s obvious that a sub never attacks a LCT with torps as they always get "cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT"... since I´ve been using PTs to escort my LCTs I haven´t lost a single LCT to an enemy sub... [:D] that way I can use these barge convoys to reinforce and resupply my frontline bases without risking much... my convoys go to heavily defended bases near the front and from there the barge convoys pick up troops and supply to deliver them to newly conquered bases... using halve a dozen of these barge TFs for a single base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 69,75 Japanese Ships DD Asakaze E W-11 E W-8 E W-6 TK Kotai Maru TK Takane Maru TK Shiranesan Maru TK Kyokuho Maru TK Amagi Maru #2 E W-23 E W-16, Shell hits 1, on fire E W-15, Shell hits 2, on fire Allied Ships SS Tuna, hits 23, and is sunk [8\|] SS Tuna launches 4 torpedoes at DD Asakaze Tuna diving deep .... DD Asakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E W-23 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-16 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-15 attacking submerged sub .... E W-15 attacking submerged sub .... SS Tuna forced to surface! 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 .... Sub slips beneath the waves there is a good reason why I say I hate it what my subs are doing... this is sub number four or five to be sunk within a very short timeframe... [:(] enemy ASW has skyrocketed at the end of 43, every fridging ship able to carry a depth charge has suddenly become a killer... we are really mirroring the Kriegsmarine in Dec as we´ve lost a sub for every two enemy ships we´ve sunk in Dec 43, not to talk about the dozen heavily damaged subs in Dec... if this isn´t some kind of loop that is happening by accident then I have to concede my sub war in early 44... Tuna duelled two E with her deck gun... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 70,74 Japanese Ships DD Asakaze E W-16, on fire E W-15, on fire E W-8 E W-6 E Yanagi TK Kotai Maru TK Takane Maru TK Anjo Maru TK Kyokuho Maru TK Otowasan Maru E W-23 E W-11 Allied Ships SS Raton, hits 1 SS Raton launches 4 torpedoes at DD Asakaze Raton diving deep .... DD Asakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E W-23 attacking submerged sub .... E W-11 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-23 attacking submerged sub .... E W-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub this is making me really mad at some point... it just doesn´t work if most attacks are aimed at enemy escorts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sangi at 77,96 Japanese Ships DD Kyukaze Allied Ships SS Archerfish SS Archerfish launches 6 torpedoes Archerfish diving deep .... 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub what I say... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- but then... Sub attack near Sangi at 76,96 Japanese Ships CV Amagi, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage [&o][&o][&o] BB Haruna BB Kongo CA Kako CA Kinugasa CA Aoba CL Oyodo DD Ishikaze DD Susukaze DD Hikokaze Allied Ships SS Devilfish SS Devilfish launches 6 torpedoes at CV Amagi Devilfish diving deep .... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Susukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Devilfish succesfully attacks one of the new Japanese carriers and puts two Mk14 into the carrier... the second torp cause an ammo storage explosion and while not burning, the carrier is showing up as heavily damaged now... must be a late xmas present for me and is exactly what I was talking about a couple of times as it just had to happen at some point if you constantly move over dozens of subs while never suffering for it... the carrier is far from a bigger port and there are more subs around to pick off the damage ship... this turn was a little frustrating until this point, you may imagine how I was smiling when two torps finally hit home... [:)] even though my subs don´t show up on this screen of the replay, there are around a dozen of them between KB´s current location and Java... [image]local://upfiles/13774/E6B431C555B24F11ADF0EA0D4824B5C3.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sampit at 55,97 Japanese Ships xAK Tenzan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Ryuun Maru xAK Nisso Maru xAK Hokumai Maru E Aotaka E Yurijima Allied Ships SS Albacore SS Albacore launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tenzan Maru Albacore bottoming out .... 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... E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and we get another freighter without suffering any damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 9 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 9 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 15 No Japanese losses Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 15 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: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 B-24J Liberator x 45 P-40K Warhawk x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 45 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 15 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 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 I didn´t expect KB to turn around again so I had set my heavies to airfield attack as secondary mission... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 15 B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 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: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 6 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: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 70,74 Japanese Ships TK Amagi Maru #2, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires E W-16 E W-15 E W-8 E W-6 E Yanagi TK Kotai Maru TK Takane Maru TK Anjo Maru TK Kyokuho Maru TK Risshun Maru TK Otowasan Maru DD Asakaze E W-23 E W-11 Allied Ships SS Raton, hits 1 SS Raton launches 6 torpedoes at TK Amagi Maru #2 DD Asakaze fails to find sub and abandons search E W-23 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-11 attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub the enemy convoy that sunk Tuna earlier today then paid it´s price as Raton attacked again and this time succesfully fired a salvo on TK Amagi Maru... a tanker called Amagi Maru? Must be a good omen as we also have hit CV Amagi today... [:D] Second halve of this turn is the long needed morale boost for my subwarfare... the TK is full of fuel and is expected to be sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sangi at 76,96 Japanese Ships CV Amagi, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage [&o][&o][&o] DD Ishikaze Allied Ships SS Devilfish, hits 1 SS Devilfish launches 6 torpedoes at CV Amagi DD Ishikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub WOW!!! I hardly could believe my eyes, after putting two torps into Amagi in the morning, the whole day passed and Devilfish attacked Amagi again and has put another two torps into the stricken carrier. After suffering heavy damage from the two torps and an ammo storage explosion in the morning the carrier was separated from it´s TF and had only one escort, making it easy prey for another sub attack. Understandable that Rainer wasn´t happy about the carrier being split off with only one escort. Both torps caused massive damage and the carrier went down with all it´s aircraft aboard! Well done, very well done! Perhaps this is a lesson for the enemy and we can scare him away with a massive sub blockade, or at least make him more cautious because up to now, he really didn´t care about my subs at all when KB was operating in sub invested waters.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 1:14:38 PM)
I´m absolutely sure that CV Amagi was sunk by SS Devilfish today, this is also confirmed by the aircraft losses today. 68 carrier based ac destroyed on the ground. What I found a bit strange is what actually has been on the carrier. 32 Judies, 18 Jills and only 18 Zekes. Looks like Rainer likes to play with unit resize. But having 32 Judies with only 18 Zekes on such a carrier is something I wouldn´t do. Better having it the other way around for my taste, perhaps Rainer thinks his fighters would be useless anyway, I don´t know. While the Zekes got problem on escort or vs heavy bomber strikes, they shoot up Hellcats on escort and Allied carrier based bomber pretty well so having lots of Zekes for me would be preferrable over more bombers. As KB was in patrol ac range again we´ve of course lost more than halve a dozen patrols again. [8\|] [image]local://upfiles/13774/40C19C3BE724408BB9E528FC308AEB45.jpg[/image]

paullus99 -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 1:56:01 PM)
Wow - that's definitely got to hurt & make him think twice (or even three times) about rushing about with the KB when you're subs are around. He probably expected your subs to attack the escorts only & he got lazy. What's his carrier strength look like?

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 2:04:09 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 27, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Donggala at 70,96 Japanese Ships DD Arashio BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Nautilus, hits 5 SS Nautilus launches 4 torpedoes at DD Arashio DD Hibiki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Akatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub not that we wouldn´t have the chance to score on enemy capital ships... again a DD was targetted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tandjoengselor at 69,95 Japanese Ships DD Hakaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze DD Hokaze Allied Ships SS Grenadier SS Grenadier 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... Escort abandons search for sub the same goes for Grenadier, attacking an ASW TF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 70,83 Japanese Ships DD Yayoi DD Minazuki DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Rasher, hits 9, heavy damage SS Rasher is located by DD Yayoi DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... 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 Rasher meets another ASW TF and ends up in sinking condition... 45/79/14... my subs have been dying like flies since the start of 12/43... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet as soon as we´ve got radar at Vinh I will also put some fighters into the base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 19 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 19 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 51 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 the Venturas aren´t really suited for attacks against defended targets as their durability is just too low compared to Mitchells for example... losing two today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 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 Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 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 15 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 18th Chinese Corps, at 81,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-IIa Lily: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 15 B-24J Liberator x 46 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 127 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 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 21 B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 47 Aircraft Attacking: 9 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 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 22 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: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 23 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 57 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 56 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 130 Aircraft Attacking: 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 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Manado is a potential level 9 airfield and we´re going to attack this base within the next two months, this is going to be one of the most important targets for spring 44. With Manado built up we can dominate all of Borneo and far into the Philipines with our heavies... with radar and some surface assets the base is going to be a super tough target if the enemy actually thinks about attacking it... we shouldn´t have much problem to take the base as there are only 10000 reported troops, ground combat is going to be a cake walk.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 17 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 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 also Biak is on the list, only to clear the Eastern flank and free up the bombers that are regularly bombing the place... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 9 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 detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 45 Aircraft Attacking: 16 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 detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 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: Light rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 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 Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb the usual losses, with four patrol ac lost to ops... a normal day... [8\|] [image]local://upfiles/13774/9D0A732B6E9C404BA82805129FE1BD38.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 7194 troops, 103 guns, 928 vehicles, Assault Value = 632 Defending force 14639 troops, 197 guns, 44 vehicles, Assault Value = 310 Allied adjusted assault: 192 Japanese adjusted defense: 265 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2031 casualties reported Squads: 48 destroyed, 96 disabled Non Combat: 62 destroyed, 52 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (3 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 51 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 68 (3 destroyed, 65 disabled) Assaulting units: 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 5th Division 16th Division 18th Division our adjusted av looks awful but that doesn´t really matter, the enemy is taking far more losses and we lose the usual motorized support... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Memboro (63,112) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 1220 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 87 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 61 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 61 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Memboro !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+) Assaulting units: 503rd Parachute Rgt /1 3rd USMC Parachute Bn /1 para drop on Memboro (dot base North of Koepang)... going to fly in more paras and a fast transport TF will bring in a Marine raider btn to hold Memboro while the paras are marching onto Waingapo (?), the base South of it with a level 2 airfield and some 2000 Japanese defending the place (only second line support troops without much combat ability)...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/10/2010 2:07:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: paullus99 Wow - that's definitely got to hurt & make him think twice (or even three times) about rushing about with the KB when you're subs are around. He probably expected your subs to attack the escorts only & he got lazy. What's his carrier strength look like? it just worked by far too often to run over my subs, Rainer isn´t even aware about how many there really are because he most often doesn´t spot them and only notices when a) my subs attack, b) are driven off by his ASW or c) when I tell him that it´s driving me nuts that he can do that so often with my subs being totally useless [:D] And I´ve always told him too that at some point the subs just have to bite, which Devilfish did. [:)] His carrier strenght? Well, guess he had all his carriers in one basket when my PB4Y attacked, more than one and a halve dozen carriers, something like a thousand carrier based ac in total.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/11/2010 9:46:24 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 28, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Portland Roads at 94,132 Japanese Ships SS I-181 Allied Ships SC-1064 SC-1067 SS I-181 is sighted by escort I-181 diving deep .... SC-1067 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Maryborough at 105,158 Japanese Ships SS I-28 Allied Ships AM Daring, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAK William Williams xAK Thomas A. Edison xAK Nathaniel Currier xAK James B. McPherson AM Direct AM Dash SS I-28 launches 6 torpedoes at AM Daring I-28 diving deep .... AM Direct fails to find sub and abandons search AM Dash fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Dash fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Dash fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Dash fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Dash fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a minesweeper is expandable... still, I hate losing ships, especially to subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Japanese Ships DD Kisaragi DD Nagatsuki DD Kikuzuki Allied Ships SS O23, hits 16 SS O23 is sighted by escort DD Nagatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nagatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Nagatsuki is out of ASW ammo DD Nagatsuki is out of ASW ammo DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kikuzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub guess I mentioned that 12/43 seems to be the beginning of the end for our sub warfare... don´t know why Japanese ASW was totally ineffective until 12/43 and then suddenly sky rocketed... [8\|] O23 ends up with 51 sys 51 flt and is in sinking condition with such a high sys damage... both SS Haddo 26/4 and SS Gunnel 23/5 were hit by air ASW and are both retiring... not much difference between the Kriegsmarine of real life in the Atlantic in late 43 and the Allied subs in this PBEM... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Busselton at 48,148 Japanese Ships SS I-39 Allied Ships AMC Cornwallis, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAK Martand xAK City of Canterbury xAK Mulbera SS I-39 launches 6 torpedoes at AMC Cornwallis I-39 diving deep .... Escort abandons search for sub we then lose a second escort today to enemy subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 15 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 10 No Japanese losses Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 10 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 11000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 18th Division, at 73,116 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire Vc Trop x 12 Spitfire VIII x 15 Kittyhawk III x 5 P-39N1 Airacobra x 12 P-40K Warhawk x 24 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 23 F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 84 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 12 damaged Japanese ground losses: 50 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 5 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 5th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 18th Division ... Also attacking 16th Division ... Also attacking 5th Division ... ordered the Venturas to attack the remnants of these divisions on Timor, was more like a training strike but I will halt these strikes because the game sends 80 fighters with the 84 bombers to a target that is never going to have any Cap and this is just far too much risk of taking op losses every day... mmmm.... the usual losses, out of 9 ac lost in total, 6 were on nav search... so silly... [image]local://upfiles/13774/06BC52A478184FE191BF5AE2DD8FE591.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Nanning (72,55) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 10544 troops, 62 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2182 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 182 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 182 to 1 (fort level 2) Allied forces CAPTURE Nanning !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 11th Chinese Corps 31st Chinese Corps 50th Chinese Corps 35th Chinese Corps 12th Chinese Corps 52nd Chinese Corps 34th Group Army 37th Group Army the Japanese have moved an Army to take Nanning a couple of months ago, now that our assault on Pingsiang failed I´ve ordered units in Vietnam and South West China to move on Nanning again to liberate the road connection between China and Vietnam again... the enemy saw us coming from both sides and bugged out with his 17 units (several divided divs as usual but this trick long hasn´t worked anymore)... we take the empty base... we are now focussing on this area to defend it with force as the Vietnam bases (especially Hanoi´s level 9 airfield) will play a big part in the next 6 months when we want to rule the China Sea... coming from the South the enemy shipping could evade us using shipping lanes near the South China and Vietnamese coast, but this doesn´t work if we´ve got a level 9 airfield at Hanoi... [:D] if we move some 20 hexes further North from where the front is now we can interdict any shipping in the South China Sea already...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/11/2010 9:58:00 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 29, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Busuanga at 76,79 Japanese Ships DD Oite DD Sawakaze DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Flasher, hits 3 SS Flasher launches 4 torpedoes at DD Oite 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 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub SS Flasher is stupid enough to attack an ASW TF, result is a miss as usual and 30 sys 23 flt damage... retiring... SS Haddo was again hit by air ASW and sunk... [8\|] "hello, my name is Karl Dönitz"... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Ternate 60 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CA Frobisher CA Hawkins CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Trenton CL Achilles CL Leander CLAA Prince Robert LST-339 LST-119 LST-120 DMS Elliot LST-44 Allied ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled CA Frobisher firing at 30th JNAF AF Unit CA Hawkins firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit CL Concord firing at 30th JNAF AF Unit CL Marblehead firing at 30th JNAF AF Unit CL Trenton firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit CL Achilles firing at 15th Garrison Unit CL Leander firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit CLAA Prince Robert firing at 30th JNAF AF Unit Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Ternate TF 297 troops unloading over beach at Ternate, 78,102 Allied ground losses: 60 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 3 (0 destroyed, 3 disabled) 10 troops of a US Cmbt Eng Sqd 43 lost overboard during unload of 24th Infantry Div /2 13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 43 lost overboard during unload of 40th Infantry Div /10 with KB being chased away by my subs and the invasion TF having been in standby in this area I´ve decided to send the troops in... there´s not much that could harm the invasion, two LST are lightly damaged during beaching... being 100% prepped, the landing is yet another cakewalk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Ternate 26 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CA Frobisher CA Hawkins CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Trenton CL Achilles CL Leander CLAA Prince Robert LST-44 DMS Elliot LST-120 CA Frobisher firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit CA Hawkins firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit CL Concord firing at 30th JNAF AF Unit CL Marblehead firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit CL Trenton firing at 30th JNAF AF Unit CL Leander firing at 60th JNAF AF Unit Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Fukue-jima at 99,59 Japanese Ships DD Yukaze E Kamo Allied Ships SS Bonefish SS Bonefish is sighted by escort Bonefish diving deep .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Daito Shoto at 101,70 Japanese Ships E Ukishima AO Ashizuri TK Azuchisan Maru TK Namba Maru TK Mutsuyo Maru TK Kinmon Maru DD Matsukaze E Takashima E Hoko Allied Ships SS Trigger SS Trigger is sighted by escort DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Takashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Hoko attacking submerged sub .... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... 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 Aogashima at 112,66 Japanese Ships E Manju xAK Kurohime Maru xAK Naples Maru xAK Holland Maru xAK Aden Maru DD Hatsuyuki E Sagi Allied Ships SS Tang, hits 2 SS Tang is sighted by escort DD Hatsuyuki attacking submerged sub .... E Sagi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub great day again, 12 sys... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Aogashima at 112,66 Japanese Ships E Miyake E Manju xAK Kurohime Maru xAK Naples Maru xAK Holland Maru xAK Aden Maru DD Hatsuyuki E Sagi Allied Ships SS Tang, hits 1 SS Tang launches 6 torpedoes at E Miyake Tang diving deep .... DD Hatsuyuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Hatsuyuki is out of ASW ammo DD Hatsuyuki is out of ASW ammo DD Hatsuyuki is out of ASW ammo E Sagi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Hatsuyuki is out of ASW ammo DD Hatsuyuki is out of ASW ammo DD Hatsuyuki is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 4 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 12 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet CAP engaged: 251 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M3a Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead 251 Ku S-1 Det B with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes isn´t that fun? Set your squadrons to sweep, look them coming in each on their own, the first one with halve strenght... silly coordination... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 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: Severe storms Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 11000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 8 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 51 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 CAP engaged: 251 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 251 Ku S-1 Det B with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes then the bombers show up already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 36 F4U-1 Corsair x 8 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 26 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 some more Lightnings on sweep joined the bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 21 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 58 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed on ground Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 11 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 14 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 80 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (21 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (21 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 21 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 251 Ku S-1 Det B with A6M3a Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead here we´ve deliberately sent in the bombers without any sweeps or escorts as this will keep our losses to a minimum... game wise, as an Allied player you must be stupid to use your fighters for anything else than Cap if you can afford the morale hit of heavies going in against Cap because that´s the way to keep your total losses low... send some escorts and watch them being shred, send sweeps and watch them going in in bits and pieces and being shred as soon as you´ve patched the game (more about this as soon as you will notice the AAR has caught up with the patched game, it´s exactly what I was talking about and what I have feared... for both sides... and it´s causing me headache)... it´s not the fighters hurting our bombers, it´s the other way around... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 13 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 9 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 251 Ku S-1 Det B with A6M3a Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 11 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 111 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 251 Ku S-1 Det B with A6M3a Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (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 to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 72 minutes when the bombers start showing up in silly piece meal waves there´s not much left of the Cap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 43 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead these "waves" are just too small... in the end, three B-24 are lost, something I can easily afford... ordering 100 P-38 on escort while losing 20 to the enemy Cap is something I can NOT afford... 3 B-24 is not even 5% of the monthly replacement, 20 P-38 would be 50% of the monthly replacement... [image]local://upfiles/13774/C312A611A8364EE4BDB49EAB573C76D3.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Ternate Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 7 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-479 LST-44 LST-120 LST-479 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ternate (78,102) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 3714 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 174 Defending force 27587 troops, 450 guns, 592 vehicles, Assault Value = 832 Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 15th Garrison Unit 8th Indpt SNLF Coy 30th JNAF AF Unit 60th JNAF AF Unit Defending units: 24th Infantry Div /21 110th Combat Engr Bn /1 40th Infantry Div /21 I US Amphib Corps /1 181st USAAF Base Force /6 228th USN Base Force /7 the Japanese units won´t be much of a problem for the two US divs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 7009 troops, 100 guns, 876 vehicles, Assault Value = 629 Defending force 13142 troops, 185 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 252 Allied adjusted assault: 299 Japanese adjusted defense: 49 Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2015 casualties reported Squads: 35 destroyed, 90 disabled Non Combat: 48 destroyed, 40 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 52 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 762nd Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 5th Division 16th Division 18th Division the Jap divs are really suffering against my tanks...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/11/2010 10:28:22 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 30, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 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 rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20 No Japanese losses Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb am still waiting for more base forces showing up in Vietnam, at the moment, only Hanoi got a couple or radar sets as that´s the only base we defend with fighters... as soon as we have halve a dozen more radar sets in Vietnam we will badly surprise the Japanese over Vinh... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 11 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 3 B-17F Fortress x 12 B-24D Liberator x 3 B-24J Liberator x 47 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 140 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 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 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 3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Sorong is hit hard in good weather... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 30 B-24J Liberator x 15 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 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 15 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: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 37 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17E 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 detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 37 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 Runway hits 30 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 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 don´t have a problem with such waves... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 35 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb but waves of 12 bombers or smaller are just piss poor... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb every turn these combat reports look like everything has gone wrong... must have been a funny war, screwing up 99% of the operations every day, you may wonder how the Allied were able to lay waste over Germany... or did they have a different "coordination routine"? [sm=00000117.gif] the middle way between WITP and AE would be great... it´s the old problem of the pendulum, if it swings, it usually swings too far to one side... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 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 Runway hits 19 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: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb just wait for all the games going with working radar for a couple of months, losses will sky rocket... but hey, it´s all been tested I guess... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Makassar at 64,107 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 338 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 28 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 destroyed, 23 damaged Japanese Ships BB Hiei CVE Unyo CVL Shoho CVL Chiyoda CV Taiho BB Mutsu Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 2 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 6 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 17 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 13 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 14 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 11 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 11 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 17 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 10 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 6 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 19 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 16 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes here comes KB again... looks like my Ternate invasion has triggered a move again, this time South and not East through my "sub blockade"... there´s also a blockade in this area though, without any success though... after taking down one and a halve dozen patrol aircraft KB is attacked by USAAF heavies from Dili... 80% of them get the usual "bomber fail to locate target due to range or weather" or "bomber fail to link up returning to base" (this is just standard for the game) so the first wave is going in with a good two dozen bombers... we already know that each B-24 is worth halve a dozen Corsairs and the bombers´ gunners have a field day once more knocking out Zeke after Zeke... this is the so called "B-24 sweep"... all bombers are shot up of course but they reduced the enemy Cap by something like 80 Zekes... this not enough, 18 out of 28 bombers then dropped their load near the enemy capital ships while hitting nothing as they´re all missing nav bomb skill as I don´t expect the USAAF heavies to destroy enemy shipping... don´t know if Rainer is aware of it, but with being 11 hexes from Dili he´s quite lucky, because if he gets into 10 hexes range he would also be facing lots of B-25 and Venturas set to 1000ft nav attack and with the B-24 as escorts, this then could result in a couple of bomb hits on his fragile flattops... our fleet is parked next to Ternate of course to cover the invasion, I seriously doubt Rainer is bold enough to send KB East now passing Kendari as this would bring him into range of all my LBA in this area that of course has been set to nav attack immediately... and it also would force the carrier engagement we were aiming lately which was avoided by the Japanese... my fleet will stay with the invasion TF as the APA are just to precious to be left alone and I expect KB to head back to Java anyway after the encounter with my heavies... three of these B-24 waves could knock out all of KB´s Cap... [image]local://upfiles/13774/BD35CE5211DA4835B3B6C5FBB4E3E209.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Makassar at 64,107 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 250 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged Japanese Ships CV Unryu Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 14 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 13 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 14 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 10 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 11 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 15 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 10 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 between 5000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 19 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 13 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 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 51 minutes just like the first wave, also the second is hitting the enemy fighters hard... only 9 bombers incoming, doesn´t matter, 7 make it to target despite a 250 Zeke Cap... Cap again was reduced dozens of Zekes... all hail to the B-24 sweeps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Makassar at 64,107 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 181 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 6 damaged Japanese Ships CVL Nisshin CVL Chitose Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 7 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 5 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 12 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 8 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 11 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 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 18 minutes Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 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 43 minutes 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 20 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 11 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 10 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 10 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 15 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes third piece meal wave coming in, at this point the original Cap of 338 was reduced by 37 B-24 to 181! Try to send twice the number of first line fighters and be assured that you won´t reduce the enemy Cap as much while probably losing 50 fighters... 6 bombers of this wave incoming, 6 bombers dropping their load... in the end, our bomber squadrons were hit hard of course, with all the write offs we´ve suffered 25 out 43 bombers lost with a dozen crews missing... but these 43 bombers took out more than 50% of the 330+ Zeke Cap... if you get a turn without the majority of your bombers missing the target as usual this gets nasty within a moment and could end in a complete whipeout if there are also our carriers coming into play... this probably is a lesson for the enemy, lots of subs and lots of B-24 should mean stay away from that area... with the front reaching the SRA the enemy needs a decisive victory but he also needs a fleet in being because this forces me to use all my carriers in one basket for every step forward... if he loses halve of KB with us getting away in good condition then we can operate in the SRA at will because our B-24 with blast the way and the Japanese suffer from the same issues as we do, most of their bombers don´t show up at all over the fleet or are coming in piece meal... and to make it worse, their bombers are shot down like flies by our Hellcats while our B-24 are more a threat to the enemy fighters than vice versa... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6797 troops, 100 guns, 881 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Defending force 11710 troops, 179 guns, 37 vehicles, Assault Value = 186 Allied adjusted assault: 260 Japanese adjusted defense: 9 Allied assault odds: 28 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1536 casualties reported Squads: 92 destroyed, 31 disabled Non Combat: 30 destroyed, 70 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Vehicles lost 10 (6 destroyed, 4 disabled) Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 21 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 28 (2 destroyed, 26 disabled) Assaulting units: 193rd Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 5th Division 16th Division 18th Division -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ternate (78,102) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23845 troops, 438 guns, 528 vehicles, Assault Value = 833 Defending force 5375 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 171 Allied adjusted assault: 808 Japanese adjusted defense: 214 Allied assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 859 casualties reported Squads: 14 destroyed, 33 disabled Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 134 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 28 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Assaulting units: 24th Infantry Division 110th Combat Engineer Battalion 40th Infantry Division I US Amphib Corps 181st USAAF Base Force 228th USN Base Force Defending units: 15th Garrison Unit 8th Indpt SNLF Coy 30th JNAF AF Unit 60th JNAF AF Unit Ternate only reached level 3 forts, another indication that Rainer either started far too late building up his bases in this area or he really didn´t think this would be my main axis of advance... small garisson, low forts, the base will be ours soon... airfield can be built up to level 6, not big enough for massed 4Es but a nice forward base to cover our jump onto Manado only four hexes away... heavy bombers will stay at Ambon (USN Liberators on nav attack) and Boela (USSAF B-24 on tactical attacks against enemy strongholds)...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/11/2010 10:30:17 AM)
and the air losses, guess at some point I´m just going to run out of patrol ac... already disbanded several squadrons on other fronts to have some replacements... [8\|] 19 ac on nav search lost today... [image]local://upfiles/13774/51F6F6C311B94767AC67C048D32EB9A7.jpg[/image]

CapAndGown -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/11/2010 2:58:03 PM)
You need to check on plane losses in tracker since it appears to remove the FOW. At any rate, your B-24 sweeps may damage several Zero's, but not so many are being killed. According to your screen shot, the B-24 are getting a 1:2 kill rate. (I would like to know what tracker says, since the game screen tends to inflate enemy losses.) As a JFB I would gladly take that exchange.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/11/2010 3:00:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: cap_and_gown You need to check on plane losses in tracker since it appears to remove the FOW. At any rate, your B-24 sweeps may damage several Zero's, but not so many are being killed. According to your screen shot, the B-24 are getting a 1:2 kill rate. (I would like to know what tracker says, since the game screen tends to inflate enemy losses.) As a JFB I would gladly take that exchange. I don´t care much about how many Zeroes are shot down, even if it would be none at all, the effect of the heavy bombers on KB is immense as a couple of dozen bombers are enough to wear down hundreds of fighters on Cap. Neither the actual losses of KB´s Zeroes nor the B-24 matter much but the fact that KB can´t stand the attack of 50 B-24 should alert every Japanese player IMO. And I guess if there would be follow on strikes by a hundred Venturas/B-25 on 1000ft nav attack flown by 70 skilled pilots you would not be really glad about that exchange.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/13/2010 1:04:29 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Dec 31, 43 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Makassar at 62,107 Japanese Ships CL Abukuma CL Yura DD Shimakaze DD Takakaze DD Arikaze Allied Ships SS Trusty SS Trusty is sighted by escort DD Takakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub our subs are at the right spots at least... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Makassar at 62,107 Japanese Ships DD Susuzuki BB Haruna BB Kongo CA Kako CA Kinugasa CA Aoba CL Oyodo DD Ishikaze DD Susukaze DD Hikokaze Allied Ships SS Trusty SS Trusty launches 6 torpedoes at DD Susuzuki Trusty diving deep .... DD Ishikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Susukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hikokaze attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub guess that´s KB... the sinking of Amagi hasn´t made Rainer any more cautious it seems... doesn´t matter as long as the subs target escorts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 61,84 Japanese Ships xAK Hukusei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire E Oki AG Muroto xAK Zuiko Maru xAK Konan Maru xAK Zyunyo Maru xAK Tihuku Maru xAK Singapore Maru E Ishinui E Fukue Allied Ships SS Finback, hits 2 SS Finback launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Hukusei Maru Finback diving deep .... E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue fails to find sub and abandons search E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub damaging a freighter with no reported damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 99,72 Japanese Ships E W-3, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage TK Takekun Maru TK Ogura Maru #2 E Kamome Allied Ships SS Trigger SS Trigger launches 6 torpedoes at E W-3 Trigger diving deep .... E Kamome fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamome fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamome fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamome fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kamome fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and sinking an E vessel which can be seen as success... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 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 Memboro , at 63,112 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 5 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Memboro , at 63,112 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 39,750 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 36750 feet interesting these sweeps... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 18 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 35 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 18 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 48 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 7 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 43 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb game has been patched up and the AAR has reached the patched status now... with attack bomber bug fixed we´ve sent them out on a try... set them to 10000ft, none of the groups got any grd bomb skill (though 70 lownav and 70 lowgrd) and they work just fine from 10000ft... don´t know what to say, I was just shaking my head... if you can use attack bombers without any grd bomb skill from 10000ft and get such results then I don´t know what I should do with them... it now looks like doing 1 year of lownav/lowgrd training wasn´t necessary because I could use them in level bombing mode now just like every other level bomber (which would be odd in terms of realism)... really don´t know, attack bombers leave me just as puzzled as I ever have been since release... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 6 No Allied losses Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 9 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 6 No Allied losses Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 8 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb If I would send the same number of B-24 at 10000ft, all carrying 10 bombs instead of 6 I would not get much better results... but my 4E groups got 75 grd bomb skill on average and not 15... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bima at 62,109 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 24 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese Ships DD Fumizuki DD Nagatsuki Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 Raid is overhead Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 13000 Raid is overhead Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes we still got our USAAF heavies on long range "sweep" missions, attacking some DD today... two dozen Zekes are showing up... all bombers just kept closing onto the target as if nothing is happening... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bima at 62,109 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 12 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese Ships DD Fumizuki DD Kisaragi Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 503rd Parachute Regiment, at 63,112 (Memboro) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 38,500 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 93 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 38500 feet 13 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 38500 feet 11 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 16000 feet 11 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 16000 feet 11 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 38500 feet 10 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet 8 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 16000 feet 8 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 16000 feet 7 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet lol, you just have to laugh your a$$ off when looking at the silly coordination of AE... it´s plain silly... this is a failed escort attempt of KB that is lurking in this area and the Zeroes are trying to escort a LBA strike from Java... wow, you better not call it a design decision but a bug instead because bugs get fixed while design decisions were near perfect as we know... can we call it a bug please? It sure brings up bugged results... stupid coordination "routine" (bbd = bug by design) sends out 1/3 of KB´s fighters on a failed escort attempt that then turns out to be a mega sweep on 3 different altitudes with everything showing up together, something you are unable to ORDER... heck, this all is so stupid it should have never passed beta... in 99% of the time your sweeps look so stupid you can only shake your head but if a carrier TF fails to do a silly attempt of escorting a land based strike then you get 93 fighters into one sweep... so SILLY! [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 503rd Parachute Regiment, at 63,112 (Memboro) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 39,500 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 38500 feet only 9 Zeroes fail to fly with the failed escort attempt... note the word fail... this whole routine is a failure... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Mataram at 60,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 142 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 15 damaged Japanese Ships CV Shokaku CVL Chitose BB Musashi CL Oyodo Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 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 20000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 7 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 38500 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 3 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 13000 , scrambling fighters to 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 3 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 13000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 80% of the bombers failed to locate the target due to range or weather or they failed to link up... funny, even the game´s messages talk about failures all the time... even more funny that in this PBEM KB didn´t fail to send a strike consisting of 505 aircraft even though that´s about twice the number of ac in one wave the carriers could have sent in real life... omg, CDI vs NOD... [image]local://upfiles/13774/C8A9D40CB0D642A2B9FE0957A41F5384.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Mataram at 60,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 66 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes wouldn´t it be great to get a full sized carrier strike or LBA strike that actually got some teeth against KB? Not much left of KB´s Cap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Mataram at 60,110 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 62 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 4 No Japanese losses No Allied losses CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes Kaga-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Kaiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bima at 62,109 Japanese Ships DD Nagatsuki DD Kikuzuki Allied Ships SS KXVIII, hits 2 SS KXVIII launches 4 torpedoes at DD Nagatsuki KXVIII diving deep .... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub wrong target again, only two near misses in return... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ternate (78,102) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23641 troops, 438 guns, 528 vehicles, Assault Value = 816 Defending force 4490 troops, 33 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 120 Allied adjusted assault: 1522 Japanese adjusted defense: 538 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 286 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 23 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 324 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 47 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Vehicles lost 14 (1 destroyed, 13 disabled) Assaulting units: 24th Infantry Division 110th Combat Engineer Battalion 40th Infantry Division I US Amphib Corps 181st USAAF Base Force 228th USN Base Force Defending units: 15th Garrison Unit 30th JNAF AF Unit 60th JNAF AF Unit we really get excellent adjusted av here... the HQ works just perfectly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Memboro (63,112) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 628 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 44 Defending force 2160 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 119 Japanese adjusted assault: 3 Allied adjusted defense: 238 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 79 (fort level 0) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), op mode(-), leaders(+), preparation(-) fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 379 casualties reported Squads: 24 destroyed, 17 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 4th Raiding Rgt /1 3rd Raiding Rgt /1 Defending units: 1st USMC Parachute Battalion 3rd USMC Parachute Battalion 503rd Parachute Regiment why we get a (-) for op mode is beyond me because the units are in combat mode of course... the Japanese won´t have a chance to kick the paras off the island because I bet there aren´t any units prepped for this dot base (so no amphib landing) and his paras are just too weak while we are flying in another para unit and are moving in a USMC raider btn by fast transport... the paras are tasked to move on Waingapoe now to take the airfield (size 2)... a USN base force and the raider btn will hold the dot base here and LCT will bring in more supplies... both Memboro and Waingapoe can be built up to size 7 airfields which brings Soerabaja into P-38 range...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/13/2010 1:10:18 PM)
The 4E attack on KB has cost us a whopping 4 bombers, we lost 5 PBY again though... seriously doubt that Rainer will move KB any closer to Dili, even though you can be sure that at least 75% of the bombers would fail to launch or fail to locate the target... [image]local://upfiles/13774/E3D38C958B1B4BE1A673E37AF8970C85.jpg[/image]

viberpol -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/13/2010 3:19:53 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy wouldn´t it be great to get a full sized carrier strike or LBA strike that actually got some teeth against KB? Not much left of KB´s Cap... No Castor, it wouldn't be great. [:D] Using heavy bombers this way you make it - a sponge to lessen and wipe the KB's CAP - seems pretty unfair to any JFB given the game routine of almost indestructible Allied 4Es. [;)]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/13/2010 4:22:25 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: viberpol quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy wouldn´t it be great to get a full sized carrier strike or LBA strike that actually got some teeth against KB? Not much left of KB´s Cap... No Castor, it wouldn't be great. [:D] Using heavy bombers this way you make it - a sponge to lessen and wipe the KB's CAP - seems pretty unfair to any JFB given the game routine of almost indestructible Allied 4Es. [;)] well, as long as KB could send a 505 aircraft strike (twice as much a wave could be in real life) A YEAR AGO (with at least 4 carriers in total less than now and not all carriers in one basket) I guess I don´t feel for them facing my 4Es. [:'(]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/14/2010 2:06:11 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 01, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tandjoengselor at 69,95 Japanese Ships DD Hokaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze Allied Ships SS Grenadier, hits 2 SS Grenadier is located by DD Hokaze DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze is out of ASW ammo DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hokaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the only good thing about enemy ASW forces operating inside the SRA is the fact that they seem not to be able to replenish their depth charges in this area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sepandjang at 60,107 Japanese Ships DD Kisaragi DD Nagatsuki DD Kikuzuki Allied Ships SS Tally Ho SS Tally Ho launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kisaragi Tally Ho diving deep .... DD Nagatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nagatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tanegashima at 103,67 Japanese Ships E Hato DD Yukaze E Kamo Allied Ships SS Peto SS Peto launches 6 torpedoes at E Hato Peto diving deep .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub and we keep on firing on escorts every day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laoag at 80,69 Japanese Ships PB Hokuyo Maru SC Ch 44 SC Ch 40 SC Ch 31 AO Naruto TK Eiho Maru TK Ayagiri Maru TK Tatibana Maru TK Ogura Maru #1 E Tatsuko E W-13 E Yomogi PB Kinsyo Maru #4 Allied Ships SS Rock, hits 4, heavy damage SS Rock launches 6 torpedoes at PB Hokuyo Maru Rock diving deep .... E Tatsuko fails to find sub and abandons search E W-13 attacking submerged sub .... E Yomogi fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kinsyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub .... SS Rock eludes PB Kinsyo Maru #4 by hugging bottom SS Rock eludes PB Kinsyo Maru #4 by hugging bottom SS Rock eludes ASW attack from PB Kinsyo Maru #4 PB Kinsyo Maru #4 cannot reach attack position over SS Rock E W-13 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub same here and this time the sub is in sinking condition... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balikpapan at 66,98 Japanese Ships DD Hakaze E Kuretake DD Tawakaze Allied Ships SS Trident SS Trident is located by DD Hakaze Trident diving deep .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Tawakaze cannot reach attack position over SS Trident 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 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: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 109,68 Japanese Ships E Maeshima, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PB Sureboko Maru xAK Seisyo Maru xAK Kinsyu Maru xAK Glasgow Maru xAK Florida Maru E Sureko Allied Ships SS Herring SS Herring launches 6 torpedoes at E Maeshima Herring diving deep .... E Sureko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sureko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sureko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sureko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sureko fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub fifth attack on an escort means a hit today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Groot Natoena at 60,84 Japanese Ships xAK Hukusei Maru, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Finback xAK Hukusei Maru is sighted by SS Finback SS Finback launches 4 torpedoes also attacking an already damaged freighter without escorts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6745 troops, 100 guns, 879 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Defending force 9852 troops, 166 guns, 30 vehicles, Assault Value = 121 Allied adjusted assault: 231 Japanese adjusted defense: 5 Allied assault odds: 46 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), fatigue(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2777 casualties reported Squads: 286 destroyed, 31 disabled Non Combat: 351 destroyed, 32 disabled Engineers: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 90 (87 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 193rd Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 16th Division 5th Division 18th Division -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ternate (78,102) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23192 troops, 438 guns, 527 vehicles, Assault Value = 785 Defending force 4018 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 106 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Allied adjusted assault: 1122 Japanese adjusted defense: 127 Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Ternate !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 794 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 46 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 42 disabled Engineers: 17 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 138 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Assaulting units: 110th Combat Engineer Battalion 24th Infantry Division 40th Infantry Division I US Amphib Corps 181st USAAF Base Force 228th USN Base Force Defending units: 15th Garrison Unit 30th JNAF AF Unit 60th JNAF AF Unit Ternate falls and we´re already moving in construction units to build up that place asap... as soon as Ternate has reached level 6 airfield (max size, currently level 3) we can attempt the jump to Menado (four hexes from Ternate)... we´re indetifying a huge buildup on Mindanoa, looks like that´s the place where Rainer really wants to start his defense... some 250 aircraft (mostly fighters) and no less than 40 units are on the island, mostly massing at Davao and in the North... the biggest problem for the Japanese will be the fact that there are something like a dozen bases I could land on [:D] our biggest problem is the fact that radar works now, while sweeps look as silly as they always did which means wearing down the enemy´s airfields is going to be near impossible (or only as long as we accept to lose months of fighter replacements in a week) and therefore a landing could become really bloody because without knocking out the airfields, the enemy is going to knock out parts of our fleets...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/14/2010 2:14:11 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 02, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 59,83 Japanese Ships E Tsuga E Tomozuru E Hatsukari E Manazuru Allied Ships SS Albacore, hits 16, and is sunk [8\|] SS Albacore launches 6 torpedoes at E Tsuga [8\|] E Tomozuru fails to find sub and abandons search E Hatsukari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsukari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsukari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsukari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsukari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hatsukari attacking submerged sub .... SS Albacore forced to surface! E Manazuru firing on surfaced sub .... E Tomozuru firing on surfaced sub .... E Manazuru firing on surfaced sub .... E Tomozuru firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves that´s what happens when our subs keep on attacking escorts, the subs are damaged or die in droves while it takes 200 torps to sink a fridging escort... guess that´s sub number SIX being sunk within two or three weeks, with several times more being damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Portland Roads at 93,133 Japanese Ships SS I-181, hits 6 Allied Ships xAP Jalakrishna, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage AK Ganymede xAP Johanne Justesen AM Igonish AM Guysborough Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) SS I-181 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP Jalakrishna AM Igonish attacking submerged sub .... AM Guysborough fails to find sub and abandons search AM Igonish fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Igonish fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Igonish fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Igonish attacking submerged sub .... AM Igonish fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a troop transport is hit, went down... sub takes a hit and several near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Orchid Island at 86,68 Japanese Ships E Kari E Hayabusa Allied Ships SS Crevalle, hits 4 SS Crevalle is sighted by escort Crevalle diving deep .... E Kari attacking submerged sub .... E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa fails to find sub and abandons search E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search... E Kari fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub next sub sent home... 16 sys 27 flt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 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: Overcast Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24 No Japanese losses Allied 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 33 Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 13 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb the enemy is hardly able to keep up the damage at Vinh now and in a couple of weeks we´re going to have two RAF base forces at the base to provide some 3.7 inch guns and four radar sets... we´re then going to also send some fighters now and then, won´t base them there all the time as Vinh can be bombarded from the Sea and I don´t want to lose precious P-47 to enemy cruisers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Waingapoe , at 63,113 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 84 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 8 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 16 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 34 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 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 12 B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 16 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 37 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 16 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 21 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 19 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 Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 31 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 48 Aircraft Attacking: 12 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 12 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 detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 45 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 6 Runway hits 111 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J 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 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 29 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 60 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 3 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: Heavy rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sorong , at 82,107 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D 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 detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 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 supply hits 1 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6687 troops, 100 guns, 879 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Defending force 5108 troops, 95 guns, 13 vehicles, Assault Value = 85 Allied adjusted assault: 226 Japanese adjusted defense: 5 Allied assault odds: 45 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1347 casualties reported Squads: 25 destroyed, 18 disabled Non Combat: 42 destroyed, 64 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 18th Division 16th Div /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ternate (78,102) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23043 troops, 438 guns, 527 vehicles, Assault Value = 769 Defending force 2851 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61 Allied adjusted assault: 307 Japanese adjusted defense: 67 Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), morale(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 723 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 11 disabled Non Combat: 15 destroyed, 41 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 60 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Assaulting units: 24th Infantry Division 110th Combat Engineer Battalion 40th Infantry Division I US Amphib Corps 181st USAAF Base Force 228th USN Base Force Defending units: 15th Garrison Unit 30th JNAF AF Unit 60th JNAF AF Unit after Ternate fell we´ve immediately changed the units´ targets and this results in their adjusted av dropping from far over 1000 to below 400 but this doesn´t matter anymore as the base was conquered and we only need firepower to destroy the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Memboro (63,112) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 2150 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 151 Defending force 214 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12 Allied adjusted assault: 77 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 77 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), disruption(-), preparation(-) fatigue(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 118 casualties reported Squads: 21 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (3 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 503rd Parachute Regiment 3rd USMC Parachute Battalion 1st USMC Parachute Battalion 1st Australian Para Battalion Defending units: 4th Raiding Rgt /1 3rd Raiding Rgt /1 destroyed the rest of the Japanese paras, marching on Waingapoe... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese Unit(s) Wiped Out at Memboro by attrition!!!

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/14/2010 2:30:05 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 03, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Chichi-jima at 107,73 Japanese Ships AM Wa 107 AM Wa 106 xAK Brasil Maru E Hatsutaka E Niizaki Allied Ships SS Cabrilla SS Cabrilla is sighted by escort E Hatsutaka fails to find sub and abandons search E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,77 Japanese Ships SC Ch 37, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 24 E Asagao Allied Ships SS Stingray SS Stingray launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 37 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... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub low value ASW TF, sub gets away with it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 102,69 Japanese Ships AO Sata, Torpedo hits 1, on fire DD Mikazuki E Omae AO Kyuko AO Kyokuto Maru AO Shiriya AO Ondo DD Yuzuki DD Mochizuki Allied Ships SS Aspro SS Aspro launches 6 torpedoes at AO Sata Aspro diving deep .... DD Yuzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Mochizuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub succesful attack on a real precious target but only one torp hit home... the AO being empty sure has a chance to make it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 3 destroyed CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (18 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 9 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes hmm... the Tojos at 6000ft get the dive on my P-38 at 39000ft... dive? heck, means bad news for the P-38... they were shred... logic of the air bug... ehhh, routine I mean... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 18 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (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 between 2000 and 3000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 86 minutes the fact that the air coordination bug is then followed by the air bug then always gives you really great results that are the 1:1 mirror of what you could expect in real life... you order 75 Lightnings on a sweep and the enemy got 21 Tojos in the air... your P-38 get a tactical advantage (= height), your P-38 outnumber the enemy 3.5:1 (advantage?), your P-38 squadrons are a flying circus with aces in the dozens and the result is your P-38 losing to the Tojos that get the dive while being 33000ft lower than the attacker... the Tojos get a 3:1 kill rate with the dive at 6000ft... you may have noted how it looks like sending 75 P-38 on a sweep... 18,18,23,15... now add in radar and more than 21 Tojos in the air... and all this perfectly works for BOTH sides, it´s not side related... it´s bugged, the whole design is a serious flaw as it is now... it´s kind of the same flaw as the bounce in WITP that always favoured the side with radar coverage... as it is now, it´s just a strange throw of dices like you have in a board game a la risk... I like risk, but when I´ve played risk 20 years ago I knew what I got, all Armies the same and dice from 1-6... now I´m told I should have something different but it´s nothing but die rolls all the time when it just doesn´t matter what you do or if you should have an advantage or not, this was just yet another excellent example for this... I wonder how a real life encounter would have looked like between 74 P-38 ordered to sweep a base, piloted by mostly aces and they would meet 21 Tojos in a lower position... but this thought already fails on the first second when the sweep has to pass the coordination bug... eh, flaw... eh, routine...[sm=dizzy.gif] it´s just a little encounter without any impact on the war but exactly these encounters rob me so much of enjoying the game... [image]local://upfiles/13774/1C74F3E69B464C9EBC8328E85A11D71C.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * [8\|] silly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 20 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 22 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 62 Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 22 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 23 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * [8\|] stupid... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Denpasar , at 58,108 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 15 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * 5 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * 5 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * the most stupid... [8\|][8\|][8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6798 troops, 100 guns, 886 vehicles, Assault Value = 590 Defending force 4149 troops, 86 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 55 Allied adjusted assault: 211 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 211 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 4677 casualties reported Squads: 247 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 411 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 31 (31 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 10 (10 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 18th Division 16th Div /1 next div is destroyed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ternate (78,102) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23027 troops, 438 guns, 528 vehicles, Assault Value = 769 Defending force 1924 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 28 Allied adjusted assault: 438 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 438 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2578 casualties reported Squads: 173 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 139 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Units destroyed 2 Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 24th Infantry Division 110th Combat Engineer Battalion 40th Infantry Division I US Amphib Corps 181st USAAF Base Force 228th USN Base Force Defending units: 15th Garrison Unit 30th JNAF AF Unit 60th JNAF AF Unit at Ternate we´re making progress faster than expected... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15th Garrison Unit Wiped Out at Ternate by attrition!!!

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/15/2010 10:37:07 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 04, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 99,59 Japanese Ships xAK Eihuku Maru xAK Siberia Maru xAK Kyoto Maru xAK Mitimei Maru xAK Ryusei Maru SC CHa-63 SC CHa-60 SC CHa-52 Allied Ships SS Bonefish SS Bonefish launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Eihuku Maru Bonefish 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 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 Bonefish missed the freighter... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tanegashima at 103,67 Japanese Ships TK Otoriyama Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire SC Ch 51 SC Ch 15 TK Toshikawa Maru TK Kyokuyo Maru TK Rokkosan Maru TK Jinzan Maru E Nuwashima E W-28 E Susuki Allied Ships SS Sunfish SS Sunfish launches 6 torpedoes at TK Otoriyama Maru Sunfish diving deep .... E Nuwashima fails to find sub and abandons search E W-28 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Susuki fails to find sub and abandons search E W-28 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-28 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-28 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-28 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Sunfish hits an empty tanker and sets it on fire... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 62,102 Japanese Ships DD Kyukaze Allied Ships SS Hoe SS Hoe launches 6 torpedoes 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 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Japanese Ships CV Kaga, Torpedo hits 1, on fire [:)][:)][:)] CL Abukuma CL Yura DD Shimakaze DD Takakaze DD Arikaze Allied Ships SS S-27, hits 1 SS S-27 launches 4 torpedoes at CV Kaga S-27 bottoming out .... DD Takakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Takakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Takakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Takakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Takakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Takakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub what did I say? what did I say? [:D] at some point Rainer had to run out of luck and would have to pay for running over my subs all the time... first we sink Amagi, now S-27 puts a Mk-10 into Kaga that causes an ammo stroage explosion... the ship isn´t far from Soerabaja and I don´t expect her to be sunk but I sure expect her to be out of the war for a couple of months... [image]local://upfiles/13774/3DE288EB2EAB44E6AFF159DC7C9EE31E.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/15/2010 10:43:55 AM)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Japanese Ships CV Hiryu, Torpedo hits 1 [:)][:)][:)] BB Musashi BB Yamato CL Kitakami DD Natsugumo DD Hibiki DD Akatsuki DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS S-27, hits 5 SS S-27 launches 4 torpedoes at CV Hiryu 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 attacking submerged sub .... 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... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub as if hitting Kaga wouldn´t be enough, S-27 also attacks CV Hiryu that is passing along in another TF... a single Mk-10 hits home and S-27 gets away with a couple of near misses, retiring to Darwin now with 12 sys damage... very well done! the last four attacks on enemy carriers all were succesfull, two in a row on Amagi that sunk her and now these two attacks on Kaga and Hiryu... means KB´s aircraft number is down by some 200 aircraft for the moment... probably strenght now around 800 carrier based ac as Rainer also seems to use all his available carriers in one spot, just as we do... as both damaged carriers are expected to head straight back to Soerabaja we´ve ordered halve a dozen subs in the area into intercept position between KB´s location now and Soerabaja... another two torps hitting one of the carriers could knock it out... lesson today: you should not overstretch your luck because at some point, you´re just going to run out of it... [:'(] [image]local://upfiles/13774/33EE35BCDAE24808A1141F1A2879D747.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/15/2010 10:56:54 AM)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 15 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 48 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed CAP engaged: VMF-111 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 12 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes VMF-113 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 10 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes VMF-311 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 11 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36800 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes hmm... there is radar at Ternate but seemed not to have picked up something, nevertheless we get more or less all our fighters into the air (is radar now always working even though the raid seems not to be spotted - if spotted, there should be a "raid detected by radar" message during the replay)... the outcome here is a radar - dive - massacre session... all Zeroes were shot down or damaged for no Corsair lost... 6000ft did not work at all for the Zekes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 11 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 45 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 6 destroyed CAP engaged: VMF-111 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 16 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes VMF-311 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36800 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes VMF-113 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 6 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes the Zekes are followed by a dozen Georges at 6000ft and the Georges suffer the same faith as the Zekes... radar - dive - massacre session... two dozen enemy fighters shot down for not a single loss within the fighters on Cap... out of 54 fighters at Ternate we had 52 operational and even without radar actually DETECTING the raid there were 48 fighters in the air to meet the Zekes and after having 3 or 4 damaged there were still 45 in the air to meet the Georges... and all this with a setting of 40% Cap and 30% rest... soo...... it´s too early to make a claim but if I only look at this turn then I would say land based radar was fixed broken... it now works... yeah, according to these two engagements above it now even works if it HASN´T detected something... only a suspicion from this turn, I sure am going to keep an eye on this... it nevertheless is totally strange... if radar now always detects something while it actually failed then this would be just as off as the broken land based radar before the patch... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 4 destroyed CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 Raid is overhead 23rd FG/75th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37000 Raid is overhead we also sent some LRCAP to Vinh today, coming from Saigon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ternate , at 78,102 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 18 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 22 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 45 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed Ki-48-IIa Lily: 10 destroyed, 1 damaged Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: VMF-111 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 14 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers VMF-311 with F4U-1A Corsair (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36800 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers VMF-113 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 10000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes in this case, the raid actually was detected by radar (also got the message during the replay) and if you look at the number of Corsairs then it´s the same as above when the strikes WEREN´T detected... paranoia? More Zekes were shot down as well as a good number of Lillies... Rainer obviously didn´t expect my Corsairs at the base, nothing but luck for us here, we just moved them in... the result of this turn with two dozen enemy fighters shot down for not a single Corsair lost is something I leave to the audience to decide if that´s a good or bad outcome... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 19 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 22 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 17 [&:][&:][&:] No Japanese losses No Allied losses Allied 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 4 Runway hits 63 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 22 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 5 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 5 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 40000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 56 minutes 23rd FG/75th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 5 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes holy crap, what´s going on here? I thought the IJAAF would run into a disaster but neither pre bombing the fighters attacked the bombers nor after the bomb run... nothing happened... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-17F Fortress x 10 B-24D Liberator x 12 B-24J Liberator x 44 P-40K Warhawk x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 26 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 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-17F Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babo , at 83,111 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 16 P-40K Warhawk x 11 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 30 B-24J Liberator x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 10 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 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-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 Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 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 Biak , at 87,110 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 23 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 5 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 57 Aircraft Attacking: 12 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 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 Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 11 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: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 7 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: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb in total an excellent day for our airforce... if the P-47 would have done something against the enemy medium bombers above Vinh we could have shot down a hundred enemy ac for nearly no loss on our side... with over 60 enemies downed we can´t complain though... [image]local://upfiles/13774/F8564D2066D34E17B0EE9C9C6045E9CE.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6849 troops, 100 guns, 886 vehicles, Assault Value = 592 Defending force 15 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Allied adjusted assault: 370 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 370 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st USMC Tank Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 16th Div /1

ADB123 -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/15/2010 11:11:56 AM)
In the successful intercepts the time to reach interception was anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes. In the final unsuccessful intercept the P-47s took an hour to get to interception. Maybe that's why the P-47s didn't intercept - they didn't get to the bombers on time. Which raises the question, why did it take the P-47s an hour to reach the last medium bomber attack area? It only took the P-47s 1 minute to intercept the Zeros at the same location. But that occured before the medium bomber attack. Odd.... Maybe the P-47s went back to base to refuel... [;)]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/15/2010 12:00:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ADB123 In the successful intercepts the time to reach interception was anywhere from 1 minute to 30 minutes. In the final unsuccessful intercept the P-47s took an hour to get to interception. Maybe that's why the P-47s didn't intercept - they didn't get to the bombers on time. Which raises the question, why did it take the P-47s an hour to reach the last medium bomber attack area? It only took the P-47s 1 minute to intercept the Zeros at the same location. But that occured before the medium bomber attack. Odd.... Maybe the P-47s went back to base to refuel... [;)] this should change when we´ve got radar at Vinh but for now we have to concentrate our radar at Hanoi... at least as long until I´m sure that one radar set at a base is enough to have all fighters on Cap even if it doesn´t detect anything... [:D]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/15/2010 12:21:32 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 05, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 61,102 Japanese Ships DD Kuroshio CA Ashigara CA Myoko CL Ninaru CL Teshio CL Noshiro CL Agano DD Amatsukaze DD Oyashio DD Tanikaze DD Hagikaze DD Nowaki DD Hamakaze Allied Ships SS Hoe, hits 7 SS Hoe launches 6 torpedoes at DD Kuroshio Hoe bottoming out .... DD Tanikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hagikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nowaki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hamakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hamakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hamakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hamakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hamakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Hamakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub all available subs in the area were ordered to intercept KB... SS Hoe starts off with an attack on one of the escorting DD that is missed and Hoe takes several near misses in return... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 62,78 Japanese Ships PB Ryuto Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage TK Mirii Maru TK Toan Maru TK Ogura Maru #3 PB Muroran Maru Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at PB Ryuto Maru Sculpin diving deep .... 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 attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub a shame to sink a PB if you could also hit some tankers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bandjermasin at 61,102 Japanese Ships DD Nagatsuki DD Kisaragi DD Kikuzuki Allied Ships SS Hoe, hits 6 SS Hoe is located by DD Nagatsuki Hoe bottoming out .... DD Nagatsuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Nagatsuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kikuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Hoe tries again but is driven off taking more hits... retiring with 34 sys 15 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 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 * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21 No Japanese losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 27 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 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 49 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 12 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 35 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * quite amazing that the enemy shows up already again after our LRCAP yesterday that unfortunately missed the bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Memboro at 63,112 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 7 No Japanese losses Allied Ships LCT-474, Shell hits 4 LCT-165, Shell hits 2 Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x A6M3a Zero bombing from 100 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 60 kg GP Bomb using our proven LCT TFs to bring troops to the front and this one is attacked by some Zekes... all bombs missed and the 20mm cannon hits did no damage at all as was the same in WITP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 49 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged 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 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 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 12 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: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 46 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 21 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 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 [image]local://upfiles/13774/CB4D31CDFDFF40B9ADA137EC9B0EE8E1.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 73,116 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 6933 troops, 100 guns, 890 vehicles, Assault Value = 594 Defending force 0 troops, 48 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Allied adjusted assault: 372 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 372 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 65 (65 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 1st USMC Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st USMC Corps Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade Defending units: 16th Div /1 only guns left here, means everything else seems to have been flown out...

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