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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/25/2010 6:02:05 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jan 31, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Legaspi at 83,82 Japanese Ships TK Meisan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire TK Shimotsu Maru TK Ceram Maru E Nadakaze Allied Ships SS Flier SS Flier launches 6 torpedoes at TK Meisan Maru E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub good way to end January but the big TK obviously got a chance to make it... could be FOW and the ship wasn´t hit at all... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 6 minutes we continue our single squadron sweeps on Dadjangas to draw leaking Cap from Davao... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 15 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet not worth it if only a couple of Zekes show up... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 8 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 8 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 13 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 19 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 19 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 15 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manokwari , at 85,109 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 13 B-17F Fortress x 11 B-24D Liberator x 3 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 41 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-17F 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 spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 6 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 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet thought we would find some fighters here as they were coming from this base to sweep Vinh... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 60,81 Japanese Ships E Manazuru E Tsuga E Tomozuru E Hatsukari Allied Ships SS Finback SS Finback launches 6 torpedoes at E Manazuru Finback diving deep .... 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... Escort abandons search for sub usual missed salvo... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Biak (87,110) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23772 troops, 465 guns, 848 vehicles, Assault Value = 1197 Defending force 2983 troops, 56 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 29 Allied adjusted assault: 479 Japanese adjusted defense: 9 Allied assault odds: 53 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 976 casualties reported Squads: 48 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 241 destroyed, 37 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 10 (7 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Allied ground losses: 80 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Assaulting units: 1st Army Tank Regiment 104th Combat Engineer Regiment 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 766th Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 4th USMC Tank Battalion 13th Canadian Brigade 22nd Marine Regiment 32nd Infantry Division 14th Canadian Brigade 135th USA Base Force 98th Field Artillery Battalion 141st USA Base Force V US Amphib Force 209th Field Artillery Battalion 165th Field Artillery Battalion 149th USA Base Force Defending units: 89th Naval Guard Unit 19th Nav Gd /1 59th Field AA Battalion 56th Construction Battalion 54th JNAF AF Unit 59th JNAF AF Unit 56th JNAF AF Unit 6th JAAF Base Force 29th Field AA MC Co /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 89th Naval Guard Unit Wiped Out at Biak by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59th Field AA Battalion Wiped Out at Biak by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54th JNAF AF Unit Wiped Out at Biak by attrition!!! Japanese Unit(s) Wiped Out at Biak by attrition!!! enemy is collapsing here now... troops are preparing for their next target already...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/25/2010 6:06:26 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 01, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 60,82 Japanese Ships E Tomozuru E Hatsukari Allied Ships SS Bowfin, hits 6 SS Bowfin is sighted by escort E Tomozuru attacking submerged sub .... E Hatsukari attacking submerged sub .... 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... Escort abandons search for sub Bowfin meets some E and pays for it... 21 sys 20 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Namlea at 76,107 Japanese Ships SS I-179 Allied Ships LCT-61 LCT-472 LCT-150 SS I-179 cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT I-179 diving deep .... Escort abandons search for sub doesn´t work to hunt LCT with subs if they´re escorted by PT... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Miri at 62,82 Japanese Ships PB Syozui Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAK Ryuun Maru xAK Teimei Maru E Aotaka Allied Ships SS Tarpon SS Tarpon launches 4 torpedoes at PB Syozui Maru Tarpon diving deep .... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the enemy´s escort numbers are growing so it doesn´t matter if we sink a useless PB... fear that soon we´re going to face so many E that the subwar will come to a halt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * 13 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet failed attempt to escort some bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 17 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 17 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 21 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 17 F4U-1A Corsair x 18 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 60 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 49 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet still no fighters on Cap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 9 Liberator B.VI x 10 Wellington Ic x 12 Wellington B.X x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 31 B-25C Mitchell x 21 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 21 Airbase supply hits 18 Runway hits 112 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Wellington B.X bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Wellington Ic bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb and unlike yesterday, today also the bombers show up and close the airfield... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator II x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 52 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 B-25C Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 52 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 73 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 10 No Allied losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb weather is ok for all our attacks and this is immediately reflected by the damage we´ve done... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 1 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Miri at 62,82 Japanese Ships PB Syozui Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Tarpon SS Tarpon launches 2 torpedoes another two torps wasted for an already sinking ship but this doesn´t matter because our subs usually are sunk or heavily damaged before they ever run out of torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Biak (87,110) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 23691 troops, 465 guns, 850 vehicles, Assault Value = 1190 Defending force 962 troops, 11 guns, 35 vehicles, Assault Value = 10 Allied adjusted assault: 680 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 680 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 611 casualties reported Squads: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 57 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 13 (13 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 46 (46 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 71 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Vehicles lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 32nd Infantry Division 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 104th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th USMC Tank Battalion 22nd Marine Regiment 13th Canadian Brigade 766th Tank Battalion 14th Canadian Brigade 135th USA Base Force V US Amphib Force 98th Field Artillery Battalion 209th Field Artillery Battalion 141st USA Base Force 165th Field Artillery Battalion 149th USA Base Force Defending units: 6th JAAF Base Force that´s it for the last Japanese unit on Biak...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/25/2010 6:08:16 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 02, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet soon we´re going to do an ambush with P-47 here... thinking about bringing in a hundred of them as soon as we can rely on radar... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 2 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 17 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 6 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 17 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 the bomber strikes usually are spotted already (only one Chinese radar set at the base, more are coming in)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 17 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/25/2010 6:20:03 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 03, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Brunei at 66,85 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki DD Minazuki DD Yayoi Allied Ships SS Angler, hits 15, and is sunk [8\|] SS Angler launches 6 torpedoes at DD Uzuki DD Minazuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... SS Angler forced to surface! DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Yayoi firing on surfaced sub .... DD Minazuki firing on surfaced sub .... DD Uzuki firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves and the next sub is sunk after it was stupid enough to fire at an enemy DD... these are the things you just can´t influence so you just have to take the losses... [8\|] I welcomed the toning down of sub vs escort attacks in one of the early patches and it worked for both sides pretty well until late 43, unfortunately the effects of this wasn´t tested in later games... now this has lead to an IMO pretty unrealistic performance of IJN escorts, they just weren´t able to sink or heavily damage Allied subs in the dozen every week... I can live with enemy DD doing well but all the other escorts like all these super E are more like Allied DE and not Japanese second class escorts with a low trained crew that hardly ever sunk an Allied sub... add in the 200-300 torps it takes to sink a DD or E and you´ve got exactly what I´ve got now... all the subs are moving daily of course with the great new feature of having patrol zones... the main problem is the subs keep on attacking escorts all the time... it must be depressing for a Japanese player when Allied DD sink their subs in one out of three times they meet but having Japanese escorts with the unrealistic ability to sink Allied subs at will is nothing but a decision to enhance playing IMO. It´s better than WITP for sure though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Laoag at 81,68 Japanese Ships SC CHa-46 xAK Siberia Maru xAK Osaka Maru xAK Wakatu Maru SC CHa-63 SC CHa-60 SC CHa-52 Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus is sighted by escort Grampus diving deep .... SC CHa-63 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-60 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-52 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Vigan at 78,73 Japanese Ships xAK Tarushima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 46 AKE Kato Maru AKE Noshima xAK Yozan Maru xAK Imaji Maru xAK Shiretoko Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Kusuyama Maru xAK Asuka Maru xAK Koto Maru xAK Ginyo Maru E Ishizaki E Natsushima Allied Ships SS Scamp SS Scamp launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Tarushima Maru Scamp diving deep .... E Ishizaki fails to find sub and abandons search E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub we take revenge in sinking a freighter... guess we have a sub sunk for every three ships we sink and have slightly more than one sub damaged for every enemy ship sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Biak at 88,109 Japanese Ships SS I-174, hits 11, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Redoubt DD Nepal SS I-174 is located by DD Redoubt I-174 diving deep .... DD Redoubt attacking submerged sub .... DD Nepal attacking submerged sub .... DD Redoubt fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nepal fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nepal fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nepal fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nepal attacking submerged sub .... DD Nepal is out of ASW ammo DD Nepal is out of ASW ammo DD Nepal is out of ASW ammo DD Nepal is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub that´s our best ASW TF on the map, usually very bad news for IJN subs if the Brits show up... the sub isn´t confirmed sunk though and might well make it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Vigan at 78,73 Japanese Ships xAK Tarushima Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Scamp SS Scamp launches 4 torpedoes salvo wasted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Vigan at 79,73 Japanese Ships xAK Ginyo Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 46 AKE Kato Maru AKE Noshima xAK Yozan Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Kusuyama Maru xAK Ronsan Maru xAK Asuka Maru E Ishizaki E Natsushima Allied Ships SS Grenadier SS Grenadier launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Ginyo Maru Grenadier diving deep .... E Ishizaki fails to find sub and abandons search E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another one is sunk and the sub got away unharmed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 23 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 15 N1K1-J George x 7 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 10 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes sweeping Dadjangas in the usual way again... today there´s quite some resistance and the first wave faces quite a tough enemy... not having the dive the squadron was shot up... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 7 N1K1-J George x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 13 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 , scrambling fighters between 35900 and 39900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 , scrambling fighters between 34900 and 38900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes the second wave is doing better... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 , scrambling fighters to 34900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes only the first one took losses today, nearly halve a dozen Corsairs were lost... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet oh how great would it be to see these squadrons coming in in two or max three waves and not in a stupid way like it is now... it was rather a Japanese than an Allied victory over Dadjangas today... [image]local://upfiles/13774/19271597B10D424395A525AB96CAD4D1.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft 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 detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-84a Frank x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 2 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 3 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * sooo silly... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 16 Ki-21-IIb Sally x 13 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 10 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 29 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 10 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 13 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 72 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Overcast 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 64 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 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 17 Airbase supply hits 11 Runway hits 170 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 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 36 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 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 74 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Koggala at 28,50 Japanese Ships SS RO-43 Allied Ships DD Nizam DD Nestor SS RO-43 is sighted by escort RO-43 diving deep .... DD Nizam fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nestor fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub enemy sub lurking off Ceylon, got two Brit ASW TF hunting the bugger...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/25/2010 6:36:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 04, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bataan at 77,77 Japanese Ships DD Sawakaze DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Bashaw SS Bashaw is located by DD Sawakaze DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 60,84 Japanese Ships xAK Mogamigawa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PB Taian Maru xAK Yamaura Maru E Yaeyama E Wakatake Allied Ships SS Cisco, hits 1 SS Cisco launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Mogamigawa Maru Cisco diving deep .... E Yaeyama fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake attacking submerged sub .... E Yaeyama fails to find sub and abandons search E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Cisco scores on a freighter but ends up with 44 flt damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Chittagong at 52,41 Japanese Ships SS I-154, hits 34, heavy damage Allied Ships xAK Edgar Luckenbach, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PG Indus KV Wetaskiwin KV Commandant Duboc xAP Michael Embiricos xAP Hermod xAP Van Overstraten xAP Speelman xAP Rooseboom xAP Governor xAK Sophocles xAK Sonnavind xAK Nord xAK Steaua Romania xAK Baroda xAK Coquina DD Thanet DD Tenedos DD Stronghold DE Narbada Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes at xAK Edgar Luckenbach DD Thanet fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tenedos attacking submerged sub .... DD Stronghold attacking submerged sub .... DE Narbada attacking submerged sub .... Underwater explosion, debris and oil appear on surface! Escort abandons search for sub the enemy attacks a huge troop convoy and scores on a freighter carrying parts of an Indian division... the ship sinks immediately but the sub is sunk too in return... thought the heavy escort would have been enough to guard the convoy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 403 encounters mine field at Sorong (82,107) Allied Ships AM Advent AM Adroit 4 mines cleared enemy sub laid mines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Misool at 79,108 Japanese Ships SS I-179, hits 6 Allied Ships DD Charles Ausburne BB Indiana CLAA Reno CLAA San Juan DD Claxton DD John Rodgers DD Ringgold DD Izard DD Hudson SS I-179 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Charles Ausburne DD John Rodgers fails to find sub and abandons search DD Ringgold fails to find sub and abandons search DD Izard fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hudson attacking submerged sub .... DD Hudson fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hudson fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hudson fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hudson fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hudson fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub got the carrier fleet moving again and an enemy sub attacks one of the escorts... the enemy is alerted now, the sub misses and takes a hit plus five near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Misool at 79,108 Japanese Ships SS I-179, hits 5, heavy damage [8\|] Allied Ships CV Yorktown, Torpedo hits 2 [:(] CA Boston CL Biloxi CL Mobile CLAA Oakland DD Clarence Bronson DD Sigsbee SS I-179 launches 6 torpedoes at CV Yorktown DD Sigsbee attacking submerged sub .... Debris floats to surface in area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub OMG! Unbelievable but true, the damaged sub manages to penetrate the carriers´ escorts and puts two torps into Yorktown... thank god there were no follow on explosions but the carrier is out of action for at least three months with the travel time from and to the front... that´s not a good start for this operation, we´ve sent out the carriers on their way into the Peleliu area to draw some airstrikes and to make the enemy think we would attack here... the carriers will then head further North towards Mindanao to cause some havoc there and then retire South... hopefully the enemy will then not spot our invasion fleet that has left Darwin today which is tasked to land a full Corps at MANADAO... the sub seems to be sunk but that´s a price I would be willing to pay to hit a carrier... I´m not sure if not one of the torp hits was FOW... [image]local://upfiles/13774/AF10EA3C19974FCEBD97F1FA81AF0BEB.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 60,84 Japanese Ships xAK Mogamigawa Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Cisco SS Cisco launches 6 torpedoes we´re wasting quite some torps on already sinking ships lately... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 20 N1K1-J George x 7 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 25 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 2 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet * CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes this time we´ve sent the P-38 instead of the Corsairs but we pay a heavy price for it as we didn´t get the dive... without the dive, you´re just on the losing end and unlike the Japanese, you can´t replace these losses within one or two days production wise... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 11 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 25 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 15 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 37500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes and the FUBAR that is called coordination routine isn´t making it easier... numerical superiority means nothing, if you attack an airfield with radar and 200 fighters with 1000 fighters, you will end up in a numerical disadvantage until the very end because radar will make all fighters launch but you´ll end up with stupidly dispersed sweeps... again and again and again... silly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 21 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet CAP engaged: 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead at least the P-38 are able to deal with a couple of Oscars... at this point, I wouldn´t use any Oscars anymore, they´re nothing but targets against any Allied fighter (or bomber)... the Zekes are at least semi useful... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 6 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet CAP engaged: 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 25 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 23 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 33000 , scrambling fighters to 4000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 2000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 74 minutes and if two get the dive against a 25 P-38 sweep then say goodbye to one of your aces... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet sweeps looking as stupid as always... well done and thanks a lot... not that it wasn´t pointed out in beta testing, at least that´s what I´ve been told...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/25/2010 6:38:03 PM)
the enemy again lost more aircraft but in the end, losing nearly a dozen P-38 is something we just can´t replace as it happens too often... nothing lost today the enemy can´t replace easily I would say... [image]local://upfiles/13774/A0343FF15EB54A7883B8CE00BDE263B4.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/27/2010 2:57:02 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 05, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Colombo at 27,46 Japanese Ships SS I-159 Allied Ships DD Isaac Sweers DD Nizam DD Nestor SS I-159 launches 8 torpedoes at DD Isaac Sweers I-159 diving deep .... DD Nizam fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nestor fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nestor fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nestor fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the enemy sub that´s lurking around Ceylon attacks our ASW TF but misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 103,69 Japanese Ships xAK Kyokuzan Maru E Manju DD Hatsuyuki E Sagi Allied Ships SS Wahoo SS Wahoo launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Kyokuzan Maru Wahoo diving deep .... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub and abandons search E Sagi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sagi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sagi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sagi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sagi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Sagi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub followed by a miss of SS Wahoo... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 102,68 Japanese Ships CV Kaga, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage [&o] BB Musashi BB Yamato DD Hibiki DD Uruyuke DD Tatsuyuke DD Oboro DD Amagiri Allied Ships SS Flying Fish, hits 1 SS Flying Fish launches 6 torpedoes at CV Kaga Flying Fish diving deep .... DD Uruyuke fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tatsuyuke fails to find sub and abandons search DD Oboro fails to find sub and abandons search DD Amagiri attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub We had CV Yorktown torpedoed yesterday, today we take revenge and hit the already damaged (torp by one of our subs South of Borneo) CV Kaga on her way to Japan... the carrier is now showing up as heavily damaged and I guess it will take some time to repair the big ship... suits us well because we definetely expect the decisive battle happening in the next couple of months because it will just be hopelessy too late if the enemy waits any more longer IMO... I bet we already field more Hellcats on CVE alone than all the Japanese carriers field Zekes within super KB which usually seems to move around with all available Japanese carriers of all sizes... why BB Musashi and Yamato are in this TF too is beyond me, perhaps going to Japan for an upgrade which I would do in Singapore for example because that´s just much more closer to the front, which is South of Borneo now... needless to say that I was very pleased about this attack, four subs near this hex are ordered to intercept Kaga, expect her to head to Osaka... [image]local://upfiles/13774/04BF6EB6798A4F6C9E39E5742CAC4013.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 24 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 22 Ki-21-IIb Sally x 17 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 14 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 17 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 14 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 detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Ki-84a Frank x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 3 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 9000 feet

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/27/2010 3:05:19 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 06, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 403 encounters mine field at Sorong (82,107) Allied Ships AM Advent AM Adroit 1 mine cleared last mine cleared, the two AM which are the escort for an AKA bringing fuel to Sorong will join the AKA again and head home to Darwin... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Taihoku at 88,61 Japanese Ships E W-28 SC Ch 51 SC Ch 15 SC Ch 13 TK Toshikawa Maru TK Kyokuyo Maru TK Rokkosan Maru TK Kikusui Maru TK Ogura Maru #2 E W-1 E Susuki Allied Ships SS Peto Captain of SS Peto elects not to launch torpedoes at this target Peto diving deep .... E W-28 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-1 fails to find sub and abandons search E Susuki attacking submerged sub .... E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub guess that´s been the first time I´ve seen a sub deciding not to attack an E... still gives the escorts a chance to attack the sub which I find a bit strange all the time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 72 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 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 2 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Airbase supply hits 2 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 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 23 Allied aircraft Liberator II x 3 Liberator B.III x 27 Liberator B.VI x 15 Spitfire VIII x 6 Wellington Ic x 14 Wellington B.X x 15 B-24D1 Liberator x 81 B-25C Mitchell x 33 P-38H Lightning x 30 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 8 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Wellington Ic: 1 destroyed B-24D1 Liberator: 3 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 7 damaged Japanese ground losses: 221 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 35 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Vehicles lost 105 (5 destroyed, 100 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Wellington B.X bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x Wellington Ic bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 4 x Spitfire VIII sweeping at 40500 feet * 3 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet CAP engaged: 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (23 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (23 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 23 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead the enemy stack of 17 units in Southern China moved out of the clear hex but left one unit back (deliberately or by accident I don´t know) and we order all available bombers from Hanoi to attack the single unit as we knew a single unit in clear terrain will take real damage if attacked by lots of bombers... we surprisingly meet two dozen Tojos on LRCAP but they were swept away by our fighters that had the never ending dive (all were set to escorts, due to a well working screw up we seem to get them on sweep coming in with the bombers)... the Tojos were massacred and the tank division hit hard... guess we´ve got two or three more days for attacks... [image]local://upfiles/13774/D37ADA0E8E0544CD870D6840BC7367EA.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator II x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-25C Mitchell x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 45 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 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 10 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 51 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 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 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 32 No Allied losses Airbase hits 6 Runway hits 112 Aircraft Attacking: 12 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 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: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Manado is going to be the next target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 38 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Sydney at 92,170 Japanese Ships SS I-31, hits 7, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Relentless DD Rotherham SS I-31 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Relentless DD Rotherham fails to find sub and abandons search DD Relentless fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Relentless fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Relentless attacking submerged sub .... DD Relentless fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Relentless fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Relentless fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub this sub wasn´t spotted but we´ve always got an ASW TF patrolling off Sydney... the sub is hit but not confirmed sunk and probably got some good chance to make it home even though it´s quite some distance...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/27/2010 3:41:20 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 07, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Taihoku at 87,61 Japanese Ships SC Ch 40 SC Ch 44 SC Ch 31 AO Naruto TK Eiho Maru TK Ayagiri Maru TK Tachibana Maru TK Tatibana Maru E Tatsuko E Yomogi PB Kinsyo Maru #4 PB Hokuyo Maru Allied Ships SS Peto, hits 3 SS Peto launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 40 Peto diving deep .... E Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi attacking submerged sub .... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Tatsuko attacking submerged sub .... E Yomogi fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kinsyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub .... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 cannot establish contact with SS Peto PB Kinsyo Maru #4 cannot reach attack position over SS Peto SS Peto eludes ASW attack from PB Kinsyo Maru #4 E Tatsuko 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... Escort abandons search for sub Peto attacks (and misses) one of the escorts and is hit hard in return... 30 sys 50 flt 5 eng -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Shikuka at 126,45 Japanese Ships SC CHa-41, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SC CHa-53 TK Choran Maru SC CHa-65 SC CHa-59 Allied Ships SS Seadragon SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-41 Seadragon diving deep .... SC CHa-65 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-59 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-65 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-65 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-65 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-65 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Seadragon at least hits the escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Nagoya at 109,63 Japanese Ships E Ukishima AO Ashizuri AO Shioya TK Azuchisan Maru TK Namba Maru TK Batopaha Maru TK Mutsuyo Maru TK Kinmon Maru DD Matsukaze E Takashima E Hoko Allied Ships SS Runner, hits 1 SS Runner is sighted by escort DD Matsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Takashima 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 attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub really would have the chance to sink some precious tankers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 98,65 Japanese Ships AO Sunosaki SC Ch 58 Allied Ships SS Escolar SS Escolar launches 6 torpedoes at AO Sunosaki SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub wow, what a day for the subs... torps missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Obi at 76,105 Japanese Ships SS RO-61, hits 28, and is sunk Allied Ships CL Concord CL Achilles CLAA Prince Robert DMS Hopkins AGC Blue Ridge APA Fayette APA La Salle APA Pierce APA Arthur Middleton APA President Adams APA W.A. Holbrook APA Wharton AKA Aquarius LSD Gunston Hall LSD Carter Hall LSD Belle Grove LST-482 LST-481 LST-470 LST-460 LST-452 LST-354 LST-340 LST-166 LST-39 LST-26 DMS Elliot DMS Wasmuth DMS Long DMS Perry SS RO-61 is sighted by escort DMS Elliot attacking submerged sub .... DMS Wasmuth fails to find sub and abandons search DMS Long fails to find sub and abandons search DMS Perry attacking submerged sub .... DMS Elliot attacking submerged sub .... DMS Elliot is out of ASW ammo DMS Perry attacking submerged sub .... DMS Perry is out of ASW ammo DMS Perry is out of ASW ammo DMS Perry is out of ASW ammo SS RO-61 forced to surface! DMS Perry firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Elliot firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Wasmuth firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Long firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Elliot firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Wasmuth firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Long firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Wasmuth firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Long firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Perry firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Elliot firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Wasmuth firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Long firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Perry firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Elliot firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Wasmuth firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Long firing on surfaced sub .... DMS Perry firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves damn, even though we sink the sub, the enemy is aware of our invasion TF coming in... we moved the carriers closer to Peleliu and now Mindanao to make it look like a carrier sweep to only decimate enemy LBA and I wanted to have the enemy think the carriers would retire South tomorrow without an invasion incoming but that plan failed... the invasion TF goes into position tomorrow to sprint in to Manado in two days... this is the next major invasion and the most important since we´ve attacked Timor... if I would be Rainer, I would now throw in the kitchen sink because Manado with a potential level 9 airfield in Allied hands is going to be a major disaster... with only some 20000 troops defending the place there´s no chance to hold against the Corps we´re going to land so it would be up to the Navy and airforce but it´s doubtful they would be able to stop us but a clash of both sides forces could be absolutely bloody... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 23 N1K1-J George x 7 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 7 N1K1-J George x 5 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed N1K1-J George: 3 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 9 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 33000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 40900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 94 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 , scrambling fighters between 35900 and 37900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes the Corsair sweeps on Dadjangas are a good way to reduce enemy fighters at Davao, many of the enemy units are low on morale already but everytime you get a message of some fighters turning back they show up immediately again... that´s not true for bombers, these really turn back but it seems to be borked for fighters, no matter if on Cap or escort... already reported that on the tech forum long time ago, no idea if it ever was looked at or if that´s wad... if it´s wad, then it seems strange... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 33000 , scrambling fighters to 25000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet thought a sweep on Dadjangas and on the same time on Cotabato would be a good idea, unfortunately the fighters from Davao were only able to leak to one base, luckily the one that was swept by the Corsairs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Talaud-eilanden at 81,97 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 15 A6M5 Zero x 14 N1K1-J George x 10 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 498 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 7 destroyed A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed N1K1-J George: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 26 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (6 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 22 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 16 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 13 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 12 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-60 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes VRF-2F with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes VRF-4F with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes there you go with a perfect example of how borked this coordination FLAW really is... while you won´t be able to "coordinate" your fighters from a level 9 airfield with a hundred times the conditions you dream of, you would be able to coordinate a dozen units from five different, tiny airfields with different ranges to the target and with the units even coming from different directions... this is so stupid, stupid, stupid... sooo... while the enemy didn´t launch any bombers from Babeldaob yesterday, we moved the carrier fleet closer to Mindanao and the enemy had bombers at Cagayan that actually took off... they took off and most fighters from Davao and Cagayan failed to link up with the bombers of course... amazing that 9 out of 10 attacks are screwed up in AE... and what do we see then? Three fighter units on a sweep from THREE different bases "coordinating"... lol... while I can somewhat imagine how fighters from Cagayan can join fighters from Davao I wonder how fighters from Babeldaob are able to do that... again, I don´t know what is more stupid, the fact that two or three fighter units from the same base fail to fly together, or the fact that carrier based fighters try (and btw fail all the time) to escort LBA strikes if in range or that you get the most aircraft over the target at the same time if you just try to have them to launch from as many bases from as many ranges and directions... everything that is related to the new "coordination" introduced in AE is totally beyond any logic... my opponent of course wasn´t happy either how this turned out, the fighter "sweep" (failed escort attempt) came in, was spotted and shot to pieces by the diving Hellcats... after no strikes from Babeldaob yesterday, I didn´t expect the bases from Mindanao launch a strike today to be honest... [image]local://upfiles/13774/5ABCD2E92CD545BB9F7E7D9AD5CF14C5.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 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 9000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Talaud-eilanden at 81,97 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 56 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 7 G4M1 Betty x 13 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 480 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 8 destroyed CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 12 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 22 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 53 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 61 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 18 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 15 planes vectored on to bombers VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 50 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (7 airborne, 16 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 14 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 16 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes 8 planes vectored on to bombers VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 12 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 52 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (5 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 8 planes vectored on to bombers VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 54 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 12 planes vectored on to bombers VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes 9 planes vectored on to bombers VF-60 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers VRF-2F with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 15 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VRF-4F with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes 7 planes vectored on to bombers VRF-6F with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers here are the bombers from Cagayan (Northern Mindanao) that get a tiny Zeke escort... both the Zekes and the Betties are shot down easily... Rainer replied: "500 Hellcats? lol"... I then replied that we could have many more, this number can be sent up by our CV/CVL alone, with the same number coming from CVE, which was an exxegaration of course, I guess we´ve got some 700 carrier based Hellcats near the front at the moment but not all within the carrier fleet strike force moving around, some 150 on CVE are now tasked to cover the invasion TF itselve against enemy airstrikes. A lesson we´ve learned during our Sorong invasion when the CV TF one hex off Sorong wasn´t spotted but the invasion TF being spotted of course (no air spotting necessary) and only the invasion hex attacked with BC Repulse being hit by a torp from a Frances... now we´ve got four CV/CVL TFs (all having 4 CV/CVL, 1 fast BB, 4 CA/CL/CLAA and 12 Fletcher class DD) and a CVE TF with six CVE in our carrier strike force that is covered by a surface combat TF lead by an Iowa class BB. At the moment we´ve more than halve a dozen more CVE and another fast BB moving to the front, a British CV being upgraded to 55 capacity (having lots of Corsairs), a British CVE is closing on Darwin (also loaded with Corsairs [:D]) and a British CVL arriving in Colombo soon which will carry 40 Corsairs (there´s only one squadron on this ship)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 19 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 27 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 13 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 39000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 17 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator II x 12 Liberator B.III x 21 Wellington Ic x 9 Wellington B.X x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 38 B-25C Mitchell x 35 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 6 damaged Japanese ground losses: 126 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 46 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Vehicles lost 66 (11 destroyed, 55 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Liberator B.III bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Wellington B.X bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x Wellington Ic bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb after suffering a disaster with the Tojos yesterday, there was no more LRCAP over 3rd Tank div today... our bombers didn´t achieve yesterday´s results but nevertheless hit the unit hard... would be great to have the unit for over a week in open terrain because then the disablements would start being destroyed... as it stands now, the unit is going to suffer lots of disablements but in the end nearly no squads/devices being destroyed, so it won´t take long to see the unit being 100% combat ready again... the psychological effect is bigger IMO because it clearly shows my opponent that it´s going to be hard for his ground troops to enter any clear terrain as our airforce can wreck a whole Army if the enemy gives us time to do so... the Chinese frontline is heavily fortified everywhere (we´re even building up the second line of defense) and attacking in wooden or rough hexes won´t do the enemy any good so I always expected him to attack a clear hex (if he´s going to attack), but with our bomber fleet and Thunderbolts in range a clear hex isn´t a good target now either for the Japanese... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.VI x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 9 P-38H Lightning x 15 Allied aircraft losses Liberator B.VI: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 46 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 23 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/27/2010 4:51:11 PM)
All on our CV incoming strikes were easy prey for the Hellcats today. Would have liked to see some more enemies coming in but it was better than nothing and the pilots that were shot down over the carriers usually are gone for the enemy. [image]local://upfiles/13774/B1C05ECD7DD94432B5CC5741F205839B.jpg[/image]

crsutton -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/28/2010 7:42:17 PM)
CT. Would you post your top pilots? Thanks

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/28/2010 9:34:15 PM)
there you go. The game is two weeks ahead of the AAR but there weren´t real massacres so the top pilots shouldn´t be much different from where the AAR is. [image]local://upfiles/13774/926C76D5155B4E1D878D7DA2206357FE.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/29/2010 2:39:13 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 08, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Hengchun at 85,68 Japanese Ships E Hayabusa E Hiyodori E Otori Allied Ships SS Gar, hits 30, heavy fires, heavy damage SS Gar launches 4 torpedoes at E Hayabusa E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa attacking submerged sub .... E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa attacking submerged sub .... SS Gar forced to surface! E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... E Hayabusa firing on surfaced sub .... E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... E Hayabusa firing on surfaced sub .... E Hiyodori firing on surfaced sub .... E Otori firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves we meet another bunch of super E and SS Gar is stupidly enough to attack them... the price for it is the next sub sunk for nothing in return... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tanegashima at 102,63 Japanese Ships AKE Noshima, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SC Ch 46 AKE Kato Maru xAK Yozan Maru xAK Imaji Maru xAK Shiretoko Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Asuka Maru xAK Kirikawa Maru E Ishizaki E Natsushima Allied Ships SS Redfin, hits 1 SS Redfin launches 6 torpedoes at AKE Noshima Redfin diving deep .... E Ishizaki attacking submerged sub .... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima attacking submerged sub .... E Ishizaki fails to find sub and abandons search E Natsushima attacking submerged sub .... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Natsushima fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub what are these AKE doing in this convoy? Redfin succesfully attacks once and is knocked out, patrol ends with 14 sys 20 flt 1 eng... one sub sunk and one damaged for an AKE probably sunk today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kai-eilanden at 81,114 Japanese Ships SS I-39 Allied Ships AKA Alchiba, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage AVD Hulbert AKA Alhena AVD San Pablo AVD Half Moon AVD Coos Bay SS I-39 launches 6 torpedoes at AKA Alchiba I-39 diving deep .... AVD San Pablo fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Half Moon fails to find sub and abandons search AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD San Pablo fails to find sub and abandons search AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay attacking submerged sub .... SS I-39 eludes AVD Coos Bay by diving deep SS I-39 eludes ASW attack from AVD Coos Bay AVD Coos Bay attacking submerged sub .... AVD Coos Bay cannot reach attack position over SS I-39 SS I-39 eludes AVD Coos Bay by diving deep AVD Coos Bay cannot establish contact with SS I-39 AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we lose an AKA in an area that should be cleared of enemy subs and it also should be absolutely deadly for enemy subs to move into this area... have to look at my ASW efforts here again... losing an AKA isn´t a tragedy, losing an APA would be... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 17 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 9000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 2 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet [sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 18 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb the moment to ambush the enemy here is coming closer... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator II x 3 Liberator B.III x 27 Liberator B.VI x 14 Wellington Ic x 3 Wellington B.X x 15 B-24D1 Liberator x 85 B-25C Mitchell x 44 P-38H Lightning x 29 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 9 damaged Japanese ground losses: 188 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 77 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 25 (2 destroyed, 23 disabled) Vehicles lost 112 (8 destroyed, 104 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Wellington B.X bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x Wellington Ic bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb fyling another attack on the lonely tank div in open terrain... the unit is again hit hard but is going to move out this or next turn and will be safe then... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator II x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 Allied aircraft losses Liberator II: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator II bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 9 Wellington Ic x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Wellington Ic bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 P-38H Lightning x 14 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Tank Division, at 72,57 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 38 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 13 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 13 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: Partial cloud Raid detected at 45 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 24 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kai-eilanden at 81,114 Japanese Ships SS I-39 Allied Ships AVD Thornton AVD Hulbert AKA Betelgeuse AVD San Pablo AVD Half Moon AVD Coos Bay SS I-39 launches 6 torpedoes at AVD Thornton I-39 diving deep .... AVD San Pablo attacking submerged sub .... SS I-39 eludes ASW attack from AVD San Pablo AVD Half Moon fails to find sub and abandons search AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD San Pablo fails to find sub and abandons search AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... AVD Coos Bay fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub I-39 gets another shot at the same convoy but misses...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/29/2010 2:52:04 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 09, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Legaspi at 83,82 Japanese Ships TK Nittetsu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 52 SC Ch 42 TK Oei Maru TK Ryusho Maru E Hishu PB Spey Maru Allied Ships SS Flier SS Flier launches 4 torpedoes at TK Nittetsu Maru Flier diving deep .... E Hishu attacking submerged sub .... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hishu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub starting well into the turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Legaspi at 83,82 Japanese Ships xAK Singapore Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage PB Kaiun Maru xAK Hohuku Maru xAK Aden Maru E Fukue E Oki Allied Ships SS Hoe, hits 3 SS Hoe launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Singapore Maru Hoe diving deep .... E Fukue fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Fukue fails to find sub and abandons search E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Hoe also gets a shot at a convoy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Legaspi at 83,82 Japanese Ships xAK Hohuku Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAK Gokoku Maru #2 xAK Aden Maru E Fukue Allied Ships SS Hoe, hits 11 SS Hoe launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Hohuku Maru E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue fails to find sub, continues to search... E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub even attacks again and probably sinks another freighter... this time the sub is hit hard though, trying to make homeport with 28 sys 55 flt 2 eng... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 209 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Richmond CL Achilles CLAA Prince Robert LST-27 LST-22 LST-24 LST-28 DMS Elliot Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CL Concord firing at 40th JNAF AF Unit CL Marblehead firing at 52nd Division CL Richmond firing at 52nd Division CL Achilles firing at 40th JNAF AF Unit CLAA Prince Robert firing at 3rd 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 2,000 yards here comes the most important invasion of the last two months... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Manado TF 297 troops unloading over beach at Manado, 75,99 Allied ground losses: 32 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) 0.5in M2HB AAMG x4 lost in surf during unload of 27th Infantry Div 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 27th Infantry Div /2 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of XI US Corps /5 landing three inf divisions (two US, one Brit) plus support and the landing is going very well again due to being 100% prepared... got one big and one smaller convoy unloading as the troops didn´t fit on only one 100 ship TF... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 99 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Richmond CL Achilles CLAA Prince Robert LST-24 LST-22 DMS Elliot Allied ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CL Concord firing at 3rd JNAF AF Unit CL Richmond firing at 52nd Division CL Achilles firing at 52nd Division Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 63,77 Japanese Ships xAK Yamaura Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage PB Taian Maru xAK Nichiyu Maru xAK Yamazuki Maru xAK Kinai Maru E Yaeyama E Wakatake Allied Ships SS Cod, hits 3 SS Cod launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Yamaura Maru Cod diving deep .... E Yaeyama attacking submerged sub .... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yaeyama fails to find sub and abandons search E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake attacking submerged sub .... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... E Wakatake fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub SS Cod also gets a freighter, fourth succesful attack today, second sub damaged... 10 sys 4 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 45 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 38 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Ki-84a Frank x 24 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 9000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-84a Frank x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 3 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * [sm=nono.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 17 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 23 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x A6M3a Zero sweeping at 9000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 207 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Trenton CL Detroit CL Raleigh CL Perth CL Leander PG Moresby LST-78 LST-74 LST-81 LST-123 LST-70 Allied ground losses: 62 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled CL Trenton firing at 52nd Division CL Detroit firing at 3rd JNAF AF Unit CL Raleigh firing at 40th JNAF AF Unit CL Perth firing at 52nd Division CL Leander firing at 40th JNAF AF Unit PG Moresby firing at 52nd Division Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 6,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Manado TF 153 troops unloading over beach at Manado, 75,99 Allied ground losses: Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 15 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-475 LST-473 LST-458 LST-449 LST-342 LST-24 LST-27 LST-22 LST-475 fired at enemy troops LST-473 fired at enemy troops LST-458 fired at enemy troops LST-449 fired at enemy troops LST-342 fired at enemy troops the smaller TF unloaded all troops but the bigger one still got a couple of ships not having unloaded all troops... as we always aim to unload all troops in one turn we have screwed up loading again... no sign of KB or enemy LBA building up in the area so we risk unloading another turn... this will also ensure lots of supply at the base as soon as it´s taken... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 12516 troops, 185 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 591 Defending force 45914 troops, 811 guns, 1043 vehicles, Assault Value = 1515 Japanese ground losses: 56 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 52nd Div /1 Bandasan SNLF 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 65th Construction Battalion 51st Construction Battalion 3rd JNAF AF Unit 8th RF Gun Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit Defending units: 27th Infantry Div /20 2/9th Armoured Regiment 18th British Div /19 37th Infantry Div /20 14th NZ Bde /1 4th RNZAF Base Force /7 221st USN Base Force /6 13th RAAF Base Force /4 XI US Corps /1 the enemy got a division and a bde there, I´m unsure why they only show up as fragments, probably the enemy was using airtransport to move it in and the majority is still sitting on Mindanao... could also explain the relatively low number of enemy guns here while the enemy´s av doesn´t look bad... outnumbering the enemy nearly 4:1 in troops and 2.5:1 in av with a lot more firepower on our side I have no doubt the base will be lost within one or two weeks... got loads of engineering units at Ternate in standby, these will be shipped in by LCT as soon as the base is taken to build up the airfield... IMO the base is lost already as the enemy failed to intervene with the invasion so whatever happens now won´t stop us from building a level 9 airfield here which will enable us to dominate the area from Borneo all over Mindanao and further North of it... seems like a hopeless situation for the enemy, a counterinvasion with unprepped divs means suicide on the beaches as soon as we have take the base so he would have to ship in at least two divs before we take the base but this would end up in a real bloody affair as long as we´ve got 1100 carrier based ac in the area and several airbases in range...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/29/2010 3:02:07 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 10, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 149 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Trenton CL Detroit CL Raleigh CL Perth CL Leander PG Moresby LST-70 DMS Chandler LST-74 LST-78 Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CL Trenton firing at 52nd Division CL Detroit firing at 52nd Division CL Perth firing at 40th JNAF AF Unit PG Moresby fired at enemy troops Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 31 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-482 LST-481 LST-473 LST-465 LST-451 LST-449 LST-448 LST-353 LST-342 LST-174 LST-170 LST-28 LST-26 LST-22 LST-24 LST-27 LST-482 fired at enemy troops LST-481 fired at enemy troops LST-473 fired at enemy troops LST-465 fired at enemy troops LST-451 fired at enemy troops LST-449 fired at enemy troops LST-448 fired at enemy troops LST-353 fired at enemy troops LST-342 fired at enemy troops LST-174 fired at enemy troops LST-170 fired at enemy troops LST-28 fired at enemy troops LST-26 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 63,77 Japanese Ships xAK Yamaura Maru, on fire, heavy damage PB Taian Maru Allied Ships SS Trout SS Trout is sighted by escort PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Trout stumbles over a damaged freighter but is driven off by the single escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 106,69 Japanese Ships TK Ceram Maru, Torpedo hits 1 E Nadakaze Allied Ships SS Tambor, hits 3 SS Tambor launches 6 torpedoes at TK Ceram Maru E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Tambor hits a tanker but this could well be FOW as the ship is neither on fire nor heavily damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near San Jose at 77,83 Japanese Ships PB Spey Maru SC Ch 52 TK Munakata Maru TK Ryusho Maru TK Hoshin Maru PB Choko Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Picuda SS Picuda launches 6 torpedoes at PB Spey Maru PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub missed the wrong target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 40 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-70 LST-78 LST-81 LST-74 CL Perth CL Trenton LST-75 75mm Infantry Gun battery firing at LST-70 there was some counterfire from a 75mm battery suddenly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 21 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-481 LST-475 LST-469 LST-468 LST-461 LST-451 LST-448 LST-342 LST-174 LST-170 LST-71 LST-26 LST-27 LST-22 LST-24 LST-481 fired at enemy troops LST-475 fired at enemy troops LST-469 fired at enemy troops LST-468 fired at enemy troops LST-461 fired at enemy troops LST-451 fired at enemy troops LST-448 fired at enemy troops LST-342 fired at enemy troops LST-174 fired at enemy troops LST-170 fired at enemy troops LST-71 fired at enemy troops LST-26 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 44 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-482 LST-470 LST-465 LST-460 LST-459 LST-456 LST-452 LST-451 LST-446 LST-353 LST-342 LST-341 LST-340 LST-174 LST-171 LST-170 LST-72 LST-28 LST-24 LST-26 LST-22 CL Achilles CL Concord LST-66 LST-482 fired at enemy troops LST-470 fired at enemy troops LST-465 fired at enemy troops LST-460 fired at enemy troops LST-459 fired at enemy troops LST-456 fired at enemy troops LST-452 fired at enemy troops LST-451 fired at enemy troops LST-446 fired at enemy troops LST-353 fired at enemy troops LST-342 fired at enemy troops LST-341 fired at enemy troops LST-340 fired at enemy troops LST-174 fired at enemy troops LST-171 fired at enemy troops LST-170 fired at enemy troops LST-72 fired at enemy troops LST-28 fired at enemy troops 75mm Infantry Gun battery firing at LST-22 all troops disembarked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Nago at 94,61 Japanese Ships xAK Kusuyama Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage SC Ch 16 xAK Teisen Maru xAK Meiu Maru xAK Kyokko Maru xAK Yamabuki Maru xAK Oregon Maru E W-14 PB Ogashima PB Tatsumiya Maru Allied Ships SS Drum, hits 1 SS Drum launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Kusuyama Maru E W-14 attacking submerged sub .... PB Ogashima fails to find sub and abandons search PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Drum hits a freighter full of fuel and gets away with a near miss... good day for our subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 23 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 19 Ki-84a Frank x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 2 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 6000 feet 3 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 17 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 13 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21-IIb Sally bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb 13 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 9000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 15 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-172 LST-70 LST-123 LST-75 LST-74 LST-172 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Manado Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 20 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-459 LST-452 LST-353 LST-343 LST-342 LST-174 LST-167 LST-166 LST-22 LST-26 LST-24 LST-39 LST-459 fired at enemy troops LST-452 fired at enemy troops LST-353 fired at enemy troops LST-343 fired at enemy troops LST-342 fired at enemy troops LST-174 fired at enemy troops LST-167 fired at enemy troops LST-166 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 14189 troops, 177 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 596 Defending force 48368 troops, 813 guns, 1091 vehicles, Assault Value = 1519 Japanese ground losses: 118 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: Bandasan SNLF 52nd Div /2 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 51st Construction Battalion 3rd JNAF AF Unit 65th Construction Battalion 8th RF Gun Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit Defending units: 2/9th Armoured Regiment 14th NZ Brigade 27th Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 18th British Division 13th RAAF Base Force 221st USN Base Force XI US Corps 4th RNZAF Base Force the enemy is flying in lots of additional troops, troop count went up by around 1600 compared to yesterday... but we had our CVE in the invasion hex and the Hellcats took quite a toll on enemy Mavis and Helens... [image]local://upfiles/13774/95047DA728FA49328B830A6E208F16B2.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 42695 troops, 779 guns, 1070 vehicles, Assault Value = 1519 Defending force 17390 troops, 197 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 588 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Allied adjusted assault: 2196 Japanese adjusted defense: 2405 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2050 casualties reported Squads: 16 destroyed, 102 disabled Non Combat: 15 destroyed, 78 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled Guns lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 252 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 34 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 47 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 30 (4 destroyed, 26 disabled) Assaulting units: 37th Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 2/9th Armoured Regiment 14th NZ Brigade 18th British Division 221st USN Base Force 13th RAAF Base Force XI US Corps 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: Bandasan SNLF 52nd Div /2 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 3rd JNAF AF Unit 8th RF Gun Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 51st Construction Battalion 65th Construction Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit we get a very good adjusted av but this is matched by an excellent enemy av... a 1:2 means the attacking units now got quite some disruption but that´s no disaster as the enemy took far more losses than we did... only level 4 forts which once again proves how hard it is for the enemy to build up a line of defense in appropriate time... it was obvious more than a year ago that we will aim at Darwin and further on directly into the SRA but wherever we attacked so far, we didn´t encounter real heavy resistance other than Timor which was built up and defended by halve a dozen enemy divisions... this was countered by more than twice the number of our divisions attacking and even Timor was taken in a two months operation... Rainer told me a couple of times that he gets a hell a lot of reinforcements but so far he couldn´t stall a single invasion as soon as we were on the beach...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2010 4:43:29 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 11, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Vigan at 79,73 Japanese Ships AO Sunosaki, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 58 Allied Ships SS Grenadier SS Grenadier launches 4 torpedoes at AO Sunosaki Grenadier diving deep .... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub only a single escort for this oiler, guess it must have been a damaged ship turned into a reef now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 67,74 Japanese Ships PB Taian Maru Allied Ships SS Thresher SS Thresher launches 6 torpedoes PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Taian Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki DD Minazuki Allied Ships SS Picuda, hits 12, heavy damage SS Picuda is located by DD Uzuki DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Minazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Uzuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Minazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Picuda meets a couple of destroyers and is put into sinking condition... trying to make Ternate with 45 says 75 flt 5 eng... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iba at 77,75 Japanese Ships SC Ch 58 Allied Ships SS Scamp, hits 3 Captain of SS Scamp elects not to launch torpedoes at this target Scamp diving deep .... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 58 attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub after the AO being sunk the subchaser was sighted by SS Scamp but not attacked... this always means the enemy still gets a chance to attack the sub and causes 12 sys in this case... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 21 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 301 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 2 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes while all my aces were created flying P-38 I seem to do something seriously wrong now because the P-38 usually take quite a beating, the usually lose against the enemy if they haven´t got the dive... none of the Lightnings reached the target, all being downed or sent home damaged or had some breakdown... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 6 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 6 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 6 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet CAP engaged: 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 4000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 301 Ku S-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 38500 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes the first sweep only took out halve a dozen enemies, this one did considerable better while having the dive for most of the fight... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 32 Ki-84a Frank x 24 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 93 [:D][:D][:D] Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 6 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 2 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet * CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 10 on standby, 10 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 9 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 10 on standby, 9 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes that´s what I was talking about when saying that the enemy is going to pay for his constant attacks on Vinh as soon as I´ve got radar there... well, today was the day when we moved four squadrons of P-47 to Vinh and the enemy is met by 100% of my fighters... the enemy gets his three sweeps coming from three different bases at three different ranges over the target at the same time, something he wouldn´t be able to if all three would be coming from the same base... silly dejavu... the enemy is detected by radar and with 22 min pre warning time the Thuds were in position to dive and dive and dive and dive... result was an unbelievable massacre... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 4 Ki-21-IIa Sally x 24 Ki-21-IIb Sally x 2 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 76 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 3 destroyed Ki-21-IIa Sally: 8 destroyed Ki-21-IIb Sally: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 15 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 12 planes vectored on to bombers 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 1 on standby, 2 scrambling) 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes 9 planes vectored on to bombers 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 16 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes 15 planes vectored on to bombers then the first bombers show up with a meager escort (no escort perhaps would have seen some of the bombers turn back, another time when you´re probably better off sending no escorts instead of some of them)... still enough P-47 around to shred this strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIb Sally x 13 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 70 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIb Sally: 9 destroyed CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 7 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 13 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes then a completely unescorted strike with the message to start with of a couple of bombers turning back due to missing escort... the rest was downed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 9 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet 1 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet 2 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet CAP engaged: 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 301 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 97 minutes three P-38 squadrons set to sweep, all three go in alone with the majority of the fighters, the silly rest of each squadron joins... silly design...[>:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet the last one fails to engage any enemy fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Vinh , at 65,59 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 20 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 16 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 43 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 7 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 37000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes then some Oscars show up to be decimated... amazingly enough they manage to down a P-47 when an Oscar was diving on a P-47... still a brutal massacre... I wouldn´t produce or use any Oscars at this point, I just don´t see a reason for it... both Rainer and me are thinking the Tojo is still the best dogfighter for the Japanese (for what reason ever) and the Frank could be used for escort if needed as it got longer legs than the Tojo... the George of course is a quite good bomber killer and doesn´t do bad vs my fighters due to the high gun value, I wouldn´t rate it as a fighter killer though... our Lightning sweeps could have done better considering the enemy was outnumbered 3:1 and faced better aircraft (but what does that help you if you never get your numerical superiority over the target due to the given borked design?) but the P-47 at Vinh were a full success as expected... the Thuds will be moved out immediately again though as Vinh can be bombarded by enemy cruisers and I don´t want to lose my best fighters to enemy naval bombardments and I doubt the enemy will keep up his air attacks anyway... the Chinese eng units at Vinh will now continue to work on the forts, same as is done all around China with all frontline bases having level 6 forts or better as supply isn´t an issue... from 3/44 on we will get huge numbers of P-47D5 but only for a couple of months, totalling in a bit over 1000 aircraft, then we won´t get any P-47 for the USAAF until early 45. With P-51 not arriving before 10/44 in numbers we will have to be pretty carefully with the P-47 as we could run out of comptetent fighters quite quickly... of course we still get loads of P-40 but these are totally useless, the P-40N is comparable to P-40E and who would use these fighters at the front in mid 44? [image]local://upfiles/13774/1ACA7DDE2FDA449598F4451C885CA13C.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iba at 72,74 Japanese Ships AO Sata, Torpedo hits 1, on fire E Kamome PB Shosei Maru SC Ch 34 TK Takekun Maru TK Otoriyama Maru DD Yuzuki E Nuwashima Allied Ships SS Puffer SS Puffer launches 6 torpedoes at AO Sata DD Yuzuki fails to find sub and abandons search E Nuwashima attacking submerged sub .... E Nuwashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nuwashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nuwashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nuwashima fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another oiler is hit but doesn´t show real damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Sidate (75,100) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 666 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 38 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 32 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 32 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Sidate !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+) Assaulting units: 1st Fiji Commando Bn /1 2nd Fiji Commando Bn /1 two para btn take the dot base SW of Manado as I don´t want the Japanese defenders there to withdraw West... the enemy is going to be destroyed at Manado, won´t take long I guess...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2010 4:58:44 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 12, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Aogashima at 111,66 Japanese Ships E Sagi SC Ch 20 xAK Tokusima Maru xAK Siraha Maru xAK Midori Maru E Aguni Allied Ships SS Grouper, hits 33, heavy fires, heavy damage SS Grouper launches 6 torpedoes at E Sagi E Sagi fails to find sub and abandons search E Aguni attacking submerged sub .... E Aguni attacking submerged sub .... SS Grouper forced to surface! E Aguni firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Aguni firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Aguni firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Aguni firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Aguni firing on surfaced sub .... E Sagi firing on surfaced sub .... E Aguni firing on surfaced sub .... Contact with submarine is lost Grouper is the next victim of enemy E... [:(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 40th JNAF AF Unit , at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 23 N1K1-J George x 11 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 3 B-24D Liberator x 3 B-24D1 Liberator x 12 B-24J Liberator x 80 P-38J Lightning x 13 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged P-38J Lightning: 3 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 11 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers 301 Ku S-2 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 11 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 40th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 40th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 40th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 40th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 40th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... we order some ground attacks to support our assault and to our surprise we meet enemy fighters at the base... well, as usual this means of course very bad news for the escorts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 N1K1-J George x 5 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 80 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 301 Ku S-2 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes Also attacking 65th Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 51st Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 65th Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 51st Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 51st Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 65th Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 51st Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 65th Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 51st Construction Battalion ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 51st Construction Battalion ... this turn is just yet another example how realistic the air routines are because yet again I would have been far better off using NO escorts at all... that way we trade our Lightnings 1:1 with Zekes... instead of 10 P-38 we would have lost perhaps two or max three more B-24 which is affordable because we get by far more B-24 than P-38... reading real life examples of escorting Lightnings killing off enemy Cap at acceptable rates is something I can hardly achieve (if without the dive)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 12 B-24D Liberator x 12 P-38J Lightning x 19 Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 1st Art.Mortar Regiment ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 1st Art.Mortar Regiment ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 1st Art.Mortar Regiment ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 1st Art.Mortar Regiment ... all gets worse if the escorts are showing up too late... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd JNAF AF Unit , at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Ground Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 15 N1K1-J George x 8 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 30 P-38J Lightning x 20 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 6 damaged P-38J Lightning: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers 301 Ku S-2 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 ... Also attacking 3rd JNAF AF Unit ... then our second bomber base launches strikes in the afternoon again escorted by P-38J coming from Ternate... same as in the morning, the escorts were shot up pretty badly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 52nd Division, at 75,99 (Manado) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 N1K1-J George x 2 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 24 P-38J Lightning x 4 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 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 33 minutes 301 Ku S-2 with N1K1-J George (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes [image]local://upfiles/13774/C75470B97B3347C984DCA67307A25B7C.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kai-eilanden at 81,114 Japanese Ships SS I-39 Allied Ships AVD Ballard, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SS I-39 launches 6 torpedoes one of the AVD that was damaged off Sorong by enemy Frances bombers was patched up and sent back to Darwin but is sunk on the way by an enemy sub... sht happens... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99)* Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 42326 troops, 780 guns, 1069 vehicles, Assault Value = 1504 Defending force 15827 troops, 194 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 495 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Allied adjusted assault: 1465 Japanese adjusted defense: 547 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1152 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 88 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 103 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Allied ground losses: 751 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 24 disabled Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 84 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Vehicles lost 80 (38 destroyed, 42 disabled) Assaulting units: 2/9th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 14th NZ Brigade 27th Infantry Division 18th British Division XI US Corps 221st USN Base Force 13th RAAF Base Force 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 3rd JNAF AF Unit 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th RF Gun Battalion 65th Construction Battalion 51st Construction Battalion 40th JNAF AF Unit the enemy will be knocked out soon and we will have the most important base in this area... then it´s going to be time to build up the place and wreck the enemy bases on Mindanao...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2010 5:11:57 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 13, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 102,71 Japanese Ships E Etoforu PB Kaiun Maru xAK Aden Maru E Fukue E Oki Allied Ships SS Haddock, hits 19, heavy damage SS Haddock launches 6 torpedoes at E Etoforu [8\|] E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Fukue attacking submerged sub .... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Fukue fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... E Fukue fails to find sub, continues to search... E Oki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub next sub that probably is going to sink... 43 sys 62 flt... if we keep on going like this then we will soon lose a sub for every two enemy ships sunk with countless more of the subs heavily damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 68,75 Japanese Ships PC Sumire, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Shinko Maru E Aotaka Allied Ships SS Parche, hits 2 SS Parche launches 6 torpedoes at PC Sumire Parche diving deep .... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka attacking submerged sub .... E Aotaka attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Parche takes revenge and sinks a PC... PC seem to be a pretty rare ship class for the Japanese, haven´t met many so far... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on NCAC , at 64,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet the enemy now tries to sweep a troop stack near Vinh to draw leaking Cap but we´ve only got two damaged P-47 there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 202 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, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes we keep on drawing leaking Cap from Davao... the best way to reduce enemy fighter numbers for us, otherwise it´s just too costly and the enemy is still producing more usable fighters than we get (and Rainer is definately not overdoing it at all with production numbers)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 4 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes taking on leaking Cap with our stupidly single squadron sweeps is the only thing that´s going to work it seems... leaking Zekes vs sweeping Corsairs usually are dead meat... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet probably better not to use that many squadrons as they never fly together anyway and the first squadron usually takes out the majority of the enemy fighters anyway... guess the Zekes and Georges that showed up at Manado came from Davao... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on NCAC , at 64,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet silly [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 41281 troops, 780 guns, 1047 vehicles, Assault Value = 1462 Defending force 14722 troops, 193 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 422 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Allied adjusted assault: 1589 Japanese adjusted defense: 377 Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 1) Allied forces CAPTURE Manado !!! Japanese aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1480 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 52 disabled Non Combat: 37 destroyed, 76 disabled Engineers: 135 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 75 (75 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 35 (35 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 518 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 35 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 37 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 19 (6 destroyed, 13 disabled) Assaulting units: 27th Infantry Division 14th NZ Brigade 2/9th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 18th British Division 13th RAAF Base Force 221st USN Base Force XI US Corps 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 51st Construction Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 65th Construction Battalion 8th RF Gun Battalion 3rd JNAF AF Unit 40th JNAF AF Unit now this worked well, Manado fell earlier than expected... great news indeed and eng units at Ternate already embarked LCT convoys to be brought to Manado... with a normal size 7 airfield it won´t take that long to be built up to level 9 (currently 4), expect the airfield to reach level 9 within three weeks from now on... the aircraft loss list is interesting today, we shot down 5 A6M5 over Dadjangas but there are also a dozen Georges and two dozen A6M2 showing up as lost to ops/A2A... now these can only be destroyed at Manado I guess, why some of them show up as lost A2A I don´t know... the explanation of meeting A6M5 over Manado yesterday and destroying A6M2 there today can only be a downgrade of these aircraft when it became obvious for Rainer that he wouldn´t be able to fly them out again and the A6M5 are worth more to him than the outdated A6M2 (which he still uses to my surprise)... it´s going very well at the moment, the only thing that is a little concerning is the fact that I´ve got no clue where the enemy fleet is parked... probably somewhere in the SRA but not sure where (Yamato and Musashi were going to Japan recently)... 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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2010 5:17:07 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 14, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Obi at 76,106 Japanese Ships SS I-181 Allied Ships LCT-132 PT-238 LCT-473 LCT-460 SS I-181 cannot acquire firing solution on enemy LCT I-181 diving deep .... Escort abandons search for sub Rainer noticed my way to guard my LCT against his subs... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Manado , at 75,99 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 40,500 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 12 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 20 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed CAP engaged: VMF-115 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 36900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VMF-217 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 36900. Raid is overhead VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 36900. Raid is overhead VMF-441 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters to 34000. Raid is overhead interesting that he tries a halve hearted strato sweep here, the Zekes were shot up, they didn´t get the dive... what also has been very interesting were over two dozen enemy Mavis/Emily being shot down by my Cap here as they attempted to evacuate the ex defenders of Manado... asking why he was doing it, Rainer answered me that recon showed the airfield as 100% damaged... well, it was at 8% airBASE damage at the end of last turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 15 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb training raid on Kendari, we lose 4 Venturas to ops... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 29 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 6 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 6 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 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on NCAC , at 64,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 14 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet these Tojos won´t ever meet any leaking Cap here... [image]local://upfiles/13774/922980E9A3BA4A9F9A44E224A5A4DFF1.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (12/31/2010 6:46:48 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 15, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 15 N1K1-J George x 6 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 4 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes as long as the enemy wants to defend Davao with more than a hundred of his fighters, he also has to live with our sweeps against his leaking Cap, best way is to use Corsairs for this... in this case the Corsairs come out as winners but not even close to a needed kill rate... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet CAP engaged: 201 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 33000 , scrambling fighters to 39900. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet still am using too many squadrons... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 301 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes and I shouldn´t use my P-38 at all anymore, they are not much more than training targets for the enemy fighters (except Oscars that can´t take down anything)... if the P-38 fail to get the dive they end up with one kill for four of five P-38 being damaged, many of them crashing on the way home or being written off... without the dive the P-38 isn´t competetive at all, the totally lack firepower, even compared to the normal six pack armed US fighters... IMO a bad rating as the 4 cal.50 and the 20mm cannon in the nose should be deadlier than the 2 x 3 cal.50 in the wings... and P-38 were definately deadly in the Pacific... if you look at the top pilot list posted a couple of turns ago you´re going to see that these P-38 are flown by the best of the best... but this doesn´t help us if we don´t get the dive... the P-38 can´t even take on leaking Cap, the usual problem of not being able to use 75 P-38 vs a meager 20 Jap Cap because that´s the way the game was designed... but that wasn´t how it was done in real life and it absolutely stinks... NUMBERS and superior aircraft did matter in real life... who cares about numbers in this game if it´s designed in a way every squadron is fighting it´s private airwar??? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 21 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet CAP engaged: 301 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 101 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes here comes the next squadron, as you can see, in this case we had the dive... the enemy was shot down or sent home damaged, this squadron didn´t lose a single fighter... the first sweep lost no less than six fighters for the same number of enemies probably downed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 7 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Beaufighter VIc sweeping at 20000 feet CAP engaged: 71st I.F.Chutai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 2 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 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes interesting engagement here, the last two days we´ve spotted an enemy TF cruising around in the Malaya Street without an obvious destination and we´ve moved in some medium bombers set to lownav attacks... they launch against the TF at Port Blair today, this is the Beaufighter escort that fails to escort the bombers from the same base as usual... doesn´t matter, they end up as sweep and get the dive against a couple of hopeless Oscars... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 5 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 7 Wellington Ic x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAKL Kaisyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAKL Kasui Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Wellington Ic bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb and here comes the nav attack... out of four squadrons set to attack, halve a squadron actually gets to the target with halve of the Beaufighters as escorts... the Wellingtons are just as deadly as the Mitchells on lownav against helpless freighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 8 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet no comment... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Beaufighter VIc sweeping at 20000 feet CAP engaged: 71st I.F.Chutai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead same as in the morning... wow, must be the different books available in Austria, didn´t know that books available in the US state that airraids were screwed up in 99 out of 100 times in WWII... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Port Blair at 46,58 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 1 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 6 Wellington Ic x 6 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAKL Assam Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire xAKL Hidaka Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Wellington Ic bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 4 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 71st I.F.Chutai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 3000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 20 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 1 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 Hurricane IIc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 11 P-40N1 Warhawk x 2 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 P-51A Mustang x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-51A Mustang: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 8 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: No.30 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 3 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 Raid is overhead No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40000 Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 18th FG/70th FS with P-40N1 Warhawk (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 38000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes Rainer now attacks leaking Cap from Rangoon... radar failed and the Franks did very well here, tearing apart the defenders... too many crappy British aircraft that aren´t robust enough, nor are their guns competitive, cannons just don´t count in WITP or AE... glad the Brits will get Thunderbolts in 4/44... note that I´m still flying a lot of Hurricanes as we just lack other more advanced fighter types, while the Spitfire V isn´t that much of an improvement... thought the Spit VIII would be the all dominating fighter with her excellent stats but the aircraft also is just too fragile and doesn´t carry enough punch to down enemy aircraft in a way the six cal.50 armed US fighters... looking at both sides total air losses today, I would rate it a Japanese victory... [image]local://upfiles/13774/06EF75DB98034A40A0A107A3084522D5.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 40880 troops, 780 guns, 1043 vehicles, Assault Value = 1436 Defending force 11940 troops, 124 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 297 Allied adjusted assault: 708 Japanese adjusted defense: 169 Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1379 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 90 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 89 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Vehicles lost 6 (4 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 377 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 29 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 52 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Vehicles lost 19 (3 destroyed, 16 disabled) Assaulting units: 14th NZ Brigade 27th Infantry Division 2/9th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 18th British Division 13th RAAF Base Force 221st USN Base Force XI US Corps 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 8th RF Gun Battalion 51st Construction Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 65th Construction Battalion 3rd JNAF AF Unit 40th JNAF AF Unit no more evac attempt here and we´ll soon have these troops destroyed... 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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2011 2:32:02 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 16, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Jesselton at 67,83 Japanese Ships TK Hoshin Maru SC Ch 52 TK Ryusho Maru TK Jinei Maru PB Spey Maru PB Choko Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Hackleback, hits 1 SS Hackleback launches 4 torpedoes at TK Hoshin Maru PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 68,82 Japanese Ships TK Oei Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage SC Ch 52 TK Ryusho Maru TK Shimpo Maru PB Spey Maru PB Choko Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Gabilan SS Gabilan launches 6 torpedoes at TK Oei Maru Gabilan diving deep .... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Gabilan does better and takes out one of the tankers of the same convoy... going down with the load of oil... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 15 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 1 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 Hurricane IIc Trop x 5 Spitfire VIII x 5 P-40N1 Warhawk x 2 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 P-51A Mustang x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Hurricane IIc Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-40N1 Warhawk: 1 destroyed P-51A Mustang: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 5 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: No.30 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 41500 Raid is overhead No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40000 Raid is overhead No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 Raid is overhead No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (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 20000 Raid is overhead No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 Raid is overhead No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 18th FG/70th FS with P-40N1 Warhawk (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38000 Raid is overhead 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 Raid is overhead pretty bad day for our leaking Cap here, the Franks did very well having the dive for 3/4 of the engagement... the British fighters again proved to be too fragile and unable to down anything more rugged than an Oscar... the Spits damaged quite some Franks and in the end halve a dozen of them are reported destroyed... attacking leaking Cap is the way to go, for both sides... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 48,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet * no leaking Cap here today though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet * the Lightnings would probably have taken a beating again anyway... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft Hurricane IIc Trop x 1 Spitfire VIII x 2 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 P-51A Mustang x 1 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 37440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 40000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 40500 Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 , scrambling fighters to 32440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 39 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 the Venturas fly another training attack, their main task are anti shipping strikes and that´s what they´re trained for but so far the enemy has refused to ever show up in range and I guess that won´t change a lot... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kendari , at 70,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 12 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: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 54 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 7 damaged Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 91 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 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 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb knocking out the airfield again, some 10000 enemy troops reported there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 43 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 87 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 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 21 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 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Pare Pare , at 66,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 34 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 68 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 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 Pare Pare , at 66,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb planning on landing troops at Wattambone (sp?), the base in between Pare Pare and Makassar (these two bases both got some troops but not a strong garisson and Wattambone is totally empty) as this base can also be built up to level 9 and this would strongly threaten Soerabaja and this base will cover our left flank... expect the invasion happening there in about three weeks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Pare Pare , at 66,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Pare Pare , at 66,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 49,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on NCAC , at 64,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet [image]local://upfiles/13774/29E411F242F74D75BF311568D9F4C6C0.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 68,82 Japanese Ships PB Choko Maru #5, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 52 TK Hoshin Maru PB Spey Maru Allied Ships SS Gabilan SS Gabilan launches 6 torpedoes at PB Choko Maru #5 PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Gabilan attacks a second time today and sinks an escort... no E around here so the sub is pretty much safe... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Torishima at 108,69 Japanese Ships E Amakusa E Mutsure E Shimushu xAK Nitiyo Maru xAK Morioka Maru xAK Hakodate Maru E Mikura E Iki Allied Ships SS Tambor, hits 4 SS Tambor launches 4 torpedoes at E Amakusa Tambor diving deep .... E Mikura fails to find sub and abandons search E Iki attacking submerged sub .... E Amakusa attacking submerged sub .... E Iki attacking submerged sub .... E Amakusa fails to find sub and abandons search E Iki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Iki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Iki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Iki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Iki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub different story here, we meet E and the sub is knocked out as happens most of the times... and we´re not even talking about these uber E vessels that can drop patterns of 12 DC at once, these sink my subs in 1 out of 2 attempts which is absolutely comparable to first line Allied DD and raises my question about how much this thing was tested... the way these vessels look like is absolutely correct as they carry what they had in real life, the difference to the game though is the fact that these vessels were by far not sub killers whenever they´ve met one, they just didn´t have the ability to spot and succesfully attack subs but in the game, all those E attack your subs in at least 80% of the time... Tambor takes heavy damage and retires with 21 sys 41 flt... sub war and ASW took a big step forward in 42 until mid 43 IMO but from then on we´re back into WITP conditions seeing the Allied subs facing the same situation the Kriegsmarine faced in real life, but this isn´t related to different use of IJN assetts compared to real life but due to abilities of IJN escorts in the game which they clearly lacked in real life... hope I can bring back all my subs to a save port in the next six months and don´t need them anymore later... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Hengchun at 83,68 Japanese Ships E Otori E Hayabusa Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus launches 6 torpedoes at E Otori Grampus diving deep .... E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa attacking submerged sub .... E Hayabusa is out of ASW ammo E Hayabusa is out of ASW ammo E Hayabusa is out of ASW ammo E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hayabusa fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub only if the E are out of ammo right from the start the sub is safe... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 40390 troops, 780 guns, 1041 vehicles, Assault Value = 1403 Defending force 10809 troops, 124 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 217 Allied adjusted assault: 636 Japanese adjusted defense: 75 Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1577 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 104 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 81 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled) Allied ground losses: 408 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 22 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 20 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Assaulting units: 14th NZ Brigade 27th Infantry Division 2/9th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 18th British Division XI US Corps 221st USN Base Force 13th RAAF Base Force 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 65th Construction Battalion 8th RF Gun Battalion 51st Construction Battalion 3rd JNAF AF Unit 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 40th JNAF AF Unit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Art.Mortar Regiment Wiped Out at Manado by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th RF Gun Battalion Wiped Out at Manado by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51st Construction Battalion Wiped Out at Manado by attrition!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65th Construction Battalion Wiped Out at Manado by attrition!!! the enemy collapses already, fights at Manado went really well...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2011 2:34:13 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 17, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on NCAC , at 64,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 15 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet wonder why the enemy keeps on flying these sweeps, there won´t be leaking Cap from Vinh as I don´t plan to operate fighters there as the enemy has stopped his attacks anyway and if he starts them again we can ambush them at some point again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on NCAC , at 64,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Balabac at 69,81 Japanese Ships PB Choko Maru #5, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Spearfish PB Choko Maru #5 is sighted by SS Spearfish SS Spearfish launches 4 torpedoes Spearfish puts three out of four torps into a lonely PB... don´t know what this was, perhaps a damaged ship...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2011 2:43:07 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 18, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iba at 76,73 Japanese Ships TK Ayagiri Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 44 SC Ch 40 SC Ch 31 AO Naruto TK Eiho Maru TK Tachibana Maru TK Tatibana Maru TK Ogura Maru #1 E Tatsuko E Yomogi PB Kinsyo Maru #4 PB Hokuyo Maru Allied Ships SS Grampus, hits 1 SS Grampus launches 4 torpedoes at TK Ayagiri Maru E Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Tatsuko attacking submerged sub .... E Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tatsuko fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub tanker is sunk and while Grampus is reported hit by a depth charge the sub shows no damage so that obviously was FOW... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 68,74 Japanese Ships TK Shiranesan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage SC Ch 9 SC Ch 8 SC Ch 1 TK Kotai Maru TK Takane Maru TK Kenwa Maru TK Kyokuho Maru TK Risshun Maru DD Asakaze E W-16 E W-15 E Yanagi Allied Ships SS Thresher, hits 3 SS Thresher launches 4 torpedoes at TK Shiranesan Maru DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-16 fails to find sub and abandons search E W-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yanagi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-15 attacking submerged sub .... DD Asakaze 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 another tanker sunk but Thresher wasn´t that lucky and retires with 10 sys 15 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Obi at 76,106 Japanese Ships SS I-181, hits 2 Allied Ships DE Express DE Encounter SS I-181 launches 6 torpedoes at DE Express DE Express fails to find sub and abandons search DE Encounter attacking submerged sub .... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter attacking submerged sub .... DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub usually a bad idea to attack my best ASW TF but Encounter only scored two near misses for dropping all her DC... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iba at 75,74 Japanese Ships SC Ch 42 SC Ch 52 TK Hoshin Maru PB Spey Maru Allied Ships SS Grampus SS Grampus launches 4 torpedoes at SC Ch 42 PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Spey Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Grampus gets another chance but misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 44 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 F4U-1 Corsair x 8 F4U-1A Corsair x 13 No Allied losses Airbase hits 10 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb attack bombers can be used as normal level bombers now, while that´s not realistic IMO it´s still better than not having a single USAAF level bomber or having to use them the way they were used in real life and being shot up by flak as the flak suppression by far isn´t what it seems to have been in real life, at least not in the two dozen attacks I´ve tried in an AI game... level bombing from 10000ft (and actually hitting) is something they shouldn´t be able to without a bombardier... I still would preferre having normal level bomber Mitchells like the C because what you also shouldn´t miss is the fact that the attack bombers like the B-25D1 don´t carry that much defensive armament (later models do get def armament again) so I don´t want to see them being attacked by enemy fighters... the way attack bombers are handled also means I´ve trained hundreds of bomber pilots on a skill (lowgrd) I don´t need anymore as I won´t ever send them in at altitude the bombers were used in real life... they will only be used for low level nav attacks (at 1000ft as I don´t trust the 100ft strafing attacks at all) and for normal 10000ft level bombing runs... guess I have to live with this tradeoff... the main advantage I see is for my attack bombers is the fact that they carry full bombload for lownav attacks instead of the bombload being halved... but if I look at the hit rates of B-25C at 1000ft with reduced load then the B-25D1 with full load probably will get by far too good results... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 26 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Namlea , at 76,108 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 28 P-38J Lightning x 39 No Allied losses Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 25 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 22 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 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 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 50 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Partial cloud 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 11 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36765 troops, 738 guns, 940 vehicles, Assault Value = 1394 Defending force 8674 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 143 Allied adjusted assault: 927 Japanese adjusted defense: 39 Allied assault odds: 23 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 837 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 77 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 47 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 127 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Assaulting units: 2/9th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 14th NZ Brigade 27th Infantry Division 18th British Division 13th RAAF Base Force XI US Corps 19th USN Naval Construction Regiment 221st USN Base Force 1st USN Naval Construction Regiment 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 3rd JNAF AF Unit 40th JNAF AF Unit

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2011 3:13:18 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 19, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Kofiau at 79,106 Japanese Ships SS I-181, hits 11, heavy damage Allied Ships DE Express DE Encounter DE Electra SS I-181 is sighted by escort I-181 diving deep .... DE Express attacking submerged sub .... DE Express attacking submerged sub .... DE Express is out of ASW ammo DE Express is out of ASW ammo DE Express is out of ASW ammo SS I-181 forced to surface! DE Express firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... DE Express firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... DE Express firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... DE Express firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... DE Express firing on surfaced sub .... DE Encounter firing on surfaced sub .... DE Electra firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves even though Express used up all her depth charges, the sub was forced to surface in the end and finished off by gunfire... this TF usually is able to kill a sub every second time one is attacked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub vs Sub: SS Seal attacking SST Yu-9 at 68,97 - near Donggala Japanese Ships SST Yu-9, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal launches 4 torpedoes at 2,000 yards Seal kills a transport sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Gebe at 81,104 Japanese Ships SS I-32, hits 9 Allied Ships DE Express DE Electra SS I-32 launches 6 torpedoes at DE Express DE Electra fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Electra fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Electra fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Electra fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Electra attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub the British ASW TF later is attacked by another IJN sub but the torps missed... lots of DC in the water again scoring lots of near misses but no direct hits... the TF has to replenish it´s DC now... SS Saury was hit by air ASW (Lily) 18 sys 8 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Yap , at 96,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 56 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese Ships AMc Wa 14, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk AM Wa 103, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk AR Yamabiko Maru, Bomb hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage AMc Wa 10, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk PB Kure Maru #5, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk AM Wa 104, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk Port hits 7 Port fuel hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb we have been reconning lots of distant bases lately as we get more and more long legged recons like the USN and USAAF versions of recon B-24 and one of these flights has picked up ships in port at Yap but not even a single aircraft there... this was the same for a couple of turns and today I finally saw my heavy bombers flying a max range attack sinking several ships in port... nothing serious but a freebee attack and we even hit an AR which Rainer has forgotten there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Yap , at 96,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Japanese Ships AR Yamabiko Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Yap , at 96,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese Ships AR Yamabiko Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Port Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb that´s it for the AR... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 40 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 23 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 65 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Pare Pare , at 66,104 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Runway hits 29 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Pare Pare , at 66,104 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 29 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Makassar , at 65,106 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb as it stands now, we finally reached a stage in the war when my B-24 pools are finally growing... I´m not immediately intending of upgrading any bomber squadron to B-24J and we´ve got two dozen of them in the pool now (for the first time in the war)... with attack bombers working now, we can use some 150 of them which are avaible in the frontlines, this will take some pressure from the heavy bomber squadrons and also further increases our anti shipping capabilities which so far lay in the hands of the USN Venturas and Liberators and Aussie Beaufort VIII torp bombers... of course there are the USMC dive and torpedo bomber squadrons but these probably won´t ever attack any ships as the enemy will never get close enough... I guess the whole war saw only a coule of land based 1E attacks on enemy shipping and I don´t even remember them anymore... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36573 troops, 738 guns, 940 vehicles, Assault Value = 1387 Defending force 7954 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 83 Allied adjusted assault: 437 Japanese adjusted defense: 19 Allied assault odds: 23 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1160 casualties reported Squads: 31 destroyed, 45 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 38 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Allied ground losses: 129 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled) Assaulting units: 27th Infantry Division 2/9th Armoured Regiment 14th NZ Brigade 37th Infantry Division 18th British Division 45th Aviation Base Force XI US Corps 1st USN Naval Construction Regiment 13th RAAF Base Force 19th USN Naval Construction Regiment 221st USN Base Force 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 3rd JNAF AF Unit 40th JNAF AF Unit

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/3/2011 3:24:20 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 20, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 68,74 Japanese Ships DD Tadeyame PC Nire DD Myojinami Allied Ships SS Puffer, hits 1 SS Puffer launches 6 torpedoes at DD Tadeyame Puffer diving deep .... DD Tadeyame fails to find sub and abandons search DD Myojinami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Myojinami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Myojinami attacking submerged sub .... DD Myojinami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Myojinami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Puffer gets away with her failed attack... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bataan at 77,77 Japanese Ships SC Ch 39 SC Ch 24 E Asagao SC Ch 41 Allied Ships SS Whale SS Whale is sighted by escort Whale diving deep .... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 attacking submerged sub .... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Brunei at 64,81 Japanese Ships TK Eiho Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SC Ch 44 SC Ch 40 SC Ch 31 AO Naruto TK Tachibana Maru TK Tatibana Maru E Tatsuko E Yomogi PB Kinsyo Maru #4 PB Hokuyo Maru Allied Ships SS Bluefish, hits 1 SS Bluefish launches 4 torpedoes at TK Eiho Maru E Tatsuko fails to find sub and abandons search E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub .... PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kinsyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub .... PB Hokuyo Maru 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... Escort abandons search for sub and Bluefish scores on a tanker without taking damage in return... must be a good day then... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Dadjangas , at 78,93 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * this sweep resulted in three Thuds crashing with two pilots being killed... [image]local://upfiles/13774/29C7CD21D2A64ACFBABD20F62A2683AE.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Brunei at 64,81 Japanese Ships TK Tachibana Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire SC Ch 44 SC Ch 40 SC Ch 31 SC Ch 2 AO Naruto TK Tatibana Maru TK Goyo Maru E Yomogi PB Kinsyo Maru #4 PB Hokuyo Maru Allied Ships SS Bluefish, hits 1 SS Bluefish launches 6 torpedoes at TK Tachibana Maru E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hokuyo Maru attacking submerged sub .... E Yomogi fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hokuyo Maru 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 attacking submerged sub .... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 is out of ASW ammo PB Kinsyo Maru #4 is out of ASW ammo PB Kinsyo Maru #4 is out of ASW ammo PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub definitely a good day as we hit another tanker... Bluefish retires with 10 sys 25 flt... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Socotra at 13,6 Japanese Ships SS I-36 Allied Ships DD Van Ghent TK British Destiny SS I-36 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Van Ghent I-36 diving deep .... DD Van Ghent fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Van Ghent fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Van Ghent fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Van Ghent attacking submerged sub .... SS I-36 eludes DD Van Ghent by diving deep DD Van Ghent fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the enemy is lurking around the off map entrance waiting for my convoys from Abadan... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 99,70 Japanese Ships xAK Hokuzyu Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage xAK Toei Maru xAK Otori Maru xAK Nissen Maru #3 xAK Mansyu Maru E Hirashima E Shirakami Allied Ships SS Dorado, hits 4 SS Dorado launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Hokuzyu Maru E Hirashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shirakami attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Dorado also pays for sinking a freighter... 21/41/9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Manado (75,99) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 36417 troops, 738 guns, 939 vehicles, Assault Value = 1388 Defending force 7043 troops, 105 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 33 Allied adjusted assault: 933 Japanese adjusted defense: 5 Allied assault odds: 186 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2634 casualties reported Squads: 75 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 176 destroyed, 73 disabled Engineers: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 17 (16 destroyed, 1 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Allied ground losses: 34 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 27th Infantry Division 2/9th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 14th NZ Brigade 18th British Division 13th RAAF Base Force XI US Corps 221st USN Base Force 19th USN Naval Construction Regiment 1st USN Naval Construction Regiment 45th Aviation Base Force 4th RNZAF Base Force Defending units: 52nd Division 30th Ind.Mixed Bde /1 3rd JNAF AF Unit 40th JNAF AF Unit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese Unit(s) surrounded at Manado

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/5/2011 4:43:24 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 21, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Naval bombardment of Davao at 79,91 Japanese aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses H8K2-L Emily: 1 destroyed on ground N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed on ground A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed on ground L2D2 Tabby: 4 destroyed on ground Allied Ships CA Baltimore CA Louisville CA Chester CA Houston CL Honolulu CL Boise CL Phoenix CL St. Louis Japanese ground losses: 305 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 54 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 9 disabled Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled) Resources hits 7 Manpower hits 10 Fires 599 [X(] Airbase hits 32 [X(] Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 364 [X(] Port hits 51 [X(] Port fuel hits 14 Port supply hits 7 OS2U-3 Kingfisher acting as spotter for CA Baltimore CA Baltimore firing at Davao CA Louisville firing at Davao CA Chester firing at Davao CA Houston firing at Davao CL Honolulu firing at Davao CL Boise firing at Davao CL Phoenix firing at Davao CL St. Louis firing at Davao hmmm... not sure how I should comment this result... I was never a fan of nuclear bombardments in WITP nor AE after it was released and it took quite some time until this issue popped up again... unfortunately it seems to be an all or nothing issue most of the time, in this case, it was a super nuke so to say... I refrained from frontally attack Davao with my airforce because we had recon about some 150 fighters (280 reported) being there together with 32 ground units (so radar for sure) and I didn´t want to lose dozens of my fighters as this is not something I really can afford so I´ve sent a cruiser TF to Manado as the cruisers can stay under a Cap umbrella there and sprint in to Davao during the night (range Manado - Davao exactly 9 hexes)... while the enemy didn´t suffer as many aircraft destroyed as expected (probably weeks of recon was totally wrong or Rainer proved to be psychic and moved them out exactly today) the airfield is destroyed... as I didn´t trust the naval bombardment being a success, I have not ordered any airstrike on Davao today though... this will change tomorrow... keeping Davao closed is impossible though as there are just too many enemy units repairing the place... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Busuanga at 76,79 Japanese Ships SC Ch 39 SC Ch 24 E Asagao SC Ch 41 Allied Ships SS Bashaw, hits 3 SS Bashaw launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 39 E Asagao attacking submerged sub .... SC Ch 41 fails to find sub and abandons search E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao attacking submerged sub .... E Asagao is out of ASW ammo E Asagao is out of ASW ammo E Asagao is out of ASW ammo E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Asagao being low on depth charges saved Bashaw... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Taytay at 74,80 Japanese Ships DD Oite DD Hatakaze DD Asanagi DD Hayate Allied Ships SS Grampus, hits 3 SS Grampus launches 6 torpedoes at DD Oite DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Hayate attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi cannot reach attack position over SS Grampus SS Grampus eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep SS Grampus eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep DD Asanagi cannot reach attack position over SS Grampus DD Asanagi loses contact with SS Grampus DD Hayate 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 attacking submerged sub .... SS Grampus eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep DD Asanagi cannot reach attack position over SS Grampus DD Asanagi cannot establish contact with SS Grampus DD Asanagi cannot reach attack position over SS Grampus DD Asanagi cannot establish contact with SS Grampus Escort abandons search for sub another stupid sub attack on an ASW TF... 14 sys 15 flt as result... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 61,80 Japanese Ships TK Eiho Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PB Hokuyo Maru TK Tachibana Maru, on fire E Yomogi Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at TK Eiho Maru Sculpin diving deep .... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi attacking submerged sub .... E Yomogi cannot reach attack position over SS Sculpin E Yomogi loses contact with SS Sculpin E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yomogi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Sculpin does the right thing, attacking one of two damaged tankers that were split off their main convoy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Terempa at 55,85 Japanese Ships TK Hirota Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage PB Yamahagi Maru #3 Allied Ships SS Lancetfish, hits 3 SS Lancetfish launches 6 torpedoes at TK Hirota Maru Lancetfish bottoming out .... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 attacking submerged sub .... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Yamahagi Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Lancetfish also sinks a tanker, she was on her way to her patrol area but the PB scores some hits and Lancetfish has to retire with 15 sys 9 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 3 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 6 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 Hurricane IIc Trop x 8 Spitfire VIII x 15 P-40N1 Warhawk x 2 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 P-51A Mustang x 4 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.30 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 Raid is overhead No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 18th FG/70th FS with P-40N1 Warhawk (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 38000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes Rainer keeps sweeping my troop stack South East of Pegu, this time the silly 3 fighter fragment shows up first... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 33 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 6 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 Hurricane IIc Trop x 7 Spitfire VIII x 10 P-40N1 Warhawk x 1 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 P-51A Mustang x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Beaufighter VIc: 1 destroyed Hurricane IIc Trop: 2 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: No.30 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 18th FG/70th FS with P-40N1 Warhawk (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38000 Raid is overhead 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes these Frank sweeps turn out to be quite effective if it goes on like this... every Spitfire shot down is a tragedy with a replacement rate of 16 per month... hard to replace their losses, let alone thinking about finally upgrading all those totally useless Hurricane squadrons... this will not change before mid 44 when we get 16 Spit VIII together with 40 Thunderbolt II per month... perhaps we can then get rid of the Hurricanes... [image]local://upfiles/13774/ED97F42463BC479293621CB851A1215D.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 24 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 40000 feet thought we could find some enemy aircraft here... the airfield is empty... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Udon Thani , at 61,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 9 Wellington B.X x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Wellington B.X bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 21 out of some 180 bombers flew the ordered strike... why 160 bombers all with super high morale stayed home is a mistery only the original developers of WITP can tell... orders in war do mean something... if you were ordered to fly, you flew...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/5/2011 5:08:21 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 22, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Kendari - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 302 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Detroit CL Raleigh CL Perth CL Leander PG Moresby, Shell hits 4, on fire LST-17 LST-19 LST-18 LST-20 Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 12th Base Force firing at CL Detroit CL Detroit firing at 12th Base Force CL Raleigh firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Raleigh 12th Base Force firing at CL Perth CL Perth firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Leander CL Leander firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at PG Moresby PG Moresby firing at 12th Base Force Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 4,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards our offensives are rolling, this time´s target is Kendari that is held by an enemy garisson I wouldn´t call really a threat... what I didn´t know was 12th Base Force being at Kendari and it was a bit of nail biting through the replay but it again proved absolutely sufficient to have a couple of light cruisers in the invasion TFs as these easily deal with every CD fire... there were dozens of medium calibre guns (8 and 12 cm) firing at our ships but except the crappy PG Moresby there were no ships hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Kendari TF 153 troops unloading over beach at Kendari, 70,106 Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Kendari - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 316 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Concord, Shell hits 1 CL Marblehead CL Trenton, Shell hits 1 CL Richmond CL Achilles CLAA Prince Robert, Shell hits 1 LST-32 LST-40 DMS Elliot LST-38 Allied ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 12th Base Force firing at CL Concord CL Concord firing at 12th Base Force CL Marblehead firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Marblehead CL Trenton firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Trenton CL Richmond firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Richmond CL Achilles firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Achilles 12th Base Force firing at CLAA Prince Robert CLAA Prince Robert firing at 12th Base Force Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards got two TFs unloading, this target is assaulted by a couple of Australian divs (all still understrenght as it literally takes forever to build them up to full strenght) plus lots of support, probably being overkill again but when you decide to prep for a target you have to make sure you will be able to take it more than 3 months later and you can´t really go with by what is there when you start training for this target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Kendari TF 297 troops unloading over beach at Kendari, 70,106 Allied ground losses: 78 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 1st Australian Div Motorized Support lost overboard during unload of 4th Australian Div 11 troops of a AIF Inf Section 43 accidentally lost during unload of 4th Australian Div /2 11 troops of a AIF Inf Section 43 lost in surf during unload of 4th Australian Div /5 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of I Australian Corps /3 11 troops of a AIF Inf Section 43 lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Australian Div /7 the invasion goes well, the rest is just going to be routine... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Kendari - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 192 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Detroit, Shell hits 5 CL Raleigh, Shell hits 1 CL Perth CL Leander, Shell hits 3 LST-18 LST-19 PG Moresby, on fire LST-17 CL Detroit firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Detroit 12th Base Force firing at CL Raleigh CL Raleigh firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Leander CL Leander firing at 12th Base Force Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Kendari - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 218 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Concord, Shell hits 5 CL Marblehead, Shell hits 1 CL Trenton, Shell hits 1 CL Richmond CL Achilles CLAA Prince Robert, Shell hits 4 LST-32, Shell hits 2, on fire LST-452 LST-38 DMS Elliot Allied ground losses: 43 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 12th Base Force firing at CL Concord CL Concord firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Marblehead CL Marblehead firing at 12th Base Force CL Trenton firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Trenton CL Richmond firing at 12th Base Force 12th Base Force firing at CL Richmond 12th Base Force firing at CLAA Prince Robert 12cm 10YT DP Gun Battery engaging LST-32 at 17,000 yards CL Marblehead firing to suppress enemy battery at 17,000 yards LST-452 fired at enemy troops Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards 12th Base Force suddenly starts landing lots of hits on our cruisers... nothing serious being hit, we lose two AA mounts in total... but you probably better never do invasions without adequat firepower as I bet such a Base Force can take out a lot of your precious APA or LST if it hasn´t to deal with your cruisers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laoag at 76,69 Japanese Ships TK Shimotsu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage E Nadakaze Allied Ships SS Cero, hits 2 SS Cero launches 4 torpedoes at TK Shimotsu Maru Cero diving deep .... E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze attacking submerged sub .... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... E Nadakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we get another tanker that is only escorted by a single E... wonder why... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 26 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 5 Hurricane IIb Trop x 4 Hurricane IIc Trop x 4 Spitfire VIII x 14 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 2 P-51A Mustang x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Spitfire VIII: 1 destroyed P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 20000 Raid is overhead 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes the enemy now sends Tojos instead of Franks... while the Tojos so far have been doing very well over the course of the war, the Franks did better here vs our leaking Cap... hopefully this will soon end the Japanese sweeps as I´m not really happy about the Spitfire losses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 11 N1K1-J George x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 12 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 1 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes after some 400 hits on the airfield/airbase during our naval bombardment yesterday I´ve ordered the airforce to show up over Davao today as I´ve thought we could torch quite some damaged aircraft on the field... ordered lots of fighters on sweep with others to escort the heavies... am not sure where the enemy fighters are coming from, it looks like leaking Cap from one of the Northern bases, Davao shouldn´t be able to launch Cap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 N1K1-J George x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 2 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes two USMC squadrons were enough to clear the sky... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 45 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * would nevertheless be great to see the Corsair squadrons joining up to fly two or max three waves, not stupidly coming in one by one... serisously, this really is borked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 3 Hurricane IIc Trop x 1 Spitfire VIII x 9 P-51A Mustang x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 40500 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40000 , scrambling fighters to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 2000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 1000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes [8\|] just as borked as losing three fighters on each sweep which seems to apply to all squadrons being bigger than 18 ac (so far never happened to my USMC fighter squadrons IIRC)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain 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 56 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed on ground L2D2 Tabby: 2 destroyed on ground A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground H8K2-L Emily: 2 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 13 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 10 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 66 Aircraft Attacking: 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 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb a hell a lot of enemy aircraft on the ground are damaged, I raised the question if these can be write offs just like aircraft that were damaged during A2A, to me, it doesn´t look like this would be the case as it never happened so far... a pity because then it doesn´t make that much sense to damage ac on the ground... as you can see, the bombers are still coming in at extended range because Manado still hasn´t been built up to level 9 but this is going to change soon... flak is very heavy over Davao, no wonder with 32 enemy units being there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses H8K2-L Emily: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb strikes were ordered from Ambon and Boela but only Boela´s bombers took off, why Ambon´s bombers failed is unknown, weather definitely wasn´t the case... [image]local://upfiles/13774/6F7D93EBE7A942C89B8F69EDE883812E.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Kendari Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 8 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-19 CL Detroit PG Moresby LST-18 LST-20 12cm 10YT DP Gun Battery engaging LST-19 at 17,000 yards CL Detroit firing to suppress enemy battery at 17,000 yards PG Moresby fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Kendari Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 7 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-484 LST-475 LST-353 LST-341 LST-172 LST-171 LST-124 LST-72 LST-43 LST-40 LST-32 LST-41 LST-38 LST-484 fired at enemy troops LST-475 fired at enemy troops LST-353 fired at enemy troops LST-341 fired at enemy troops LST-172 fired at enemy troops LST-171 fired at enemy troops LST-124 fired at enemy troops LST-72 fired at enemy troops LST-43 fired at enemy troops LST-40 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kendari (70,106) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 6760 troops, 46 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 291 Defending force 41621 troops, 550 guns, 1118 vehicles, Assault Value = 1407 Japanese ground losses: 49 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 64th Infantry Group 58th Field AA Battalion 23rd Air Flotilla 12th Base Force 35th JNAF AF Unit Defending units: 131st Combat Engr Rgt /3 1st USMC Tank Battalion 2nd Australian Div /15 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 4th Australian Div /15 1st Australian Div /15 102nd Combat Engr Rgt /3 I Australian Corps /1 134th Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 255th USN Base Force /3 143rd USA Base Force /1 enemy garisson is even smaller than expected... this will be easy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kolaka (68,105) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 1170 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 85 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 62 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 62 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Kolaka !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+) Assaulting units: 503rd Parachute Rgt /1 3rd USMC Parachute Bn /1 dropping paras on Kolaka to seize the empty base West of Kendari, one of the para units is going to move out to the East to block any retreat path for the Kendari defenders... this is the only thing that´s going to slow us down at Kendari because I don´t want to take the base before the paras are in position of course... it´s going to take around a week to move the para unit into the hex to the East...

Ebusitanus -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/5/2011 6:20:10 PM)
Great AAR to learn from. Would be great to see some more pictures though :)

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/6/2011 4:39:27 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ebusitanus Great AAR to learn from. Would be great to see some more pictures though :) hi! Welcome aboard, will try to do some more screenshots in future, I mostly do screens from the air loss lists as you might have noticed anyway because the combat report is so awfully wrong on losses so I usually include the loss list (which is 100% correct for the Allied and not far off for the Japanese losses).

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/6/2011 5:22:07 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 23, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 109,68 Japanese Ships E Hatsutaka, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AM Wa 107 xAK Asama Maru #2 xAK Yamayuri Maru E Niizaki Allied Ships SS Herring SS Herring launches 6 torpedoes at E Hatsutaka Herring diving deep .... E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Niizaki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub one of the rare events when a sub "wins" against one of the E... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 19 Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 1 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 Hurricane IIc Trop x 3 Spitfire Vc Trop x 2 Spitfire VIII x 8 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 4 P-51A Mustang x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Spitfire Vc Trop: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: No.30 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (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 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes No.134 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40000 Raid is overhead No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (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 20000 Raid is overhead No.261 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 Raid is overhead No.615 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 40000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Raid is overhead 18th FG/70th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 37000 Raid is overhead 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 311th FBG/530th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 20000 Raid is overhead the enemy keeps coming here, this time he paid more for it than in the past... even though prewarning time only shows 2 min, during the replay I got the message "raid spotted by radar"... [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 8 N1K1-J George x 2 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 254 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, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes insane how much firepower the Lightnings seem to lack compared to the six pack armed Allied fighters, this doesn´t seem right to me at all... the Lightnings kill only halve of what any other 6 x cal.50 armed fighter achieves and usually the enemy fighters are only damaged... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on X' Force , at 56,54 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 3 [8\|] Allied aircraft Beaufighter VIc x 1 Hurricane IIc Trop x 2 Spitfire Vc Trop x 1 Spitfire VIII x 3 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 1 P-51A Mustang x 1 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: No.30 Sqn RAF with Spitfire Vc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes No.146 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 , scrambling fighters to 33440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes No.177 Sqn RAF with Beaufighter VIc (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 20000 , scrambling fighters to 38440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes No.607 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 40500 , scrambling fighters to 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters to 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes 311th FBG/528th FBS with P-51A Mustang (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 20000 , scrambling fighters to 2000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes No.34 Sqn RAF with Hurricane IIc Trop (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 37440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes No.79 Sqn RAF with Spitfire VIII (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 41500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes the sweep against my leaking Cap from Rangoon really turned out badly for the Franks... this should soon stop them [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 48 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 damaged N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed on ground H8K2-L Emily: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 9 Runway hits 89 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 123 minutes with only one out of three Lightning squadrons coming in on sweep before the bombers, there are still some enemy fighters in the air but these aren´t a threat to the B-24 at all... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 5 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 14 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged Japanese Ships DD Suruyame DD Tagonami Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 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 6000 Raid is overhead 202 Ku S-1 Det B 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 6000 Raid is overhead the enemy moves an ASW TF around in the area around Balikpapan and the DD ended up in range of B-24 from Dili today... no chance to hit the agile ships with the 4E from 10000ft... the Zekes seem to be coming from Bandjermasin but are swept aside... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 damaged N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 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 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes since radar has been working it became pretty hard to torch aircraft on the ground... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed on ground H8K2-L Emily: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes 202 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 but we are working hard over the enemy airforce now... if Rainer wants to defend Mindanao with his airforce then we will bleed him dry... I´ve really saved aircraft (especially fighters) in the past and we should now be in a position to really break the enemy´s back if he really decides to pick up the fight... he can´t permanently place lots of aircraft at Davao because I would take out the airfield with another cruiser naval bombardment so this leaves him with two bigger (level 4 and 6) airfields in Northern Mindanao and these can soon be attacked from Manado at full strenght... as you can see, the bombers are already coming from Manado carrying full bombload and there will be more and more aircraft at Manado... hundreds of fighters, hundreds of USAAF heavy bombers and hundreds of Aussie torp bombers, USMC torp and dive bombers plus lots of recon and patrol aircraft... all this will be protected by a strong surface combat TF, PT boat squadrons and heavy flak at the base... if Rainer decides to attack this base then I would call that a suicide attempt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 damaged A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground L2D2 Tabby: 2 destroyed on ground N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes 202 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 49,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 50 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 23 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 5 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes here are the other two P-38 squadrons together with the lost fragment of the first sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships AO Shiretoko Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 Det A with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes looks like this isn´t an ASW TF but a tanker convoy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Tagonami AO Shiretoko Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships TK San Pedro Maru DD Tagonami Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb insane how naval strikes look like, a dozen messages again of bombers failing completely or failing to link up... what is called coordination in AE is even weirder when it comes down to nav strikes... planning strikes is impossible and you´re a victim of a borked AI in regards to strikes all the time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese Ships TK Hoten Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires [X(] DD Tagonami Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb one of the bombers gets a lucky hit on a fuel loaden tanker... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese Ships TK San Pedro Maru DD Tagonami Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 202 Ku S-1 Det A 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 6000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships DD Tagonami AO Shiretoko Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships TK San Pedro Maru DD Tagonami Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Naval Attack: 10 x 500 lb SAP Bomb uncountable piece meal strikes... [image]local://upfiles/13774/FBAEAB2B84114635B3AB320AB1E34BB9.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Bandjermasin at 62,101 Japanese Ships DD Suruyame Allied Ships SS KXI SS KXI is sighted by escort KXI bottoming out .... DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Suruyame fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub then one of our subs tried to engage this tanker convoy but is driven off immediately... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kendari (70,106) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 37385 troops, 549 guns, 1069 vehicles, Assault Value = 1421 Defending force 12520 troops, 115 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 290 Allied adjusted assault: 1725 Japanese adjusted defense: 833 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 4) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 3 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2908 casualties reported Squads: 15 destroyed, 125 disabled Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 209 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Allied ground losses: 245 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 93 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled Vehicles lost 80 (2 destroyed, 78 disabled) Assaulting units: 767th Tank Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 2nd Australian Division 4th Australian Division 249th Field Artillery Battalion I Australian Corps 143rd USA Base Force 134th Field Artillery Battalion 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 255th USN Base Force Defending units: 64th Infantry Group 58th Field AA Battalion 23rd Air Flotilla 12th Base Force 35th JNAF AF Unit our paras have blocked the enemy´s retreat path and our Corps is now succesfully attacking the enemy stronghold... expect the enemy to throw in the towel after the next one or two attacks...

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