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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/20/2011 8:09:08 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: crsutton quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 21, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer kept minesweepers at Palembang so Argonaut´s minefield was a one shot weapon that scored yesterday... when thinking a bit more about it I wonder if the total number of available mines aren´t by far too low because when thinking about the mine laying campaign later in the war, the mines dropped by aircraft were dropped in big numbers and the enemy didn´t get a nice combat report every time some bombers laid mines somewhere and the Japanese had severe problem actually clearing the mines, this if they actually found them... in the game you can use one mine layer sub every 6th week and if you use a hundred bombers three or four times you end up dropping halve a year´s Mk13 pool for no result probably because the enemy gets a nice combat report and if there aren´t convoys going in the same day, all the mines are cleared easily by some mine sweepers... works the same for both sides of course, no idea how many mines the Japanese got, probably even fewer if you have to compare it to the Allied and their mine use in real life... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The number of mines is far too low compared to rl. However, I still have bad memories concerning the pita that mines were in UV and early WitP. I hated that part of the game. quote: and the super E score again... sub confirmed sunk... [8\|] two of them are enough to whipe out a whole sub fleet in an area of 10x10 hexes... same as my tests without the ASW mortar showed, the sub was again hit and sunk by several Type 2 depth charges of those 12 DC patterns... these ships are absolutely overpowered, achieving the same performance as Allied DDs, while having crappy crew experience... there is something seriously wrong, these ships didn´t whipe out the US submarine fleet in 44, no problem for them in the game... the PBEM is ahead another two and a halve weeks, enemy super E have sunk serval subs in the weeks to come... within the next three months we will have to withdraw all subs from areas outside our LBA... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm playing an ai game. I got tired of seeing these kind of results so I beached my sub fleet in port . . . helps the ai as well. The cap reduction from splintered lba nav strikes probably has him terrified to fight a cv battle anywhere near your bases. He'll probably have to wait until you invade somewhere out of lba range. He might be waiting a long time. [;)] There are not many mines in the game but I think that just was a design decision. There have to be some aspect of gameplay even in a good historical simulation and I suspect they thought that most players would have gotten fed up with thousands of mines everywhere. Accepting that, they are fun to play with. Not a war winner but I have gotten about 20 ships with mines and my opponent has done fairly well also. You can forget about massive air drops of mines to close Japanese ports as even the crappiest minesweeper will clear them out with no problem. However, I find air mining to be very useful when I want to close an enemy base that is nearer to the frontal line. It requires air superiorty so that he can't run mine sweepers around but they are useful to hinder the flow of supplies from fast TF. In addition my sub placed mines have done pretty well. I just try to be sneaky about placing them. Observe places where TF naturally cut over some land point or atol and drop some mines there when you suspect the fleet might be coming or some large cargo TF. It is a one hit wonder as they will clear the minefield once it is discovered but you can cause some delays while they bring up a sweeper and occasionally nail a big ship. Mines won't be a pull off any major coups but can be fun if you are creative. I think they are OK as-is. I would rather they fix sub warfare. They can leave the mines alone. In this PBEM, Rainer has refused to send any supply or reinforcement convoys to any base as soon as this base really ended up within my LBA range. Arguable, but I would say that´s a smart decision because he would end up losing these ships most of the time. He used fast transport extensively earlier in the game, but was hit by the movement bug many times, cost him a couple of cruisers and lots of destroyers. IIRC we´ve even redone a turn when a full cruiser squadron ended up in LBA range because the fast transport movement wasn´t performed correctly. This has then stopped him from using any cruisers for fast transport. There was a patch that enhanced movement a bit, couldn´t totally fix it though it seems and it still happens sometimes with fast transport TF, surface combat TF or sub mine laying TF. Best thing you can do is to first place your TF within full speed range of the target and then have it move in. You can´t rely on the routine to move to the right spot and move in it seems. He uses his transport subs a lot but I guess this is just work to do and has no real effect when I look at the capacity of these subs.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/20/2011 8:22:36 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: EUBanana ...and yes, the sub routine (hah, pun), especially the ASW part of it, is totally borked. I also think subs effectiveness versus ships moving faster than the submarine need to be drastically cut down as well. I think a simple "if target speed > sub speed drop accuracy by a factor of 10" or some such would be adequate. I don´t know how much testing went into "late war" (means 44 onwards) but I guess with the original release these super E wouldn´t be comletely stalling any sub war because if you remember, until the second patch, escorts mostly only acted as targets for the subs (which IMO wasn´t correct either so toning down the hit rate of subs against enemy escorts was good) and due to the high hit rate of the subs, there wouldn´t be 1/3 of the E around in 44, probably would be sunk as fast as they come out of the shipyard. But as it stands now, it takes something like 15+ attacks to hit an E and if the super E get 15 chances to sink your subs, they probably manage to sink 2-4 with more of them being in various states of damage. Fast moving ships should be hard(er) to hit (IIRC this is modelled anyway, of course the reduced chance would be arguable), don´t now if an accuracy reduction by a factor of 10 would be good though, because if I would only get 10% of the hits on enemy fast moving targets, I wouldn´t have hit a single BB or CV in this PBEM so far and I´m pretty sure you would never get close to the sinkings of major combatants of what was achieved in real life. Of course, there are these fast moving ships that were going without escorts, these should be harder to hit, but I rather have these couple of ships hit at times instead of having no hits on enemy capital ships at all. The main problem in the sub war for me are these E available from 44 on without any clue how to fix this. Otherwise, subwar until mid 44 seems to be modelled quite well IMO (this also includes air ASW for me).

EUBanana -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/22/2011 10:24:53 PM)
Dunno, whenever a cruiser hoves into a submarines sights it seems to end up hit almost without fail in my game. CL Achilles got it this turn in fact. I woulda thought a cruiser going 25+ knots would effectively be almost immune to subs - they really aren't in this game though. On the other hand. Unless Achilles is very unlucky she'll get to go home and be patched, so she won't feature on any sinking list. Still got hit and is out of the war for a good few months, though.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 2:55:04 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 24, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 48 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 21 AMc Wa 18 AMc Wa 16 AMc Wa 15 18 mines cleared this was a failed mine laying mission because the movement routine proved to be borked again... instead of running in and out at night, Argonaut stayed at Bataan during the day and as soon as the sub was spotted in the base hex, it was clear to Rainer that I would be laying mines there... movement of all sorts (surface combat, naval bombardement, fast transport, mine laying, ground movement) has ever been borked and you just can´t rely on it... if you don´t bring your ships into position for the run in at night, you can rely on the routine failing every now and then with the potential for a disaster... wasted 4 weeks of mine production here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 109,68 Japanese Ships xAK Misaki Maru SC Ch 20 xAK Tazan Maru xAK Tokusima Maru xAK Midori Maru E Sagi E Aguni Allied Ships SS Herring, hits 17 SS Herring launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Misaki Maru E Sagi fails to find sub and abandons search E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni attacking submerged sub .... E Aguni attacking submerged sub .... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Herring is put into sinking condition after missing the freighter... 48/47/10... even the old E are a threat but not comparable to the new super E classes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laoag at 77,69 Japanese Ships E Tatsuko, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 40 SC Ch 31 SC Ch 2 AO Naruto TK Tatibana Maru TK Ogura Maru #1 TK Goyo Maru PB Kinsyo Maru #4 SC Ch 44 Allied Ships SS Finback SS Finback launches 6 torpedoes at E Tatsuko Finback diving deep .... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 attacking submerged sub .... PB Kinsyo Maru #4 loses contact with SS Finback PB Kinsyo Maru #4 cannot establish contact with SS Finback SC Ch 44 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 this one bites the dust but I would have preferred to hit a tanker because there are more than a hundred E coming out of the shipyard in 44 which isn´t true for TK I guess... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 20 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 36 [X(] Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 46 [X(] Ki-84a Frank x 43 [X(] Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 16 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 3 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D25 Thunderbolt: 3 destroyed CAP engaged: S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 29 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 34 scrambling) 15 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 38 scrambling) 11 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes we tried to engage leaking Cap from Canton lately but failed to meet any enemy fighters several times so I assumed the fighters would have been stood down or on training but it only seems Rainer has found a way to stop them from leaking out [X(] so we´ve ordered a frontal attack on Canton with several fighter sweeps, lots of escorts and all available bombers... well, we start off with the usual stupidity of not even a full squadron showing up first on sweep... this is just silly... the Thud squadron then ends up being outnumbered 8:1... what the heck are the responsible really thinking? Funny when you then get tought you should use your numerical advantage... not possible with this kind of borked routines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 18 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 34 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 37 Ki-84a Frank x 36 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 16 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38H Lightning: 3 destroyed CAP engaged: S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 18 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 22 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 34440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 12 scrambling) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes not only the Thuds are showing up with 16 fighters of a squadron, also the P-38... they are promptly shot to pieces of course... go and play BoB/BtR and look at what the AI is bringing up and learn from that game...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 24 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 30 Ki-84a Frank x 32 Allied aircraft Liberator II x 15 Liberator B.III x 27 Liberator B.VI x 15 Wellington B.X x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 48 B-25C Mitchell x 21 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses Liberator II: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Liberator B.III: 3 destroyed, 8 damaged Liberator B.VI: 3 damaged Wellington B.X: 1 destroyed B-24D1 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 4 destroyed, 5 damaged Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 104 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x Wellington B.X bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 2 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 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 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 15 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 12 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 10 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 14 scrambling) 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes it´s so ridicoulosly stupid it´s amazing that there are people still insisting of how great everything works... out of 150 fighters set to sweep, 2x16 show up before the bombers... out of 100 fighters on escort, not a single shows up with the bombers... there are over a dozen fighter squadrons set to take part in this turns attack without any of them doing what they were ordered to... so a 100% screw up this turn? From a level 9 airfield with everything in perfect condition? Sorry, this whole routine is either stupidly thought out or borked and not what it was thought to be... the way this turns out in 9 out of 10 times is it being screwed and the funny thing, those that insist on how great everything works and those that are giving tips on what to do don´t manage it any better, at least not when they post their results... omg, this is plain silly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 13 Ki-84a Frank x 9 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 18 B-25C Mitchell x 9 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-48-Ib Lily: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 7 damaged B-25C Mitchell: 3 destroyed, 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 10 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 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 47 minutes still not a single fighter... silly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 7 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 7 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 5 damaged Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 81 minutes 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes still no fighter... silly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 6 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 Ki-84a Frank x 1 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 15 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 25th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 57 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes totally silly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 5 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 1 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 5 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 24th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes stupidly designed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: S-316 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes more stupidity... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 47 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 75 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 9 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 22 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 22 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 22 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet CAP engaged: S-316 Hikotai 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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes oh it´s such a great programme, it probably wins the realism prize of the year... when the bombers were shot up because only 10% of the sweep showed up before them and no escort at all, we then get the nine "lost" Thuds of the first sweep together with 3x22 fighters of three more squadrons (that all lost 3 fighters each - silliness)... great that they then meet a single Zeke that was left... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Canton , at 77,59 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 50 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 30000 feet 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 30000 feet 6 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 30000 feet 2x22 and the 6 that were lost of the first sweep... where the 3 of each P-38 and P-47 squadrons were left is unknown... and just don´t tell me I should set the fighters at the same alt as the bombers, it just doesn´t help... if you don´t trust me, then just go ahead and do the same test in a head to head game as I did, 50 times escorts at the same alt as the bombers, 50 times at different alt... result? You sure will be amazed that there is no difference... either it´s just a myth, or it´s not working as designed, but it´s definately not the way it´s realistic or how an oh so great guide is telling you... guess I´ve spent a hundred hours testing things that I don´t believe or wasn´t able to resemble in the last 6 months, funnily enough, the results weren´t what we are told... but hey, probably the "player" is also too stupid to set up the test correctly, even though the "player" is exactly doing what he is told he should... perhaps ppl should open their eyes, sorry, then it also wouldn´t take a year of discussion if land based radar works or not when it takes you only 2 hours of testing that it didn´t... and this is true for many things in the game... I just wish the airstrikes would be copied from BoB... THAT is well modelled, even though you have to admit that it´s only about the airwar and not the airwar being one of the three most important things in the game... things can and did go wrong, but not most of the time and this is TOTALLY independent of your settings! I referre to the time back then when a dev was so kind to have a look at my bomber strikes out of Australia against PM when I was told that everything but the HQ settings was fine (but the HQ setttings seemed to have not been a confirmed condition back then). So I went ahead and changed all the squadrons to the appropriate HQs and... nothing changed... how surprising... then I went along and changed the experience, just to see if this would make any difference... and yes, it did, when I modded all pilots to 70+ experience, the bomber strikes suddenly weren´t piece meal all the time (this of course didn´t change anything about the sweeps coming late or escorts not showing up at all)... the most funny thing (to me) though is that now that the conditions to increase "coordination" are posted on the forum, EXP is missing completely here... and that was the only thing that showed an effect in my tests... I really must be stupid... at least I´m not alone as there are enough people getting more and more vocal and those that tell us it´s fine can´t come up with a series of combat reports that show they are correct... as AndyMac is the only official doing an AAR at the moment I can only referre to his AAR and when you look at this AAR, you could think that either he isn´t aware of the needed conditions or ignores them because his strikes don´t look anything different than the strikes of all the other ppl posting an AAR with combat reports... guess more than halve a year ago I said I would be glad to get it working and I also said that none of these "tips" would be ignored, but hey, these "tips" just doesn´t seem to have any notable impact... the AAR is 3 weeks behind the game and we just had a turn with lots of action and both sides had something like 200 messages of "bombers fail to locate target due to range or weather" "bombers fail to link up" and dozens of fighters ending up failing to escort, turning back or something similar... BOTH sides had the same screw ups and it wasn´t anything new... EVERYTHING that turn was screwed up and it happens repeatably... [:(] then you see 200 fighters escorting a dozen bombers to a more or less undefended target... sorry, but all this is worse than WITP and WIPT surely wasn´t famous for it´s strikes... now that land based radar works, the enemy gets up all his fighters (same is true for us of course) and none of them are destroyed on the ground, the sweeps don´t come in as they should and escorts aren´t flying with the bombers at all (not a single one)... makes it a great result, while outnumbering the enemy 3:1, so much about numerical superiority if you can´t project it over the target... the fact that aircraft can land on a completely ruined airfield (and take off from it to fly out the undamaged aircraft the next turn) doesn´t make it any better, but that was the same in WITP too... losses today were equal but in the end absolutely favour the Japanese IMO so once again, frontal assault on an enemy target is a nogo as long as the strike routine is what it is as it´s always just too much of a gamble... I´ve tried the "how you are supposed to do it" just too often without any chance to see it working any better... unfortunately... guess this post is something for the morbid curiosity... [image]local://upfiles/13774/8229F7AE89BA47F0B6B85E70343F5EAF.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 109,68 Japanese Ships xAK Tazan Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 20 xAK Misaki Maru xAK Tokusima Maru xAK Tatuha Maru xAK Midori Maru E Sagi E Aguni Allied Ships SS Flying Fish, hits 4 Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled SS Flying Fish launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tazan Maru E Sagi attacking submerged sub .... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Flying Fish scores on a troop convoy and retires with 14/4

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 3:45:05 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 25, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 48 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 21 AMc Wa 18 AMc Wa 16 AMc Wa 15 43 mines cleared that´s it for Argonaut´s minefield... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Davao at 79,91 Japanese Ships SSX Ha-52, hits 4, heavy damage Allied Ships CA Sussex CA Australia CL Nashville DD Nicholson DD Hobby SSX Ha-52 is sighted by escort DD Hobby attacking submerged sub .... Large oil slick appears over area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub sending a cruiser TF to bombard Davao and to take out one of the several midget subs there... these midgets don´t work at all for the defense so I wonder why Rainer is using them that way... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Naval bombardment of Davao at 79,91 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 78 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CA Sussex CA Canberra CA Australia CA Shropshire CL Nashville, Shell hits 1 Japanese ground losses: 41 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Manpower hits 2 Fires 660 Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 34 Port hits 1 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 2 CA Sussex firing at Davao CA Canberra firing at Davao Seagull V acting as spotter for CA Australia Kure 7th SNLF firing at CA Australia CA Australia firing at Kure 7th SNLF OS2U-3 Kingfisher acting as spotter for CA Shropshire CA Shropshire firing at 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF firing at CL Nashville CL Nashville firing at Kure 7th SNLF no aircraft at Davao so the airfield wasn´t hit hard... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,76 Japanese Ships CV Hiryu CL Noshiro CL Agano CL Oyodo DD Suzunami DD Makinami DD Hamanami DD Kiyonami DD Hayanami DD Fujinami Allied Ships SS Guitarro SS Guitarro launches 6 torpedoes at CV Hiryu Guitarro diving deep .... DD Hamanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kiyonami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fujinami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hamanami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hayanami attacking submerged sub .... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Rainer on the lucky side... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 67,74 Japanese Ships E Ukishima E Kyosai AO Ashizuri AO Shioya AO Sata TK Tamon Maru #16 TK Azuchisan Maru TK Namba Maru TK Mutsuyo Maru TK Kinmon Maru DD Matsukaze E Takashima E Hoko Allied Ships SS Batfish, hits 3 SS Batfish launches 6 torpedoes at E Ukishima DD Matsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search E Takashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Takashima attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub and abandons search E Takashima attacking submerged sub .... E Takashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Takashima fails to find sub, continues to search... E Takashima fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub heavily escorted tanker convoy, Batfish retires with 17 sys 18 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet we start the usual way to sweep enemy bases... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Peleliu at 88,100 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 36 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 18 P1Y1 Frances x 18 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 20 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 208 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 5 destroyed P1Y1 Frances: 10 destroyed Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 11 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 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 35 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 14 planes vectored on to bombers VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 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 36 minutes 8 planes vectored on to bombers VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 16 planes vectored on to bombers VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 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 10000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 14 planes vectored on to bombers VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 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 36 minutes 8 planes vectored on to bombers VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (6 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 12 planes vectored on to bombers VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 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 24 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 8 planes vectored on to bombers VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers moved our carrier TFs (without the CVE) closer to Peleliu and we draw some airstrikes out of that area... guess Rainer has limited his bombers´ range but we came pretty close to his premises... it was the usual dive massacre and nearly none of the enemy aircraft escaped... no chance against such a Cap with radar support... I was a bit surprised about the number of Hellcats on Cap because I expected at least a hundred more... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 85 F4U-1A Corsair x 19 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 41 Aircraft Attacking: 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 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 2 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 at least one P-47 squdron swept before the bombers came in... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 37 F4U-1A Corsair x 39 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 F4U-1A Corsair x 13 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses 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 3 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb and this time most of the bombers also get escorts... none of the Corsairs being set to 10000ft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 F4U-1A Corsair x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 47 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 31 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 3 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 3 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet here comes the second P-47 squadron on sweep, together with the usual 2x3 fighters lost from two other squadrons... heck, if you leave all the arguments about coordination and how strikes look like aside, I really wonder who´s out there that doesn´t think it would be silly to see fighter squadrons losing three of their fighters all the time on the way to target... this must have come up during beta testing, so who thought this would be cool the way it was/is? [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet and the third squadron on sweep coming late...[8\|] best way to do it still seems not to send bombers at all as long as you want to sweep... but then you can also end up with bombers coming in without any fighters the whole day because the escorts don´t show up at all or after the bombers... no more attacks on my carrier fleet today, we have to be satisfied with the four dozen aircraft shot down during the morning... [image]local://upfiles/13774/C58018DD93D54834ADFE1666196C0798.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 61,80 Japanese Ships xAK Jusan Maru SC CHa-48 SC CHa-36 SC CHa-4 AM Wa 101 xAK Jintsugawa Maru xAK Yuzan Maru xAK Sanura Maru xAK Nissen Maru xAK Kisogawa Maru xAK Iwashiro Maru xAK Awajisan Maru xAK Kyosei Maru xAK Ryuun Maru xAK Argun Maru xAK Ryuzan Maru xAK Okuyo Maru E Aotaka E Yurijima PB Hokuyo Maru PB Jokuja Maru Allied Ships SS Ling, hits 2 SS Ling launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Jusan Maru E Aotaka attacking submerged sub .... E Yurijima fails to find sub and abandons search PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka attacking submerged sub .... 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 another freighter is missed... seems like the subs aren´t achieving a famous hit rate at the moment...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 3:47:49 PM)
trading three Hellcats for four dozen enemy aircraft that were mostly downed over the carriers is a good trade... none of our pilots was lost... [image]local://upfiles/13774/272F2C192F664E69B66D439964F67D2F.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 4:02:42 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 26, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Light rain Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 38 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 9 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 3 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 9 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes expected the enemy carriers going to Cam Ranh Bay and they actually were spotted there today... none of them hit any mines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Light rain Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Light rain Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bataan at 77,77 Japanese Ships SC Ch 39 E Asagao Allied Ships SS Truculent SS Truculent launches 2 torpedoes at SC Ch 39 Truculent diving deep .... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... E Asagao fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 101,70 Japanese Ships xAK Tatuha Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 20 xAK Misaki Maru xAK Zyunyo Maru xAK Tokusima Maru xAK Midori Maru E Sagi E Aguni Allied Ships SS Wahoo, hits 3 Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled SS Wahoo launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Tatuha Maru Wahoo diving deep .... E Sagi fails to find sub and abandons search E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni attacking submerged sub .... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Wahoo scores on another troop carrying ship but has to retire with 5/28/2.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,73 Japanese Ships E No.10 E No.9 Allied Ships SS Muskallunge SS Muskallunge is sighted by escort Muskallunge diving deep .... E No.10 fails to find sub and abandons search E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub guess I have to move my subs away from this area as it would soon end up in suicide staying here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,73 Japanese Ships E No.1 E No.10 E No.9 Allied Ships SS Guardfish, hits 3 SS Guardfish is located by E No.1 Guardfish diving deep .... E No.10 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 attacking submerged sub .... E No.10 fails to find sub and abandons search E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 attacking submerged sub .... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.9 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub 11 sys 13 flt means getting away... SS KXVI hit by air ASW 8/29/3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 43 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 49,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 25 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 25 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet first the sweeps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb then the bombers... and none of the sweeps lost any of their fighters on the way to target... must have been a good day then... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain 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 Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 60 P-38J Lightning x 25 Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 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 8 Runway hits 30 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 16 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb we kept patrolling around Peleliu with our carriers but except a couple of enemy patrol aircraft we didn´t engage any other enemy aircraft which wasn´t that surprising... carriers retiring towards Manado again... [image]local://upfiles/13774/752E6D9DD8BE40A392D47BE15337814B.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 4:07:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 27, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Brunei at 64,80 Japanese Ships xAK Mexico Maru PB Genmei Maru PB Kiko Maru PB Toshi Maru #7 PB Takunan Maru #3 PB Shintohoku Maru SC CHa-37 SC CHa-29 SC CHa-20 SC Ch 50 AK Kinka Maru AK Sasako Maru AK Sagami Maru AK Hirokawa Maru xAP Teiritsu Maru xAP Naminoue Maru xAP Kobe Maru xAP Argentina Maru xAP Teiko Maru xAK Yosida Maru #3 xAK Utide Maru xAK Nojima Maru xAK Kiyoshima Maru xAK Giyu Maru xAK Teiryu Maru xAK Tempei Maru xAK Tensin Maru xAK Unyo Maru xAK Daigen Maru xAK Denmark Maru xAK Manyo Maru xAK Kinugawa Maru xAK Goyo Maru E Nuwashima E Tsubame PB Ginyo Maru PB Daitei Maru Allied Ships SS Stingray SS Stingray launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Mexico Maru Stingray diving deep .... E Nuwashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Tsubame fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Ginyo Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsubame fails to find sub and abandons search PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Daitei Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub huge convoy, probably carrying troops... sub missed (again)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 42 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 5 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 12 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 6 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet 4 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes as the enemy carriers were still sitting at Cam Ranh Bay I decided to also fly mine laying missions today... didn´t help, the carriers left during the day without even encountering the mine field... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator laying Mk 13 Mine from 10000 feet Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,73 Japanese Ships E No.1, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage E No.10 Allied Ships SS Muskallunge, hits 17, heavy damage SS Muskallunge launches 6 torpedoes at E No.1 E No.10 attacking submerged sub .... Debris floats to surface in area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub if you trade a sub for one of the super E then you´re lucky... [:(] Muskallunge confirmed sunk, E No.10 alone was enough to sink the sub with Type 2 DC... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Culion at 73,77 Japanese Ships DD Asanagi DD Hatakaze DD Tatsukaze Allied Ships SS Devilfish SS Devilfish launches 6 torpedoes at DD Asanagi Devilfish diving deep .... DD Tatsukaze 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 Devilfish eludes ASW attack from DD Asanagi DD Asanagi cannot reach attack position over SS Devilfish SS Devilfish eludes DD Asanagi by diving deep DD Asanagi loses contact with SS Devilfish DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 18 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 101 P-38J Lightning x 40 F4U-1 Corsair x 14 F4U-1A Corsair x 37 PV-1 Ventura x 75 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 12 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 34 Airbase supply hits 13 Runway hits 138 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 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 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 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 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 PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 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 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 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 Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 18 F4U-1A Corsair x 14 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 59 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb knocking out all airfields on Mindanao now... no enemy resistance for the moment... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 24 P-38J Lightning x 9 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 20 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 7 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 9 Runway hits 38 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 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 Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 21 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 20 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laoag at 81,71 Japanese Ships TK San Ramon Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PB Naruto Maru #3 PB Taiko Maru SC Ch 32 TK Palembang Maru TK Marifu Maru TK Okigawa Maru DD Murakumo DD Isonami E Saishu Allied Ships SS Crevalle, hits 5 SS Crevalle launches 6 torpedoes at TK San Ramon Maru DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Isonami fails to find sub and abandons search E Saishu fails to find sub and abandons search DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Murakumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Murakumo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Creavalle probably sinks a tanker and retires with 15 sys 14 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 61,84 Japanese Ships AK Ayatosan Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage LSD Shinshu Maru AK Awazisan Maru AK Arima Maru AK Kaga Maru AK Sado Maru xAK Igasa Maru xAK Santos Maru xAK Eiko Maru #2 xAK Bunzan Maru xAK Hakonesan Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Mikasa Maru xAK Kimishima Maru xAK Fushimi Maru PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Scamp SS Scamp launches 6 torpedoes at AK Ayatosan Maru PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and Scamp sinks a freighter at the end of the turn... one sub sunk sub with another one being damaged for one E, one TK and one xAK sunk today...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 4:18:28 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 28, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 30 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 59,81 Japanese Ships DD Akizuki BB Haruna BB Kongo CA Chikuma CA Tone DD Amatsukaze DD Shiranui DD Maikaze DD Hayashio Allied Ships SS Sculpin, hits 8, heavy damage SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at DD Akizuki DD Amatsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Shiranui fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Maikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayashio attacking submerged sub .... Debris floats to surface in area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub confirmed sunk... not much difference between a German sailor on an Uboat in the Atlantic and a USN sailor on one of the subs in the South China Sea or South of Japan at this stage of the war... that´s KB... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 59,81 Japanese Ships CVL Mizuho BB Mutsu BB Nagato CL Naka CL Sendai DD Aogumo DD Hatsushima DD Nenohi Allied Ships SS Gudgeon, hits 5, heavy damage SS Gudgeon launches 6 torpedoes at CVL Mizuho DD Aogumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Hatsushima attacking submerged sub .... DD Nenohi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Aogumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsushima fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nenohi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Aogumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Aogumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Aogumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Aogumo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub I dare to say that Rainer stretches his luck again when it comes down to sub attacks on his capital ships... this time we score with duds (10% chance [8\|])... in return Gudgeon isn´t as lucky and suffers 24 sys 74 flt and is in high danger of sinking... [image]local://upfiles/13774/D5B11069A0034456818F90CC5C8671DF.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 65,77 Japanese Ships APD Fuji AK Sakura Maru xAP Huso Maru xAP Koan Maru xAP Takatiho Maru xAP Rakuyo Maru xAP Haruna Maru xAP Hakone Maru xAP Hikawa Maru xAP Brazil Maru E Tsuga Allied Ships SS Trout SS Trout launches 4 torpedoes at APD Fuji Trout diving deep .... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and a missed salvo... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 65,77 Japanese Ships SC Ch 26 AK Sakura Maru xAP Huso Maru xAP Koan Maru xAP Takatiho Maru xAP Haruna Maru xAP Hakone Maru xAP Hikawa Maru xAP Brazil Maru E Tsuga Allied Ships SS Trout, hits 1 SS Trout is sighted by escort Trout diving deep .... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga attacking submerged sub .... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 32 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Brunei at 64,83 Japanese Ships BB Yamashiro BB Fuso CA Suzuya CA Mogami CL Ninaru CL Teshio CL Kitakami CL Abukuma CL Kinu CL Yura CL Natori CL Isuzu CL Nagara DD Arikaze DD Ishikaze DD Susukaze DD Hikokaze Allied Ships SS Grayback, hits 23, and is sunk [8\|] SS Grayback is sighted by escort Grayback diving deep .... DD Ishikaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Susukaze attacking submerged sub .... SS Grayback forced to surface! DD Susukaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hikokaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Ishikaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Susukaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hikokaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Ishikaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hikokaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Ishikaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Susukaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hikokaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Ishikaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Susukaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Hikokaze firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves and the next sub sunk... [:(] around mid 44 we probably are going to see all Allied subs being withdrawn from active combat duty as it just doesn´t pay off in the long run... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amami Oshima at 96,61 Japanese Ships DD Yukaze E Kamo Allied Ships SS Tinosa, hits 1 SS Tinosa launches 6 torpedoes at DD Yukaze DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... E Kamo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 59,84 Japanese Ships SC Ch 40 SC Ch 31 AO Naruto TK Tatibana Maru TK Goyo Maru PB Kinsyo Maru #4 SC Ch 44 Allied Ships SS Guavina SS Guavina is sighted by escort PB Kinsyo Maru #4 fails to find sub and abandons search SC Ch 44 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 44 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 44 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 44 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 44 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 44 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 50,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Babeldaob at 90,97 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 A6M2-N Rufe x 3 E13A1 Jake x 1 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 10 Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses PB4Y-1 Liberator: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Japanese Ships AMc Ataka Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk AMc Takasago Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk Aircraft Attacking: 3 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 4 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: 801 Ku S-1 with A6M2-N Rufe (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 12000 Raid is overhead 263 Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 3 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 32810. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 264th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 35200. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 902 Ku T-1 with E13A1 Jake (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 9000 Raid is overhead Rainer wanted to lure my carriers into a fighter trap as he created a couple of useless AMc TFs to draw a carrier strike yesterday already but I limited the range of my bombers as I´ve noticed his useless ships in port and recon spotted a lot of fighters yesterday already... have set two PB4Y-1 squadrons on nav attack though as I´ve thought they would cut through the Cap easily... Cap was minimal to my surprise (seems like lots of fighters were moved out after my carriers moved away yesterday) and the bombers had no problem sinking two of the useless vessels... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 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 18 F4U-1A Corsair x 30 PV-1 Ventura x 57 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 12 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 24 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb preparing for the invasion of Mindanao... the carriers are tasked to meet the invasion force around Manado... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 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 18 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 PV-1 Ventura x 18 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb therefore the airforce is ordered to round the clock bombing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 144 B-25D1 Mitchell x 39 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 14 damaged B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 34 Airbase supply hits 12 Runway hits 262 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 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 Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 33 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 B-25D1 Mitchell x 24 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 3 damaged Airbase hits 8 Runway hits 40 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light 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 9 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 47 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 3 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet 3 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet this is what I find the silliest about all the coordination routine... there is no reasonable nor realistic nor historic explanation for this... three squadrons each losing three fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 37 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Torishima at 111,70 Japanese Ships xAK Florida Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage PB Sureboko Maru Allied Ships SS Wahoo, hits 2 SS Wahoo launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Florida Maru PB Sureboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sureboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sureboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sureboko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sureboko Maru attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Wahoo then finishes an already damaged freigther...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 4:26:23 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 29, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 32 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 32 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 102,68 Japanese Ships E No.20 Allied Ships SS Scorpion, hits 17, heavy damage SS Scorpion launches 6 torpedoes E No.20 attacking submerged sub .... Debris floats to surface in area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub a single one of the super E is enough to sink the next sub... this is truly getting ridicoulos... all hits scored by Type 2 DC from 12 DC patterns... if the Japanese manage to keep their merchant marine intact into 44 then they won´t have a problem keeping it intact until the end of the war because the super E will take care of the silent service... at least that´s going to be benefitting a PBEM as it keeps the enemy competitive... it also confirms my decision to take the closest way into the SRA to cut off the enemy from his oil/fule imports asap as the subs at best can sink the number of tankers the enemy is getting as replacements (and my subs did well in this respect up to now)... I would say that without the subs, the enemy tanker capacity would have grown immensively while it stayed static with the losses so far... now the time is coming closer and closer when the Army and Airforce are tasked to do something about the enemy fuel imports... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 11 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet [image]local://upfiles/13774/7E8237C625354BBEAFB697CF7273C8DB.jpg[/image] I don´t know if Rainer really knows what to do with his carriers because other than running over my subs a couple of times each turn, I can´t make up a real strategy behind his movements because KB now again is sitting off the North Eastern tip of Borneo...

crsutton -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 8:05:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 24, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 48 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 21 AMc Wa 18 AMc Wa 16 AMc Wa 15 18 mines cleared this was a failed mine laying mission because the movement routine proved to be borked again... instead of running in and out at night, Argonaut stayed at Bataan during the day and as soon as the sub was spotted in the base hex, it was clear to Rainer that I would be laying mines there... movement of all sorts (surface combat, naval bombardement, fast transport, mine laying, ground movement) has ever been borked and you just can´t rely on it... if you don´t bring your ships into position for the run in at night, you can rely on the routine failing every now and then with the potential for a disaster... wasted 4 weeks of mine production here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know if I have a problem with this. There always should be a risk with a fast transport mission. Many times Japanese ships were unable to clear Allied air range in the Solomons campaign and got hammered. There are any number of reasons that a FT mission could get held up. I like the fact that there is an element of risk in it now. There should be. That said, it really depends on the frequency. If say, one in four fast type mission is failing to clear out the day after, then I would find that acceptable and say it adds to the excitment of the game. If it were happening more often than 20-25% of the time, then yes, it is still a problem. I find that one of the best uses of PT boats is to foul up a Japanese night mission forcing them to use up OP points that will prevent them clearing out in time.

crsutton -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/25/2011 8:07:40 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: crsutton quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 24, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 48 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 21 AMc Wa 18 AMc Wa 16 AMc Wa 15 18 mines cleared this was a failed mine laying mission because the movement routine proved to be borked again... instead of running in and out at night, Argonaut stayed at Bataan during the day and as soon as the sub was spotted in the base hex, it was clear to Rainer that I would be laying mines there... movement of all sorts (surface combat, naval bombardement, fast transport, mine laying, ground movement) has ever been borked and you just can´t rely on it... if you don´t bring your ships into position for the run in at night, you can rely on the routine failing every now and then with the potential for a disaster... wasted 4 weeks of mine production here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know if I have a problem with this. There always should be a risk with a fast transport mission. Many times Japanese ships were unable to clear Allied air range in the Solomons campaign and got hammered. There are any number of reasons that a FT mission could get held up. I like the fact that there is an element of risk in it now. There should be. Should the Japanese player be allowed to use too valuable CAs and DDs for fast transport missions without a great deal of risk? I say no.... That said, it really depends on the frequency. If say, one in four fast type missions is failing to clear out the day after, then I would find that acceptable and say it adds to the excitment of the game. If it were happening more often than 20-25% of the time, then yes, it is still a problem. I find that one of the best uses of PT boats is to foul up a Japanese night mission forcing them to use up OP points that will prevent them clearing out in time.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 12:32:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: crsutton quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 24, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 48 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 21 AMc Wa 18 AMc Wa 16 AMc Wa 15 18 mines cleared this was a failed mine laying mission because the movement routine proved to be borked again... instead of running in and out at night, Argonaut stayed at Bataan during the day and as soon as the sub was spotted in the base hex, it was clear to Rainer that I would be laying mines there... movement of all sorts (surface combat, naval bombardement, fast transport, mine laying, ground movement) has ever been borked and you just can´t rely on it... if you don´t bring your ships into position for the run in at night, you can rely on the routine failing every now and then with the potential for a disaster... wasted 4 weeks of mine production here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know if I have a problem with this. There always should be a risk with a fast transport mission. Many times Japanese ships were unable to clear Allied air range in the Solomons campaign and got hammered. There are any number of reasons that a FT mission could get held up. I like the fact that there is an element of risk in it now. There should be. That said, it really depends on the frequency. If say, one in four fast type mission is failing to clear out the day after, then I would find that acceptable and say it adds to the excitment of the game. If it were happening more often than 20-25% of the time, then yes, it is still a problem. I find that one of the best uses of PT boats is to foul up a Japanese night mission forcing them to use up OP points that will prevent them clearing out in time. the problem is that it is coming up due to the movement routine having a problem. If it would happen due to something going wrong (say two ships colliding, engine breakdowns, etc) then that would be something different. Rainer for example has lost a hell a lot of cruisers and even more destroyers because the movement routine thought it would be great to have his fast transports just stay one or two hexes off the target hex for unknown reason and that´s not really what would have happened in real life if there wouldn´t go something seriously wrong. Bad happenings is something different to me than a bug.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 3:07:36 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 30, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 18 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 57,84 Japanese Ships DD Uzuki Allied Ships SS Hammerhead SS Hammerhead launches 6 torpedoes at DD Uzuki Hammerhead bottoming out .... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Uzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 69,83 Japanese Ships BB Kirishima BB Hiei DD Kagero DD Hagikaze DD Nowaki DD Hamakaze DD Urakaze Allied Ships SS Trusty SS Trusty is sighted by escort Trusty diving deep .... DD Hagikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nowaki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hamakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Urakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nowaki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Urakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Urakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Urakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub time to hit an enemy capital ship again I would say... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 12 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 27 F4U-1 Corsair x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 57 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y1 Judy: 2 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 9 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 60 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb interesting that Rainer has moved Judies to Cotabato... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y1 Judy: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 14 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 9 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y1 Judy: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malaybalay , at 80,90 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 38 P-38J Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 27 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 17 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 56 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 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 round the clock bombing as the invasion is only three days ahead... too many airfields on Mindanao that could become a threat if they stay operational... KB alone is something I don´t fear anymore as we´re fielding some 1600 carrier based ac that are covering our invasions, 700+ being fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malaybalay , at 80,90 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 P-38J Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/77F814ECA29945289EC9715B6BB4E60A.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Iriomote at 92,62 Japanese Ships SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 TK Mirii Maru PB Muroran Maru PB Myoken Maru Allied Ships SS Amberjack Captain of SS Amberjack elects not to launch torpedoes at this target Amberjack diving deep .... PB Muroran Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Myoken Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Myoken Maru loses contact with SS Amberjack PB Myoken Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Socotra at 12,7 Japanese Ships SS I-36, hits 1 Allied Ships DD Vampire TK British Destiny DD Van Ghent SS I-36 launches 6 torpedoes at DD Vampire 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 attacking submerged sub .... DD Van Ghent is out of ASW ammo DD Van Ghent is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub enemy sub lurking next to the map entry... no matter which waypoint I set, the convoys here have to pass through this hex...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 3:25:03 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 31, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 182 encounters mine field at Brunei (65,87) Japanese Ships AMc Heimei Maru 5 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,76 Japanese Ships E No.10 Allied Ships SS Guitarro, hits 14, heavy damage SS Guitarro launches 4 torpedoes at E No.10 E No.10 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.10 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.10 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.10 attacking submerged sub .... Debris floats to surface in area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub Guitarro is the next victim of these silly super E... confirmed sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bassein at 51,52 Japanese Ships SS I-158, hits 1 Allied Ships YMS BYMS-2048 xAK Vito xAK Skagerak xAK Yenangyaung xAK Itria YMS BYMS-2044 SS I-158 launches 8 torpedoes at YMS BYMS-2048 YMS BYMS-2048 fails to find sub and abandons search YMS BYMS-2044 fails to find sub, continues to search... YMS BYMS-2044 fails to find sub, continues to search... YMS BYMS-2044 attacking submerged sub .... YMS BYMS-2044 fails to find sub, continues to search... YMS BYMS-2044 attacking submerged sub .... YMS BYMS-2044 is out of ASW ammo YMS BYMS-2044 is out of ASW ammo YMS BYMS-2044 is out of ASW ammo YMS BYMS-2044 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Catanduanes at 83,81 Japanese Ships E No.18, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage E No.14 Allied Ships SS Permit, hits 16, heavy damage SS Permit launches 4 torpedoes at E No.18 Permit diving deep .... E No.14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.14 attacking submerged sub .... Large oil slick appears over area of attack! Escort abandons search for sub not just Guitarro is sunk by the super E this turn, also Permit is sunk... sorry, but this is only laughable... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Broome at 57,121 Japanese Ships SS I-155, hits 12, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Bagley DD Dunlap DD Ralph Talbot SS I-155 launches 8 torpedoes at DD Bagley DD Dunlap fails to find sub and abandons search DD Ralph Talbot attacking submerged sub .... DD Ralph Talbot fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Ralph Talbot attacking submerged sub .... DD Ralph Talbot fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub in return we probably sink an enemy sub, but we do that with Allied DD, not Japanese escort types that mutate to super ASW platforms in this game... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,77 Japanese Ships DD Tatsukaze DD Hatakaze DD Asanagi Allied Ships SS Raton, hits 9 SS Raton launches 4 torpedoes at DD Tatsukaze DD Tatsukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Tatsukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi attacking submerged sub .... DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi is out of ASW ammo DD Asanagi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub then Raton is knocked out... 25 sys 42 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Naval bombardment of Talaud-eilanden at 79,97 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 133 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CA Sussex CA Canberra, Shell hits 1 CA Australia CA Shropshire CL Nashville, Shell hits 1 Japanese ground losses: 62 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 12 Port hits 2 Port supply hits 1 CA Sussex firing at Talaud-eilanden Wake Coastal Gun Battalion firing at CA Canberra CA Canberra firing at Wake Coastal Gun Battalion Seagull V acting as spotter for CA Australia Wake Coastal Gun Battalion firing at CA Australia CA Australia firing at Wake Coastal Gun Battalion OS2U-3 Kingfisher acting as spotter for CA Shropshire CA Shropshire firing at Talaud-eilanden Wake Coastal Gun Battalion firing at CL Nashville CL Nashville firing at Wake Coastal Gun Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 60 F6F-3 Hellcat x 10 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 20 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 20 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 20 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 18 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 23 F6F-3 Hellcat x 14 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 23 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 48 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 20 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 10 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet I just love how this works, better say how it doesn´t work... not only do I think it´s silly to see carriers trying to escort LBA strikes all the time, they also fail 100% in doing so... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 10 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Chungking , at 76,45 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 21 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-IIa Lily: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 F4U-1 Corsair x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 11 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 27 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 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 30 PV-1 Ventura x 27 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 14 damaged Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 F4U-1A Corsair x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 25 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 121 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 4 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Airbase hits 22 Airbase supply hits 11 Runway hits 170 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 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 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-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 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 CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 16 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes also taking out Iloilo before the Mindanao invasion goes in because this level 4 airfield could also become a threat... landings are planned at Cotabato with a full Corps, everything fully prepped... the enemy is only holding the place with a meager garisson... while there are 80+ enemy units on the island, if we aren´t stopped before landing at the beach, Mindanao will be lost... the enemy can´t reinforce Cotabato quickly enough to prevent us capturing the place on the first turn after landing there and then we have a potential level 9 airfield and we have another Corps prepped for Mindanao already, so we are talking about some 3500-4000 av... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 8 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 7 damaged Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes Banzai! - Kawabata S. in a A6M2 Zero rams a B-24J Liberator for the Emperor -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 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 18 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain 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 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Training flight from 263 Ku S-2 has been caught up in attack -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 263 Ku S-2 with A6M2 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 13 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 F6F-3 Hellcat x 165 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet * 20 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 16 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 17 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 15 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 13 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft Corsair II x 12 F6F-3 Hellcat x 86 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 28 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 17 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 12 x Corsair II sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 14 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet you can only shake your head about such a design... what am I supposed to do? 331 fighter sorties from the carriers today that failed to escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 20 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 24 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 152 SB2C-1C Helldiver x 93 Japanese aircraft losses D4Y1 Judy: 1 destroyed on ground Airbase hits 15 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 134 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 4000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 7 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 4000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 14 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 2000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 23 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 2000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 23 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 3000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 9 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 3000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 8 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 4000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 5 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 3000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 1 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 2000' Airfield Attack: 1 x 1000 lb GP Bomb, 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb in total the routine decided to nearly assign 500 fighter sorties for the attack on Cotabato... the way this is designed now, there should be at least the option to "escort naval strike" now, otherwise it´s just a complete screw up and the player can not control anything here... 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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 3:31:48 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 01, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Groot Natoena at 61,84 Japanese Ships PB Ogashima, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SC Ch 16 TK Dairetsu Maru TK Tamon Maru #15 xAK Teisen Maru xAK Meiu Maru xAK Yamabuki Maru xAK Oregon Maru E W-14 PB Tatsumiya Maru Allied Ships SS Hammerhead SS Hammerhead launches 6 torpedoes at PB Ogashima Hammerhead diving deep .... E W-14 attacking submerged sub .... 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 attacking submerged sub .... E W-14 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-14 attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub vs Sub: SS Cisco attacking SS I-121 at 97,157 - near Maryborough Japanese Ships SS I-121 Allied Ships SS Cisco SS Cisco launches 6 torpedoes at 4,000 yards mine layer sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Catanduanes at 84,80 Japanese Ships PB Shonon Maru #15 PB Fumi Maru #3 PB Akitsui Maru xAP Palau Maru xAP Kowa Maru xAP Kasado Maru xAP Tatsuta Maru xAK Kiyozumi Maru xAK Toyama Maru xAK Daido Maru xAK Shinanogawa Maru xAK Myoko Maru PB Aso Maru #7 PB Hozugawa Maru PB Showa Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Shad SS Shad is sighted by escort Shad diving deep .... PB Aso Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Showa Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Aso Maru #7 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hozugawa Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kanoya at 106,66 Japanese Ships E Ishinui E No.8 Allied Ships SS Tunny, hits 14, heavy damage SS Tunny launches 6 torpedoes at E Ishinui E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E No.8 fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.8 fails to find sub and abandons search E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... E Ishinui fails to find sub, continues to search... E Ishinui attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub yesterday we lost two subs to super E with another one heavily damaged by attacking destroyers... today we lose the next sub to an "old" E... 57 sys 76 flt 12 eng, sunk a couple of turns later... and SS Devilfish was hit by air ASW 21/5/2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 17 B-25D1 Mitchell x 60 P-38J Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged B-25D1 Mitchell: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 104 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 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-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 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 6 No Allied losses Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 7 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 45 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 P-38J Lightning x 21 Japanese aircraft losses H6K5 Mavis: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb invasion of Mindanao going in tomorrow, the invasion TFs are covered by a heavy SAG and two escort carrier TFs, fielding more than 400 Hellcats, the three carrier TFs will stay one hex West of Cotabato... I can only hope that CVE still are suitable to be in a coastal hex without suffering a 50% Cap reduction... you can also see my subs trying to cover the approaches of the invasion area, the subs in the South China Sea are out convoy hunting but have become the haunted... [image]local://upfiles/13774/BF872911B45D42A990A191B714065695.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 4:02:46 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 02, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amoy at 84,62 Japanese Ships PB Kantori Maru SC CHa-48 SC CHa-36 SC CHa-7 SC CHa-4 AM Wa 101 xAK Jintsugawa Maru xAK Yahiko Maru xAK Yamakisan Maru xAK Tatsuho Maru xAK Sanura Maru xAK Ryoyo Maru xAK Kyokusei Maru xAK Kisogawa Maru xAK Iwashiro Maru xAK Fusemi Maru xAK Kyosei Maru xAK Ryuun Maru xAK Argun Maru xAK Teimei Maru xAKL Assam Maru E Aotaka E Yurijima PB Hokuyo Maru PB Jokuja Maru Allied Ships SS Steelhead SS Steelhead is sighted by escort E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yurijima fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Jokuja Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Yurijima fails to find sub and abandons search PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hokuyo Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aotaka fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Rockhampton at 101,150 Japanese Ships SS I-121, hits 35, heavy damage Allied Ships PF Bisbee AP Gen. O.H.Ernst AP Gen. J.R.Brooke xAP Empress ' Australia xAP Benjamin Franklin xAP Fusto Arosemena xAP Monterey xAK William E. Channing xAK Wilbur O. Atwater xAK Segundo Ruiz Belvis xAK James Rolph xAK James King xAK Edward G. Acheson xAK Cleveland Abbe DE Sanders DE Reynolds PF Hutchinson SS I-121 is sighted by escort DE Sanders attacking submerged sub .... DE Reynolds attacking submerged sub .... PF Hutchinson fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Sanders fails to find sub and abandons search DE Reynolds fails to find sub and abandons search PF Hutchinson attacking submerged sub .... Underwater explosion, debris and oil appear on surface! Escort abandons search for sub I-121 got away yesterday but bites the dust as it runs over one of my big troop convoys that brought troops from the West Coast to the front... guess I have to send out some minesweepers to check Brisbane and Sydney for subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Cotabato TF 127 troops unloading over beach at Cotabato, 78,90 Allied ground losses: Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) this is a single damaged APA unloading that I have split off the main convoy because it showed up as too slow to move in tonight... it nevertheless did and there is no enemy CD so the APA should be save... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 29 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Detroit CL Raleigh CL Perth CL Leander LST-75 LST-74 DMS Elliot Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CL Detroit firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Raleigh firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Perth firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Leander firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Cotabato TF 153 troops unloading over beach at Cotabato, 78,90 Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) M3 Grant/Lee lost from landing craft during unload of 4th Armoured Bde /11 a perfectly going invasion once again, 100% prepared is a must for my operations... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 68 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Trenton CL Richmond CLAA Prince Robert LST-43 LST-32 LST-38 DMS Forrest LST-41 Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CL Concord firing at II./90th Infantry Battalion CL Marblehead firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Trenton firing at 88th Naval Guard Unit CL Richmond firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CLAA Prince Robert firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 5,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Cotabato TF 297 troops unloading over beach at Cotabato, 78,90 Allied ground losses: 38 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled) Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled) Motorized Support damaged beyond repair during unload of 6th Infantry Div /14 13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad 43 lost overboard during unload of 6th Infantry Div /11 8 Aviation Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 148th USA Base Force /2 Motorized Support accidentally lost during unload of 41st Infantry Div /16 81mm M1 Mortar lost in surf during unload of 41st Infantry Div /8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 67 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Detroit CL Raleigh CL Perth CL Leander LST-74 LST-81 LST-75 DMS Elliot Allied ground losses: 88 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled CL Detroit firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Raleigh firing at 88th Naval Guard Unit CL Perth firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 6,000 yards Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 2,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 29 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships CL Concord CL Marblehead CL Trenton CL Richmond CLAA Prince Robert LST-32 DMS Forrest LST-43 LST-38 CL Concord firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Marblehead firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Trenton firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment CL Richmond firing at 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft at 1,000 yards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 278 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 2 AMc Wa 1 70 mines cleared enemy starts to clear my air laid mines now... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Aogashima at 113,65 Japanese Ships SC Ch 5 xAK Sensan Maru xAK Kunitu Maru SC Ch 10 Allied Ships SS Dragonet SS Dragonet is sighted by escort Dragonet diving deep .... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 49 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 21 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 40 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 20 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 20 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 21 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 50,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 17 NM, estimated altitude 48,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 5 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 F4U-1 Corsair x 14 F4U-1A Corsair x 14 PV-1 Ventura x 57 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 17 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 32 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 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb no sign of enemy air activity over Mindanao, all airfields seem to be inable to launch strikes or Rainer has decided it wouldn´t be worth it to defend Mindanao at all cost... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 7 PV-1 Ventura x 18 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 9 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 PV-1 Ventura x 9 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 130 B-25D1 Mitchell x 57 P-38J Lightning x 8 F4U-1A Corsair x 21 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 7 damaged B-25D1 Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese Ships LB-156, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-146, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-159, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-137, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-154, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-144, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 140 Port hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 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 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 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 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 6 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 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 3 B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 3 damaged Japanese Ships LB-149, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-148, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-142, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 6 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 Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 F4U-1A Corsair x 1 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 9 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships APA Sheridan APA Sheridan fired at enemy troops that´s the damaged APA... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 26 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-456 LST-203 LST-180 LST-176 LST-175 LST-83 LST-78 LST-75 LST-74 CL Perth CL Detroit LST-82 LST-456 fired at enemy troops LST-203 fired at enemy troops LST-180 fired at enemy troops LST-176 fired at enemy troops LST-175 fired at enemy troops LST-83 fired at enemy troops LST-78 fired at enemy troops LST-75 fired at enemy troops 15cm T96 Howitzer battery firing at LST-74 all troops on the beach, only supplies are unloaded at this stage... perfectly loading the invasion TFs was a must as I want my convoys leaving the dangerous area after one turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cotabato Defensive Guns engage approaching landing force 8 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LST-452 LST-448 LST-447 LST-354 LST-339 LST-171 LST-43 LST-40 LST-32 LST-38 LST-452 fired at enemy troops LST-448 fired at enemy troops LST-447 fired at enemy troops LST-354 fired at enemy troops LST-339 fired at enemy troops LST-171 fired at enemy troops LST-43 fired at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Cotabato (78,90) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2887 troops, 48 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 110 Defending force 62064 troops, 996 guns, 1575 vehicles, Assault Value = 2197 Japanese ground losses: 214 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 21 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: II./90th Infantry Battalion 88th Naval Guard Unit 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 4th JNAF Coy Defending units: 6th Infantry Div /1 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 41st Infantry Div /1 25th Infantry Div /1 18th Combat Engr Rgt /1 4th Armoured Brigade 4th Marine Div /1 30th Field Artillery Regiment 147th Field Artillery Regiment 148th USA Base Force /1 XIV US Corps /1 151st USA Base Force /1 16th RAAF Base Force /1 2nd RAN Base Force /1 taking that base won´t be a problem tomorrow... Allied units are ordered to shock attack... now the most interesting part of this turn: KB showed up 8 hexes North of the invasion beaches but didn´t launch a single strike on my invasion or my carrier fleet parking 45 miles to the West... we have set our Helldivers to nav search 8 hexes and spotted KB probably two dozen times today and despite set to react, my carrier fleet again was frozen in place... [8\|] plenty of op points but nothing... all that happened was the usual massacre of aircraft on naval search (this should be looked at at some point too)... Rainer again positioned KB in perfect range to the invasion site as he stays one hex outside the range of my carrier strikes while being in range of his bombers... there wasn´t a single enemy ac shot down over my carriers which alerted me and after asking Rainer he confirmed my concern that he aimed at my invasion fleet which is exactly what I would like to avoid... he´s aware about the fact that losing halve or more of my precious APA would be a bigger loss than having some of my carriers sunk, therefore he wanted to keep the detection level of my carriers as low as possible (in fact it was non existent) while the invasion convoys are spotted by default when they land troops... very well planned and executed, the only problem seems to have been weather... it would have been quite interesting though how the two dozen CVE would have performed in covering the invasion, much would have also depended on how much Cap from my fleet carriers would have leaked East... Rainer knows how I perform my invasions so I´m quite predictable here, but I preferre being predictable and have all my forces as close by instead of sending my fleet carriers with a big hurrey in a direction I expect KB to show up, just to find out I was wrong and KB comes from a different direction taking on my invasion fleet... while I first have been a bit upset about my carrier fleet not reacting, thinking about it a moment later I´m glad they didn´t because even if I feel my force being superior (clearly superior), the best fight still is the fight you avoid while still achieving what you want to achieve, which means gaining ground... and my forces are constantly growing while the Japanese probably already reached their high peak in carriers and everytime they move around they run the danger of being attacked by my subs... [image]local://upfiles/13774/F47BA1F5269748808EF26E27D1799771.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 4:04:04 PM)
18 Helldivers lost on nav search today... [image]local://upfiles/13774/D8B184F8509E4A42913E1EC3C8FB6C7B.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2011 4:13:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 03, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 278 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 2 AMc Wa 1 80 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 133 encounters mine field at Brisbane (96,160) Allied Ships AM Champion AM Chief 4 mines cleared as expected, I-121 was on a minelaying mission... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near San Francisco at 214,77 Japanese Ships SS I-3, hits 5 Allied Ships DE Chew xAK James Harlan xAK Irving M. Scott xAK Henry Dearborn xAK Gabriel Franchere xAK Ferdinand Westdahl xAK Charles Crocker xAK Benjamin Ide Wheeler DD Kilty DD Kennison SS I-3 launches 4 torpedoes at DE Chew DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kennison fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kilty attacking submerged sub .... DD Kennison fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kilty attacking submerged sub .... DD Kilty fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub it still amazes me that Rainer sends subs all the way to the West Coast... other than very early success in hitting one modern BB and a CV these subs have achieved nothing... as it stands now, I would keep all my subs together and operate them in big wolfpacks (with one sub per hex only of course) against one of my fleet operations because the subs are also in danger of being when operating against my convoys spread out over the map with only a small chance to sink something while they could seriously hurt my fleet if they manage to torpedoe some of my capital ships... this thought get´s more and more valid for my submarine force now too when enemy super E are vacuum cleaning his convoy routes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 133 encounters mine field at Brisbane (96,160) Allied Ships AM Champion AM Chief 13 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 278 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 2 AMc Wa 1 72 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Fukue-jima at 100,59 Japanese Ships xAKL Arizama Maru, Torpedo hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage xAKL Junpo Maru xAKL Shingetsu Maru xAKL Saiko Maru xAKL Miiko Maru xAKL Hinko Maru PB Senyo Maru Allied Ships SS Sunfish, hits 2 SS Sunfish launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL Arizama Maru Sunfish diving deep .... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Senyo Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Senyo Maru cannot reach attack position over SS Sunfish PB Senyo Maru loses contact with SS Sunfish PB Senyo Maru cannot establish contact with SS Sunfish PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub small freighter sunk for 8 sys 36 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cotabato at 77,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIc Lily x 27 Ki-84a Frank x 22 No Japanese losses Allied Ships LST-170, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-IIc Lily bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 100 kg SAP Bomb our convoys left the invasion site during the night and only a heavily damaged LST was trying to limp to Manado... the LST ran aground during the invasion and had 80 major floatation so probably wouldn´t have made it anyway... must be a great success for the Japanese, they manage to sink an already sinking LST during the Allied invasion of Mindanao... [;)] I see Mindanao as lost for the Japanese already... while I can´t tell exactly what these 80 enemy units exactly are on the island, bringing in reinforcements with convoys would be suicide and I got more than enough units to be brought to Mindanao to take the place if the units tasked for it wouldn´t be sufficient... having 80 units there and all the base building probably used up lots of supplies, close range bombing will further wear down supply stocks of the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Cotabato (78,90) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 54403 troops, 966 guns, 1581 vehicles, Assault Value = 2214 Defending force 3033 troops, 48 guns, 24 vehicles, Assault Value = 95 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Allied adjusted assault: 6522 [:D] Japanese adjusted defense: 2 Allied assault odds: 3261 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Cotabato !!! Combat modifiers Defender: Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 2657 casualties reported Squads: 52 destroyed, 50 disabled Non Combat: 87 destroyed, 49 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 20 (17 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 22 (22 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 4 Allied ground losses: 218 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 43 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 6th Infantry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 25th Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 4th Marine Division 41st Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 4th Armoured Brigade 148th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 151st USA Base Force 2nd RAN Base Force 30th Field Artillery Regiment XIV US Corps 16th RAAF Base Force Defending units: II./90th Infantry Battalion 88th Naval Guard Unit 17th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 4th JNAF Coy Cotabato falls easily, engineering units are already on the way to build up the airfield...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/28/2011 9:25:54 AM)
CV Yorktown is now fully repaired at Darwin, took us two months to repair the torpedo damage... got three ARD at Darwin and this is my primary base for urgent repairs... only really heavily damaged ships will move off map or to the big shipyards on the West Coast (after having done emergency repairs at Darwin)... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 04, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 133 encounters mine field at Brisbane (96,160) Allied Ships AM Champion AM Chief 18 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 278 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 2 AMc Wa 1 70 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 278 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72) Japanese Ships AMc Wa 2 AMc Wa 1 24 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Naha at 95,67 Japanese Ships E Sagi E Awaji SC Ch 20 xAK Misaki Maru xAK Zyunyo Maru xAK Midori Maru E Aguni Allied Ships SS Flounder SS Flounder launches 6 torpedoes at E Sagi Flounder diving deep .... E Sagi fails to find sub and abandons search E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... E Aguni fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator II x 15 Liberator B.III x 27 Liberator B.VI x 30 B-24D1 Liberator x 87 Allied aircraft losses Liberator II: 1 damaged Liberator B.III: 2 damaged Liberator B.VI: 2 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 7 damaged Light Industry hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator II bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb we´ve destroyed all the other industry at Bangkok already and I decided to also attack LI today, hit rate was pretty much non existent... wasn´t there a statement that LI is harder to hit? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Light Industry hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 12 Ki-61-Ic Tony x 16 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 98 P-38J Lightning x 30 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 51 F4U-1A Corsair x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 4 destroyed Ki-61-Ic Tony: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 3 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 81 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 15 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 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 13 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 3 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 9 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 7 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 4 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * CAP engaged: 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (16 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 16 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIb Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 12 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes Rainer brings back his fighters to Mindanao, they´re based at the level 2 airfield of Malabaytay (sp?) North of Davao and seems to use them on LRCAP... we have both escorts and sweeping fighters coming in with the bombers and in this case it really meant bad news for the enemy Cap as the Lightnings were diving on them for quite a while taking them apart for not even a single Lightning lost... the Thunderbolts weren´t as lucky, as they lost more of their own than they were able to take down as they were dived on by the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 58 P-38J Lightning x 22 F4U-1A Corsair x 14 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIb Helen: 2 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 146 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 looks like an ASW airbase... bringing aircraft to this side of Borneo isn´t a real good idea though as these bases are reconed daily and are in perfect strike distance... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 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 22 F4U-1A Corsair x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 37 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 F4U-1A Corsair x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62 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-24D1 Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Bangkok , at 56,62 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb no sub attacks but air asw claimed hits on SS Tinosa 7 sys 34 flt and SS Truculent 34/7/5... [image]local://upfiles/13774/0CCCAB37A68B4A809A04B4EF0545B55A.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/28/2011 12:51:38 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 05, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 98,63 Japanese Ships PB Akagane Maru xAKL Junpo Maru xAKL Shingetsu Maru xAKL Miiko Maru xAKL Hinko Maru PB Senyo Maru Allied Ships SS Tinosa SS Tinosa launches 6 torpedoes at PB Akagane Maru Tinosa diving deep .... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 38 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-84a Frank sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 30000. Raid is overhead VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes the enemy attacks the newly captured airfield at Cotabato today which is very surprising to me because I can´t see much reason for him to do so as we´ve got so many engineers there that keeping the airfield damaged is impossible, nor is going to destroy any bombers there as we only got fighters at the field which pose more a threat to him (due to radar) then his sweeps to us... unfortunately I decided to use my fighters for a sweep myself today, so the enemy was only met by a handful of my fighters... but those fighters did an excellent job, which isn´t surprising with radar and the dive... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 7 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 10 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 4 minutes that´s where we´ve sent our fighters to draw leaking Cap... it worked, but I would have preferred to see my 50 Corsairs scrambling over Cotabato... a pity... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 10 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet * CAP engaged: 33rd 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, 1 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes S-324 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead other front but also drawing leaking Cap with my Thuds coming from Hanoi... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 41 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 4 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 9 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 4 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 14 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet * CAP engaged: S-324 Hikotai 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, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes Oscars and Zekes are helplessly outclassed usually when going up against Thuds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 2 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 22 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet * CAP engaged: 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (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 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 22 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 10 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-44-IIc Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes same fate for the Tojos when they come in against radar... Rainer sends in quite a lot of force today, oh why did I just send out my fighters on a sweep... [:(][;)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 21 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 11 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Chungking , at 76,45 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 21 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb have moved long range recons (Lightnings and especially Liberator recons) to Chungking and have started to recon bases in Korea and on Formosa to make the enemy a bit nervous... Rainer knows that we received our first B-29 and due to this he also moved fighters to his important Korean bases to defend against B-29 strategic attacks, which is exactly what suits me because these fighters (hundreds of them) have to be employed far away of the front or he has to accept that my B-29 will destroy these industry sites if not covered by enemy fighters... what he doesn´t know is that we are still building up our B-29 force, I´m aiming at 9 operational squadrons (all with 12 bombers) and I´m creating elite squadrons at the moment. The original 7 bomber squadrons the first B-29 units are showing up with have been downgraded to other bombers and will serve as training squadrons, other highly experienced frontline squadrons have been taken out of the front and been upgraded to B-29 and have been further reinforced with the best available bomber crews. I´m aiming for high experience in this case as this is what is going to bring back the bombers and minimize losses, usually high experienced crews got high grd bomb skill anyway so the B-29 squadrons should really be a highly potent force... the transfer of the best 144 bomber crews (9 x 16) of course will drain my frontline B-24 squadrons to some extent and these crews will be replaced by low exp (40 on average) crews with grd bomb skill 70 which are the usual replacements, so I expect to see the performance of my B-24 squadrons to slightly decrease (we will make up with numbers) and losses slightly go up due to lower experience levels... I expect to see my first B-29 attack in about three weeks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-67-Ia Peggy x 22 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 6 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-67-Ia Peggy: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-67-Ia Peggy bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters to 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead some of the bombers turned back due to not having any escorts (probably a screw up) and only a handful of Corsairs left to score some easy kills... seeing Peggies is somewhat alerting me as the Peggy is quite a formidable bomber of the Japanese and if the Ia is showing up at the front already, I guess it won´t take much longer to also see torpedo equipped Peggies which is what I really fear... I don´t know how it looks like in AE and the IJAAF bomber upgrade paths with PDU on, if all IJAAF bombers can be upgraded to torp bombers then I´m going to be in trouble on the first thought... but then I realized that the enemy is going to totally lack IJAAF bomber crews trained to torp attack, so it will take him at least three months to have a first bunch of trained pilots after the appearance of the Peggy, so he would have to really invest a hell a lot to completely equip the IJAAF with torpedo carrying bomber units, I guess the enemy won´t be able to do so and the few that are going to be trained could be shot down in a day or two if they run into a nice number of my fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 22 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 4 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-44-IIc Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet 3 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 9000 feet CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 30 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 6 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet no matter if the coordination routine in generel is arguable (trying to keep it polite), the fact that fighter squadrons on sweep more or less always lose a couple of fighters is just ridicoulos, I sure would like to hear an explanation for it... I´m sure there are ppl out there on the forum that could even find an explanation for it, just like I usually do when I get home totally drunk at 6 am and find an explanation for my gf... and at that time I even think it would be a reasonable one, until I get sober again... perhaps I should take the time at some point and list a hundred fighter squadron missions and post it in a way like "a teachable moment, here you see..." [:'(] it´s ridicoulos... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 82 Ki-61-Ic Tony x 7 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 47 P-38J Lightning x 19 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Ki-61-Ic Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 destroyed, 9 damaged P-38J Lightning: 6 destroyed Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 2 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 14 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 CAP engaged: 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers 265 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, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 8 planes vectored on to bombers Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 11 planes vectored on to bombers Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead 2 planes vectored on to bombers Hiryu-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 9 planes vectored on to bombers Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 7 planes vectored on to bombers Junyo-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, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers Shoho-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, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Zuiho-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, 2 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Ryuho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes Hosho-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, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 7 planes vectored on to bombers Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Shinyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead 1 planes vectored on to bombers Ryujo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 1 planes vectored on to bombers while the fight over Cotabato clearly went in our favour, this wasn´t planned to go the way it did... we wanted to keep the airfield at Iloilo suppressed and ordered a routine mission for the heavies that got escorted by some P-38... unfortunately for us, KB ends up in range to send more than 80 Zekes from leaking Cap to defend the place (when I look at the KB units, I´m not sure it was LRCAP)... having excellent radar coverage here, the Lightnings were shred by the diving Zekes and it turned out to be a bloody affair for this Lightning squadron, unfortunately it has been one of our elite squadrons and a lot of the pilots are gone now as they really got massacred... one of the examples where you would have been 5 times better off not sending a single escort with the heavy bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 35 Ki-61-Ic Tony x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 10 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 265 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 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes Shokaku-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 38500 , scrambling fighters to 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes Zuikaku-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 between 10000 and 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 58 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes Hosho-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 13000 , scrambling fighters between 16000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (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 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes Shinyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 15000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 261 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 20000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes because the Zekes are really helpless against any Allied 4E if they aren´t massed and rise up in the three or four hundred... no problem to down our fighters though when they get the never ending dive... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 42 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 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 7 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 86 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 18 Ki-61-Ic Tony x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 7 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 265 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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes S-603 Hikotai 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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes Soryu-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 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Hiryu-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 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 61 minutes Shokaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Shoho-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 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes Zuiho-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 16000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes Hosho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Shinyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead Zuikaku-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Unryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Akagi-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 7 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 265 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes Shokaku-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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes Hiryu-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes Unryu-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 S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes Akagi-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 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 19 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet * 3 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet * 3 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 37000 feet * silly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 11 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 11 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet the enemy still seems not to have accepted the fact that attacking our bases where we´ve got fighters and radar turns out to be a nogo... I wouldn´t fly any attacks on Allied bases at this stage and would completely focus on attacking shipping as this is the only thing that really could hurt us... attacking bases is only something the Japanese are paying for while they can hold their own when they defend their own bases, at least when I look at the fighter losses for each side... [image]local://upfiles/13774/E16507464396485882B7B103D60D0A20.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/28/2011 1:00:08 PM)
Here´s a comparison between the Mitchell attack bomber variant and the torpedo carrying Peggy. When looking at the aircraft stats, the Peggy is quite a formidable bomber, could be a serious threat to Allied shipping if employed in numbers and decent crews trained in torp attacks (probably the biggest problem for the Japanese). I don´t care much about the service rating for bombers and while having nearly the same durability as the Mitchell, the Peggy is considerable faster, can carry a torp out to 14 hexes and compared to earlier IJAAF bombers also seem to carry some more effective defensive armament (while I doubt this will really fend off Allied fighters)... I would really like to have the Peggy in my arsenal, I´m using Aussie Beaufort VIII instead, these are overall worse than the Peggy, the main disadvantage is the torp range of only 8 or 9 hexes and so far the enemy never brought any shipping into range of these bombers... I guess the enemy hasn´t moved a single ship in 1E torp or dive bomber range for more than two years, as soon as we build up our airfields, he just leaves his ground troops alone and hasn´t dared to move any convoys into range of my (short and medium ranged) LBA... wonder if all the anti shipping training I have been doing all the time is going to be really worth it... [:D] [image]local://upfiles/13774/A1A30C08FEA74C058CF3CBAA42577F62.jpg[/image]

anarchyintheuk -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/28/2011 7:06:18 PM)
Similar cruise speed, the B25 has greater endurance, the Peggy has greater range . . . hmmm.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2011 3:39:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk Similar cruise speed, the B25 has greater endurance, the Peggy has greater range . . . hmmm. yeah, better max range for the B-25 but worse combat range.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2011 4:06:11 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 06, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 60,84 Japanese Ships DD Asagiri E Omae AO Kyuko AO Kyokuto Maru AO Shiriya AO Ondo TK Nisshin Maru #2 DD Mochizuki DD Mikazuki Allied Ships SS Hammerhead SS Hammerhead launches 4 torpedoes at DD Asagiri DD Mochizuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Mikazuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Mikazuki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 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 don´t know how Rainer keeps his fighters from leaking out of their base but he has great success doing so lately... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 45,000 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 40000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Chungking , at 76,45 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 21 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cotabato , at 78,90 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 38 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 18 Ki-49-IIb Helen x 20 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 15 F4U-1A Corsair x 28 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed Ki-49-IIb Helen: 8 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-49-IIb Helen bombing from 9000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 13 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 25 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers 49th FG/9th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers 35th FG/40th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 3 planes vectored on to bombers these bombers were supposed to fly last turn but Rainer forgot about them which meant very bad news for both the escorts and bombers... 6 Helen made it to target though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 1 Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 63 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 31 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 6 Runway hits 76 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 14 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 252 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 18 F4U-1A Corsair x 63 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 11 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 49 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 3 x 500 lb GP Bomb 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 6 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 9 F4U-1A Corsair x 63 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 11 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 15 F4U-1A Corsair x 63 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 15 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 19 F4U-1A Corsair x 63 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 2 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * 17 x P-47D2 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet * the fighter escort bug again... two times more Corsairs on escort over the target with each strike than we have available at Manado... always the same Corsairs... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 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 [8\|] not a bug but the well known design of fighter sweeps losing a couple of their fighter all the time... note the realism... [image]local://upfiles/13774/68B501E181FA4632A1314344F8799F71.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2011 4:14:36 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 07, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amoy at 84,62 Japanese Ships E No.5 E No.2 E No.7 E No.6 Allied Ships SS Steelhead Captain of SS Steelhead elects not to launch torpedoes at this target E No.7 fails to find sub and abandons search E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub good idea, the sub gets away undetected... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amoy at 84,62 Japanese Ships E No.2 E No.7 E No.6 Allied Ships SS Steelhead, hits 7, heavy damage SS Steelhead is sighted by escort Steelhead diving deep .... E No.7 fails to find sub and abandons search E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 attacking submerged sub .... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.6 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the super E get another chance and put the sub in sinking condition... 36/67/9... if late war stages (is early 44 late war?) haven´t been really looked at, perhaps it´s time to do it as these super E are pretty much off... or come up with a statement that it was done for in game reasons to keep the Japanese player competitive, in any case it forces the Allied player to stop the sub war completely in the year that saw the most Japanese ships sunk in real life... [8\|] again, it´s not the ASW mortar, it´s the 12 Type 2 DC mount that is the killer (which can be easily tested by modding these E without an ASW mortar at all which is exactly what I´ve done)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 62,78 Japanese Ships TK Batopaha Maru AO Sata TK Tamon Maru #16 TK Azuchisan Maru TK Kinmon Maru TK Fukko Maru DD Matsukaze E Takashima E Hoko Allied Ships SS Ling, hits 1 SS Ling launches 6 torpedoes at TK Batopaha Maru Ling diving deep .... DD Matsukaze attacking submerged sub .... SS Ling eludes ASW attack from DD Matsukaze E Takashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze attacking submerged sub .... SS Ling eludes ASW attack from DD Matsukaze SS Ling eludes DD Matsukaze by diving deep SS Ling eludes DD Matsukaze by diving deep E Hoko fails to find sub and abandons search DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Matsukaze cannot establish contact with SS Ling DD Matsukaze cannot establish contact with SS Ling SS Ling eludes ASW attack from DD Matsukaze DD Matsukaze cannot reach attack position over SS Ling DD Matsukaze cannot establish contact with SS Ling Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 62,78 Japanese Ships E Kyosai, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PB Tomitu Maru AO Ashizuri AO Sata TK Tamon Maru #16 TK Azuchisan Maru TK Kinmon Maru TK Fukko Maru DD Matsukaze E Takashima Allied Ships SS Ling, hits 3 SS Ling launches 4 torpedoes at E Kyosai DD Matsukaze attacking submerged sub .... E Takashima fails to find sub and abandons search DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Matsukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Matsukaze is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub better hit a super E instead of one of the old ones... but with more than a hundred coming out of the shipyards the next months it wouldn´t matter anyway... the Japanese player gets enough super E in 44 to sink 500 Allied subs... Ling retires with 11 sys 4 flt... well, as it looked pretty realistic until early 44, it´s better than WITP as you could end any Allied sub activities in mid 42 in WITP... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sian , at 83,41 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 21 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Taytay , at 75,82 Weather in hex: Moderate 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 58 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 86 Aircraft Attacking: 14 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 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 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 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Taytay , at 75,82 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Taytay , at 75,82 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet * Airfield Attack: 5 x 500 lb GP Bomb KB is out on a sightseeing trip again but we have limited our bombers´ ranges not to run into a fight again where we only would suffer senseless losses without achieving more than wearing down the Cap without having any follow on strikes on the ships... just get a little closer... we claim Judies on nav search, KB claims Mariners on nav search... [image]local://upfiles/13774/B8F267BB3C1C4F5C8B93AAA6CDFD1961.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2011 4:30:01 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 08, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Soc Trang at 61,79 Japanese Ships AO Ashizuri E Ukishima PB Tomitu Maru AO Sata TK Tamon Maru #16 TK Ebara Maru TK Azuchisan Maru TK Kinmon Maru E Takashima E Hoko Allied Ships SS Guavina, hits 4 SS Guavina launches 6 torpedoes at AO Ashizuri E Takashima attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Takashima fails to find sub and abandons search E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko attacking submerged sub .... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... E Hoko fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub our subs also stopped hitting targets like freighters or tankers, for what reason ever, we see more misses than hits... wonder how this works with the modded two torp salvoes, when the subs got hard times hitting with 6 torps if they would have used only one torp in real life to hit freighters... torpedo usage doesn´t matter anyway in the game because before a sub would ever run out of torps it gets either sunk or heavily damaged by super E escorts in 44... Guavina retires with 10 sys as I don´t want to keep her on station to suffer some more hits and the sys damage then being the reason for it sinking in no time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Taihoku at 90,62 Japanese Ships E No.6, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage E No.7 Allied Ships SS Sturgeon, hits 5 SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at E No.6 Sturgeon diving deep .... E No.7 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.7 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.7 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.7 fails to find sub, continues to search... E No.7 attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub wow, we kill one of the super E... only some 258 to go... of course the sub is heavily damaged in return and retires with 25 sys 46 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Pamekasan , at 57,105 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft J2M2 Jack x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 15 Japanese aircraft losses J2M2 Jack: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-602 Hikotai with J2M2 Jack (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Pamekasan , at 57,105 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-901 Hikotai Det A with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (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 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (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 the Corsairs have a field day diving on the enemy... dive or not to dive, that´s the question... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 49 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 28 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * Samarinda sees two main parts of Corsair squadrons flying together... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 42 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * followed by three main parts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 14 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet * these sweeps all are escorts failing to link up with the bombers... screwed up escort attempts actually end up in better sweeps than if you order the Corsairs to sweep... that´s AE design logic... or can someone explain it to me why squadrons on sweep usually aren´t able to fly together (heck, they can´t even fly as a full squadron but lose two or three fighters most of the time) but they are doing a "sweep" together when they FAIL to escort... boy, it´s really screwed and I can see no logic here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Pamekasan , at 57,105 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft J2M2 Jack x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 8 Ki-45 KAIc Nick x 5 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 21 Japanese aircraft losses J2M2 Jack: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 4 destroyed Ki-45 KAIc Nick: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 8 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet 1 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet 2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-602 Hikotai with J2M2 Jack (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 37 minutes 5th Sentai with Ki-45 KAIc Nick (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 248th 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, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead having the never ending dive, the enemy is shot to pieces... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 24 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 F4U-1A Corsair x 28 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 31 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 64 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft PBJ-1D Mitchell x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 6 No Allied losses Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Samarinda , at 65,96 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb decided not to constantly attack the bases on Borneo in range as I seriously doubt that Rainer will send any more convoys to these bases and if he would, they would end up under heavy air attacks... doubt he would risk any of his freighters, let alone tankers... [image]local://upfiles/13774/44E50E79BAF649F98A4C760138020C30.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (2/1/2011 2:46:51 PM)
CV Franklin arrived off map today, heading to join some CVE and further on to Darwin, the main fleet base... we already field four CV/CVL task forces with a total of around 1500 aircraft (I would have liked to create more TFs but I just lack escorts, despite minimal losses - like only 1 CA so far)... my carrier TFs usually consist of 5 CV/CVL, 1 fast BB, four CA/CLAA/CL and 12 Fletcher class DD... basically I´m lacking fast BB and cruisers as these are also needed to cover the CV TFs (one SAG covering the carriers has 2 modern BB, several cruisers and 12 DD) and some are always undergoing repairs/upgrades... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 09, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 238 encounters mine field at 49,90 Japanese Ships SC Ch 44 PB Kinsyo Maru #4, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 40, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SC Ch 31, Mine hits 1, heavy damage 2 mines cleared Argonaut has just visited the river hex North East of Palembang tonight and the first convoy passing the hex has three escorts sunk to mines... three mine hets, two more are cleared... leaves another 55... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 259 encounters mine field at 49,90 Japanese Ships PB Nikki Maru, Mine hits 1, heavy damage PB Ichiyo Maru, Mine hits 1, heavy damage looks like I´m quite lucky today... another two mines gone... [;)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 69,83 Japanese Ships LSD Shinshu Maru AK Awazisan Maru AK Arima Maru AK Kaga Maru AK Sado Maru xAK Igasa Maru xAK Eiko Maru #2 xAK Bunzan Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Toho Maru PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Stonehenge SS Stonehenge is sighted by escort PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 394 encounters mine field at 49,90 Japanese Ships DD Asagiri, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AO Kyokuto Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AO Ken'yo Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire TK Nisshin Maru #2, Mine hits 1, heavy damage wow, I´m really lucky as now also a tanker convoy runs into the minefield... I wasn´t aware of the result until I checked the combat report as the replay only gives you the sound for ships hitting mines but nothing else, I was already pleased when I saw the first four vessels hitting mines but what we got today is something we probably won´t be able to resemble any time again in the war with Argonaut´s minefields (not enough mines left to keep Argonaut out on constant mine laying)... these mines carry quite some punch and can sink a DD easily, could also be a killer for a tanker if the ship carries fuel or oil or not being close to a friendly port (the question here is if the convoy is going in or out of Palembang)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 69,84 Japanese Ships xAK Aso Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage LSD Shinshu Maru AK Awazisan Maru AK Arima Maru AK Kaga Maru AK Sado Maru xAK Igasa Maru xAK Ryoyo Maru xAK Santos Maru xAK Eiko Maru #2 xAK Bunzan Maru xAK Hakubasan Maru xAK Kinsyo Maru PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Lancetfish SS Lancetfish launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Aso Maru Lancetfish diving deep .... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub with all the mine hits it´s a good day for the silent service... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 4th Chinese Base Force, at 79,50 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 17 Ki-48-IIa Lily x 21 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 18th Chinese Base Force ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Base Force ... Also attacking 18th Chinese Base Force ... Also attacking 4th Chinese Base Force ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Nago at 94,62 Japanese Ships TK Toshikawa Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage SC Ch 51 SC Ch 15 SC Ch 13 TK Kyokuyo Maru TK Peking Maru TK Koryu Maru E W-1 E Susuki PB Hirota Maru Allied Ships SS Runner SS Runner launches 6 torpedoes at TK Toshikawa Maru Runner diving deep .... E W-1 fails to find sub and abandons search E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Hirota Maru fails to find sub and abandons search E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to search... E Susuki fails to find sub, continues to 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... Escort abandons search for sub our subs accounted for over halve a dozen enemy ships sunk without suffering a single point of sys damage... really a lucky day...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (2/1/2011 3:04:58 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 10, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 39 encounters mine field at 49,90 Japanese Ships AMc Fuji Maru #4 AMc Wa 19 AMc Wa 5 AMc Wa 4 50 mines cleared that´s it for the minefield near Palembang... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Daito Shoto at 101,73 Japanese Ships xAK Sansho Maru xAK Kinmo Maru PB Kaiun Maru Allied Ships SS Gunnel, hits 1 SS Gunnel launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Sansho Maru PB Kaiun Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laoag at 80,72 Japanese Ships xAKL Nissyo Maru xAKL Junpo Maru xAKL Shingetsu Maru xAKL Nissen Maru #2 xAKL Miiko Maru xAKL Hinko Maru PB Senyo Maru Allied Ships SS Jack Captain of SS Jack elects not to launch torpedoes at this target Jack diving deep .... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Senyo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 69,82 Japanese Ships DD Oshio BB Musashi CA Kako CA Aoba CA Myoko CL Yubari DD Natsugumo DD Katsutade DD Tadeshiwa DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Stonehenge, hits 5 SS Stonehenge launches 6 torpedoes at DD Oshio Stonehenge diving deep .... DD Katsutade attacking submerged sub .... DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare attacking submerged sub .... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Katsutade fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Katsutade fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Katsutade fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Katsutade fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Musashi in action again, which strenghtens my assumption that the torpedo hit was only FOW some time ago... Stonehenge takes light damage, retiring with 15 sys 18 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Brunei at 64,80 Japanese Ships PB Rokko Maru PB Choun Maru #18 LSD Shinshu Maru AK Awazisan Maru AK Arima Maru AK Kaga Maru AK Sado Maru xAK Igasa Maru xAK Santos Maru xAK Eiko Maru #2 xAK Bunzan Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Kinsyo Maru PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Bluegill SS Bluegill is sighted by escort Bluegill diving deep .... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Probolinggo , at 56,105 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (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 36740 Raid is overhead drawing some Japanese fighters from Soerabaja... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Burias , at 80,81 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-61-Ic Tony x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61-Ic Tony: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 15 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes and some from the Philipines... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 14 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 14 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sian , at 83,41 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIa Helen x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Rainer noticed all my recon aircraft in China and of course also my airfields growing there... at the moment we have a level 9 airfield at Chungking, a level 7 at Sian (reaching level 9 in probably 5 weeks) and a level 7 airfield in Changsha (reaching level 9 in 8 weeks)... all these bases will receive more than 250 aviation support, some flak (I don´t rely on flak doing anything though) and most important radar of course as I would like my fighters to actually scramble... nearly a dozen recon units are flying daily recon over Korean and "Western" Japan´s industry sites which has lead Rainer to transfer a couple of hundred fighters to these bases, probably most of them are on training and he´s only trying to scare me when I get intel about 200 fighters at a base... if they aren´t on training but on Cap then I will end up in a massacre of my bombers at some point, but this would also mean he would lose a hell a lot of fighters for his training programme... he of course knows that we can already fly B-29 attacks and I guess he´s awaiting our first strike... using two recons is enough to have the enemy transferring at least one fighter unit to the base we recon, a good trade I would say... attacks like the one above seem to be a try to keep me from further building up the Chinese bases but these attacks have had nil effect so far... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Probolinggo , at 56,105 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 11 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 4 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1 Corsair: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (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, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes unfortunately my Corsair squadrons have started to also lose 2 fighters of each unit on a sweep... it´s mega annoying and I just don´t see a reason behind this... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Probolinggo , at 56,105 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 34 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet 18 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 248th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters to 36800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Burias , at 80,81 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-61-Ic Tony x 6 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61-Ic Tony: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Burias , at 80,81 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-61-Ic Tony x 4 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 2 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61-Ic Tony: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (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 to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 51 F4U-1A Corsair x 28 Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 8 Runway hits 77 Aircraft Attacking: 12 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 6 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 55 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 141 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 39 F4U-1A Corsair x 19 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 35 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 28 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 246 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 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 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 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 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 nuking Cagayan´s airfield, I doubt the IJAAF will ever return to Mindanao again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 P-38J Lightning x 22 Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 2 damaged Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 32 F4U-1A Corsair x 14 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 57 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 P-38J Lightning x 22 Allied aircraft losses B-25D1 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 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 12 Japanese aircraft losses H6K4 Mavis: 1 destroyed on ground Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Butuan , at 80,89 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-25D1 Mitchell x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 6 Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cagayan , at 79,89 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 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Burias , at 80,81 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-61-Ic Tony x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61-Ic Tony: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Ic Tony (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 19 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Brunei at 64,80 Japanese Ships PB Rokko Maru PB Choun Maru #18 LSD Shinshu Maru AK Awazisan Maru AK Arima Maru AK Kaga Maru AK Sado Maru xAK Igasa Maru xAK Santos Maru xAK Eiko Maru #2 xAK Bunzan Maru xAK Tsukuba Maru xAK Kinsyo Maru PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Bluegill SS Bluegill launches 6 torpedoes at PB Rokko Maru Bluegill diving deep .... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Sangi at 78,97 Japanese Ships SST Yu-7, hits 24, heavy damage Allied Ships DE Express DE Encounter SST Yu-7 is sighted by escort DE Express fails to find sub, continues to search... DE Encounter attacking submerged sub .... DE Express fails to find sub and abandons search DE Encounter attacking submerged sub .... DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo 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 DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter attacking submerged sub .... DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter is out of ASW ammo DE Encounter fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the transport sub is hit hard but not confirmed sunk (guess it is though)... Encounter only stopped her attack runs due to running out of depth charges...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (2/1/2011 3:28:28 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Apr 11, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Makinami CL Noshiro CL Agano CL Oyodo DD Suzunami DD Hamanami DD Kiyonami DD Hayanami DD Fujinami Allied Ships SS O23, hits 1 SS O23 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Makinami O23 diving deep .... DD Hamanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kiyonami attacking submerged sub .... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fujinami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hamanami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kiyonami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hayanami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the IJN has set sail again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships CV Hiryu CL Noshiro CL Agano CL Oyodo DD Suzunami DD Makinami DD Hamanami DD Kiyonami DD Hayanami DD Fujinami Allied Ships SS KXV, hits 11, heavy damage SS KXV launches 4 torpedoes at CV Hiryu DD Hamanami attacking submerged sub .... DD Kiyonami attacking submerged sub .... DD Hayanami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Fujinami attacking submerged sub .... DD Hamanami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kiyonami fails to find sub and abandons search DD Fujinami attacking submerged sub .... DD Fujinami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fujinami fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fujinami attacking submerged sub .... DD Fujinami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Rainer works hard on using up his luck again... Hiryu is spotted and attacked by SS KXV and then the TORPS FAIL TO DETONATE!!! [:(] 10% chance to see the torps failing... the sub is put in sinking condition in return, 54 sys 51 flt 2 eng, trying to make Manado for emergency repairs... [image]local://upfiles/13774/4552C3B0F1254F64B8E9056D979E507D.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Balabac at 71,84 Japanese Ships DD Wakazuki CLAA Tatsuta CLAA Tenryu DD Yudachi DD Suzukaze DD Umikaze DD Kawakaze DD Samidare Allied Ships SS O23, hits 12, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk[:(] SS O23 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Wakazuki DD Suzukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Umikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Kawakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Kawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Samidare attacking submerged sub .... DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Samidare attacking submerged sub .... SS O23 forced to surface! DD Suzukaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Umikaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Kawakaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Suzukaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Umikaze firing on surfaced sub .... DD Suzukaze firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves great, we score duds on a CV and have one sub heavily damaged and another one outright sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 65,77 Japanese Ships xAP Brazil Maru SC Ch 26 AK Sakura Maru xAP Huso Maru xAP Manzyu Maru xAP Hakone Maru xAP Terukuni Maru E Tsuga Allied Ships SS Pompano SS Pompano launches 4 torpedoes at xAP Brazil Maru Pompano diving deep .... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga fails to find sub, continues to search... E Tsuga attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub this salvo missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,86 Japanese Ships DD Oshio BB Musashi CA Kako CA Aoba CA Myoko CL Yubari DD Natsugumo DD Katsutade DD Tadeshiwa DD Arare DD Yamagumo Allied Ships SS Stonehenge, hits 5 SS Stonehenge launches 6 torpedoes at DD Oshio Stonehenge bottoming out .... DD Katsutade fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yamagumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arare attacking submerged sub .... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Arare fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Stonehenge misses the next chance to be useful, now retiring with 27 sys 37 flt 9 eng... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 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 I don´t know why, but there are a couple of places where Rainer seems to manage to prevent his fighters from leaking out of the hex all out of a sudden... when I thought they would be stood down and only bluff me with recon showing fighters there, I then had to find out the hard way that they still were on Cap when I directly attacked the base with the result being the single (at best) squadron sweeps whoefully outnumbered and shred even though I employed three times the numbers of fighters than the enemy but the Cap fully scrambled and the sweeps went in as designed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 206 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 8 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 8 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 16 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 16 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 16 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 16 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 12 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 11 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 11 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 21 carrier based Hellcat squadrons in range stupidly tried to escort a LBA strike against an undefended airfield... they all failed just as they do 100% of the time... the only thing I could do is to either stand down my LBA completely or stand down my carrier based air completely... best to do both and wait for KB to come calling and see my carriers being sunk... I don´t have the possibility to order "escort naval strikes" or "escort carrier based strikes" so this is what you get... truly a masterpiece... sorry, this really sucks and it doesn´t make any sense nor do I know of any historical operations where carriers constantly tried to escort LBA strikes when the LBA strikes are coming from bases where there are at least 300 fighters in range and set to escort... I would really like to be convinced about the coordination routine making any sense, I just can´t see it at all... what the carriers are trying to do all the time is truly silly... with this kind of "coordination attempts" it would have been 100% necessary to come up with an option to escort naval strikes or carrier based strikes only for the carrier based squadrons... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 44,000 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 40000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hue , at 66,64 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 45,000 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 40000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 18 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 46 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 8 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 7 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 11 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet 11 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet the 21 squadrons weren´t enough, here are 5 more coming in... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet and another one... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Talaud-eilanden , at 79,97 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 11 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 15000 feet and another one... [8\|] all ranting aside, who on the forum (that ever read a book other than Mickey Mouse) really thinks that this is good as it is? If it couldn´t be done, that´s one thing. If it would need a lot of work, that´s another thing. But if all that is said "it´s working well" then ppl have lost their mind... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cotabato at 78,90 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 23 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 20 F4U-1A Corsair x 15 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 10 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 49th FG/9th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 35th FG/39th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 35th FG/40th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 475th FG/432nd FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes we have reinforced Cotabato with a lot of fighters but only very few scramble to meet this incoming raid... doesn´t change the fact that the raid was completely shred by the diving Allied fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cotabato at 78,90 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 11 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 14 F4U-1A Corsair x 14 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D2 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 49th FG/9th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 35th FG/40th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 475th FG/432nd FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 35th FG/39th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes more Zekes are coming in, some more are shot down... KB in the area, Rainer is up to somethign... at this point I was sure it was going to be a hot turn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cotabato at 78,90 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 12 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 16 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 9 F4U-1A Corsair x 13 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: VMF-224 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 49th FG/9th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 35th FG/40th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes 475th FG/432nd FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 18000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes VMF-218 with F4U-1A Corsair (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 30000 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes 35th FG/39th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 42000 Raid is overhead these Zekes all failed to escort Japanese naval strikes against a small convoy at Cotabato... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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