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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/10/2011 10:41:14 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 06, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Jesselton at 68,86, Range 3,000 Yards Japanese Ships MTB G-1 MTB G-2 Allied Ships PT-22 PT-23 PT-131 PT-132 PT-134 PT-166 Improved night sighting under 100% moonlight Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 100% moonlight: 8,000 yards Range closes to 7,000 yards... CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 7,000 yards Range closes to 3,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 3,000 yards Range closes to 2,000 yards PT-166 engages MTB G-2 at 2,000 yards MTB G-2 engages PT-132 at 2,000 yards MTB G-2 engages PT-22 at 2,000 yards Range increases to 7,000 yards Range increases to 11,000 yards Task forces break off... enemy MTB have yet to score a hit on any of my ships... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malang , at 55,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet * 2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet * 2 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malang , at 55,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 16 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Malang , at 55,105 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1 Corsair x 16 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1 Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet * failed attempts to draw leaking Cap, all in all a totally unspectacular turn...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/10/2011 10:50:35 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 07, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 8 B-24J Liberator x 36 B-25H Mitchell x 51 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 10 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 26 Airbase supply hits 10 Runway hits 75 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 B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H 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 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 21 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-51B Mustang x 13 F4U-1A Corsair x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 3 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 39 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb really uninteresting turns at this stage, necessary attacks but uninteresting... we´re preparing for the upcoming operations at the moment, main target now is Iloilo and the reinforcement of our bridgehead on Babeldaob but this won´t happen within the next three weeks... all other fronts are quiet as I still go with my strategy to drive the spearhead up the Philipines to completely isolate the SRA and the Japanese troops in Thailand/Malaya/Vietnam... guess the enemy got something like 250,000 troops in that region, wonder what he´s going to do with them or how these are going to be supplied... I would have pulled them out when it was obvious that Northern Borneo is about to fall or better say, I would have pulled them out to defend Northern Borneo... it now definately turns out to be a problem for the Japanese that Chinese troops have taken Northern Vietnam and have cut off Japanese territories in China from all their occupied areas to the West... it really shows again how important it is for the Japanese to make short process with the Chinese, which is possible if you a) hold Burma or b) if you cut off the Chinese from Burma by taking their North Western bases... without supply, the Chinese aren´t a threat (at least not offensively) but with the hundreds of thousand tons of supplies that were floating from Burma to China, the Chinese suddenly became a threat... not meaning they would be able to take all of China but my offensive into Vietnam clearly showed the Chinese can mount a serious operation if they mass some troops... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 67,87 Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 10625 troops, 211 guns, 205 vehicles, Assault Value = 392 Defending force 305 troops, 0 guns, 31 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Allied adjusted assault: 172 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 172 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 26 (26 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 33rd Infantry Division I US Corps Defending units: 22nd JAAF Base Force /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/11/2011 12:06:05 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 08, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cam Ranh Bay at 69,73 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 10 No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAK Tsuyama Maru, Bomb hits 8, and is sunk Aircraft Attacking: 10 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb three ships reported in this TF but Tsuyama Maru gets all the attention... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Cam Ranh Bay at 69,73 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 4 No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAK Kashiwara Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 4 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb another ship sunk by 4 Libs that failed to join the "main strike"... still wonder where the logic comes from that a couple of bombers constantly fail to link up with a strike when not even two dozen bombers launch from a level 9 airfield... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 B-25H Mitchell x 37 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-51B Mustang x 13 F4U-1A Corsair x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 13 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... lots of bombers show up being damaged but that´s all FOW, not a single flak burst over Davao anymore... enemy flak ran out of supply... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 36 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 TBM-1C Avenger x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x TBM-1C Avenger bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb I just love it... what are these Avengers attacking? Davao Maru????? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 65 P-38J Lightning x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 8 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 2nd Base Force ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 2nd Base Force ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 55 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 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 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 2nd Base Force, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 21 P-38J Lightning x 8 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 2nd Base Force ... Also attacking 54th Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 19th Army, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 24 B-25H Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 19th Army, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 36 B-25H Mitchell x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 4 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 16th Army, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 11 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb more than a dozen op losses today... [image]local://upfiles/13774/000CFFF0F9694DBE9B2EB41076FF0C8A.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 169356 troops, 3119 guns, 4656 vehicles, Assault Value = 7011 Defending force 88695 troops, 874 guns, 257 vehicles, Assault Value = 2753 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 4 Allied adjusted assault: 4708 Japanese adjusted defense: 12391 [8\|] Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 4) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 5928 casualties reported Squads: 27 destroyed, 298 disabled Non Combat: 58 destroyed, 301 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 18 disabled Vehicles lost 44 (18 destroyed, 26 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 7216 casualties reported Squads: 29 destroyed, 670 disabled [X(] Non Combat: 227 destroyed, 1346 disabled [X(][X(] Engineers: 6 destroyed, 93 disabled Vehicles lost 835 (235 destroyed, 600 disabled) [X(][X(] hard to find an appropriate comment here... lost the combat power of 2 divs and support units of 3 divs in one attack... mhm, ground combat... the enemy is down the power of 1 div but with more units coming in as reinforcements we can sustain such "losses"... [8\|] Assaulting units: 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 27th Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 6th Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 754th Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 25th Infantry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 37th Infantry Division 4th Armoured Brigade 41st Infantry Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 4th Australian Division 1st Army Tank Regiment Americal Infantry Division 1st Marine Division 18th British Division 181st Field Artillery Regiment 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force 151st USA Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 154th FA Bn XIV US Corps II Australian Corps 148th USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit Sasebo 6th SNLF 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division Kure 7th SNLF /1 19th Army 8th RF Gun Bn /1 2nd Mortar Battalion 64th Field AA Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 4th Air Army 16th Army 58th Construction Battalion 66th Field AA Battalion 65th Field AA Battalion 16th Field AF Const Bn /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 9th Field AF Const Bn /1 2nd Base Force 3rd Ind. Engr Rgt /1 6th Air Div /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/11/2011 12:22:53 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 09, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 36 P-38J Lightning x 13 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 P-51B Mustang x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 37 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 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 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 42 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 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 40 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 6 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 46 [:(] Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 15 Liberator B.VI x 45 B-24D Liberator x 10 B-24D1 Liberator x 63 B-24J Liberator x 12 B-29-1 Superfort x 80 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 2 destroyed, 1 damaged Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 2 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses Liberator B.III: 1 destroyed Liberator B.VI: 3 damaged B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged B-29-1 Superfort: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 59 Airbase supply hits 11 Runway hits 288 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x Liberator B.VI 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 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-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: S-901 Hikotai with A6M3a 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 15000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 31 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes Banzai! - Inokuchi J. in a Ki-44-IIc Tojo rams a B-29-1 Superfort for the Emperor he was killed but the B-29 survived... [:D] wanted to keep Cam Ranh Bay´s airfield out of action (that worked) but from the nearby airfield there were more than 50 enemy fighters showing up... not a good day for the bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 17 Allied aircraft Liberator B.VI x 9 B-24D1 Liberator x 3 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Liberator B.VI: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged B-24D1 Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 7 x Liberator B.VI 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: 59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 14 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 76 minutes S-901 Hikotai with A6M3a 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 15000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes the first wave took out 2/3 of the Cap while suffering a hell a lot of damaged bombers but the follow on piece meal waves at least don´t meet as many bombers but still suffer... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 6 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 173 P-51B Mustang x 13 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 8 damaged P-51B Mustang: 1 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 32 Airbase supply hits 13 Runway hits 211 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 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 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 CAP engaged: 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 4 Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 6 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 1 damaged Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 79 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 2 Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 59th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 6 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 21 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 6 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-84a Frank x 1 Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 73rd 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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 80 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb piece meal wave after piece meal wave... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses 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 Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 21 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 6 No Allied losses Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cam Ranh Bay , at 64,72 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb endless number of these "strikes"... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Naga , at 81,81 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb at the end of the day we have 17 have bombers lost which is quite a loss... not something to be really worried about in the game but I´m going with real life terms here and same as with ship losses, I´m not really glad to accept such losses so I´m not really happy about... the bombers claim to have shot down the same number of fighters... [image]local://upfiles/13774/2DD524F959B34133BC7D92F363D54534.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2040 troops, 162 guns, 152 vehicles, Assault Value = 6333 Defending force 83169 troops, 872 guns, 239 vehicles, Assault Value = 2457 Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 5 (2 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Army Tank Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Marine Division 41st Infantry Division Americal Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Division 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 37th Infantry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 27th Infantry Division 3rd Marine Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 25th Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 754th Tank Battalion 6th Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 4th Australian Division 766th Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 1st Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 18th British Division 119th USAAF Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force XIV US Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 181st Field Artillery Regiment 9th RAAF Base Force II Australian Corps V US Amphib Corps 148th USA Base Force 151st USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division 54th Division Sasebo 6th SNLF Kure 7th SNLF /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 2nd Base Force 4th Air Army 64th Field AA Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 16th Army 59th Field AA Battalion 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 16th Field AF Const Bn /1 19th Army 58th Construction Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 60th JNAF AF Unit 2nd Mortar Battalion 65th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/14/2011 3:39:56 PM)
the game is now five weeks ahead of the AAR, going to try to close in during this week again, many unimportant turns that aren´t interesting at all, only including them to have all monhts complete, otherwise I´m getting to hear I´ve edited things out when I say "it´s all in my AAR"... this turn is an interesting one though... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 10, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 11 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 36 A6M5b Zero x 9 N1K1-J George x 22 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 9 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 5 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 11 Ki-61-Id Tony x 7 Ki-84a Frank x 13 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 50 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 6 destroyed ahh, sht... I´ve moved the carrier fleet closer to the main IJ airfields around Manila to draw an airstrike but forgot that the enemy always has a mine TF of some AMc at Bataan to clear any sub laid mines there... this of course means that my carriers are attempting to attack these ships as I´ve kept the bombers at 7 hexes range... oh well, we start of with the usual messages of "fighters fail to link up, proceeding alone/returning to base"... the day I will see a whole turn with lots of action without ten dozen "error" messages I´m going to send a cheque to the responsible person... can´t say the Hellcats did really bad but we lose more than a dozen here... Hellcats aren´t in short supply, 70 skilled pilots are with all the new carriers we´ve received in the last months as these had to be eqipped with new aircrews because the normal 50 skilled ones can´t be used for frontline duty... the day doesn´t start the way I would have thought... my fault, I should have stood down ALL my bombers... CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (9 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 Raid is overhead 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead S-601 Hikotai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Raid is overhead 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5b 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 33 minutes 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 Raid is overhead Junyo-1 with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Shinyo-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 15000 Raid is overhead Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 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 261 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Raid is overhead Soryu-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 16000 Raid is overhead Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 26 A6M5b Zero x 7 N1K1-J George x 14 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 7 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 4 Ki-61-Id Tony x 4 Ki-84a Frank x 8 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 10 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 3 destroyed oh well, more Hellcats coming in and getting trashed by diving Cap... CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 23000 and 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes S-601 Hikotai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters between 18000 and 41010. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes Ryuho-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 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5b 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 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead Taiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 261 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 20000 Raid is overhead 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 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 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 20000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes Taiyo-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 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes Unyo-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 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Hosho-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 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Chuyo-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 13000 Raid is overhead 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84* Weather in hex: Severe storms [image]local://upfiles/13774/C15F2CF0FDF44040A2DA2586A0DC3577.jpg[/image] Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 75 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 49 A6M5b Zero x 26 G3M3 Nell x 29 G4M2 Betty x 28 J2M3 Jack x 25 N1K1-J George x 31 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 52 Hellcat I x 24 F6F-3 Hellcat x 1007 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 8 destroyed G3M3 Nell: 16 destroyed G4M2 Betty: 12 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 6 destroyed N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed Allied Ships CVE Saginaw Bay CVE Wake Island, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage CVE Sitkoh Bay CVE Breton CVE Fanshaw Bay that´s the reason why we moved closer with the carriers, the Japanese launch a 184 ac strike that is met by a Cap of nearly 1100 fighters... the fight went well and the incoming strike was badly shot up... a couple of bombers made it through though and you don´t have to ask Japanese torpedo bombers twice to score some hits and Wake Island is put into a serious state of damage... the USN is only dreaming of such effective torp bombers as could have been seen in the last carrier engagement with a 3% hit rate on ships mostly lying dead in the water... I´ve asked Rainer if he had found a way to order his bombers to attack CVE only as this is the third time in a row now that my CVE are attacked instead of the harder to hit fleet carrier task forces... let alone the difference in flak between the CVE TFs (AA around 5000) and the CV TFs (AA around 12000)... Wake Island ends up with 50+ flt damage but low sys damage so I expect her to be saved if not attacked again... a CVE being put out of action for three or four months for over a hundred enemy ac shot down, guess that´s an acceptable ratio, especially as the enemy is losing these pilots over my fleet... CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 59 minutes VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 64 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 66 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 58 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 28000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 50 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 30000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 58 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 64 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 24000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 67 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 57 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 14 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 29000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 56 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 28000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 57 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 67 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 28000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 68 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 28 minutes [:(] Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 30 A6M5b Zero x 10 G4M1 Betty x 67 G4M2 Betty x 11 J2M3 Jack x 22 N1K1-J George x 43 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 51 Hellcat I x 24 F6F-3 Hellcat x 971 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 20 destroyed, 13 damaged G4M2 Betty: 3 destroyed, 4 damaged J2M3 Jack: 3 destroyed N1K1-J George: 4 destroyed the next wave incoming and when the battle started I was quite confident about the strike being shred by still over 1000 available Allied fighters... like against the first wave we also had the dive against this strike and some two dozen fighters were shot down when Cap started to take on the bomber... BUT this ended when still 50% of the bombers were left to drop down and start their attack runs... and again one of the two CVE TFs was targetted while the four CV TFs were left alone... despite sever storms, having lost 50% of the bombers against Cap and flak fire from a dozen CVE and a dozen Fletcher class DD the bombers scored 5 torpedo hits knocking out a total of six CVE after the second wave... looks like this operation is not going as planned... two well sized strikes and both results are ok with me, Cap not being bullet prove is a good step forward, just to say something positive at times... now if Allied flak would also be realistic, that would be the next step forward... main problem here was the short pre warning time of only 28 minutes, we´re used to 60 minutes or more, guess most of the Cap didn´t even reach this strike... clear sky and I would expect at least two CVE being sunk... the enemy achieves a 11% hit rate against undamaged CVE in severe storms, I don´t want to compare that to the 3% hit rate of my torp bombers in clear sky against wrecked ships... [:(] the fighter vs fighter kill rate is something better not to be commented, this is just wrong IMO, no matter if escort or not... just yet another dive massacre... I would expect the Hellcats win high time, but what the game brings up in such engagements is just too extreme and couldn´t even be resembled in real life against masses of crappy IJ aircraft piloted by absolutely green pilots... in this case, we fight advanced IJ fighters with the same skill as our pilots (if not better skill, like the KB fighters that are now at Manila) Allied Ships CVE Gambier Bay, Torpedo hits 1 [8\|] CVE St. Lo, Torpedo hits 1, on fire [8\|] CVE Casablanca CVE Barnes CVE Hoggatt Bay, Torpedo hits 1 [8\|] CVE Anzio, Torpedo hits 1 [8\|] CVE Begum CVE Wake Island, heavy damage CVE Prince William CVE Marcus Island CVE Kitkun Bay CVE White Plains, Torpedo hits 1 [8\|] Aircraft Attacking: 26 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 11 x G4M2 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 7 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 54 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 27000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 4 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 11 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 7 on standby, 4 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 8 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 11 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 25000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 26000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 4 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 10 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 14 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 4 on standby, 9 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 61 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 8 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 8 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 5 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 25000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 85 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 60 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 20 A6M5b Zero x 8 J2M3 Jack x 9 N1K1-J George x 21 P1Y1 Frances x 11 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 27 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 21 Ki-84a Frank x 15 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 48 Hellcat I x 24 F6F-3 Hellcat x 911 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 2 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 3 destroyed P1Y1 Frances: 7 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed we get the dive, the enemy takes a beating... this was something like a 30:1 kill rate and one of the examples when I think the routine is borked as it just went into a pure dive - kill, dive - kill, dive - kill loop... it´s just too extreme, I seriously doubt that would be a realistic outcome... the enemy fighters escorted 11 bombers but these were shot down too... CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 11 on standby, 8 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 58 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 8 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 10 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 11 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 59 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 24000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 59 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 58 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 17 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 9 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 57 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 38000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 9 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 58 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 28000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 8 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 11 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 28 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 30 A6M5b Zero x 5 G4M2 Betty x 27 J2M3 Jack x 6 N1K1-J George x 37 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 46 Hellcat I x 24 F6F-3 Hellcat x 858 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 5 destroyed G4M2 Betty: 15 destroyed, 2 damaged N1K1-J George: 3 destroyed the morning isn´t over yet and the next wave is showing up... pre warning time again isn´t great and the enemy get´s three bombers through our Cap that easily achieve another hit on an undamaged CVE during severe storms... Allied Ships CVE Casablanca CVE Kalinin Bay, Torpedo hits 1, on fire CVE St. Lo, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 2 x G4M2 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 1 x G4M2 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo CAP engaged: VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 11 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 8 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 8 on standby, 8 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 13 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 8 on standby, 10 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 8 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 15 on standby, 12 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 8 on standby, 11 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 17 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 4 on standby, 9 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 12 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 9 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 12 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 3 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 26000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 7 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes No.851 Sqn-FF FAA with Corsair II (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 5 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 47 P-38J Lightning x 8 F4U-1A Corsair x 60 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 45 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 44 Airbase supply hits 12 Runway hits 295 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell 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 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 41 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 56 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 B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb then lots of unimportant ground attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 48 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 28 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 79 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iloilo , at 79,84 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 36 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 [:(] Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 34 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 21 A6M5b Zero x 5 N1K1-J George x 10 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 4 Ki-84a Frank x 7 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 50 SB2C-1C Helldiver x 31 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 6 destroyed SB2C-1C Helldiver: 14 destroyed, 4 damaged Japanese Ships AMc Wa 15 AMc Wa 18 AMc Wa 16, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk same as with the enemy strikes over our carriers, our strike gets mauled by enemy Cap... despite having a 1:1 in fighter numbers this means nothing when the enemy gets the dive... first the escorts are shot up and then 2/3 of the bombers are shot down easily... IJ aircraft take down TBF/SBC as easily as Allied fighters take down Kates and Vals... escorts are performing just too bad in the game and this has been like this since WITP... escorts are disadvantaged against Cap but not in a such extreme way the game models it IMO, not side dependend... would I have thought about these four damned AMc sitting at Bataan I would have stood down my bombers completely, this costs us more than 6 dozen aircraft today (with four or five dozen pilots)... [:(] Aircraft Attacking: 2 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 2000' * Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 9 x SB2C-1C Helldiver releasing from 4000' * Naval Attack: 1 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers 254 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 30000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes S-601 Hikotai with N1K1-J George (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters between 19000 and 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Ryujo-1 with A6M5b 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 8 minutes Ryuho-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 11 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers Junyo-1 with A6M5b 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 Raid is overhead 1 planes vectored on to bombers Hiryu-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 25000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers Taiho-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 10 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers 261 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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers 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 26000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 1 on standby, 1 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers Taiyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Hosho-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 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers Chuyo-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 13000 , scrambling fighters to 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 2 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 17000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters to 19000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 1 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 13000 and 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 5 planes vectored on to bombers 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes 2 planes vectored on to bombers S-305 Hikotai 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 6000 , scrambling fighters between 21000 and 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AMc Wa 16 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 25 A6M5b Zero x 4 N1K1-J George x 13 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 8 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 9 Ki-61-Id Tony x 5 Ki-84a Frank x 11 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 82 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 2 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 4 destroyed same as in the morning, we start with dozens of "error" messages (as usual?) and 82 Hellcats show up on a sweep over Bataan, doing better than the 50 in the morning... probably achieving a 3:1 here... still, I wanted to fight a pure defensive engagement here, not throwing away a couple of dozen aircraft while attacking a useless AMc TF... my fault though, I´m glad I had at least an "appropriate" Cap setting today, otherwise the carriers would have probably sent four hundred fighters to attack this TF... fighter of 16 (in words: sixteen) carriers failed to escort the bombers... sixteen... Aircraft Attacking: 4 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 10000 feet * 5 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 10000 feet * 5 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 10000 feet * 2 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * 4 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 25000 feet * 3 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * 1 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 25000 feet * 3 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 25000 feet * 3 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 25000 feet * 3 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * 5 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * 4 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * 4 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * 2 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 25000 feet * 4 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 25000 feet * 4 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 20000 feet * CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes S-601 Hikotai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5b 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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 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 1 minutes Junyo-1 with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 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 Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 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 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Raid is overhead Soryu-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes Zuiho-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 16000 Raid is overhead S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 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 39 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 46 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 20 A6M5b Zero x 3 N1K1-J George x 2 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 6 Ki-61-Id Tony x 2 Ki-84a Frank x 7 Allied aircraft Hellcat I x 6 F6F-3 Hellcat x 17 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Hellcat I: 1 destroyed F6F-3 Hellcat: 3 destroyed two or three more squadrons showing up, makes it something like 18-20 carriers failed to escort... mhm, plausible... CAP engaged: S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5b 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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes Taiho-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 18 minutes Soryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead 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 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 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 5000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Unyo-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 13000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes Chuyo-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 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters to 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 5000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes S-601 Hikotai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters to 25000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 21 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 39 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 12 A6M5b Zero x 2 N1K1-J George x 1 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 6 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 5 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 9 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 3 destroyed and more... CAP engaged: S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 34 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 23000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5b 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 1 minutes Hiryu-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 Raid is overhead Taiho-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 32 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 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead 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 12000 and 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes Chuyo-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 13000 , scrambling fighters to 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters between 15000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 1 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 37800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes S-305 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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead 331 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 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id 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 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 75 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 36 A6M5b Zero x 12 G3M3 Nell x 6 J2M3 Jack x 12 N1K1-J George x 44 Ki-84a Frank x 13 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 49 Hellcat I x 18 F6F-3 Hellcat x 790 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 11 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 4 destroyed G3M3 Nell: 1 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 13 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 6 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed now it´s time for the enemy to launch strikes in the afternoon, halve a dozen Nells are coming in with over a hundred fighters but the enemy strike gets heavily mauled again, needless to say it was yet another dive massacre... in all engagements over our carriers we had the never ending dive, resulting in fighter vs fighter kill rates of something like 20-30:1 which is far off the mark to be called realistic IMO... add in the bombers that were shot down we´re somewhere around a 40:1 kill rate over our carriers... this against advanced IJ aircraft with equally or higher skilled pilots than the US ones... and the Hellcat surely isn´t really superior to George/Jack or Frank... these fighters should be quite a match for the Hellcat, the dive makes the Hellcats unbeatable though... too extreme... it would have been an insane massacre without my fault of having the bombers on nav attack 7 hexes... Aircraft Attacking: 11 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet * 1 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet * 2 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 16000 feet * 2 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 16000 feet * 1 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 6000 feet 5 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 41000 feet 6 x N1K1-J George sweeping at 41010 feet 3 x J2M3 Jack sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 14 on standby, 7 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 14 on standby, 6 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 7 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 53 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 7 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 69 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 7 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 30000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 65 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 7 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 29000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 68 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 7 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 69 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 7 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 25000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 53 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 7 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 23000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 61 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 6 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 10 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 61 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 15 on standby, 8 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 13 on standby, 6 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 26000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 67 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 25000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 67 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 26000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 63 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 68 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 28000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 60 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 31000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 69 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 3 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 31000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 70 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 20000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 29000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 64 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 28 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 16 G4M1 Betty x 22 G4M2 Betty x 8 J2M3 Jack x 1 N1K1-J George x 12 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 46 Hellcat I x 18 F6F-3 Hellcat x 765 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 7 destroyed G4M1 Betty: 13 destroyed G4M2 Betty: 4 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 3 destroyed not over yet but the waves are getting smaller, so small that they nearly get obliberated by the Cap... some Betties again slipped through and three CVE were targetted... only one shows up as dropping a torp though [&:] Allied Ships CVE Sitkoh Bay CVE Casablanca CVE Anzio Aircraft Attacking: 1 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet Naval Attack: 1 x 18in Type 91 Torpedo 1 x A6M5 Zero sweeping at 6000 feet * CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 7 on standby, 4 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 2 scrambling) 12 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 7 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 12 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 3 on standby, 7 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 4 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 7 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 2 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 16 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 4 scrambling) 14 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 10 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 7 planes vectored on to bombers VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 10 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 4000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 26 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 200 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 60 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 P1Y1 Frances x 18 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 30 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 18 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 43 Hellcat I x 18 F6F-3 Hellcat x 727 Japanese aircraft losses P1Y1 Frances: 11 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 3 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 1 destroyed wave after wave comes in to attack the CVE TFs, unbelievable that only the CVEs are targetted, all the CV TFs as well as the SC TF had max detection, yet none of these TFs were attacked... "sweeping" escorts of this strike were nearly untouched, at least the bombers were shot down... Allied Ships CVE Sitkoh Bay Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-43-IIb Oscar sweeping at 30000 feet * 12 x Ki-44-IIa Tojo sweeping at 6000 feet * CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 3 on standby, 4 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 13 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 29000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 6 on standby, 6 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 59 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 8 scrambling) 11 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (3 airborne, 12 on standby, 5 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 7 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 56 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 13 on standby, 10 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 4 on standby, 9 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 2 scrambling) 7 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (7 airborne, 8 on standby, 6 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 11 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 57 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 7000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (5 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 27000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 49 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 2 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 47 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 8 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Taytay at 75,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 28 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M2 Betty x 23 Allied aircraft Corsair II x 40 Hellcat I x 18 F6F-3 Hellcat x 678 Japanese aircraft losses G4M2 Betty: 4 destroyed 23 Betties show up in this strike but most of them turned back before reaching the Cap due to having no escorts... the rest was shot down... CAP engaged: VF-1 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 7 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-2 with F6F-3 Hellcat (4 airborne, 6 on standby, 6 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-3 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 15 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-42 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 12 on standby, 5 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-8 with F6F-3 Hellcat (5 airborne, 6 on standby, 3 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes VF-9 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 14 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes VF-10 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 13 on standby, 11 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes VF-11 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 9 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 9 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-14 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 6 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes VF-16 with F6F-3 Hellcat (2 airborne, 6 on standby, 6 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 38800. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes VF-18 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 11 on standby, 4 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 7 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes VF-71 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes VF-22 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes VF-23 with F6F-3 Hellcat (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes VF-24 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 4 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes VF-25 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 24000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes VF-26 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 7 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 35000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes VF-27 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 1 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes VF-28 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes VF-29 with F6F-3 Hellcat (0 airborne, 8 on standby, 4 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 25000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Bataan at 78,77 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 8 A6M5b Zero x 2 N1K1-J George x 1 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 72 TBF-1 Avenger x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F6F-3 Hellcat: 4 destroyed TBF-1 Avenger: 2 damaged Japanese Ships AMc Wa 21, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk AMc Wa 18, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk AMc Wa 15, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk to complete the "disaster" of my carriers attacking this AMc TF at Bataan we launch another strike to lose 7 or 8 additional Hellcats, bringing the total Hellcats lost to 89 today, probably 60-70 lost of the ones that attacked Bataan, making the Hellcat the aircraft type with the highest total losses today for both sides... replacing the 40 fighter pilots is more a problem than replacing the aircraft as we´ve got some 700 Hellcats in the pool but only four or five dozen 70 skilled fighter pilots... TBF in bombing mode are probably 20 times more effective than having them flying a torp attack... Aircraft Attacking: 18 x TBF-1 Avenger bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 29000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M5b 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 36000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes Hiryu-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 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 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 15000 and 34000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 452 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Chuyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead 73rd 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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead 331 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 22000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 37 minutes 260th 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 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 , scrambling fighters to 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes Heavy smoke from fires obscuring AMc Wa 21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2009 troops, 162 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 6255 Defending force 83111 troops, 872 guns, 239 vehicles, Assault Value = 2470 Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 12 (5 destroyed, 7 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd Marine Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 27th Infantry Division 1st Australian Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 25th Infantry Division 762nd Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 6th Infantry Division 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 2nd Marine Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Americal Infantry Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 37th Infantry Division 754th Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Army Tank Regiment 4th Australian Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 766th Tank Battalion 41st Infantry Division 18th British Division 146th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 148th USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion XIV US Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 168th Field Artillery Regiment 9th RAAF Base Force 154th FA Bn 119th USAAF Base Force 151st USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps 181st Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 52nd Division Sasebo 6th SNLF 54th Division 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 64th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 4th Air Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 65th Field AA Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 16th Army 66th Field AA Battalion 2nd Base Force 2nd Mortar Battalion 19th Army 8th RF Gun Bn /1 60th JNAF AF Unit 16th Field AF Const Bn /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 59th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at San Jose (78,84) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 1235 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 90 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Allied adjusted assault: 37 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 37 to 1 (fort level 1) Allied forces CAPTURE San Jose !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 503rd Parachute Rgt /1 1st Australian Para Bn /1 that´s the base West of Iloilo, we´re going to bring in a couple of rgts to take Iloilo together with lots of base forces, AA and engineering units to build up the airfield to level 9 asap... this will be the airfield that´s going to put pressure on the Japanese around Manila...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/14/2011 4:01:13 PM)
don´t know if the engagement today was a full success, it probably was a success in that the enemy won´t be able to strike against my transports unloading at San Jose today so the overal goal was achieved. Looking at the aircraft loss list, the enemy has lost over 450 aircraft of different types with hundreds of pilots downed which is great. On the other hand, I proved to be stupid not to think about the four AMc at Bataan and having my bombers on nav attack 7 hexes (I deliberately staid 8 hexes from Manila as I knew the enemy had ships there), which has cost us a hundred carrier based aircraft, probably 50-70 pilots. The strike routine decided it would be worth it to send over 200 aircraft after four identified AMc. This again is the time when I think about those great PBEM tactics when ppl are using "bait" TFs. I want to point out that this surely isn´t the case here as these AMc have been there for months to clear mines from potential sub minelaying missions so I sure won´t point on my opponent. But as long as the strike routine is what it is ("problematic" to stay honest) it is pretty much gamey to me as real life commanders wouldn´t have sent more than 200 carrier based aircraft to attack four AMc with a total tonnage probably not more than a destroyer. This of course in relation to the sighting, if the AMc would have been identified as cruisers it probably would make sense. But when you get more than halve a dozen messages during the search phase reading like "AMc sh*t Maru" spotted at Bataan, then noone can speak of misidentifications á la identifying a Japanese oiler for a carrier like it happened in real life. Using a cruiser TF or BB as a bait and having hundreds of carrier based ac going after them is one thing, taking advantage of a "problematic" routine (note my attempt to stay as calm as possible today [:D]) that sends hundreds of aircraft after a completely useless target is another thing IMO. Oh well, to each his own... For the loss of 450+ aircraft the enemy not only destroyed 120+ Allied aircraft but scored several hits on CVE, Wake Island was hit twice. The enemy exclusively targetted CVE which are the easiest targets to hit, the CVE are also the easiest to replace as we´ve got more than a dozen sitting at Darwin at the moment. If nothing unexpected happens then I doubt any of my CVE are going to sink. I´m sure one or two subs are going to show up in the next two or three days, all damaged CVE are heading to Manado for emergency repairs. The rest of the fleet stays in the area to cover the unloading at San Jose, I doubt the enemy will fly any air attacks tomorrow. [image]local://upfiles/13774/188AAA1B6B0D43F8ACB324609CD15453.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/14/2011 5:07:53 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 11, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 102 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 20 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 103 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb in a couple of weeks we can stop these long range surpression attacks as our reinforcements will be ready and then we´re going to finally take the place... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 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 53 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 10 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 38 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 48 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 20 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 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 2 Runway hits 21 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 30 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 9 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 29 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 150252 troops, 3098 guns, 3358 vehicles, Assault Value = 6396 Defending force 83024 troops, 872 guns, 239 vehicles, Assault Value = 2480 Japanese ground losses: 56 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 116 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 11 (1 destroyed, 10 disabled) Assaulting units: 762nd Tank Battalion 27th Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 6th Infantry Division 4th Australian Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 25th Infantry Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 93rd Infantry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 2/7th Armoured Regiment 41st Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 37th Infantry Division 1st Australian Division 1st Marine Division 754th Tank Battalion 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 2nd Marine Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 34th Combat Engineer Regiment Americal Infantry Division 18th British Division II Australian Corps 154th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 158th USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion XIV US Corps 148th USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment V US Amphib Corps 151st USA Base Force 146th USA Base Force 156th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 147th Field Artillery Regiment 154th FA Bn 155th USA Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division Kure 7th SNLF /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 16th Field AF Const Bn /1 19th Army 58th Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 4th Air Army 60th JNAF AF Unit 8th RF Gun Bn /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 64th Field AA Battalion 2nd Base Force 59th Field AA Battalion 65th Field AA Battalion 16th Army 66th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1 current situation around the Philipines... as expected, the enemy didn´t intervene with our unloading at San Jose, no air attacks were flown... without bleeding the enemy airforce yesterday, the enemy would have been able to fly massive strikes on the fleet at San Jose today and inflict heavy losses on the CVE, amphib TF and SAG there... main advantage for the enemy would have been the ability to fly massed sweeps... [image]local://upfiles/13774/4E90D7E11E7B4868A0EA58152B155FAD.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/14/2011 5:15:18 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 12, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 16 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIIa Oscar: 5 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 12 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet CAP engaged: 203rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIIa Oscar (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 1 minutes the enemy got leaking Cap over Wuchow again and the Oscars are easy prey for the Lightnings... Oscars are easy prey for every Allied aircraft at this stage of the war... the sweeps look as awful as always... if you get 22 fighters per squadron to show up at once you are lucky... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 3 Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 16 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIIa Oscar: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet CAP engaged: 203rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIIa Oscar (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 90 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 16 [8\|] No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 16 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cam Ranh Bay at 67,73 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAK Eiko Maru #2, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Toho Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 6 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb the IJN uses a small corridor to move ships to Cam Ranh Bay and further on into the SRA to pick up fuel mainly... this corridor still is in range of either the bombers at Hanoi or the bombers on Northern Borneo, it´s always a matter of attacking or not, usually it takes three or four attempts to see a couple of bombers finally showing up over the ships... we hardly get more than 20% of the available bombers to attack the enemy so most times the convoys pass on without being engaged... long range bombers are by far not enough to effectively close down the South China Sea... would Rainer know how often my bombers fail he probably would send more convoys... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 15 Liberator B.VI x 44 B-24D Liberator x 12 B-24D1 Liberator x 66 B-24J Liberator x 3 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 6 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 496 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 37 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 31 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.VI x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 5 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 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 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 6 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 6 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 3x6 from 3 squadrons... still missing 3x3 fighters from these squadrons then... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Cam Ranh Bay at 67,73 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 6 Allied aircraft losses PB4Y-1 Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese Ships xAK Tsukuba Maru, Bomb hits 1 xAK Kokai Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 6 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 8 P-51B Mustang x 26 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 63 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 36 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 10 TBM-1C Avenger x 18 Allied aircraft losses TBM-1C Avenger: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 17 x TBM-1C Avenger bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 500 lb SAP Bomb love it... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Cam Ranh Bay at 67,73 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAK Osaka Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Santos Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire Aircraft Attacking: 6 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb we have been very lucky today, flying three small strikes against this convoy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 21 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 11 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 2 B-25H Mitchell x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 30 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 6 B-25H Mitchell x 16 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 23 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/D4064DEC53364B09BC2BD425562AE4F8.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/14/2011 5:26:59 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 13, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Babeldaob at 90,97, Range 30,000 Yards Japanese Ships PB Seki Maru #3 TK Yamamura Maru TK Engyen Maru TK Daigyo Maru Allied Ships DD Lansdowne DD Lardner DD Farenholt DD Lamson Allied Ships Reported to be Approaching! Japanese TF begins to get underway Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions: 20,000 yards Range closes to 27,000 yards... CONTACT: Allies radar detects Japanese task force at 27,000 yards Range increases to 30,000 yards... Japanese Tanker TF evades combat [:(] damn it, enemy tanker convoy manages to escape my destroyer squadron... Rainer probably uses convoys to bring fuel from Palembang to Singapore, then it´s drawn overland to Cam Ranh Bay where he still tries to pick it up with small convoys... but the total tonnage must be far from what Palembang is able to produce, the tanker convoys probably aren´t able to carry more than 20-30000 tons of fuel and most often at least halve of these convoys are sunk before escaping the South China Sea... the enemy must be desperate for fuel already, not a good thing for the Japanese to be more or less cut off of all the SRA´s fuel in mid 44... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 7th JAAF AF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 15 Liberator B.VI x 56 Thunderbolt I x 8 B-24D Liberator x 6 B-24D1 Liberator x 78 B-24J Liberator x 12 B-25D1 Mitchell x 48 P-38H Lightning x 38 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 14 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 333 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 27 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 4 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 7th JAAF AF Coy ... we´re going to destroy these small units with air attacks... at least the bombers from Hanoi got something useful to do then... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D Liberator x 6 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-3 Hellcat x 38 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 10000 feet 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 30000 feet 10 x F6F-3 Hellcat sweeping at 10000 feet [8\|] had the carriers in range of a LBA strike again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 45 P-38J Lightning x 48 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 47 P-51B Mustang x 26 F4U-1A Corsair x 18 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 13 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 104 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire VIII x 12 B-25H Mitchell x 24 P-51B Mustang x 13 F4U-1A Corsair x 28 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 26 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 10 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 128 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 12 damaged Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 141 Port hits 9 Port fuel hits 4 Port supply hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port 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 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 77 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 6 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 36 Port hits 5 Port fuel hits 2 Port supply hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port hits 3 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Overcast 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: 2 damaged Port hits 3 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb many uninteresting but neccessary attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 158471 troops, 3104 guns, 4220 vehicles, Assault Value = 6541 Defending force 82768 troops, 872 guns, 237 vehicles, Assault Value = 2487 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Allied adjusted assault: 4718 Japanese adjusted defense: 9187 [:(] Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 6281 casualties reported Squads: 28 destroyed, 331 disabled Non Combat: 34 destroyed, 472 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 18 disabled Vehicles lost 34 (6 destroyed, 28 disabled) Allied ground losses: 11112 casualties reported Squads: 41 destroyed, 953 disabled [8\|] Non Combat: 261 destroyed, 1250 disabled [8\|] Engineers: 5 destroyed, 91 disabled Vehicles lost 558 (158 destroyed, 400 disabled) [8\|] the only thing that´s going up are our losses when we bring in more and more troops... we´ve lost the combat power of no less than three US Inf divisions in one attack... what is this? a direct infantry assault on the Maginot line? that´s just insane and reminds me saying, the bigger the battles, the worse the results in WITP... [:(] losing three divs means bringing three new ones... Assaulting units: 25th Infantry Division 2nd Marine Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 4th USMC Tank Battalion 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 41st Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 193rd Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st Australian Division 34th Combat Engineer Regiment Americal Infantry Division 1st Marine Division 4th Australian Division 93rd Infantry Division 6th Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 762nd Tank Battalion 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 3rd Marine Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 766th Tank Battalion 18th British Division 151st USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 156th USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 9th RAAF Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 158th USA Base Force 146th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 154th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps XIV US Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit Kure 7th SNLF /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 16th Army 48th Fld AA Bn /1 2nd Base Force 64th Field AA Battalion 19th Army 65th Field AA Battalion 4th Air Army 60th JNAF AF Unit 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 6th Air Div /1 this is what happens to a fresh US Inf division after being fully combat ready and participating in an attack on the fortress of Davao... it´s becoming obvious that it´s more or less impossible to take a jungle/rough hex defended by such a garisson as long as the garisson got supply... at least as long as you use anywhere near realistic numbers of troops, while I´ve long passed the realistic stage I guess (this is the Pacific War, not the Eastern Front)... we´ve got 13 Inf divisions attacking here already, countless tanks and other stuff... a complete US Inf division put out of action for months after one day of fighting... this with 78 preparation, in range of a command HQ, Corps and Army HQs... 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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/14/2011 5:32:14 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 14, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 47 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 64 P-38G Lightning x 1 P-38J Lightning x 16 F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 4 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 165 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 18 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Iloilo is a clear hex so the air attacks show effect... as we´ve flown several attacks in the past already, I doubt the three Inf rgts tasked for the attack here are going to have any problem taking the place... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 64 minutes Allied aircraft P-51B Mustang x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 24 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 30 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 48 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 27 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 62 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.VI x 27 Thunderbolt I x 16 B-24D1 Liberator x 3 P-38H Lightning x 11 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 74 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 2nd Sasebo SNLF Coy ... Also attacking 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Guards Division, at 66,62 [X(][X(][X(] Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.III x 12 B-24D Liberator x 9 B-24D1 Liberator x 42 B-25D1 Mitchell x 27 P-38H Lightning x 44 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 6 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 28 Allied aircraft losses B-24D1 Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 136 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.III bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... I was both surprised and shocked to see my bombers attacking these units in the Vietnamese jungle because they were supposed to attack the LCUs at Kiungashan... then I realized that previous airstrikes today whiped out the units there and then these bombers reverted to computer control and these two divs were picked as targets... glad the bombers didn´t go after some units in a heavily capped base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Guards Division, at 66,62 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft Liberator B.VI x 12 B-25D1 Mitchell x 9 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 14 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 44 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Liberator B.VI bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Sasebo SNLF Coy , at 71,61 (Kiungshan) [&:] Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb but then there were still some bombers attacking Kiungashan... really strange but at the end of the turn, there were no more enemy troops at Kiungashan... a one time special so far so nothing serious... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Guards Division, at 66,62 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 B-24J Liberator x 9 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 3 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 36 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Guards Division, at 66,62 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24D1 Liberator x 6 B-25D1 Mitchell x 12 P-38H Lightning x 11 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 5 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25D1 Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-24D1 Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... Also attacking 43rd Division ... Also attacking 1st Guards Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2009 troops, 162 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 5770 Defending force 77477 troops, 872 guns, 230 vehicles, Assault Value = 2187 Japanese ground losses: 38 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd Marine Division 766th Tank Battalion 25th Infantry Division 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 37th Infantry Division 6th Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 1st Australian Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 4th Australian Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 193rd Tank Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 2/4th Armoured Regiment 4th USMC Tank Battalion 27th Infantry Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 41st Infantry Division 754th Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 93rd Infantry Division Americal Infantry Division 18th British Division XIV US Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 158th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 156th USA Base Force 154th USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment V US Amphib Corps 154th FA Bn 155th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 148th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 146th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 151st USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 30th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 32nd Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 52nd Division 33rd Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 31st Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 2nd Mortar Battalion 65th Field AA Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 8th RF Gun Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 19th Army 64th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 2nd Base Force 16th Army 59th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 4th Air Army 58th Construction Battalion 6th Air Div /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 4:22:38 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 15, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Babeldaob at 91,96 Japanese Ships xAKL Fuchu Maru Allied Ships SS Bonefish xAKL Fuchu Maru is sighted by SS Bonefish Captain of SS Bonefish elects not to launch torpedoes at this target [8\|] have sent halve a dozen subs with the order to prevent the enemy Navy to bring supply to Babeldaob... Bonefish spots a small freighter and decids not to attack it... well done... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Babeldaob at 90,97 Japanese Ships xAKL Fuchu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-44 xAKL Fuchu Maru is sighted by SS S-44 SS S-44 launches 4 torpedoes thank god S-44 is doing better... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tawi Tawi , at 72,90 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3 Zero x 36 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 36 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3 Zero: 14 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: VMF-217 with F4U-1A Corsair (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 13 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 30000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 9 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 13 scrambling) 8 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 to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes a sweep to Tawi Tawi? The Zekes come in at 6000ft, are picked up by radar and the Corsairs get the never ending dive and shred the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Tawi Tawi , at 72,90 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy x 33 [X(][X(][X(] Ki-84a Frank x 40 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 29 damn, now I know why the enemy is coming in here, got two damaged CVE disbanded in the level 4 port... [:(] Japanese aircraft losses Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy: 1 destroyed [:(] Ki-84a Frank: 5 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed Allied Ships CVE Kasaan Bay, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage CVE Manila Bay, Bomb hits 6, heavy fires, heavy damage my fault again, I´ve forgotten about these two CVE sitting there repairing some sys damage before being sent further on to Darwin to repair major flt damage and have moved out three US fighter squadrons lately while the enemy was flying daily recon over the base... this of course had to result in an attack at some point as two Corsair squadrons just aren´t enough to prevent an attack, no matter how well they actually did today... a dozen bomb hits were scored, quite some hits by 60kg bombs which aren´t that severe... Rainer probably gets reports about the two CVE being sunk but they´re still afloat... going to take halve a year to repair the sys damage in the small port though so these ships are stuck there now... really nice attack, the enemy pays with three dozen aircraft shot down... the enemy is now also employing the torpedo bomber version of the Peggy... wonder how many IJAAF pilots trained to fly torp attacks the enemy has got... Aircraft Attacking: 32 x Ki-67-Ia (T) Peggy bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: VMF-217 with F4U-1A Corsair (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 10 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes VMF-225 with F4U-1A Corsair (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 12 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes 1 planes vectored on to bombers [image]local://upfiles/13774/C9321CCF99FE42D1ACFB2A5E34AAF464.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1985 troops, 162 guns, 151 vehicles, Assault Value = 5847 Defending force 77495 troops, 872 guns, 230 vehicles, Assault Value = 2200 Japanese ground losses: 57 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 13 (6 destroyed, 7 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Australian Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 41st Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 37th Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Army Tank Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 4th Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 754th Tank Battalion 6th Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 766th Tank Battalion 25th Infantry Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division Americal Infantry Division 762nd Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Marine Division 18th British Division 119th USAAF Base Force 158th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 154th USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 155th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 148th USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn 156th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps XIV US Corps II Australian Corps 151st USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 79th Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 81st Infantry Brigade 52nd Division 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit Kure 7th SNLF /1 66th Field AA Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 4th Air Army 16th Army 65th Field AA Battalion 2nd Base Force 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 19th Army 64th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Iloilo (79,84) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 11417 troops, 246 guns, 140 vehicles, Assault Value = 482 Defending force 6062 troops, 34 guns, 91 vehicles, Assault Value = 105 Allied adjusted assault: 81 Japanese adjusted defense: 116 Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 6) Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), fatigue(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 246 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Allied ground losses: 192 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 364th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 12th Australian Brigade 610th Coast AA Regiment 7th USN Naval Construction Regiment 507th Coast AA Regiment 26th USN Naval Construction Regiment 118th USAAF Base Force 106th USN Base Force 22nd USN Naval Construction Regiment 8th USN Naval Construction Regiment 738th Coast AA Regiment 70th Coast AA Regiment 23rd USN Naval Construction Regiment 10th Marine Defense Battalion 198th Coast AA Regiment 1st Marine Defense Battalion 70/100th Coast AA Regiment 24th USN Naval Construction Regiment 208th Coast AA Regiment 27th USN Naval Construction Regiment Defending units: 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment 30th JAAF Base Force our troops have reached Iloilo but our attack is repulsed easily... none of the 400 bombers ordered to fly ground attacks actually flew today... not one... [8\|]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 4:32:22 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 16, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet trying to draw leaking Cap from Canton (200 fighters reported there) but we fail again... I still wonder what Rainer is doing to prevent his Cap from leaking out... always when I´ve thought the only way to do that would be to stand them down I paid heavily for it when I tried to bomb that place... hmm [&:] he obviously has found a way I don´t know of because he seems to prevent his fighters from leaking Cap but full Cap is up when we attack the base frontally... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet the sweeps lose the 3 fighter fragments like they always do... who cares, AE realism... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 47 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 107 B-25H Mitchell x 60 P-38G Lightning x 2 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 24 P-51B Mustang x 13 F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 477 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 41 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... at least Iloilo is attacked today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th JAAF Base Force, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 30 B-25H Mitchell x 15 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 10 damaged Japanese ground losses: 95 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 160 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 64 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 33 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th JAAF Base Force, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-51B Mustang x 13 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 46 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 P-38J Lightning x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 P-38J Lightning x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 P-38J Lightning x 16 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 25 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 40 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb more than a dozen attacks, except a small number of bigger strikes, everything is coming in in piece meal strikes of a dozen bombers... doesn´t matter as long as there isn´t Cap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 38,000 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 35000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet 3 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet [8\|] AE strike routine silliness... no matter how often a dev posts everything is working just perfect in this game, he must be either blind or has gone totally crazy by now... nobody of the so called whiners is saying everything is broken, but I´m pissed off by one of the super egos that just recently again said "don´t listen to the whiners on the main forum, everything is just fine"... must be lack medicine, can´t find any other explanation for it when I look at above´s example that can be seen 897 more times in this AAR... and it´s not castor troy related and it also has got nothing to do with any of those pure fantasy/abstraction/wet dream tips... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wuchow , at 76,57 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-38H Lightning x 22 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x P-38H Lightning sweeping at 35000 feet the routine is just what it is... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1931 troops, 162 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 5842 Defending force 77470 troops, 872 guns, 229 vehicles, Assault Value = 2216 Japanese ground losses: 60 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled) Assaulting units: 766th Tank Battalion 4th Australian Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 754th Tank Battalion 41st Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 3rd Marine Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 6th Infantry Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Marine Division Americal Infantry Division 1st Australian Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 762nd Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Marine Division 18th British Division 168th Field Artillery Regiment 156th USA Base Force 154th USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 155th USA Base Force 151st USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 146th USA Base Force 158th USA Base Force II Australian Corps XIV US Corps 154th FA Bn 147th Field Artillery Regiment V US Amphib Corps 181st Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 77th Infantry Brigade 54th Division 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 81st Infantry Brigade 79th Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 52nd Division Sasebo 6th SNLF 89th Naval Guard Unit 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 60th JNAF AF Unit 19th Army 8th RF Gun Bn /1 2nd Base Force 4th Air Army 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 64th Field AA Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 16th Army 65th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 6th Air Div /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Iloilo (79,84) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 11280 troops, 246 guns, 140 vehicles, Assault Value = 472 Defending force 4850 troops, 32 guns, 91 vehicles, Assault Value = 73 Allied adjusted assault: 115 Japanese adjusted defense: 19 Allied assault odds: 6 to 1 (fort level 6) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 5 Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), disruption(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 618 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 20 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 18 destroyed, 25 disabled Vehicles lost 7 (5 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 364th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 12th Australian Brigade 70th Coast AA Regiment 7th USN Naval Construction Regiment 1st Marine Defense Battalion 24th USN Naval Construction Regiment 8th USN Naval Construction Regiment 738th Coast AA Regiment 208th Coast AA Regiment 26th USN Naval Construction Regiment 118th USAAF Base Force 23rd USN Naval Construction Regiment 610th Coast AA Regiment 507th Coast AA Regiment 10th Marine Defense Battalion 106th USN Base Force 70/100th Coast AA Regiment 22nd USN Naval Construction Regiment 198th Coast AA Regiment 27th USN Naval Construction Regiment Defending units: 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment 30th JAAF Base Force the failed attack yesterday didn´t cause much disruption whitin our troops so we kept attacking today and with the heavy air attacks the enemy was pretty much helpless... thinking about a shock attack...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 4:34:18 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 17, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Batjan at 76,104 Japanese Ships SS I-180, hits 5, on fire Allied Ships BB West Virginia CA Baltimore CL Phoenix DD Stephen Potter DD Abbot DD Tingey DD The Sullivans DD Ringgold DD Abner Read SS I-180 is sighted by escort I-180 diving deep .... DD Tingey attacking submerged sub .... DD The Sullivans fails to find sub and abandons search DD Ringgold fails to find sub and abandons search DD Abner Read fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tingey attacking submerged sub .... DD Tingey fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tingey attacking submerged sub .... DD Tingey fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tingey attacking submerged sub .... DD Tingey attacking submerged sub .... DD Tingey is out of ASW ammo DD Tingey is out of ASW ammo DD Tingey is out of ASW ammo DD Tingey is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub a heavy SAG is stumbling over a sub which takes a couple of hits... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th JAAF Base Force, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 47 P-38J Lightning x 32 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 32 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 23 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Vehicles lost 20 (1 destroyed, 19 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... same as yesterday, Iloilo´s defenders are hit hard from the air... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th JAAF Base Force, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 43 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 P-51B Mustang x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 3 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Japanese ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 1 disabled Vehicles lost 13 (6 destroyed, 7 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... Also attacking 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment ... Also attacking 30th JAAF Base Force ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th JAAF Base Force, at 79,84 (Iloilo) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on San Jose , at 78,84 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5b Zero x 13 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 33 No Japanese losses Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 33 x Ki-49-IIa Helen bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1885 troops, 162 guns, 146 vehicles, Assault Value = 5904 Defending force 77376 troops, 872 guns, 229 vehicles, Assault Value = 2224 Japanese ground losses: 40 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 6th Infantry Division Americal Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 41st Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 754th Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 37th Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 2/6th Armoured Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 2/7th Armoured Regiment 4th Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 93rd Infantry Division 3rd Marine Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2nd Marine Division 1st Australian Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 1st Army Tank Regiment 18th British Division XI US Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 181st Field Artillery Regiment 9th RAAF Base Force 146th USA Base Force XIV US Corps 158th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 151st USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 119th USAAF Base Force V US Amphib Corps 154th USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force 156th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 79th Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 77th Infantry Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division Sasebo 6th SNLF 81st Infantry Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit Kure 7th SNLF /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 59th Field AA Battalion 19th Army 58th Construction Battalion 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 2nd Mortar Battalion 4th Air Army 48th Fld AA Bn /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 64th Field AA Battalion 2nd Base Force 65th Field AA Battalion 16th Army 6th Air Div /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Iloilo (79,84) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 11291 troops, 246 guns, 140 vehicles, Assault Value = 471 Defending force 3849 troops, 31 guns, 79 vehicles, Assault Value = 59 Allied adjusted assault: 281 Japanese adjusted defense: 32 Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 5) Allied forces CAPTURE Iloilo !!! Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 1430 casualties reported Squads: 28 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 77 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 62 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 7 (7 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 59 (59 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 4 Allied ground losses: 172 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 17 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 4 (1 destroyed, 3 disabled) Defeated Japanese Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 364th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 12th Australian Brigade 1st Marine Defense Battalion 70/100th Coast AA Regiment 738th Coast AA Regiment 507th Coast AA Regiment 26th USN Naval Construction Regiment 23rd USN Naval Construction Regiment 70th Coast AA Regiment 10th Marine Defense Battalion 610th Coast AA Regiment 118th USAAF Base Force 198th Coast AA Regiment 8th USN Naval Construction Regiment 106th USN Base Force 24th USN Naval Construction Regiment 7th USN Naval Construction Regiment 22nd USN Naval Construction Regiment 208th Coast AA Regiment 27th USN Naval Construction Regiment Defending units: 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment 30th JAAF Base Force we´ve now got a potential size 9 airfield 7 hexes South of Manila... [:)]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 5:02:01 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 18, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Taberfane at 81,117 Japanese Ships SS I-56, hits 13 Allied Ships AM Chief xAK Samariz xAK Julian W. Mack xAK Joseph Holt xAK B. Livingston AM Token AM Strive SS I-56 is sighted by escort AM Token attacking submerged sub .... AM Strive fails to find sub and abandons search AM Token fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Token fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Token attacking submerged sub .... AM Token fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Token fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub as we´re using the same convoy routes going North from Darwin the enemy has adopted to it and placed one or two subs in the region... due to poor laziness and the fact that my ASW is so powerful at this stage I never assign waypoints in this region (only for damaged ships in escort convoys that are going back to Darwin to evade enemy subs)... usually it´s more dangerous for the enemy subs to encounter my convoys than vice versa and using the same convoy routes here means I don´t have to hunt enemy subs down as they´re using the same routes anyway... [:D] losing an xAK now and then for a couple of subs sunk is something I take any day, even if I don´t like losing ships... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on San Jose , at 78,84 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 42,380 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 5 J2M3 Jack x 10 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 18 Japanese aircraft losses J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-47D25 Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 18th FG/12th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Raid is overhead 8th FG/36th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (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 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 80th FG/90th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes got P-47 at Iloilo already and they leak out to intercept a sweep to San Jose... now if I just knew how to prevent Cap from leaking... amazingly enough, a pretty even fight here which is not common for the IJ fighters when they´re up against Thunderbolts... a pity I´m going to run out of production in 7/44... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on San Jose , at 78,84 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 2,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 17 A6M5 Zero x 14 Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 4 destroyed A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed CAP engaged: 18th FG/12th FS with P-47D25 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 30000 , scrambling fighters to 39000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 8th FG/36th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters to 39000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 22 minutes 80th FG/90th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 31000 and 37000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes these Zekes are totally helpless against Thunderbolts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 174 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 10 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 22 Airbase supply hits 9 Runway hits 88 Port hits 15 Port fuel hits 2 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shimonoseki , at 104,57 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 37 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 11 Ki-61-Ib Tony x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 16 Ki-84a Frank x 10 Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 61 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 3 damaged Refinery hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: Sasebo Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 5 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes 19th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (16 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 22nd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (10 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 10 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 17th Sentai with Ki-61-Ib Tony (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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes ordered our B-29 at Changsha to attack the refineries at Shimonoseki which weren´t heavily defended... amazing, Rainer´s bottleneck must be refineries, so I wonder why he doesn´t try to defend them at all cost... bad weather and another mistake on my part result in only roughly 30% of the refineries knocked out... I didn´t look carefully enough at the B-29 staging base, which was slightly below twice supply requirement which meant the numbers of bombers in the air wasn´t what it could have been today... [:(] the fighters defending the place must have come from a nearby airfield... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 60 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 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 9 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 63 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 22 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shimonoseki , at 104,57 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 4 Ki-61-Ib Tony x 8 Ki-61-Id Tony x 11 Ki-84a Frank x 7 Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 25 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 7 damaged Refinery hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 17th Sentai with Ki-61-Ib Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 8 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 19th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 45 minutes Sasebo Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 22nd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes some more B-29, this strike took quite some casualties... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Shimonoseki , at 104,57 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 Ki-61-Ib Tony x 5 Ki-61-Id Tony x 3 Ki-84a Frank x 4 Allied aircraft B-29-1 Superfort x 18 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-29-1 Superfort: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged Refinery hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb 7 x B-29-1 Superfort bombing from 10000 feet City Attack: 20 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: Sasebo Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 115 minutes 17th Sentai with Ki-61-Ib Tony (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead 22nd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 65 minutes 19th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 84 minutes two B-29 shot down over the target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port hits 3 Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/F7F9811C48F04D2488EDAADDC35D9B42.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1907 troops, 162 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 5977 Defending force 77252 troops, 872 guns, 229 vehicles, Assault Value = 2231 Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 6 (2 destroyed, 4 disabled) Assaulting units: 766th Tank Battalion 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 4th Australian Division 3rd Marine Division 754th Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd Marine Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion Americal Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 6th Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Marine Division 27th Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 1st Australian Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 41st Infantry Division 18th British Division V US Amphib Corps 156th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 119th USAAF Base Force 154th FA Bn II Australian Corps 154th USA Base Force XIV US Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force 151st USA Base Force 158th USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force XI US Corps 168th Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 79th Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 81st Infantry Brigade 54th Division 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 52nd Division 77th Infantry Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 66th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 16th Army 19th Army 64th Field AA Battalion 2nd Base Force 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th RF Gun Bn /1 65th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 4th Air Army 60th JNAF AF Unit 2nd Mortar Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1

EUBanana -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 6:26:46 PM)
What is the replacement for the P47 in late 44? You have a gap before you get P51s? Sounds like these babies have to be husbanded to cover that gap, though in my experience husbanding aircraft long term is pretty hard.

kfsgo -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 6:43:57 PM)
P-47D (175/m) ends in 6/44, P-51D (150/m when you add together the offmap 30, 90 P-51D at Los Angeles and 30 upgraded P-51B at LA) starts in 11/44, so the major flow in that period is the 40 P-38L, I guess? Not sure how many show up with new groups though, I assume there's a fair few... e: no, 80 P-38L? I missed the two earliest ones...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/15/2011 8:55:28 PM)
yes, 80 P-38L and 30 P-51B is what the USAAF is getting until the P-51D shows up in numbers in late 44. So 110 useful fighters for the USAAF per month in mid 44. Of course there are 75 Corsairs for the Marines/Navy and the Hellcats for carrier based squadrons. The British are still getting 40 Thunderbolt I per month and later on Thunderbolt II until the end of the war so the Brits are the ones that get 40 of the best available fighters per month. I´m not using USAAF P-47 for offensive operations anymore, purely base defense. Got some 300 left in the pool, don´t know how many we´ve got on the map but it probably is something like 500-600. Also Spitfire VIII for the British and Australian and Corsairs for the Kiwis (but I´ve only got four Kiwi fighter squadrons in the frontline in total). When you look at these numbers (it´s mid 44 afterall) then you won´t be surprised that I´m not keen to attack heavily capped bases when the enemy got radar there (which he has at every heavily defended base of course). This can cost you a hundred first line fighters in a day for not that much in return, not to talk about the hours you´ve spent for 100 pilots being trained up to 70 airskill 70 defense. And it also puts the Allied numbers of aircraft into a different light when you compare them with the still very conservative numbers of fighters the enemy produces. The P-47 has proven to be superior to everything the Japanese can field but if you meet enough Georges/Jacks/Franks and they get the dive then your P-47 die in droves nearly just like every other fighter too. All in all, it keeps me with my tactic of trying to engage leaking Cap or destroy the enemy in smaller numbers when I´ve got the chance to do so. Attacking the airfields around Manila for example is a nogo and this has been the same with every major Japanese airfield in the last years as I´m just not willing to throw away my still limited numbers of excellent fighters. Even that I´m quite ahead of PzB´s game vs. AndyMac, if you look at the aircraft I´ve employed at the stage the guys are now, you will find out that I didn´t have to rely on crappy P-40 in late 43 which confirms me in going the way I did. Of course it´s a matter of taste but I´m always trying to go with as few ships/aircraft lost as possible. Doing this, I´ve still moved forward pretty much constantly and dominating the SRA in mid 44 doesn´t sound too bad as the Allied and so far I´ve lost only one CV. What really strikes me is the fact that if all those land based Zekes would be Jacks or Georges I definately would have had far more problems but even with PDU on the enemy seems to be mostly stuck with Zekes for his land based squadrons and the Zeke definately can not compete with any of my frontline fighters while it´s the backbone of the IJNAF.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/17/2011 1:13:23 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 19, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Siangtan , at 81,52 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 39,740 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 44 Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 24 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 12 destroyed CAP engaged: 343rd FG/11th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 51st FG/16th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 51st FG/26th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (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 31000 Raid is overhead 347th FG/67th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 80th FG/459th FS with P-47D25 Thunderbolt (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 31000 Raid is overhead 311th FG/528th FS with P-47D2 Thunderbolt (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 42000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes a good example of what happens when the enemy sends his fighters on a sweep and meets P-47 in a higher position... even without radar we get the dive and the Tojos take it right onto the chin, they are shot down in droves... kill rate 20:1... [8\|] it´s not the altitude, it´s not pilot quality, it´s not the aircraft, it´s the never ending dive... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 181 B-25H Mitchell x 39 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 61 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 8 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 4 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 28 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Sasebo 6th SNLF ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 58th Construction Battalion ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 60th JNAF AF Unit ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 89th Naval Guard Unit ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 2nd Mortar Battalion ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 70 P-51B Mustang x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 7 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking Davao ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... will be glad when this pocket finally is cleared of Japanese troops... already takes a month longer than expected, I really underestimated the effect of a jungle/rough hex... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 21 P-38J Lightning x 16 PV-1 Ventura x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 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 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 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 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 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 40 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 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 40 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 3 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb uncountable number of piece meal strikes after the main strike... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 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 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 20000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Boac , at 80,80 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes now our sweeps against leaking Cap... looking as always -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Boac , at 80,80 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5b Zero x 3 N1K1-J George x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 17 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 13 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Saigon at 61,74 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Japanese Ships xAK Mikasa Maru, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage xAK Kimishima Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage Japanese ground losses: 47 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 9 (2 destroyed, 7 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 6 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb nice, two troop carrying freighters are sunk in the South China Sea... [image]local://upfiles/13774/7171AE1DC97443AFA41D5302E66679A4.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 144529 troops, 2894 guns, 3914 vehicles, Assault Value = 6188 Defending force 77222 troops, 872 guns, 229 vehicles, Assault Value = 2238 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Allied adjusted assault: 4018 Japanese adjusted defense: 10342 [X(] Allied assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 2) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 5573 casualties reported Squads: 121 destroyed, 268 disabled Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 361 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 35 disabled Vehicles lost 26 (1 destroyed, 25 disabled) Allied ground losses: 5177 casualties reported Squads: 27 destroyed, 391 disabled Non Combat: 160 destroyed, 483 disabled Engineers: 22 destroyed, 108 disabled Vehicles lost 327 (94 destroyed, 233 disabled) Assaulting units: 34th Combat Engineer Regiment 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Marine Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 27th Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion 6th Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion Americal Infantry Division 22nd Marine Regiment 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 754th Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 41st Infantry Division 4th Australian Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Division 2nd Marine Division 18th British Division 154th FA Bn 9th RAAF Base Force V US Amphib Corps XIV US Corps 119th USAAF Base Force 155th USA Base Force XI US Corps 156th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 146th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 168th Field Artillery Regiment 154th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 151st USA Base Force 158th USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 77th Infantry Brigade 79th Brigade 54th Division Sasebo 6th SNLF 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division 81st Infantry Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 75th Infantry Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 16th Army 59th Field AA Battalion 65th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 48th Fld AA Bn /1 2nd Mortar Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 19th Army 58th Construction Battalion 4th Air Army 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 8th RF Gun Bn /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 64th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1 next round at Davao, forts down at 2 now but the forts aren´t really the problem, it´s the jungle/rough hex... at least we didn´t lose the combat power of three divs in this attack but with such a modifier for the Japanese we´re going to have to hope they´re running out of supply soon...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/17/2011 1:23:40 PM)
managed to lose the cr of the 20th, nothing serious to report... AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 21, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 20 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead the airfield at Iloilo became operational and construction units are working day and night to build it up to level 9... fighter squadrons started to fly offensive missions against airfields around Manila to pick off leaking Cap... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 35,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 9 A6M5b Zero x 1 J2M3 Jack x 3 N1K1-J George x 4 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 21 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 2 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 254 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 9000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 331 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Raid is overhead Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Raid is overhead Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes which works very well as long as we get the dive... as our squadrons never fly in full strenght but lose a fragment in each strike (let alone fly together with other squadrons) we have to keep up this tactic, in a direct attack against a major enemy base our squadrons would be outnumbered at least 5:1... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Iba at 73,71 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft PB4Y-1 Liberator x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses PB4Y-1 Liberator: 6 damaged Japanese Ships TK Enkei Maru, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage TK Eiho Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires TK Asokawa Maru #2, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage TK Eiwa Maru #4, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage Aircraft Attacking: 10 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb 6 x PB4Y-1 Liberator bombing from 1000 feet Naval Attack: 5 x 500 lb SAP Bomb CAP engaged: S-324 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead this time more than a full USN squadron managed to attack a tanker convoy in the South China Sea and the couple of Zeroes on LRCAP mean nothing... 4 tankers loaded up with fuel are hit and all four are expected sunk... it´s really costly to move ships into the South China Sea, I doubt that more than one out of 5 would make it as it stands now... what to do when you´re desperate for fuel... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 10 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 6 [8\|] I love it... 2x3... Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: S-603 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 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (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 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, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 40010. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 254 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 9000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes Hiryu-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 44000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 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 39500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 55 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 30 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 12 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 28 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 16 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft P-51B Mustang x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 No Allied losses Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 46 No Allied losses Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 36 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb endless number of strikes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Tarakan , at 67,91 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb [image]local://upfiles/13774/3FA77F8A1538494C91237C6719C03A42.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1884 troops, 162 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 5925 Defending force 71648 troops, 850 guns, 228 vehicles, Assault Value = 1937 Japanese ground losses: 33 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Assaulting units: 193rd Tank Battalion 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 41st Infantry Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 2/7th Armoured Regiment 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 34th Combat Engineer Regiment Americal Infantry Division 4th Australian Division 1st Marine Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 766th Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 27th Infantry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 93rd Infantry Division 6th Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 22nd Marine Regiment 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2nd Marine Division 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Marine Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 18th British Division 147th Field Artillery Regiment 154th USA Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force II Australian Corps 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 168th Field Artillery Regiment 181st Field Artillery Regiment 9th RAAF Base Force V US Amphib Corps 158th USA Base Force 151st USA Base Force XI US Corps 146th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn XIV US Corps 155th USA Base Force 156th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 81st Infantry Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 77th Infantry Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 79th Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 52nd Division 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 75th Infantry Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 60th JNAF AF Unit 64th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 65th Field AA Battalion 66th Field AA Battalion 8th RF Gun Bn /1 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 2nd Mortar Battalion 19th Army 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 59th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 16th Army 4th Air Army 6th Air Div /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Roxas (79,83) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 9333 troops, 144 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 371 Defending force 1177 troops, 15 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 2 Allied adjusted assault: 139 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 139 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Roxas !!! Combat modifiers Defender: disruption(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 1319 casualties reported Squads: 52 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 171 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 18 (18 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 24 (24 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Assaulting units: 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 364th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 12th Australian Brigade Defending units: 1st Ind.Mixed Regiment 30th JAAF Base Force /1 base North East of Iloilo where the ex defenders of Iloilo have been kicked to...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/17/2011 2:52:11 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 22, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Saigon at 61,74 Japanese Ships xAK Kinsyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage PB Kyo Maru #6 Allied Ships SS Billfish SS Billfish launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Kinsyo Maru Billfish bottoming out .... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub sub blockade of the Cam Ranh Bay area... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 44 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 P-51B Mustang x 26 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 PV-1 Ventura x 48 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Airbase hits 10 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb and the usual air attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 32 P-38J Lightning x 16 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 7 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 45 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 58 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 26 P-38J Lightning x 22 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 14 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Soc Trang at 59,74 Japanese Ships PB Kyo Maru #6 Allied Ships SS Billfish, hits 1 SS Billfish is sighted by escort PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 attacking submerged sub .... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kyo Maru #6 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the single escort that was left tried another attack run on Billfish but only scored a near miss... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1914 troops, 162 guns, 149 vehicles, Assault Value = 5976 Defending force 71541 troops, 837 guns, 228 vehicles, Assault Value = 1945 Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 1st Marine Division 6th Infantry Division 4th Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 766th Tank Battalion 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 22nd Marine Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 27th Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 4th USMC Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 193rd Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment Americal Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Division 3rd Marine Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 2nd Marine Division 41st Infantry Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 18th British Division 181st Field Artillery Regiment 168th Field Artillery Regiment 154th FA Bn 156th USA Base Force 146th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps 154th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps XIV US Corps 151st USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment XI US Corps 158th USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 79th Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 89th Naval Guard Unit 52nd Division 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 81st Infantry Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 4th Air Army 58th Construction Battalion 19th Army 16th Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th RF Gun Bn /1 65th Field AA Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 64th Field AA Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 6th Air Div /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/17/2011 2:59:51 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 23, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Saumlaki at 77,115 Japanese Ships SS I-43, hits 2 Allied Ships AM Igonish xAP Yarra xAK F.J.Luckenbach AM Kelowna AM Courtenay SS I-43 is sighted by escort I-43 diving deep .... AM Kelowna fails to find sub and abandons search AM Courtenay fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Courtenay fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Courtenay fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Courtenay fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Courtenay attacking submerged sub .... AM Courtenay fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the usual sub sitting in the shipping lane North of Darwin... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 A6M5 Zero x 7 J2M3 Jack x 3 N1K1-J George x 4 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 2 destroyed A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed the Corsair really eats it´s opponents alive... needless to say, the never ending dive was involved here too as most enemy ac were flying lower... otherwise the stupied way how sweeps occur as we´ve had more than one squadron of course and the squadrons all got 18 operational aircraft... Aircraft Attacking: 1 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 Raid is overhead 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 254 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 9000 Raid is overhead S-316 Hikotai with A6M3a Zero (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 36750 Raid is overhead 331 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Raid is overhead 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 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, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 32,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 13 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36740 Raid is overhead Mauban wasn´t the only target we were drawing leaking Cap to, it also worked here... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 30 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 N1K1-J George x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 4 Japanese aircraft losses N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes then 2x2 fragements show up... if at least this silliness could be stopped with some patch... I really would like to call it a bug, perhaps the responsible should too so they wouldn´t have to jump over their ego as bugs get fixed, flawed designs aren´t... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 2 A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 [X(][X(] Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 18 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes S-316 Hikotai 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 36750 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 331 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes unbelievable, a full squadron coming in without losing 2 fighters on the way to target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 8 J2M3 Jack x 2 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 2 Ki-61-Id Tony x 6 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 2 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 9000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id 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 4 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (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 30000 Raid is overhead 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc 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 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 260th 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 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes S-305 Hikotai 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 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft P-51B Mustang x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 45 No Allied losses Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb and the usual attacks on Davao... guess we´ve dropped more bombs in this 45 mile hex than the Allied did on Berlin for the whole war... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 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 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 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 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 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 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 7 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft Thunderbolt I x 8 B-24J Liberator x 180 B-25H Mitchell x 49 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 12 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 61 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 2nd Mortar Battalion ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 2nd Mortar Battalion ... Also attacking 54th Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 33 B-25H Mitchell x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 79th Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 B-25H Mitchell x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 79th Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 16 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) 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 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 81st Infantry Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 16 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 N1K1-J George x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Raid is overhead S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters to 3000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes after the fragments, there´s still a main part of a squadron coming in... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Sian , at 83,41 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-IIa Lily x 15 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-IIa Lily: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 20 Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-48-IIa Lily bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb we´ve got some flak at Sian now... the Corsairs were worth their weight in gold today... [image]local://upfiles/13774/EC96495708884AD5AA139FC4617FC6C2.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1907 troops, 162 guns, 148 vehicles, Assault Value = 6480 Defending force 71450 troops, 824 guns, 228 vehicles, Assault Value = 1958 Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 4 (3 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 706th Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 6th Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Army Tank Regiment 4th USMC Tank Battalion 711th Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 27th Infantry Division 767th Tank Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Marine Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 2nd Regiment 766th Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion 4th Australian Division 193rd Tank Battalion 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion Americal Infantry Division 22nd Marine Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 1st Australian Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2nd Marine Division 41st Infantry Division 3rd Marine Division 18th British Division 154th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 154th FA Bn XI US Corps 156th USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force XIV US Corps 146th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 151st USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 158th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps 148th USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 81st Infantry Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 52nd Division 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 79th Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 54th Division Kure 7th SNLF /1 64th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 19th Army 16th Army 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 4th Air Army 8th RF Gun Bn /1 60th JNAF AF Unit 59th Field AA Battalion 66th Field AA Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 65th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 6th Air Div /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 2:53:37 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 24, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,72, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships xAKL Tokoro Maru, Shell hits 7, and is sunk Allied Ships DD Wickes DD Yarnall DD Young DD Cassin Young Reduced visibility due to Rain with 14% moonlight Maximum visibility in Rain and 14% moonlight: 2,000 yards Range closes to 27,000 yards... Range closes to 24,000 yards... Range closes to 21,000 yards... Range closes to 18,000 yards... Range closes to 15,000 yards... Range closes to 12,000 yards... Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... Range closes to 7,000 yards... Range closes to 6,000 yards... Range closes to 5,000 yards... Range closes to 4,000 yards... Range closes to 3,000 yards... Range closes to 2,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 2,000 yards Japanese ships attempt to get underway CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 2,000 yards DD Cassin Young engages xAKL Tokoro Maru at 2,000 yards xAKL Tokoro Maru sunk by DD Cassin Young at 2,000 yards xAKL Tokoro Maru sunk by DD Cassin Young at 2,000 yards Combat ends with last Japanese ship sunk... sent in some destroyers based in Jessolton to mop up enemy shipping at Cam Ranh Bay but most of the enemy convoys managed to escape... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 89 encounters mine field at Cam Ranh Bay (64,72) Allied Ships DD Yarnall, Mine hits 1 and then one destroyer hits a mine but damage is not worth mentioning as IJN mines got the effect of hand grenades... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Damar at 76,113 Japanese Ships SS I-43, hits 13, heavy damage Allied Ships AK Ganymede AK Chicot AK Alcona xAP Iron Warrior xAP Iron Master xAP Echunga xAP Dundula xAP Turing Mary xAP Kutsang xAK Momba xAK Mernoo xAK Mangola xAK Woolgar xAK Waiotapu xAK Bandra xAK Nisqually xAK Masaya xAK Exmoor xAK Barbara Olson xAK Wind Rush xAK Sawokla xAK Ernest Meyer xAK West Camargo xAK Admiral Wiley xAK Mormacstar xAK Lena Luckenbach xAK Chickasaw City AM Force AM Fierce AM Fidelity AM Exploit AM Buoyant AM Prevail, Shell hits 1, on fire SS I-43 is sighted by escort I-43 diving deep .... AM Force attacking submerged sub .... AM Fierce fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Fidelity fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Exploit fails to find sub and abandons search AM Force fails to find sub and abandons search AM Fierce fails to find sub, continues to search... AM Fidelity attacking submerged sub .... SS I-43 forced to surface! AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... AM Buoyant firing on surfaced sub .... AM Prevail firing on surfaced sub .... Sub slips beneath the waves the sub is spotted by the low value escorts but these have also become killers these days and I-43 is reported sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead have to intense pressure on enemy fighters in the Manila area, going to send more and more fighters to sweep leaking Cap as soon as Iloilo reaches it´s full potential (which is only a matter of a couple of days)... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 P-51B Mustang x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 45 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 80 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-51B Mustang x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 31 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 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 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 23,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) 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 194 B-25H Mitchell x 53 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 12 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 69 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 5 (1 destroyed, 4 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 13 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 89th Naval Guard Unit ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 77th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 77th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 7 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 25 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 79th Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb not only do I find these kind of strikes strange but also a very annoying click party... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 89th Naval Guard Unit, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb it´s always like one big WITP strike to start with followed by dozens of silly AE waves, mostly smaller than squadron strenght... there was even more logic behind in WITP when it was said "it´s a MORNING PHASE and AFTERNOON PHASE, so strikes aren´t moddeled individually"... don´t know what it is now... [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 11 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 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 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb too many to count... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft N1K1-J George x 3 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 17 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet 3 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet 2 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Raid is overhead parts of three squadrons... sweeps... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 A6M5 Zero x 4 A6M5b Zero x 1 J2M3 Jack x 2 N1K1-J George x 3 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M3a Zero (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 36750 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes Hiryu-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 261 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 2 A6M5 Zero x 8 N1K1-J George x 1 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 1 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 15 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 Raid is overhead 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (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 30000 Raid is overhead S-316 Hikotai with A6M3a Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36750 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 41010. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 105 minutes Hiryu-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 43500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes the Lightnings are getting shot up in each sweep, most of them are turning back due to damage and a lot of them are lost... the way my P-38 are performing I won´t be able to win the battle for air superiority in this area, not even against leaking Cap... 7 of them were lost today for probably the same number of enemy fighters... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 1900 troops, 162 guns, 147 vehicles, Assault Value = 6956 Defending force 71368 troops, 792 guns, 227 vehicles, Assault Value = 1958 Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 706th Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division Americal Infantry Division 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 27th Infantry Division 754th Tank Battalion 4th Australian Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 1st Australian Division 93rd Infantry Division 1st Regiment 41st Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 5th Australian Division 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd Regiment 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 766th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 711th Tank Battalion 37th Infantry Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 6th Infantry Division 22nd Marine Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 18th British Division XIV US Corps 154th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 181st Field Artillery Regiment 151st USA Base Force XI US Corps 119th USAAF Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 158th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn V US Amphib Corps II Australian Corps 148th USA Base Force 156th USA Base Force 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 75th Infantry Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 79th Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 81st Infantry Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 54th Division Sasebo 6th SNLF 52nd Division 89th Naval Guard Unit Kure 7th SNLF /1 16th Army 60th JNAF AF Unit 48th Fld AA Bn /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 6th Air Div /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 64th Field AA Battalion 19th Army 59th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 4th Air Army 58th Construction Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 66th Field AA Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 65th Fld AA Bn /1 [image]local://upfiles/13774/00990D03FF3F421BB71F4C49CD1C2BBC.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 3:16:57 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 26, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 66,72 Japanese Ships AO Shioya, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage AO Sata TK Tamon Maru #16 TK Ebara Maru TK Azuchisan Maru TK Fukko Maru E W-24 Allied Ships SS Pompano SS Pompano launches 6 torpedoes at AO Shioya Pompano diving deep .... E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search... E W-24 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub sub blockade around Cam Ranh Bay claims another tanker... good thing is that Rainer can´t employ his super E here, well he can, but then he runs danger of having them being sunk by either my long range USN bombers or by my destroyers that are operating in the South China Sea... guess small enemy convoys will keep operating in this area for another couple of weeks until the enemy will finally give it up as he at best get´s 1/4 of them back to Japan... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Jesselton at 68,86, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships MTB G-1 MTB G-2 Allied Ships DD Wickes DD Young DD Cassin Young Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 42% moonlight: 3,000 yards Range closes to 24,000 yards... Range closes to 18,000 yards... Range closes to 12,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... Range closes to 6,000 yards... Range closes to 4,000 yards... Range closes to 2,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 2,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 2,000 yards DD Cassin Young engages MTB G-2 at 2,000 yards DD Cassin Young engages MTB G-2 at 2,000 yards MTB G-2 engages DD Young at 2,000 yards Range increases to 9,000 yards Task forces break off... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 21 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 3 A6M5 Zero x 3 A6M5b Zero x 1 N1K1-J George x 3 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 17 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 254 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 9000 Raid is overhead S-316 Hikotai with A6M3a Zero (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 36750 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 43 minutes we´re going to further intensivy this... ceiling sweeps dive on everything higher than 6000ft, fighters at 6000ft usually aren´t dived by ceiling sweeps which is quite funny... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M3a Zero x 1 A6M5 Zero x 5 J2M3 Jack x 3 N1K1-J George x 3 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 22 Japanese aircraft losses A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 10 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: 331 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, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Raid is overhead S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Raid is overhead Hiryu-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 Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters to 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 72 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M3a 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 36750 , scrambling fighters to 2000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes the way the P-38 are performing today is encouraging, a 4:1 in the end today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 79th Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 134 B-25H Mitchell x 52 P-51B Mustang x 26 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 45 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 158 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Sasebo 6th SNLF ... Also attacking 77th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... heavy air to ground attacks at Davao are hopefully preparing the end for the Japanese defenders there... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 58 B-25H Mitchell x 27 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 7 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 40 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 89th Naval Guard Unit ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 89th Naval Guard Unit ... Also attacking Kure 7th SNLF /1 ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 24,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 PV-1 Ventura x 72 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Airbase hits 8 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 135 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 37 B-25H Mitchell x 21 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 35 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 21,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 89th Naval Guard Unit, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 10 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kure 7th SNLF, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 46,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 5 N1K1-J George x 3 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 3 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 8 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIc Tojo: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed fragments of the earlier sweeps... [8\|] oh how silly is this really... CAP engaged: S-603 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 Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (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 30000 Raid is overhead 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (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 36740 Raid is overhead 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes [image]local://upfiles/13774/FABAD16E21B949E48AEAB0704964E1F4.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 6613 troops, 550 guns, 454 vehicles, Assault Value = 8315 Defending force 70940 troops, 769 guns, 227 vehicles, Assault Value = 1960 Japanese ground losses: 181 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: Vehicles lost 8 (5 destroyed, 3 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 767th Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 762nd Tank Battalion 711th Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 1st Regiment 706th Tank Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 27th Infantry Division 3rd Marine Division 98th Infantry Division 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 41st Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 37th Infantry Division 22nd Marine Regiment 4th Australian Division 93rd Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th USMC Tank Battalion Americal Infantry Division 193rd Tank Battalion 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 6th Infantry Division 77th Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 1st USMC Tank Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 2/4th Armoured Regiment 1st Marine Division I Corps Cmbt Engineer Regiment 18th British Division 156th USA Base Force 225th Field Artillery Battalion 143rd USA Base Force I Corps Artillery 152nd USA Base Force 151st USA Base Force 251st Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion XI US Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 154th USA Base Force XI Corps Artillery 119th USAAF Base Force 131st Field Artillery Battalion 155th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 158th USA Base Force 249th Field Artillery Battalion V US Amphib Corps 148th Field Artillery Battalion 10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 164th USA Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force II Australian Corps XIV Corps Artillery 198th Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 157th USA Base Force 146th USA Base Force 205th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion XIV US Corps 168th Field Artillery Regiment 134th Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 2/16th Field Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 81st Infantry Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 54th Division Sasebo 6th SNLF 79th Brigade 52nd Division 77th Infantry Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 4th Air Army 59th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 8th RF Gun Bn /1 66th Field AA Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 64th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 19th Army 16th Army 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 65th Fld AA Bn /1 going to attack here soon again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Brunei (65,87) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 10599 troops, 211 guns, 205 vehicles, Assault Value = 388 Defending force 1212 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Allied adjusted assault: 169 Japanese adjusted defense: 21 Allied assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 3) Allied forces CAPTURE Brunei !!! Japanese aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses No Japanese losses Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(-), preparation(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 508 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 39 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 3 Assaulting units: 33rd Infantry Division I US Corps Defending units: 15th Const Co 23rd Air Flotilla 6th JAAF AF Coy 33rd Inf Div takes the place easily... I still don´t get why the enemy completely failed to defend Borneo, all of it was more or less empty... looks like my opponent´s and my view of the strategic situation differs completely... as long as at least Northern Borneo and the Northern Philipines are in Japanese hands the Allied aren´t able to stop shipping in the South China Sea and the enemy could still bring out all of Palembang´s oil but it seems Rainer never invested anything in defending Borneo... around Manila we´ve spotted around a hundred enemy units but what gives if you lose the ability to bring oil from teh most important refinery on the map back to Japan? [&:] I would have put a dozen IJA divs onto Northern Borneo months ago to defend this area at all cost, together with Northern Java (while it was obvious anyway that the Allied would go North towards the Philipines) and building up the area around and North of Manila... this would have enabled the Japanese to bring home Palembang´s fuel for at least 6-10 months longer than it is now, we´re aiming at completely closing shipping down in this area withint the next 4-6 weeks, from then on, the enemy is mostly stuck with refineries on Japan as we´ve also knocked out Port Arthur´s 120 refineries already... guess the enemy hasn´t got more than 1200-1300 refineries when he completely loses access to Palembang soon... wonder how that´s going to play out then... any thoughts of Japanese player on the loss of the refineries? Merchant shipyards aren´t needed anymore, same probably goes for naval shipyards (only subs to build at this stage I guess) so the enemy can focus completely on aircraft, engines and armament points which makes me think the fuel coming from the SRA isn´t needed if the enemy halts all shipbuilding. [&:]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 3:30:17 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 27, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Batjan at 76,104 Japanese Ships SS I-44, hits 11 Allied Ships CL Detroit CL Leander DMS Perry DMS Hopkins AGC Mount Olympus AGC Blue Ridge DMS Macomb DMS Forrest DMS Wasmuth DMS Long SS I-44 is sighted by escort I-44 diving deep .... DMS Macomb attacking submerged sub .... DMS Forrest attacking submerged sub .... DMS Wasmuth fails to find sub and abandons search DMS Long fails to find sub and abandons search DMS Macomb fails to find sub and abandons search DMS Forrest fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Forrest fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Forrest fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Forrest fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Forrest fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS Forrest attacking submerged sub .... SS I-44 eludes DMS Forrest by diving deep DMS Forrest loses contact with SS I-44 DMS Forrest fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub one of our invasion convoys is stumbling over an enemy sub and the escorts prevent an attack while damaging the bugger... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Batjan at 76,104 Japanese Ships SS I-44 Allied Ships DD Yarnall SS I-44 launches 6 torpedoes I-44 diving deep .... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the destroyer which hit a mine at Cam Ranh Bay then is attacked by I-44 which missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Batjan at 76,104 Japanese Ships SS I-44 Allied Ships DD Yarnall SS I-44 is sighted by escort I-44 diving deep .... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yarnall fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another round for no result... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes and we start our sweeps again against leaking in the Manila area... this time it´s up to the Corsairs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5b Zero x 3 N1K1-J George x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 40 [X(][X(][X(] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5b Zero: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 15 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 31000 feet 16 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 31000 feet 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 31000 feet 2 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes wow, main part of two squadrons plus 2x2 fragments coming in in one sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft Thunderbolt I x 8 B-24J Liberator x 164 B-25H Mitchell x 52 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 19 F4U-1A Corsair x 10 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 11 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 3 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 176 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 15 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 77th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 89th Naval Guard Unit ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 4th Air Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 89th Naval Guard Unit ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... and the endless number of air strikes against the Japanese at Davao... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft P-51B Mustang x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 60 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 9 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 8 Runway hits 72 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Davao , at 79,91 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Allied aircraft P-51B Mustang x 13 PV-1 Ventura x 24 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 20000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft Thunderbolt I x 8 B-24J Liberator x 37 B-25H Mitchell x 27 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 62 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 70 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 8 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 23 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 13 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 3 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 89th Naval Guard Unit, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 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 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 15000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Calapan , at 78,79 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 J2M3 Jack x 3 N1K1-J George x 2 Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 13 x F4U-1A Corsair sweeping at 31000 feet CAP engaged: 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes Hiryu-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes we had quite some Corsairs damaged today, resulting in three of them lost A2A with a near 3:1 kill rate in total... this is going to be a long and bloody fight for our fighters... I would really preferre not being on the offense here as our kill rates over our base usually sky rocket when the enemy decides to be foolish enough to attack but Rainer was too smart to attack us lately... [image]local://upfiles/13774/7692149DCBC24AA29831739D0D13E15A.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 200141 troops, 3997 guns, 5910 vehicles, Assault Value = 8385 Defending force 70107 troops, 763 guns, 226 vehicles, Assault Value = 1924 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Allied adjusted assault: 7705 Japanese adjusted defense: 5314 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 8854 casualties reported Squads: 112 destroyed, 469 disabled [&o] Non Combat: 149 destroyed, 504 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 7 disabled Guns lost 7 (1 destroyed, 6 disabled) Vehicles lost 42 (27 destroyed, 15 disabled) Allied ground losses: 4092 casualties reported Squads: 17 destroyed, 304 disabled Non Combat: 125 destroyed, 802 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 103 disabled Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 593 (83 destroyed, 510 disabled) been time to attack here again, noticed no flak at all lately which meant the enemy must have run out of supplies (at least the units in the rear of the stack) and this is proven today with a (-) for supply... amazing that there wasn´t enough supply for a "year´s fight"... Rainer told me this wouldn´t happen again so he probably is going to bring halve a million tons of supply to the Philipines as this clearly is going to be our next major target... this was the biggest Western Allied Army that took part in a single battle so far, with 16 of our most experienced divisions... four more were already rotated back to Cotabato, not to mention all the tank and support units... as soon as Davao is mopped up all these units are going to prepare for targets around Manila, there are going to be more than two dozen divisions involved plus lots more of artillery, tanks and support than can be seen below... the battle for the area around Manila probably is going to be the biggest engagement we´re goint to see in this campaign and it´s not going to be a short one... when it´s going to be over, that´s finally going to be it for the Japanese, in fact, the war is already seen as clearly won in the Allied high command... Assaulting units: 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Regiment 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 6th Infantry Division 93rd Infantry Division 27th Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 4th Australian Division 2nd Marine Division 77th Infantry Division 37th Infantry Division 2/6th Armoured Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion I Corps Cmbt Engineer Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion Americal Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 1st USMC Tank Battalion 3rd Marine Division 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 5th Australian Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 98th Infantry Division 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 711th Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Australian Division 22nd Marine Regiment 706th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 41st Infantry Division 1st Marine Division 2nd Regiment 18th British Division 152nd USA Base Force 146th USA Base Force 10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 2/16th Field Regiment 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 251st Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 4th Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 151st USA Base Force 155th USA Base Force 164th USA Base Force XI US Corps 11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 154th USA Base Force 131st Field Artillery Battalion XIV US Corps 225th Field Artillery Battalion 148th Field Artillery Battalion I Corps Artillery 181st Field Artillery Regiment 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion V US Amphib Corps 198th Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn 134th Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force 157th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 156th USA Base Force XI Corps Artillery 143rd USA Base Force 205th Field Artillery Battalion 158th USA Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 97th Field Artillery Battalion 148th USA Base Force XIV Corps Artillery 147th Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 77th Infantry Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 54th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 79th Brigade 52nd Division 81st Infantry Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF Kure 7th SNLF /1 4th Air Army 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 66th Field AA Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 19th Army 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 60th JNAF AF Unit 6th Air Div /1 59th Field AA Battalion 16th Army 64th Field AA Battalion 48th Fld AA Bn /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 65th Fld AA Bn /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 3:50:15 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 28, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 48,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 11 A6M5b Zero x 3 J2M3 Jack x 2 N1K1-J George x 6 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 3 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed wow, more leaking cap than expected... wouldn´t be a problem with a less silly strike routine that is sending out 2/3 of a squadron all the time to end up being outnumbered while we´ve ordered far more fighters to attack than the enemy got to defend... silly, silly, silly... two P-38 outright shot down with more of them crashing as not one ended up to survive without damage... CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (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 41000 Raid is overhead S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 9000 Raid is overhead 331 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 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 Raid is overhead S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Raid is overhead Hiryu-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes Zuiho-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 Raid is overhead 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (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 30000 Raid is overhead 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 49,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 12 A6M5b Zero x 2 J2M3 Jack x 1 N1K1-J George x 5 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 2 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 3 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 6000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 48 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 11 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead 221 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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 254 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 9000 Raid is overhead 331 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 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 51 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes Hiryu-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 3 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes Unyo-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 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 11th 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 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 17 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id 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 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 3 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes enemy numbers increasing while we continue to send 2/3 squadrons to engage... loss of 70 air 70 def pilots is more severe than losing the airframes... it takes 6 months in game time to train such a pilot and if he ends up against an enemy with superior numbers diving on him it all means nothing... I was highly voting for pilot training all the time but it has become so time consuming now that I´d would preferre a whole different system than the endless hours taking click parties you´ve got now, but without doing it, your pilots get shot out of the sky so I´m spending an hour every third turn for pilot "training" and pilot "rotation"... this is not only hurting my wrist but it´s also really annoying... a system that goes into the direction of setting a specific skill(s) that your flight schools aim for replacement pilots would have been the far better choice than the click parties we´ve got now... just give the player the choice to set a skill at whatever range he wishes and it takes x months to reach that and when a pilot has reached it, he´s going to be sent to the replacement pool... I´ve got more pilots in my "on map training squadrons" than I got pilots in the frontline squadrons so you can imagine how many clicks I´ve done for "pilot training" in this campaign already, probably more than a hundred thousand, which isn´t even an exxageration to be honest... [8\|] it first doesn´t look that severe when you start a campaing and got a dozen squadrons you have to manage pilots but over the course of the war it completely get´s out of whack and has nothing to do with playing a game, it´s worse than work you don´t want to do while you just don´t have a possibility to avoid it... unfortunately, this is how the system works now and there´s is no way to change it... a different style of pilot training than WITP was needed but in WITP it took you a couple of clicks to train a squadron, now you train each PILOT... of course you can do it the same way it was done in WITP, if your opponent spends the time to train each pilot, you end up on the losing side again, so it´s going to be a problem... and then you end up fighting the routines that sends out your squadrons in a way no sane commander would have done in real life, ending up in numerical disadvantages all the time even though you´ve ordered far more aircraft to attack than the enemy got to defend... funny AE world... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft Thunderbolt I x 8 B-25H Mitchell x 32 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 19 P-51B Mustang x 13 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 30 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 131 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 81st Infantry Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 32 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 30 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Japanese ground losses: 64 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 9 PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 7 damaged Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 19th Army, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 16th Army, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 16th Army, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 48,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 A6M5b Zero x 1 N1K1-J George x 1 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 1 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 1 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 27 [X(] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed "fragments" of four squadrons... a squadron can´t fly a sweep in a whole usually... more than one squadron can´t fly a sweep together usually... but the silly fragments join to fly together usually... who really came up with such a silly idea? [&:] or is there someone out there daring to say that´s realism? I can only point to BoB again, old design, working design... admitted, different game... Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 2 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters to 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 28000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 254 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 9000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes Zuiho-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 16000 Raid is overhead S-603 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 21000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 34440 Raid is overhead 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id 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 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (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 30000 , scrambling fighters to 27000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc 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 31000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 46 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lubang , at 78,78 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 47 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 7 A6M5b Zero x 4 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 2 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 254 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 9000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5b 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 36750 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes [image]local://upfiles/13774/88FF3A3B8B09434FBFAF75D85BDF5B16.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 6641 troops, 554 guns, 458 vehicles, Assault Value = 8240 Defending force 62277 troops, 754 guns, 206 vehicles, Assault Value = 1505 Japanese ground losses: 71 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 1st USMC Tank Battalion 98th Infantry Division 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 77th Infantry Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 5th Australian Division 3rd Marine Division 767th Tank Battalion 711th Tank Battalion 93rd Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 2nd Marine Division 22nd Marine Regiment 41st Infantry Division 3rd Motor Brigade 1st Australian Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 2nd Regiment I Corps Cmbt Engineer Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 37th Infantry Division 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 754th Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 1st Marine Division 4th Australian Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 6th Infantry Division 766th Tank Battalion Americal Infantry Division 706th Tank Battalion 1st Regiment 27th Infantry Division 18th British Division 157th USA Base Force 4th Field Artillery Battalion I Corps Artillery 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 148th USA Base Force 147th Field Artillery Regiment XIV US Corps 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 205th Field Artillery Battalion 2/16th Field Regiment 11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 151st USA Base Force XI Corps Artillery 164th USA Base Force 225th Field Artillery Battalion 156th USA Base Force 251st Field Artillery Battalion XIV Corps Artillery 155th USA Base Force 131st Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 134th Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 154th USA Base Force 10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion XI US Corps 148th Field Artillery Battalion 152nd USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps 143rd USA Base Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 154th FA Bn 198th Field Artillery Battalion 146th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 158th USA Base Force 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 81st Infantry Brigade 54th Division 79th Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 52nd Division 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 4th Air Army 16th Army 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 6th Air Div /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 59th Field AA Battalion 19th Army 64th Field AA Battalion 66th Fld AA Bn /1 8th RF Gun Bn /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 58th Construction Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 65th Fld AA Bn /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Babeldaob (90,97) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 46601 troops, 875 guns, 1094 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866 Defending force 46996 troops, 417 guns, 110 vehicles, Assault Value = 1403 Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 763rd Tank Battalion 38th Infantry Division 5th USMC Tank Battalion 43rd Infantry Division 110th Combat Engineer Battalion 24th Infantry Division 40th Infantry Division 2nd USMC Amphb Tank Battalion II Aus Corps Engineer Battalion 163rd USA Base Force 181st USAAF Base Force 162nd USA Base Force 159th USA Base Force III US Amphib Corps 228th USN Base Force 233rd USN Base Force 114th USAAF Base Force Defending units: 12th Division Babeldoap Naval Fortress 46th Division 4th Guards Division 22nd Special Base Force 7th Air Division 8th Base Force 30th Special Base Force 45th JNAF AF Unit 60th Field AA Battalion 25th JAAF AF Bn parity in troops on Babeldaob but reinforcements are on the way... when we´ve landed the reinforcements, we´re going to field an av of more than 3000 which should be enough to finally overcome the defenders... twice preparing for 100 days plus the time it takes to bring in the troops and take the place means this operation took us probably 9 months... [X(] thank god the enemy wasn´t able to stall more of our major operations as the prep time is what is slowing us down as there´s nothing like a beachhead and you can´t bring in fresh troops if they aren´t 100% prepped too as they land against enemy opposition just like the first wave, doesn´t matter that you´ve got 50000 troops on the island for four months already...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 4:00:38 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 29, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cotabato at 76,91 Japanese Ships SSX Ha-54, hits 7, heavy damage Allied Ships APD Daniel T. Griffin APD Barr Captain of SSX Ha-54 elects not to launch torpedoes at this target [:D] lol Ha-54 diving deep .... APD Barr attacking submerged sub .... APD Barr cannot reach attack position over SSX Ha-54 APD Barr fails to find sub, continues to search... APD Barr attacking submerged sub .... APD Barr is out of ASW ammo APD Barr is out of ASW ammo APD Barr is out of ASW ammo APD Barr fails to find sub, continues to search... APD Barr fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the enemy now uses midgets to attack us and it´s captain thought an APD wouldn´t be a worthy target... waiting for a BB to pass by... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Zamboanga at 76,90 Japanese Ships SSX Ha-53 Allied Ships APD Colhoun LST-227 LST-174 LCI-223 LCI-221 LCI-63 LCI-23 LCI-21 APD Dickerson APD Belknap APD Clemson APD Noa SSX Ha-53 is sighted by escort APD Dickerson fails to find sub, continues to search... APD Belknap fails to find sub and abandons search APD Clemson fails to find sub and abandons search APD Noa fails to find sub and abandons search APD Dickerson fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a second one spotted at Cotabato... don´t know if they were brought in with a sub or if they are able to move in themselve when coming from Davo... do these midgets have more than a hex range? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 45,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 7 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 7 x P-47D25 Thunderbolt sweeping at 42000 feet failed escorts... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 54th Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 52 P-38J Lightning x 5 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 12 P-51B Mustang x 26 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 60 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 3 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 3 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 79th Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 16th Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 26 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 7 P-51B Mustang x 6 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged PV-1 Ventura: 4 damaged Airbase hits 11 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 76 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 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 7 PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 51 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 158 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 9 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 17 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 295 Port hits 6 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 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 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port 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 81st Infantry Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft Thunderbolt I x 8 B-25H Mitchell x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 5 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 3 damaged Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Runway hits 19 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb nothing but milk runs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 16,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 24 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 21 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 2 damaged Port hits 2 Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 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 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port hits 2 Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 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 12 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Babeldaob , at 90,97 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 27 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 9 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 damaged Port hits 2 Port supply hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-24J Liberator bombing from 10000 feet Port Attack: 10 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 70,72 Japanese Ships SC Ch 32, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage TK Ichiyo Maru TK Palembang Maru TK Nittetsu Maru TK Okigawa Maru TK Ceram Maru DD Yukaze Allied Ships SS Gabilan, hits 6 SS Gabilan launches 6 torpedoes at SC Ch 32 Gabilan diving deep .... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yukaze is out of ASW ammo DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub looks like another convoy is trying to pick up some fuel, a subchaser is sunk for 19 sys 53 flt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 6689 troops, 554 guns, 458 vehicles, Assault Value = 8334 Defending force 61290 troops, 742 guns, 202 vehicles, Assault Value = 1521 Japanese ground losses: 66 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 3rd Marine Division 2nd Regiment 98th Infantry Division 77th Infantry Division 3rd Motor Brigade 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2nd Marine Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2/4th Armoured Regiment 2/7th Armoured Regiment 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 22nd Marine Regiment 754th Tank Battalion 706th Tank Battalion 27th Infantry Division 1st Regiment 6th Infantry Division Americal Infantry Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 37th Infantry Division 767th Tank Battalion 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 5th Australian Division 1st Army Tank Regiment 4th Australian Division 711th Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 1st Cavalry (Spec) Cavalry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Australian Division 1st Marine Division 41st Infantry Division 131st Combat Engineer Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 4th USMC Tank Battalion 762nd Tank Battalion I Corps Cmbt Engineer Regiment 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 766th Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 18th British Division 152nd USA Base Force 11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 97th Field Artillery Battalion 157th USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 155th USA Base Force 134th Field Artillery Battalion 198th Field Artillery Battalion 205th Field Artillery Battalion I Corps Artillery 158th USA Base Force XI Corps Artillery 164th USA Base Force 4th Field Artillery Battalion 143rd USA Base Force 154th USA Base Force 225th Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion II Australian Corps 2/16th Field Regiment XIV Corps Artillery XI US Corps 226th Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force 148th Field Artillery Battalion 154th FA Bn XIV US Corps 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 181st Field Artillery Regiment 251st Field Artillery Battalion 168th Field Artillery Regiment 156th USA Base Force 10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion V US Amphib Corps 151st USA Base Force 131st Field Artillery Battalion 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 147th Field Artillery Regiment 146th USA Base Force 249th Field Artillery Battalion 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 54th Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 79th Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 52nd Division 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 81st Infantry Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 64th Field AA Battalion 19th Army 60th JNAF AF Unit 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 58th Construction Battalion 59th Field AA Battalion 66th Fld AA Bn /1 6th Air Div /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 16th Army 8th RF Gun Bn /1 4th Air Army 65th Fld AA Bn /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 4:03:16 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jun 30, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 69,72 Japanese Ships TK Ceram Maru, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage TK Palembang Maru TK Marifu Maru TK Nittetsu Maru DD Yuzuki Allied Ships SS Flier, hits 3, heavy damage SS Flier launches 6 torpedoes at TK Ceram Maru Flier diving deep .... DD Yuzuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yuzuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yuzuki attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub more than a dozen subs are operating in this area and due to the fact that the enemy can only use a very small corridor for his convoys we can focus all these subs... the convoy that lost a subchaser yesterday loses a tanker today, we´ve got the second sub heavily damaged, 7 sys 69 flt 8 eng... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 34,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 13 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 13 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 31000 feet * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 52nd Division, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 16 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 P-47D25 Thunderbolt x 19 P-51B Mustang x 26 F4U-1A Corsair x 10 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 45 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 1 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 52 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 52nd Division ... Also attacking 54th Division ... Also attacking 75th Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... and the usual countless air to ground strikes... could edit them all out but want to keep them all in the AAR to have it complete... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 64 P-51B Mustang x 18 PBJ-1D Mitchell x 15 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged PBJ-1D Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 79 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x PBJ-1D Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 16 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... Also attacking 81st Infantry Brigade ... Also attacking 19th Army ... Also attacking 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 79th Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft Thunderbolt I x 8 B-25H Mitchell x 12 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 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade, at 79,91 (Davao) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft B-25H Mitchell x 12 P-47D2 Thunderbolt x 10 Allied aircraft losses B-25H Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-25H Mitchell bombing from 10000 feet Ground Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 6757 troops, 557 guns, 462 vehicles, Assault Value = 8082 Defending force 60772 troops, 726 guns, 201 vehicles, Assault Value = 1524 Japanese ground losses: 86 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 6th Infantry Division 4th USMC Tank Battalion I Corps Cmbt Engineer Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 1st Marine Division 3rd Marine Division 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 41st Infantry Division Americal Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 98th Infantry Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 1st Army Tank Regiment 762nd Tank Battalion 77th Infantry Division 4th Australian Division 1st USMC Tank Battalion 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 93rd Infantry Division 5th Australian Division 754th Tank Battalion 22nd Marine Regiment 2nd Regiment 37th Infantry Division 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 2/4th Armoured Regiment 1st Australian Division 1st Regiment 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 711th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 706th Tank Battalion 2nd Marine Division 27th Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 766th Tank Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 18th British Division 168th Field Artillery Regiment 223rd Field Artillery Battalion XI Corps Artillery 205th Field Artillery Battalion 2/16th Field Regiment 157th USA Base Force 119th USAAF Base Force 154th FA Bn 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 249th Field Artillery Battalion XI US Corps 4th Field Artillery Battalion 148th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 181st Field Artillery Regiment 155th USA Base Force 97th Field Artillery Battalion 251st Field Artillery Battalion 152nd USA Base Force 198th Field Artillery Battalion 156th USA Base Force 143rd USA Base Force 158th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps 147th Field Artillery Regiment 134th Field Artillery Battalion 148th Field Artillery Battalion 151st USA Base Force XIV US Corps 225th Field Artillery Battalion 11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 164th USA Base Force 226th Field Artillery Battalion I Corps Artillery 131st Field Artillery Battalion XIV Corps Artillery 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 9th RAAF Base Force 146th USA Base Force 154th USA Base Force 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 52nd Division 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 77th Infantry Brigade 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade 89th Naval Guard Unit 79th Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 54th Division 81st Infantry Brigade 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 66th Fld AA Bn /1 64th Field AA Battalion 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 4th Air Army 19th Army 59th Field AA Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 6th Air Div /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 16th Army 65th Fld AA Bn /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 4:25:25 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Jul 01, 44 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 32 A6M5b Zero x 17 J2M3 Jack x 5 N1K1-J George x 14 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 4 Ki-61-Id Tony x 7 Ki-84a Frank x 10 [X(] Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 14 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed looks more like a LRCAP trap than leaking Cap... with the silly strike routine, we end up heavily outnumbered of course... it´s not the orders for my squadrons, it´s the silly routine that is "modelling" these sweeps... order 100 fighters, end up with 6-7 sweeps and nearly most of them being outnumbered by only halve the numbers of enemy fighters in total... crazy... and then I´m expected to attack a base like Manila directly? when there are 300 fighters and radar? mhm... CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (12 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 38 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (11 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 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 34 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (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, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 254 Ku S-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 9000 Raid is overhead S-316 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (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, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36750 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes Hiryu-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 16000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes Zuiho-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 16000 Raid is overhead S-603 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Raid is overhead Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 34440 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (7 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 36 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (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 1 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (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 41010 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 48,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 26 A6M5b Zero x 16 J2M3 Jack x 2 N1K1-J George x 9 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 4 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 4 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 4 Ki-61-Id Tony x 4 Ki-84a Frank x 9 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 17 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 4 destroyed next round, next silly number of fighters in my sweep... turn around and start pilot training for the next two dozen pilots the strike routine throws away for you... [8\|] so many things just go hand in hand in this GAME that if one is heavily flawed it just creates a rat´s tail of other things to do... if the enemy fighters would have slightly more firepower I would constantly trade 3 fighters for one enemy, but being undergunned, the enemy "only" damages our fighters, still ending up with losses that can´t be sustained, neither in aircraft nor in work I´m going to put into pilot training as 6-7 hours per week of endless clicking is already more than enough... CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 9000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36750 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 36750. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 , scrambling fighters to 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (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 38380 , scrambling fighters between 10000 and 38380. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 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 2 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 Raid is overhead Unyo-1 with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 13000 Raid is overhead 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 34440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 41 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 19 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 23 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 254 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 9000 Raid is overhead 341 Ku S-1 with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41010 , scrambling fighters to 7000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 47,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 14 A6M5b Zero x 12 J2M3 Jack x 1 N1K1-J George x 5 Ki-43-IIb Oscar x 3 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 3 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 2 Ki-61-Id Tony x 3 Ki-84a Frank x 8 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 16 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed J2M3 Jack: 1 destroyed Ki-43-IIb Oscar: 2 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 3 destroyed CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 2 scrambling) 3 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 35440 and 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters between 11000 and 41000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 39440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes 221 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36750 , scrambling fighters between 36750 and 39440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes S-407 Hikotai with J2M3 Jack (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38380 Raid is overhead 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 43380. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 15 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters to 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 32 minutes 33rd Sentai with Ki-43-IIb Oscar (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 30000 , scrambling fighters between 12000 and 14000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 3 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 34440 and 35440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 24 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 331 Ku S-1 with A6M5 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 38500 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 42 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes the combat report looks better than how it actually turns out to be in the end... mostly because we just can´t get numbers to engage the enemy... what a fart... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 49 NM, estimated altitude 48,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 4 A6M5b Zero x 5 N1K1-J George x 2 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 2 Ki-44-IIc Tojo x 1 Ki-61-Id Tony x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 7 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 15 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M5b Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-61-Id Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-38J Lightning: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet CAP engaged: S-305 Hikotai with A6M5 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 1 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 38500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 28 minutes S-302 Kokutai with N1K1-J George (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 41000 , scrambling fighters to 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes S-301 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 42000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 13 minutes 11th Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 34440 , scrambling fighters between 17000 and 43500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 260th Sentai with Ki-44-IIa Tojo (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 14000 and 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes S-316 Hikotai with A6M5b Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 36750 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 331 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 16000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 16 minutes 18th Sentai with Ki-61-Id Tony (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead 50th Sentai with Ki-44-IIc 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 42500. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes 73rd Sentai with Ki-84a Frank (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters between 9000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 18 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 12 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 18 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 36 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 18 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Cebu , at 80,86 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft PV-1 Ventura x 24 Allied aircraft losses PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing from 10000 feet Airfield Attack: 6 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Mauban , at 80,78 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 45,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 19 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 1 Ki-44-IIa Tojo x 1 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Allied aircraft P-38J Lightning x 43 [8\|] Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed Ki-44-IIa Tojo: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 20 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 5 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet 6 x P-38J Lightning sweeping at 44000 feet silliness from A-Z... first there are four squadrons coming in with around 16 aircraft each... then nearly a full squadron with 4x6 of the first four squadrons (makes it 4x3 still missing)... what kind of crap is this and how could someone argue for it during beta testing? oh, sorry, forgot what I knew already... it just doesn´t make any sense... CAP engaged: 260th 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 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes S-305 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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 38440. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 10 minutes 11th 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 18000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 20 minutes 73rd 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 6000 , scrambling fighters to 39740. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes two dozen P-38 are lost today, nearly 50% of a monthly replacement... when looking at the total number of fighters involved, we´ve sent roughly twice the numbers of fighters but ended up being highly outnumbered until the last sweeps came in which resulted in our formations being shot up... and then someone´s going to raise hand telling you you should try to outnumber your enemy... heck, that´s what you can try, but the flawed design won´t give a damn about it... and then, I´m still fighting over empty bases, against leaking Cap, no radar... go figure how this would look like actually attacking a heavily defended base WITH radar... reminds me about those AARs where the Allied players are losing fighter replacements of three months in a couple of days because they try to knock down a single isolated enemy base stacked with fighters... according to the loss list, roughly a 1.5:1 today, with limited replacements and probably more pilots lost on our side this is nothing but a loss today... looks like I´ve got to rethink my tactic but what else can I do other than trying to sweep leaking Cap... [&:] [image]local://upfiles/13774/CA6D578EF5634829B1DECB94267FE881.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Davao (79,91) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 194185 troops, 3966 guns, 5962 vehicles, Assault Value = 8155 Defending force 60008 troops, 711 guns, 201 vehicles, Assault Value = 1519 Allied engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Allied adjusted assault: 6249 Japanese adjusted defense: 2368 Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied forces CAPTURE Davao !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 11558 casualties reported Squads: 114 destroyed, 437 disabled Non Combat: 212 destroyed, 377 disabled Engineers: 145 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 238 (235 destroyed, 3 disabled) Vehicles lost 161 (160 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 3756 casualties reported Squads: 20 destroyed, 303 disabled Non Combat: 50 destroyed, 823 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 80 disabled Vehicles lost 556 (56 destroyed, 500 disabled) that´s positive today, we finally take Davao... what a fight, it took 20 divisions in total plus uncountable numbers of tanks and support to take the place... jungle/rough is a killer, these bases are more or less able to hold out forever as long as there is supply for the defender... with enough supply, an enemy force like the one here can literally knock out all US Inf divs one after another if the Allied player keeps stubbornly attacking... and we were talking about only two enemy divisions, the rest was bgd sized, it would have been even worse if we would have met 5 IJA instead of all these smaller units as they perform worse in ground combat... thank god the area South of Manila is clear terrain, the enemy won´t be able to defend it (doubt he will even try) but around Manila there is lots of terrain that is highly favouring the defender... with Davao and Babeldaob in mind, it will probably end up with limited Allied units just holding the enemy in place in probably one or two hexes in the end where the enemy is going to retreat to, just like he has done on Mindanao when he retreated without fighting to Davao where he finally ran out of supplies... but unlike at Davao, we´re not going to knock out the enemy around Manila if he retreats into a jungle fortress, we will just keep the enemy in the self imposed POW camp and bomb him... at least that´s the plan... [:)] Assaulting units: 3rd Marine Division 37th Infantry Division 754th Tank Battalion 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion 93rd Infantry Division 762nd Tank Battalion 77th Infantry Division 706th Tank Battalion I Corps Cmbt Engineer Regiment 1st Marine Division 711th Tank Battalion 3rd USMC Tank Battalion 2nd Regiment 670th Tank Destroyer Battalion 3rd Motor Brigade 632nd Tank Destroyer Battalion 671th Tank Destroyer Battalion 4th USMC Tank Battalion 766th Tank Battalion 1st USMC Tank Battalion 22nd Marine Regiment 2nd Marine Division 2nd USMC Tank Battalion 27th Infantry Division 3rd NZ Armoured Sqn 1st Regiment 6th Infantry Division 2/7th Armoured Regiment 1st Army Tank Regiment 767th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 2/6th Armoured Regiment 5th Australian Division 2/4th Armoured Regiment 627th Tank Destroyer Battalion 1st Australian Division 102nd Combat Engineer Regiment 98th Infantry Division 18th Combat Engineer Regiment 41st Infantry Division 4th Australian Division 637th Tank Destroyer Battalion Americal Infantry Division 18th British Division 158th USA Base Force 225th Field Artillery Battalion 10th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 143rd USA Base Force 154th USA Base Force XI US Corps 157th USA Base Force 156th USA Base Force II Australian Corps 11th USMC Field Artillery Battalion 1st USMC Field Artillery Battalion 2/16th Field Regiment 4th Field Artillery Battalion XIV US Corps 134th Field Artillery Battalion I Corps Artillery 152nd USA Base Force 146th USA Base Force V US Amphib Corps XI Corps Artillery 151st USA Base Force 97th Field Artillery Battalion 251st Field Artillery Battalion 223rd Field Artillery Battalion 119th USAAF Base Force 9th RAAF Base Force 164th USA Base Force 154th FA Bn 249th Field Artillery Battalion VII US Amphib Force 181st Field Artillery Regiment 148th Field Artillery Battalion 155th USA Base Force XIV Corps Artillery 148th USA Base Force 168th Field Artillery Regiment 2nd USMC Field Artillery Battalion 226th Field Artillery Battalion 131st Field Artillery Battalion 147th Field Artillery Regiment 198th Field Artillery Battalion 205th Field Artillery Battalion 1st Medium Regiment Defending units: 54th Division 35th Ind.Mixed Brigade 75th Infantry Brigade 81st Infantry Brigade 79th Brigade 77th Infantry Brigade 28th Ind.Mixed Brigade Sasebo 6th SNLF 27th Ind.Mixed Brigade 25th Ind.Mixed Brigade 52nd Division 26th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kure 7th SNLF /1 1st Art.Mortar Regiment 72nd JAAF AF Bn /1 66th Fld AA Bn /1 59th Field AA Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 60th JNAF AF Unit 64th Field AA Battalion 6th Air Div /1 48th Fld AA Bn /1 19th Army 4th Air Army 16th Army 65th Fld AA Bn /1

crsutton -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/21/2011 10:37:42 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy don´t know if the engagement today was a full success, it probably was a success in that the enemy won´t be able to strike against my transports unloading at San Jose today so the overal goal was achieved. Looking at the aircraft loss list, the enemy has lost over 450 aircraft of different types with hundreds of pilots downed which is great. On the other hand, I proved to be stupid not to think about the four AMc at Bataan and having my bombers on nav attack 7 hexes (I deliberately staid 8 hexes from Manila as I knew the enemy had ships there), which has cost us a hundred carrier based aircraft, probably 50-70 pilots. The strike routine decided it would be worth it to send over 200 aircraft after four identified AMc. This again is the time when I think about those great PBEM tactics when ppl are using "bait" TFs. I want to point out that this surely isn´t the case here as these AMc have been there for months to clear mines from potential sub minelaying missions so I sure won´t point on my opponent. But as long as the strike routine is what it is ("problematic" to stay honest) it is pretty much gamey to me as real life commanders wouldn´t have sent more than 200 carrier based aircraft to attack four AMc with a total tonnage probably not more than a destroyer. This of course in relation to the sighting, if the AMc would have been identified as cruisers it probably would make sense. But when you get more than halve a dozen messages during the search phase reading like "AMc sh*t Maru" spotted at Bataan, then noone can speak of misidentifications á la identifying a Japanese oiler for a carrier like it happened in real life. Using a cruiser TF or BB as a bait and having hundreds of carrier based ac going after them is one thing, taking advantage of a "problematic" routine (note my attempt to stay as calm as possible today [:D]) that sends hundreds of aircraft after a completely useless target is another thing IMO. Oh well, to each his own... For the loss of 450+ aircraft the enemy not only destroyed 120+ Allied aircraft but scored several hits on CVE, Wake Island was hit twice. The enemy exclusively targetted CVE which are the easiest targets to hit, the CVE are also the easiest to replace as we´ve got more than a dozen sitting at Darwin at the moment. If nothing unexpected happens then I doubt any of my CVE are going to sink. I´m sure one or two subs are going to show up in the next two or three days, all damaged CVE are heading to Manado for emergency repairs. The rest of the fleet stays in the area to cover the unloading at San Jose, I doubt the enemy will fly any air attacks tomorrow. [image]local://upfiles/13774/188AAA1B6B0D43F8ACB324609CD15453.jpg[/image] You are right about the uneven air losses. However the final ratios for this stage of the war and possbily the reults are about right. The only difference being that Allied naval flak would have gotten at least 60- 70% of the kills instead of your uber CAP. So, it is not just the air routine that needs work. To fix one (CAP) without fixing the other (flak) will present a serious problem for the Allies.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (3/22/2011 12:56:07 PM)
considering 1100 fighters available for Cap with roughly 400 enemy aircraft downed over my carriers makes it a 0.35 kills per Allied fighter which doesn´t seem that uber to me in the end. Don´t know how much effect flak got on reduction of the bombers´ accuracy but otherwise it was non existent.

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