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castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/22/2010 12:35:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: khyberbill I have not seen or read of any serious damage to the resource centers except when they have been evacuated by the Allies. A smart foe will spend most of 42 using his tankers and cargo vessels extracting as much from the DEI that is possible before US fleet boats become more effective. That should limit expansion plans-naturally that has not happened by most JFB's yet, although in one of my PBEMs, we are into 4/43 and my foe wishes he had done that instead of invading Darwin. I sink about 2 ships a day now and that is after the reaction range was reduced to 1. sinking two ships a day with subs is my long term goal and doesn´t sound impossible at all when I think at all the attacks I´ve seen so far. And your example of 4/43 with two sunk ships a day more or less confirms what I´ve thought about AE after starting my first game, subs will be what will be the war winner for the Allied. In WITP it was the Corsair and 4Es en masse, in AE it IMO will be the submarine. What is your opponent doing in regards to ASW? I expect mine to train up a lot of his bombers on ASW (or nav search at least - I don´t know how the difference between those two really turns out in AE) and then cover the shipping lanes in the SRA with his (mostly) IJAAF bombers. And of course the use off dedicated ASW TFs along the shipping lanes. In fact not much difference to WITP other than you have to train a certain skill now instead of just ramping up experience. And only 4 ship ASW TFs now. What are you experiencing in terms of countermeasures to your subs in your game at 4/43?

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/23/2010 9:40:15 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 17, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Savaii at 148,158 Japanese Ships SS I-22, hits 2 Allied Ships AVD Thornton AP President Monroe xAK Don Isidro KV Dawson KV Chilliwack SS I-22 launches 6 torpedoes at AVD Thornton I-22 diving deep .... KV Dawson attacking submerged sub .... KV Dawson loses contact with SS I-22 KV Chilliwack attacking submerged sub .... KV Dawson fails to find sub and abandons search KV Chilliwack fails to find sub, continues to search... KV Chilliwack fails to find sub, continues to search... KV Chilliwack fails to find sub, continues to search... KV Chilliwack attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub the KV both dropped more than halve their depth charges for two near misses, the two AVDs I had in the TF did nothing... at least the sub was targetting one of my escorts. What I´ve noticed so far is that IJN subs seem to have a hard time to hit my escorts while my MK14 torp equipped subs have no problem to hit escorts all the time (though their torps fail to explode of course). hmmm, must bad luck I guess. 25th Feb will see my first summary of my torp attacks over a month, silly me, I forgot to take notes on the IJN subs, so there will only be Allied torps in the statistics. Will start taking notes on the IJN subs when we enter the second month of the statistics. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Tawau TF 162 troops unloading over beach at Tawau, 69,90 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 179 encounters mine field at Palembang (48,91) Japanese Ships DMS W-6 DMS W-5 36 mines cleared Rainer prepares Palembang´s port... have sent a CM once up there and the minefield will be gone in no time... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Palembang at 48,91 Japanese Ships DMS W-5 DMS W-6 Allied Ships SS KX SS KX launches 2 torpedoes at DMS W-5 DMS W-6 fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS W-6 fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS W-6 fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS W-6 fails to find sub, continues to search... DMS W-6 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub same as the Japanese, our working torps seem to miss more often than our non working torps do... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Milne Bay at 101,133 Japanese Ships DD Yakaze Allied Ships SS S-23 SS S-23 is sighted by escort S-23 bottoming out .... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub still a convoy at Milne Bay, our bombers didn´t launch... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 18 B5N1 Kate x 10 Japanese aircraft losses B5N1 Kate: 5 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 10 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb mini KB lingers off Java again, the invasion is soon to come... flak is more or less useless, even against low flying Kates. Batavia has three dedicated AA units and halve a dozen base forces... I´m still used to WITP Nikmod flak but am playing with WITP stock flak again so this pretty much strikes me every time I see such attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 92,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Milne Bay at 101,132 Japanese Ships CA Kinugasa CA Aoba DD Kasumi DD Arare DD Urakaze DD Shiranui CA Kinugasa firing at 15th RAAF Base Force CA Aoba firing at 15th RAAF Base Force DD Kasumi firing at Lark Battalion DD Arare firing at 15th RAAF Base Force DD Urakaze firing at 15th RAAF Base Force DD Shiranui firing at 15th RAAF Base Force this is one hex North of the base where the rest of my Port Moresby defenders is sitting now... no idea why this bombardement took place... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tandjoengselor at 68,92 Japanese Ships TK Zuiyo Maru, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage SC CHa-5 SC CHa-23 SC CHa-20 Allied Ships SS O23 SS O23 launches 4 torpedoes at TK Zuiyo Maru O23 bottoming out .... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub seems like Rainer is starting (or has long started and I just didn´t notice it) with picking up fuel (or oil) in the SRA. We sink our first IJN tanker... only a small one but it´s a start... took us two months to actually hit one... the tanker was empty so I actually wonder what it did in this base... this is the base North of Tarakan... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 27777 troops, 259 guns, 84 vehicles, Assault Value = 1004 Defending force 20507 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 656 Japanese adjusted assault: 757 Allied adjusted defense: 892 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 775 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 113 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 79 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Vehicles lost 5 (0 destroyed, 5 disabled) Allied ground losses: 353 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 23 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 34 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 22nd Division 17th Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 3rd War Area 25th Group Army 10th Group Army 14th Chinese Base Force this is the Chinese base on the coast, South of Shanghai... I wonder how the Chinese held this outpost in real life. Seems like Rainer has underestimated my "strenght" here and we fend off an IJA attack with only very light losses on our side. What really surprised me was the fact that we got a "leader +". The Chinese have good leaders? [:D] There´s no chance to hold this place though, I´m expecting Rainer to move in reinforcements and only do bombardments until more units arrived... then he will make short process of this base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 2886 troops, 203 guns, 196 vehicles, Assault Value = 1811 Defending force 25989 troops, 548 guns, 281 vehicles, Assault Value = 478 Allied ground losses: 481 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 18 disabled Non Combat: 18 destroyed, 53 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Guns lost 9 (3 destroyed, 6 disabled) Vehicles lost 14 (3 destroyed, 11 disabled) Assaulting units: 9th Tank Regiment 16th Recon Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment 65th Brigade 20th Infantry Regiment 9th Infantry Regiment 48th Division 27th Electric Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 38th Division 16th Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment 7th Tank Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 1st PA Infantry Division 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 71st PA Infantry Division 91st PA Infantry Division Manila Bay Defenses 4th PA Constabulary Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 51st PA Infantry Division 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 4th Marine Regiment 2nd/45th PS Inf Battalion 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 41st PA Infantry Division 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment 2nd PA Constblry HW Regiment 301st Construction Battalion Manila USAAF Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Clark Field USAAF Base Force Bataan USN Base Force USAFFE 201st PA Construction Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Asiatic Fleet 202nd PA Construction Battalion Provisional GMC Gp Cavite USN Base Force 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment didn´t take him long at all to march from Clark Field to Bataan. One or two attacks and our troops will surrender... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Maumere (66,113) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1174 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 40 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 40 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Maumere !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+) Assaulting units: I./124th Infantry Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Rennell Island (113,140) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 385 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 5 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Rennell Island !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-), disruption(-) Assaulting units: III/66th Naval Guard Unit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wau (98,126) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 155 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Wau !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), morale(-) experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 40 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: II/84th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: C Coy/NG Rifles while KB was off New Caledonia on it´s way South yesterday we have spotted the IJN carriers going North again today... I expect KB heading back to Truk now. Has been a short raid with limited success (two xAKLs sunk with nav search). Hopefully there´s not that much fuel at Truk but I guess enough to send out KB immedietely again. We´re over two months into the war and KB was more or less all the time at sea... and now halve an hour to reroute my rerouted convoys again... [:(][;)]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/23/2010 10:05:01 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 18, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 179 encounters mine field at Palembang (48,91) Japanese Ships DMS W-6 DMS W-5 44 mines cleared the minefield vanished... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Soc Trang at 57,74 Japanese Ships SC CHa-24 xAP Ukishima Maru xAP Ural Maru xAP Mizuho Maru xAK Konsan Maru xAK Manila Maru PB Tamaura Maru PB Rikusen Maru Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin is sighted by escort PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub big convoy heading East, it´s coming from Malaya... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 179 encounters mine field at Palembang (48,91) Japanese Ships DMS W-6 DMS W-5 36 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G3M2 Nell x 7 G4M1 Betty x 17 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses G3M2 Nell: 1 damaged G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-339D: 2 destroyed on ground 75A-7 Hawk: 1 destroyed on ground Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 37 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 7 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb ahh, what a pity... the IJN bombers came in BEFORE the Zero sweep but we had no fighters in the air... two dozen Betties and Nells are at least as good in airfield attacks as four dozen of my heavy bombers... they must have quite an experience advantage... we lose four of our crappy fighters on the ground... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 92,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 17 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 16 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet 8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet and here comes the first stratosphere sweep... after the bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 30 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 5 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 15 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 30 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Manila Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Bataan ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb Rabaul has IJN bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 B5N1 Kate x 34 B5N2 Kate x 8 Japanese aircraft losses B5N1 Kate: 9 damaged B5N2 Kate: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 17 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x B5N1 Kate bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb light rain reduces the effect of airstrikes a lot... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 32 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 32 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet * the two stratosphere Zero sweeps would have whiped out more or less every resistance over Soerabaja, but we would have also chewed up the bombers that went in unescorted BEFORE the sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 13 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Soc Trang at 58,74 Japanese Ships AMC Bankok Maru SC CHa-24 xAP Ukishima Maru xAP Ural Maru xAP Mizuho Maru xAK Konsan Maru xAK Manila Maru PB Tamaura Maru PB Rikusen Maru Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at AMC Bankok Maru Sculpin bottoming out .... PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Sculpin shadowed this big TF the whole day and got into attack position... no success though... wonder where this TF is going and if it´s troop loaden... at the moment it looks like it would head towards Japan but this wouldn´t make much sense to me when it´s coming from Malaya... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 68,83 Japanese Ships PB Kantori Maru xAKL Saiko Maru xAKL Nissyo Maru xAKL Nissen Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Snapper SS Snapper launches 4 torpedoes at PB Kantori Maru Snapper diving deep .... PB Kantori Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub two MK14 attacks today, two duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Gasmata TF 292 troops unloading over beach at Gasmata, 103,127 Japanese ground losses: 19 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 17 troops of a SNLF Squad accidentally lost during unload of 5th Indpt SNLF Coy 17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Indpt SNLF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 54313 troops, 599 guns, 830 vehicles, Assault Value = 1823 Defending force 25448 troops, 544 guns, 278 vehicles, Assault Value = 460 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 723 Allied adjusted defense: 211 Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 506 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 55 disabled Non Combat: 5 destroyed, 73 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled Guns lost 2 (0 destroyed, 2 disabled) Vehicles lost 37 (3 destroyed, 34 disabled) Allied ground losses: 3839 casualties reported Squads: 133 destroyed, 171 disabled Non Combat: 123 destroyed, 176 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 22 disabled Guns lost 10 (5 destroyed, 5 disabled) Vehicles lost 27 (7 destroyed, 20 disabled) Assaulting units: 48th Division 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 65th Brigade 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment 9th Infantry Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 38th Division 16th Engineer Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 27th Electric Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 20th Infantry Regiment 16th Recon Regiment 7th Tank Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion 3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Mortar Battalion 2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 4th PA Constabulary Regiment 4th Marine Regiment 1st PA Infantry Division 31st Infantry Regiment 31st PA Infantry Division 51st PA Infantry Division 2nd/45th PS Inf Battalion Manila Bay Defenses 71st PA Infantry Division 91st PA Infantry Division 14th PS Engineer Regiment 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 41st PA Infantry Division 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 2nd PA Constblry HW Regiment Provisional GMC Gp 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Clark Field USAAF Base Force Asiatic Fleet 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Manila USAAF Base Force 202nd PA Construction Battalion USAFFE 201st PA Construction Battalion Cavite USN Base Force Bataan USN Base Force 301st Construction Battalion 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment Bataan will fall with the next attack, which I fear will be seen tomorrow. Stupid me, I forgot to save my remaining pilots of the squadrons here (without any ac) and if Rainer will attack tomorrow (which I suspect he will) then I will lose them... those remaining squadrons here acted as training squadrons... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 92,48 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 552 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 27 Defending force 95 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 15 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-) Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 9th RGC Route Brigade Defending units: Lusu War Area -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tawau (69,90) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 462 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 21 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 10 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 10 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tawau !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: I/81st Naval Guard Unit We have lost track of KB today...

khyberbill -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/23/2010 1:18:29 PM)
quote: What is your opponent doing in regards to ASW? I expect mine to train up a lot of his bombers on ASW (or nav search at least - I don´t know how the difference between those two really turns out in AE) and then cover the shipping lanes in the SRA with his (mostly) IJAAF bombers. And of course the use off dedicated ASW TFs along the shipping lanes. In fact not much difference to WITP other than you have to train a certain skill now instead of just ramping up experience. And only 4 ship ASW TFs now. What are you experiencing in terms of countermeasures to your subs in your game at 4/43? One foe moved as much oil and resources the first year as he could and then hid. He concentrated mainly on China and Burma for his expansion and thus was not consuming lots of supply/fuel. One other foe concentrates lots of escorts in one TF with just a few transports in amphibious ops. Slightly gamey, but not unheard of. This has had some success until I kept my subs away from landing zones. The reduction of the reaction range has actually helped here. The third foe has built up his Air ASW and has had some success with Bettys and Nells against my subs. I am losing about one sub a month to his air attacks that are concentrated around Darwin (where my subs are blockading his forces). I am sure he is losing many planes a month to ops though so I am not certain who is winning this battle. Plus I bomb the air field where the planes are coming from each night.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/23/2010 3:04:56 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 19, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 124 encounters mine field at Rangoon (54,53) Japanese Ships DMS W-3 DMS W-2 DMS W-1 12 mines cleared if you only watch the replay you miss happenings like this one... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tioman Island at 52,84 Japanese Ships DD Uranami Allied Ships SS O21 SS O21 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Uranami O21 bottoming out .... DD Uranami fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub torps were DUDS!!! [:@] god damn... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Saigon at 61,74 Japanese Ships PB Rikusen Maru SC CHa-24 xAP Ukishima Maru xAP Ural Maru xAP Mizuho Maru xAK Konsan Maru xAK Manila Maru PB Tamaura Maru Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at PB Rikusen Maru Sculpin bottoming out .... PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the MK14 were of course duds too... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tokunoshima at 98,66 Japanese Ships xAKL Taganoura Maru PB Tokuho Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Gato SS Gato launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Taganoura Maru Gato diving deep .... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub and the same here...[>:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Muntok at 51,89 Japanese Ships CA Nachi CA Myoko DD Umikaze DD Hatsuyuki DD Usugumo DD Fubuki DD Suzukaze Allied Ships SS KIX, hits 2 SS KIX is sighted by escort KIX bottoming out .... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Usugumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Fubuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Suzukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Fubuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub two near misses, no damage done... seems like mini KB is retiring to Singapore to replenish... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Bataan , at 78,77 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 25 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 50 Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 20 Ki-48-Ib Lily x 27 Allied aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 7 damaged Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged Allied aircraft losses O-47A: 2 destroyed on ground SOC-1 Seagull: 1 destroyed on ground Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 9 Airbase supply hits 15 Runway hits 65 Aircraft Attacking: 27 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 100 kg GP Bomb 30 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb 20 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Manila Bay Defenses ... Also attacking Bataan ... Also attacking Manila Bay Defenses ... Rainer´s bombers don´t seem to suffer from the same my do... mine don´t launch in numbers at all and they have been 100% dispersed so far... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 3rd Construction Regiment, at 86,45 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 20 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 73 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 7th Construction Regiment ... I´ve ordered two construction rgts to move towards Sian but we ended up in the same hex as an enemy TK btn... and one unit even gets attacked from the air... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 7 B-17E Fortress x 8 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb useless attack and not combined of course... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 3 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 3 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb out of 50+ bombers ordered to attack we get a fridging 18 to fly... [:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 18 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- while losing track of KB yesterday, we find it again today... better say KB found another lone freighter... looks like KB is moving towards the Fidjis now... mmm, thought it would move back to Truk, changed all TF routing when it showed up a couple of days ago, then changed back yesterday after thinknig it would retire to Truk and have to change it today again... Morning Air attack on TF, near Ambrym at 123,152 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 37 D3A1 Val x 22 Japanese aircraft losses D3A1 Val: 1 damaged Allied Ships xAKL Kailua, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk Aircraft Attacking: 5 x D3A1 Val releasing from 3000' Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb 17 x D3A1 Val releasing from 10000' Naval Attack: 1 x 250 kg SAP Bomb Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAKL Kailua an unnecessary attack as once again the UBER naval search routine had alredy killed the ship... once again, a 100% kill rate of ships in range of KB´s nav search... here´s the excerpt of the op report: Task Force 89 arrives at Cape Town Task Force 249 arrives at Cape Town xAKL Kailua detects Japanese Carrier Aircraft at 123,152 near Ambrym xAKL Kailua is reported HIT xAKL Kailua is reported HIT xAKL Kailua is reported HIT xAKL Buijskes snooped by Japanese Dive Bomber at 44,85 near Padang TF 435 sights Japanese Fighter Bomber at 49,98 near Batavia i do find this more than disturbing... KB has killed more ships with nav search so far than it has sunk with actual nav attacks...[8\|] at least we know again where KB is... none of my TFs in danger at the moment... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 91,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kochi at 107,62 Japanese Ships SC CHa-10 SC CHa-22 SC CHa-19 Allied Ships SS Pompano SS Pompano launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-10 SC CHa-22 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-19 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub guess what... DUDS... far too many hits on escorts by the way... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 53426 troops, 599 guns, 830 vehicles, Assault Value = 1766 Defending force 21496 troops, 536 guns, 269 vehicles, Assault Value = 218 Japanese adjusted assault: 582 Allied adjusted defense: 131 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese forces CAPTURE Bataan !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses No Allied losses Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 888 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 12 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 66 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 28 disabled Vehicles lost 9 (1 destroyed, 8 disabled) Allied ground losses: 23509 casualties reported Squads: 1254 destroyed, 448 disabled Non Combat: 3755 destroyed, 1282 disabled Engineers: 203 destroyed, 12 disabled Guns lost 1099 (1000 destroyed, 99 disabled) Vehicles lost 438 (392 destroyed, 46 disabled) Units destroyed 31 Assaulting units: 16th Engineer Regiment 38th Division 20th Infantry Regiment 19th Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Ind. Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Regiment 20th Ind. Engineer Regiment 3rd Tank Regiment 27th Electric Engineer Regiment 16th Recon Regiment 9th Tank Regiment 2nd Tank Regiment 21st Ind. Engineer Regiment 48th Division 9th Infantry Regiment 65th Brigade 7th Tank Regiment 15th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 8th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 9th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 20th Ind. Mtn Gun Battalion 3rd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 2nd Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 14th Army 1st Hvy.Artillery Regiment 2nd Mortar Battalion 1st Medium Field Artillery Regiment 10th Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 2nd Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion Defending units: 4th Marine Regiment 14th PS Engineer Regiment 71st PA Infantry Division 51st PA Infantry Division 1st PA Constabulary Regiment 26th PS Cavalry Regiment 41st PA Infantry Division 91st PA Infantry Division 4th PA Constabulary Regiment 2nd PA Constabulary Regiment 2nd/45th PS Inf Battalion Manila Bay Defenses 31st PA Infantry Division 1st/45th PS Inf Battalion 57th PS Infantry Regimental Combat Team 31st Infantry Regiment 1st PA Infantry Division 2nd PA Constblry HW Regiment USAFFE Bataan USN Base Force 301st Construction Battalion Manila USAAF Base Force 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion 88th PS Field Artillery Regiment Cavite USN Base Force Clark Field USAAF Base Force Provisional GMC Gp 202nd PA Construction Battalion 201st PA Construction Battalion Asiatic Fleet 301st PA Field Artillery Regiment as expected, we lost Bataan today and I wasn´t able to save anymore pilots... the enemy took the Philipinese easily without suffering any real casualties dead... [image]local://upfiles/13774/0DF436CAC6D34030AAF5F60E12532290.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 86,45 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 630 troops, 0 guns, 94 vehicles, Assault Value = 53 Defending force 1410 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9 Japanese adjusted assault: 53 Allied adjusted defense: 9 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+) Allied ground losses: 545 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 20 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 13 disabled Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 13th Tank Regiment Defending units: 3rd Construction Regiment 7th Construction Regiment damn TK rgt jumped into our hex and two of our construction rgts are forced to retreat... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Gasmata (103,127) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 325 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Gasmata !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: 5th Indpt SNLF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 65,131 Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 1488 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61 Defending force 1024 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Japanese adjusted assault: 76 Allied adjusted defense: 8 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: op mode(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 38 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 151 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Sasebo 1st SNLF Defending units: Port Hedland RAN Base Force 17th RAAF Base Force 6th RAAF Base Force our troops in the North Australian desert don´t have a retreat path anymore... and they´ve been in movement mode... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Pakhoi (72,58) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1538 troops, 19 guns, 2 vehicles, Assault Value = 63 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 33 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 33 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Pakhoi !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: Sasebo 8th SNLF

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/24/2010 6:19:33 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 20, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Toyohara at 125,46 Japanese Ships xAK Sansei Maru Allied Ships SS Tambor xAK Sansei Maru is sighted by SS Tambor SS Tambor launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Sansei Maru dud, what else... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 91,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 28 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lark Battalion, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Toyohara at 125,46 Japanese Ships xAK Sumiyoshi Maru Allied Ships SS Tambor xAK Sumiyoshi Maru is sighted by SS Tambor SS Tambor attacking xAK Sumiyoshi Maru on the surface SS Tambor low on gun ammo, Murphy, J.W. breaks off surface engagement and submerges this is just a joke once again and makes it obvious that there´s yet something wrong... Tambor got enough shells to sink this AK three times but didn´t fire a single shell... of course Tambor didn´t fire a single torp either, very realistic...[>:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 255 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 930 Defending force 20223 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 636 Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 17th Division 22nd Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 25th Group Army 10th Group Army 3rd War Area 14th Chinese Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Praboemoelih (48,92) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 3804 troops, 44 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 135 Defending force 1582 troops, 17 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 31 Japanese adjusted assault: 72 Allied adjusted defense: 3 Japanese assault odds: 24 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Praboemoelih !!! Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-), disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 37 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 702 casualties reported Squads: 20 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Units retreated 5 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade Defending units: Zuid KNIL Battalion So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion Djambi Base Force Teloekbetoeng Base Force Palembang Base Force The ex Palembang defenders are kicked around... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 65,131 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1464 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 60 Defending force 878 troops, 8 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 12 Japanese adjusted assault: 16 Allied adjusted defense: 4 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-), disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 47 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 99 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 9 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Sasebo 1st SNLF Defending units: Port Hedland RAN Base Force 17th RAAF Base Force 6th RAAF Base Force

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/24/2010 6:29:59 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 21, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Eiao at 195,146 Japanese Ships SS I-28 Allied Ships xAP Iron Crown, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage xAP Iron Crown is sighted by SS I-28 SS I-28 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP Iron Crown IJN subs, ten times more effective than Allied subs... Ironc Crown sinks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Toyohara at 124,48 Japanese Ships xAK Momoyama Maru Allied Ships SS Gudgeon SS Gudgeon attacking xAK Momoyama Maru on the surface SS Gudgeon low on gun ammo, Grenfell, E.W. breaks off surface engagement and submerges and here the completely stupid opposite as an example... Gudgeon fired 20 torps, ALL missed! You can´t be serious. There are a lot of things that can happen, but I doubt a sub ever fired 20 torps at a freighter and all missed... they weren´t even duds, NO, they all MISSED! [sm=crazy.gif] Tambor made all the way from Brisbane to Japan to fire 20 torps today (4 were launched earlier) and has to move back to Brisbane now... out of torps... [8\|] of course the sub also didn´t hit a single time with 90% of it´s available shells for the 3 inch gun. Don´t even want to know how many shells this would have been in real life. But hey, that´s just stupid Castor to find this weird. [image]local://upfiles/13774/0EB4AF029A5647EFAA0C0001FC833C6E.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Eiao at 195,146 Japanese Ships SS I-28 Allied Ships xAP Tambua, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAP Tambua is sighted by SS I-28 SS I-28 launches 6 torpedoes at xAP Tambua while I-28 kills another xAP from the same convoy, the ship went down immedietely also... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 145 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 18 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 18 x H81-A3 sweeping at 6000 feet [8\|] this is no sweep, the fighters were separated from our bombers, 3 hexes to target... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G3M2 Nell x 7 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G3M2 Nell: 1 damaged G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged Allied Ships xAKL De Klerk, Bomb hits 1, heavy damage PT-40, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Port hits 6 Port fuel hits 2 Port supply hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb 7 x G3M2 Nell bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 91,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Chengchow , at 88,44 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 destroyed Runway hits 14 Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb a lucky flak hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft Blenheim I x 22 Hudson I x 6 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: 6 x Hudson I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 12 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 10 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb and here come the bombers... without escort and without doing any damage... could I get some Japanese bombers please? Do Blenheims and Hudsons need a level 4 airfield to fly with normal loadout? Normal loadout would have meant 20 casualties... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 12 B-17E Fortress x 11 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 3 damaged Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 11 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead and there´s our usual dispersed attack on PM... severe storms... no result and two bombers lost today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 6 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb [8\|] one airfield, level 6. Not overstacked and all bombers are set to the same target and at the same alt, some 65 bombers there and we get 4 dispersed attacks... this is a joke...[>:] must be my fault... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet * hope the Japanese had oxygene masks... no radios but oxygene... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 26 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 26 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet * putting up fighters? To lose them at a higher rate than in WITP? no... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 260 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 941 Defending force 20228 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 636 Assaulting units: 22nd Division 17th Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 10th Group Army 3rd War Area 25th Group Army 14th Chinese Base Force

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/24/2010 6:40:44 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 22, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 100 mines cleared looks like the victorious Japanese troops in the Philipinese will soon be moved out... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Shikuka at 126,45 Japanese Ships xAK Sinsei Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Tambor xAK Sinsei Maru is sighted by SS Tambor SS Tambor launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Sinsei Maru one of three subs that are operating around Northern Japan, looks like we´re in a high frequency shipping lane here... lots of convoys around and all seem to have no escort... the freighter should be history... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Samah at 72,68 Japanese Ships xAP Suwa Maru SC CHa-24 xAP Ukishima Maru xAP Ural Maru xAP Mizuho Maru xAK Konsan Maru xAK Manila Maru PB Tamaura Maru PB Rikusen Maru Allied Ships SS Sculpin SS Sculpin launches 4 torpedoes at xAP Suwa Maru Sculpin diving deep .... PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tamaura Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rikusen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Sculpin still operates on the same TF as the last days. Funny thing is that Sculpin has a react range of 1 but has followed this TF over a distance of at least 15 hexes already and the TF surely moves 2 or 3 hexes each day. Means that even with a react range of 1 a sub can steadily follow an enemy TF. Good to know... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 100 mines cleared there have been quite some mines at Bataan it seems... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Hachijo-jima at 114,64 Japanese Ships xAK Hakkai Maru xAK Heian Maru xAK Yamayuri Maru xAK Lisbon Maru xAK Kinugasa Maru PB Tokati Maru Allied Ships SS Tarpon SS Tarpon launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Hakkai Maru Tarpon diving deep .... PB Tokati Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub Tarpon fired DUDS... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Shikuka at 126,43 Japanese Ships xAK Sansei Maru Allied Ships SS Tambor xAK Sansei Maru is sighted by SS Tambor SS Tambor launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Sansei Maru Tambor attacks a second time today but fired a salvo duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 17 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 17 x H81-A3 sweeping at 6000 feet no, this is not an ordered sweep... this is the same as happened yesterday, the fighters again got separated from the bombers... no they are not at a different alt, yes there´s a HQ in range... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 91,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 59th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 21 Ki-30 Ann x 9 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 53rd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 59th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Chengchow , at 88,44 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft Blenheim I x 14 Hudson I x 11 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Hudson I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 11 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 3 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb and here come the bombers again without a single fighter as escort... and hey, today we nuke the enemy division in open terrain, 4 casulaties... wow... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft Blenheim I x 10 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb but not just the fighters got separated, also the bombers came in separated, hex is THREE hexes... another big blow to the enemy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb a couple of Betties achieve nearly as much as two dozen British crap bombers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Wakkanai at 121,47 Japanese Ships xAK Nippo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Silversides SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Nippo Maru wow, this must be our lucky day of the month... a second freighter should be sunk... this is also near Hokkaido... am trying to make it uncomfortable everywhere for IJN shipping, even if we won´t kill a lot of shipping, I want to force Rainer to disperse his ASW forces all over the map instead of concentrating it somewhere to hunt down my subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Wakkanai at 121,47 Japanese Ships xAK Nippo Maru, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Silversides xAK Nippo Maru is sighted by SS Silversides SS Silversides launches 6 torpedoes Silversides then tries again but only fires some duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 265 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 947 Defending force 20274 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 640 Assaulting units: 22nd Division 17th Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 10th Group Army 3rd War Area 25th Group Army 14th Chinese Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Nanyang (85,45) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 9638 troops, 76 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 350 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 174 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 174 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese forces CAPTURE Nanyang !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 1st Ind.Mixed Brigade 138th Infantry Regiment 52nd Road Const Co -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 65,131 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1438 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 4 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 48 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 48 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: Attacker: Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: Sasebo 1st SNLF Defending units: Broome RAN Base Force

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/24/2010 6:50:09 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 23, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 100 mines cleared still mines at Bataan but won´t take long to clear the rest... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,86 Japanese Ships CL Kinu xAK Yahiko Maru DD Sagiri Allied Ships SS KXIII SS KXIII is sighted by escort DD Sagiri fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub one of our "dangerous" subs is driven off... more about the sub performance after the next two turns when we´ve reached the end of the first month of our "sub survey"... doesn´t look good... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Muntok TF 315 troops unloading over beach at Muntok, 50,90 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 100 mines cleared as those DMS always seem to clear exactly 100 mines [&:] it seems there´s a maximum of 25 mines per DMS per phase... sounds strange (to me...) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Pontianak at 54,89 Japanese Ships DD Yugumo CA Nachi CA Myoko DD Umikaze DD Hatsuyuki DD Usugumo DD Fubuki DD Suzukaze Allied Ships SS KIX, hits 8 SS KIX launches 2 torpedoes at DD Yugumo KIX bottoming out .... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Usugumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Fubuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Suzukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hatsuyuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Usugumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Usugumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Usugumo attacking submerged sub .... DD Usugumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Usugumo fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub lol, what a laugh, another dud of working torps... the statistic is more than disturbing, we´re seeing nearly a 50% dud rate of "working" torps... in return, the sub is more or less in sinking condition after a hit and many near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lusu War Area , at 91,48 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft B5M1 Mabel x 5 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x B5M1 Mabel bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 87,43 (Loyang) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 20 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 134 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 20 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... like I´ve said, give me some Japanese bombers... they are 20 times more dangerous than our British bombers, even when they also carry their reduced load and attacking a unit that is sitting behind level 3 forts while we attacked a unit outside a base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 19 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 10 Ki-30 Ann x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 25 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb our British bombers can only be compared to crappy Anns and Idas but even those seem to do better... in a bit over a month we will get Wellingtons... 8 a month... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 280 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 950 Defending force 20273 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 639 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 22nd Division 17th Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 10th Group Army 25th Group Army 3rd War Area 14th Chinese Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Djambi (48,88) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3519 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 120 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 108 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 108 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Djambi !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 4th Ind.Mixed Regiment and the daily airlosses... we´ve lost again 3 Catalinas to ops and we can´t keep up with our op losses when we only get 17 a month it seems. And then there are those reinforcement squadrons that are coming in without aircraft... a three weeks replacement for each squadron to be filled up, this will never happen I guess and all I can do is to disband squadrons (which I´ve done with three of them already) to bring others up to strenght... once again the difference between WITP and AE I can see is that the losses are the same but the replacements was cut down... 70% nav search with twice as many pilots in the squadrons than aircraft, must be my fault though. Stand them down and you don´t lose them, you will notice KB when it bombs your base anyway... [image]local://upfiles/13774/2403F205D206490FBDA14035454732B2.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/24/2010 7:05:53 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 24, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Bataan (78,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 29 mines cleared mine field is gone... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Madjene TF 162 troops unloading over beach at Madjene, 65,103 10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of I/81st Nav Gd -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 [8\|] Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 32 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 13 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 3 x H81-A3 sweeping at 6000 feet [8\|] CAP engaged: Tainan Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 5 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes and the same as all the attacks before, our fighters get again separated from the bombers... same target, same 3 hex range, same alt as the bombers, etc, etc, etc... [8\|] why, only the godlike know, those that don´t have to be critiziced... 27 AVG fighters are available, after the attack screwing up again, 13 go in against the Zeroes and the funny thing is that our fighters were at 6000ft but bounced the enemy at 10.000ft. Result is a 3:1 kill rate of the AVG in this case, the "sweep" wins... I bet if I would set my fighters to "sweep", they would arrive AFTER the bombers... as they seem to constantly split up when they fly out of Imphal they "sweep" first... just strange... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 9 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x H81-A3 sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: Tainan Ku S-1 with A6M2 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 10000 Raid is overhead but not just the fighter squadron is separated from the bombers, the fighter squadron itselve is split up too... must be some good flying... typical for WWII I guess... what else than a big enough airfield, enough air support, enough supplies, skilled aircrews, good leaders, a HQ and everything at the same alt do I need to get a combined strike? Unfortunetely in AE it is the norm to get everything screwed up when it comes down to air attacks... could it be that it was the norm to NOT see this in real life and it was the exception to see airstrikes being completely messed up? No for sure not, AE is gospel... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 29th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 11 Ki-30 Ann x 9 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 66 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 68th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 29th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft Blenheim I x 17 Hudson I x 12 No Allied losses 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 Hudson I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 7 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb 10 x Blenheim I bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 lb GP Bomb and then here come the bombers... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 44 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 16 B-17E Fortress x 8 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 3 damaged B-17E Fortress: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 11 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead and why could I think about seeing A SINGLE strike against Port Moresby that is not being dispersed? 100% of the strikes so far have not been combined... I´m not cheating and am not changing the combat reports. This is what actually HAPPENS in the game and I can´t see a reason why it should look like this all the time... must be hard to form up for four dozen heavy bombers over an airfield when they have ample fuel to reach this target... yet we go in separated EVERYTIME... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 9 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead second strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 11 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead third strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 4 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb and the fourth strike... all coming from the same airfield, not overstacked, blah, blah blah... four dozen bombers split up into four separate attacks... not a single time have we seen a combined strike yet... [&o] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb wonder why the 3 Betties from Rabaul always come in together, can´t they split up into 1 bomber attacks... [:'(] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Billiton at 54,94 Japanese Ships CA Nachi CA Haguro DD Hatsuyuki DD Usugumo DD Fubuki DD Suzukaze Allied Ships SS Permit, hits 1 SS Permit is sighted by escort DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Usugumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Fubuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Suzukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Fubuki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fubuki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a near miss, no damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 280 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 962 Defending force 20284 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 640 Assaulting units: 22nd Division 17th Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 10th Group Army 3rd War Area 25th Group Army 14th Chinese Base Force Rainer is waiting for reinforcements... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Lahat (47,92) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3805 troops, 43 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 134 Defending force 1026 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Japanese adjusted assault: 28 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 28 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Lahat !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 738 casualties reported Squads: 35 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 52 destroyed, 31 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 4 Units destroyed 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade Defending units: Zuid KNIL Battalion So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion Teloekbetoeng Base Force Djambi Base Force Palembang Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Muntok (50,90) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 5 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Muntok !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: III/81st Naval Guard Unit and same as yesterday, we lose another three Catalinas to ops... won´t take long and I have yet to disband another squadron to get some patrols into the pool... perhaps I should also start doing statistics about bomber attacks and how often it happens that the strike goes in as a whole and with fighters (if available). Would be a short summary I guess... [image]local://upfiles/13774/1ACCCA468D9F464798924D2BFC99A91E.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2010 10:29:09 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 25, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 34 encounters mine field at Manila (79,77) Japanese Ships DMS W-19 DMS W-12 DMS W-11 DMS W-10 DMS W-9 18 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Billiton at 52,91 Japanese Ships PB Chosa Maru DMS W-6 APD Fuji xAP Manzyu Maru xAP Hikawa Maru xAK Uyo Maru xAK Kyokusei Maru xAK Seisyo Maru xAK Teihoku Maru xAK Iburi Maru xAK Ayatosan Maru xAKL Junpo Maru xAKL Tonegawa Maru xAKL Ryoyu Maru #21 PB Tatsumiya Maru PB Eiko Maru PB Eifuku Maru Allied Ships SS Skipjack SS Skipjack is sighted by escort PB Tatsumiya Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Eiko Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Eifuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Eifuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Eifuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Eifuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Eifuku Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub huge convoy, we don´t get a shot... a bit over another month and our subs will start their radar refit... another 9 months until we´ll see the first decrease of dud torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Billiton at 53,93 Japanese Ships DD Harusame CL Natori DD Murasame DD Tadeshiwa DD Samidare Allied Ships SS O21 SS O21 launches 2 torpedoes at DD Harusame O21 bottoming out .... DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub and abandons search DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Samidare fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a dud... I´ve checked it again and those torps should have a real low dud rate... what crappy die rolls...it´s the 25th February, at the bottom of this thread you will see the statistics of sub attacks for one month... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tambelan-eilanden at 53,91 Japanese Ships DD Kuroshio TB Kari DD Michishio Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal launches 4 torpedoes at DD Kuroshio Seal bottoming out .... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub missed...[8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 13 Allied aircraft B-339D x 26 CW-21B Demon x 9 75A-7 Hawk x 9 Hurricane IIb Trop x 5 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-339D: 6 destroyed CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed 75A-7 Hawk: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 1-Vl.G.IV with 75A-7 Hawk (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 2-Vl.G.IV with CW-21B Demon (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Raid is overhead 3-Vl.G.IV with B-339D (0 airborne, 7 on standby, 0 scrambling) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 1-VI.G.V with B-339D (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 2e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 38 minutes 3e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes 2-VI.G.V with B-339D (1 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Raid is overhead 3-VI.G.V with B-339D (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 , scrambling fighters to 20000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes no comment... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 13 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 10 damaged Allied Ships xAKL De Klerk, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage SS O23, Bomb hits 2 SS S-36, Bomb hits 1 Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Port hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 13 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb and this is exactly the time when I HATE some of the new "features". Subs leave their patrol zones when being damaged and they auto disband in port then as happened in this case. I wouldn´t be dumb enough to disband those two subs when I know Rainer recons the place more or less daily and his bombers just wait for something to show up. So I didn´t notice the subs being disbanded and they are both hit... O-23 is seriously damaged, S-36 lightly damaged... great... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 46th Indian Brigade, at 76,136 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 G4M1 Betty x 17 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 50 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 17 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-339D x 12 CW-21B Demon x 6 75A-7 Hawk x 5 Hurricane IIb Trop x 5 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-339D: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: 1-Vl.G.IV with 75A-7 Hawk (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes 1-VI.G.V with B-339D (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Raid is overhead 2e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 20000 Raid is overhead 3e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 2-VI.G.V with B-339D (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 6 minutes 3-VI.G.V with B-339D (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 7 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes 2-Vl.G.IV with CW-21B Demon (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 3-Vl.G.IV with B-339D (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 20000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes we only lost 18:0 in A2A due to the Sputnik sweeps... air skill of my Dutch squadrons is in the 60s, wouldn´t call that rookies, considering the max you can get with training is 70. They are shot out of the sky at a rate which is hard to do even in WITP. But hey, one Zero crashed and is an ops. Those that haven´t figured out (must be very few), forget about the altitude bands, even if an alt factor was implemented that hasn´t been there in WITP, in AE it all just comes down to "who can go higher". More about this funny thing of airwar next to Sputnik in a couple of turns that clearly shows the deficiencies of the model in PBEM. You won´t see this against the AI because it won´t send it´s fighters on maximum altitude. Air combat at an alt those WWII fighters could hardly fly straight...[8\|] A2A 18:0... [image]local://upfiles/13774/118E42F553F24AEB8E1249F6D57B56CC.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 98th Chinese Corps, at 88,44 (Chengchow) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 36 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 23 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 13th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 98th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lark Battalion, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 26 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 68th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Wenchow (89,58) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 280 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 966 Defending force 20310 troops, 81 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 641 Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 22nd Division 17th Division 2nd Ind.Mixed Regiment 4th Mortar Battalion Defending units: 100th Chinese Corps 88th Chinese Corps 16th Construction Regiment 10th Group Army 25th Group Army 3rd War Area 14th Chinese Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 12824 troops, 140 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2708 Defending force 70940 troops, 426 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2278 Japanese adjusted assault: 60 Allied adjusted defense: 1267 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 21 (fort level 4) Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 1042 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 50 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 30 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Allied ground losses: 672 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 54 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 60 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Assaulting units: 110th Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 41st Division 35th Division 32nd Division 36th Division 53rd Infantry Brigade 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 40th Chinese Corps 89th Chinese Corps 27th Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 98th Chinese Corps 13th Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 48th Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 34th Chinese Corps 5th New Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps 7th Group Army 21st Group Army 1st War Area Jingcha War Area 39th Group Army 24th Group Army 10th Chinese Base Force the enemy shock attacks into our base, doesn´t really take a beating from the river crossing. I seriously doubt we´ll be able to hold here against more or less equal enemy av and with level 4 forts... I´m intending to fight for the area around Sian as I see the North with it´s oil as one of the most important in China, therefore the fightings around Chengchow and Loyang should only delay the Japanese and I will try to do a fighting withdrawel. Hoping to not get kicked out as this would render this Army useless. Chengchow and Loyang are both open terrain and level 3 or 4 forts don´t really help so the plan is to defend in the "wooden rough" hexes South of Sian which will give me a far better multiplier than the clear terrain with low forts. We can field some 5000 av in the Sian area but the only hope we have is the terrain... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Madjene (65,103) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 396 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 12 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 12 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Madjene !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: I/81st Naval Guard Unit And here´s the sub attack statistics, started taking notes on 25th Jan. Forgot to take notes on IJN subs but I guess there weren´t more than halve a dozen attacks in the last month anyway. All in all, it doesn´t really look good IMO. MK14 51 attacks 9 exploding hits (20.93% of total hits) 34 duds (79,07% dud rate of total hits) 8 miss (15.69% miss rate of total salvos) on the first sight, the dud rate seems to be below the 80% but the 80% is valid for the torps and what I´ve counted here are SALVOS. And out of the 34 DUD SALVOS, many of them had of course more than one torp hit the target. How many I can´t tell as you get no info on this from the game. Anyway, we´re not far off. MK10 9 attacks 5 exploding hits (83.33% of total hits) 1 dud (16.67.% dud rate of total hits) 3 miss (33.33% miss rate of total salvos) my feeling was right, my S-class subs have performed poorly. This due to the fact that we only managed to get 9 attacks in a whole month when our S-class subs still had their homeports close to the SRA. So this performance will only get worse as soon as we´ve lost Java I guess. Sending the subs from Brisbane into the Rabaul area results in only very limited time on patrol so the S-class subs will get more and more useless... 53.3cm/45cm/21MkVII 15 attack 4 hits (57.14% of total hits) 3 duds (42.85% of total hits) 8 miss (53.33% of total attacks) and here´s the completely disappointing performance of our Dutch/British subs. They´ve missed in more than halve of their attacks which is really, really a bad performance. Same goes for the duds, those torps should have a dud rate of 10%. Overall, I can´t say it was a good month for my subs. And the enemy ASW has been by far anything else than useless. We have a couple of subs sunk to depth charge attacks already, with halve a dozen limping home with serious damage, nearly exclusively from IJN DD attacks. The only good thing at the moment is the fact that all IJN subs seem to be in positions where none of my shipping is going. [:D] With the loss of Java in the coming weeks, our subs will probably do even worse.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/26/2010 4:53:26 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 26, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kalidjati at 52,97 Japanese Ships DD Murasame DD Tadeshiwa DD Samidare Allied Ships SS Argonaut, hits 5 SS Argonaut is sighted by escort DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub .... DD Samidare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub .... DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub .... DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub .... DD Tadeshiwa is out of ASW ammo DD Tadeshiwa is out of ASW ammo DD Tadeshiwa fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tadeshiwa attacking submerged sub .... DD Tadeshiwa is out of ASW ammo DD Tadeshiwa is out of ASW ammo Escort abandons search for sub next sub that is hit hard... Rainer can´t complain about his ASW performance lately... a real hit and four near misses put Argonaut in trouble... the sub is crippled and is limping to Ceylon at one hex/phase... will take a couple of weeks to get there if the sub makes it... a pity because IIRC Argonaut carries working MK10 torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Tandjoengbalai TF 310 troops unloading over beach at Tandjoengbalai, 47,78 Japanese ground losses: 45 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 41st Infantry Rgt 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 41st Infantry Rgt 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 41st Infantry Rgt /8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tawau at 69,91 Japanese Ships PB Musashi Maru PB Choun Maru #18 PB Rokko Maru Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 is located by PB Musashi Maru S-38 diving deep .... PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Musashi Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Rokko Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 16 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 13 Allied aircraft B-339D x 12 CW-21B Demon x 7 75A-7 Hawk x 6 Hurricane IIb Trop x 4 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-339D: 1 destroyed CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed 75A-7 Hawk: 2 destroyed Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 3 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 1-Vl.G.IV with 75A-7 Hawk (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32340 , scrambling fighters to 32000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 35 minutes 2-Vl.G.IV with CW-21B Demon (0 airborne, 5 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 2 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33550 , scrambling fighters to 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 3 minutes 3-Vl.G.IV with B-339D (0 airborne, 2 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33550 , scrambling fighters to 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 8 minutes 1-VI.G.V with B-339D (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 33550 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes 2e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 33550 Raid is overhead 3e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (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 33550 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 40 minutes 2-VI.G.V with B-339D (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 33550 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 6 minutes 3-VI.G.V with B-339D (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33550 , scrambling fighters to 33000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 44 minutes greetings from Sputnik... 18:0 yesterday, so we increased our Cap alt from 20.000ft to above 30.000ft... ridicoulos but that´s how it is and we definetely did better as we were diving on the enemy... still being shot out of the sky, but FAR from 18:0... we´re back at the usual 5:1 today... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 46th Indian Brigade, at 76,136 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 5 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged Allied ground losses: 93 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 33,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-339D x 2 CW-21B Demon x 3 75A-7 Hawk x 1 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 1 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 30000 feet CAP engaged: 1-Vl.G.IV with 75A-7 Hawk (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 32340 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 2 minutes 3e-1-VI.G.V Groep with Hurricane IIb Trop (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 33550 Raid is overhead 2-VI.G.V with B-339D (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 33550 Raid is overhead 3-VI.G.V with B-339D (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 33550 Raid is overhead 2-Vl.G.IV with CW-21B Demon (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 33550 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 32nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 67th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 53rd Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 13th Chinese Corps, at 88,44 (Chengchow) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 21 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 13th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 59th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43[8\|] Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 34,400 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 4 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 6 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed CAP engaged: Tainan Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 25000 Raid is overhead as we are not able to launch an escorted bomber raid out of Imphal, I´ve replaced the bombers with fighters to do a sweep... but don´t you dare to think we could launch a combined sweep... no, a ridicoulos series of small strikes is going in... how crazy is this really when you get 100% of your strikes dispersed all the time? I haven´t been able to fly a SINGLE combined strike out of Townsville with my 4Es nor a SINGLE combined strike out of Imphal... that must be the perfect reflection of what happened in real life, start your engines Gentlemen, as soon as you´re airborne head directly to target and don´t care about the other aircraft in your squadron... yeah... first sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 37,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 5 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 5 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 32100 feet second sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 34,400 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 12 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 12 x H81-A3 sweeping at 32400 feet third sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 34,400 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 15 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 15 x H81-A3 sweeping at 32400 feet fourth sweep... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 33rd Division, at 60,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 39 NM, estimated altitude 35,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-39D Airacobra x 20 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 20 x P-39D Airacobra sweeping at 32100 feet firth sweep... so while I had two squadrons of AVG set to sweep the same target, coming from Imphal at an amazing three hexes, I get 5 sweeps. Granted, both squadrons were on different alts, but would it be too much if at least the two squadrons would come in as combined strikes. And what ridicoulos excuse is it anyway if 300 ft difference in alt of the two squadrons would make the strike split up? Seriously, this is not how it worked in real life. Note also the insane alt I ordered to sweep... max alt for both ac types, especially like the 32k ft for the Airacobras, they are killers at that alt if diving on any enemy compared to fighting at 5.000ft... mhm... 5 Zeroes were lost today for the loss of one AVG aircraft A2A... the Sputnik sweeps work as good for us as they do for the Japanese, they just aren´t any close to reality... but that´s the best way to use them... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 61114 troops, 524 guns, 175 vehicles, Assault Value = 2658 Defending force 70361 troops, 426 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2232 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Japanese adjusted assault: 1092 Allied adjusted defense: 1600 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: forts(+), leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 2596 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 184 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 122 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 17 disabled Vehicles lost 8 (1 destroyed, 7 disabled) Allied ground losses: 4676 casualties reported Squads: 16 destroyed, 332 disabled Non Combat: 16 destroyed, 314 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 110th Division 35th Division 36th Division 32nd Division 41st Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 53rd Infantry Brigade 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 13th Chinese Corps 5th New Chinese Corps 34th Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 40th Chinese Corps 98th Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 27th Chinese Corps 48th Chinese Corps 89th Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps 21st Group Army 24th Group Army 7th Group Army Jingcha War Area 1st War Area 39th Group Army 10th Chinese Base Force [image]local://upfiles/13774/441471895EE9411FB2794AE2346D0E57.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/27/2010 11:51:22 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 27, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 46th Indian Brigade, at 76,136 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 38 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 54 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 2nd RAN Base Force ... Also attacking 46th Indian Brigade ... those airstrikes are coming from Darwin... my units wer on full retreat until after I thought to realize that only a Japanese recon unit is following us... just to find out that shortly thereafter two more inf rgts showed up... my units will get kicked around some more... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Chengchow , at 88,44 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 21 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb perhaps I should activate my Chinese airforce? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 67th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 18 Ki-30 Ann x 6 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 33 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 67th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... have been training the Chinese fighter pilots since day one and I guess they could deal with Nates on escort... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Katha (61,43) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 12800 troops, 120 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 443 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 212 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 212 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Katha !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 33rd Division -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tandjoengbalai (47,78) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3594 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 125 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 117 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 117 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tandjoengbalai !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 295 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2499 Defending force 66747 troops, 425 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1979 Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 109 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 32nd Division 36th Division 35th Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 41st Division 110th Division 53rd Infantry Brigade 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 98th Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 5th New Chinese Corps 13th Chinese Corps 40th Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 27th Chinese Corps 89th Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 34th Chinese Corps 48th Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps 21st Group Army Jingcha War Area 39th Group Army 1st War Area 24th Group Army 7th Group Army 10th Chinese Base Force KB has been spotted again, lingering North East of the Fidjis, heading East... the enemy is far from being near any of my important convoys as I´m always immedietely rerouting everything that could get in danger within 10 turns... 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khyberbill -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/28/2010 1:06:03 AM)
quote: KB has been spotted again, lingering North East of the Fidjis, heading East... the enemy is far from being near any of my important convoys as I´m always immedietely rerouting everything that could get in danger within 10 turns... Good move. I always send my convoys south of Pago Pago until I have a nice network of search planes established. It only costs a few more days in travel and you gain so much in return.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/28/2010 2:31:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: khyberbill quote: KB has been spotted again, lingering North East of the Fidjis, heading East... the enemy is far from being near any of my important convoys as I´m always immedietely rerouting everything that could get in danger within 10 turns... Good move. I always send my convoys south of Pago Pago until I have a nice network of search planes established. It only costs a few more days in travel and you gain so much in return. I guess every single TF of mine is travelling on a different route and all of them are really far away from where KB usually tries to raid. The fact that IJN subs haven´t been a pain the last weeks is probably also due to our longer but far saver routes to Australia. It takes a max of one week longer to use a 99% safe route. Really wondering how far and for how long KB will stay on the scene. 3 months of nonstop operations so far, fuel can´t be an issue for the IJN.

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 12:00:25 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Feb 28, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Kalidjati TF 11 troops unloading over beach at Kalidjati, 50,99 Japanese ground losses: 257 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled) 18 troops of a IJA Engineer Squad lost overboard during unload of 5th Div /2 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 5th Div 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 91st JAAF AF Bn 47mm Type 01 AT Gun dropped into water during unload of 18th Div /4 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 18th Div /1 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 18th Div /1 8 Naval Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 11th Shipping Engr Rgt 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /2 75mm Infantry Gun lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /2 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 5th Div /4 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /8 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 18th Div /8 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /5 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /5 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 18th Div /5 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 18th Div /5 10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 18th Div /5 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 18th Div /6 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /7 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /7 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 18th Div /7 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 18th Div /7 70mm T92 Howitzer dropped into water during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt /1 75mm T90 Field Gun lost overboard during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt /2 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt /2 Motorized Support damaged beyond repair during unload of 5th Div /1 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 18th Div 10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 18th Div 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 18th Div 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 18th Div 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt Motorized Support lost in surf during unload of 6th Tank Rgt /4 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt /3 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt /5 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 17th Indpt Guards Rgt /5 10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 18th Div /10 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 18th Div /10 10 Support troops lost from landing craft during unload of 18th Div /10 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost in surf during unload of 5th Div /5 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div /5 Motorized Support lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div /5 18 troops of a IJA Engineer Squad lost in surf during unload of 5th Div /6 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div /6 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div /6 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 5th Div /6 8 Engineers accidentally lost during unload of 41st JAAF AF Bn /3 Motorized Support lost overboard during unload of 14th Tank Rgt /2 what´s happening here? "Lots" of casualties from unloading... the assault on Java has begun, when we´ve spotted the TFs I´ve expected the invasion to go in at Semarang but they turned to this base further North... not much we can do against the Japanese... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kalidjati at 50,99 Japanese Ships DD Maikaze BB Haruna BB Kongo CA Kumano CA Ashigara CA Maya DD Tokitsukaze DD Amatsukaze DD Yukikaze DD Asashio DD Hagikaze DD Arashi DD Nowaki Allied Ships SS KVIII SS KVIII launches 2 torpedoes at DD Maikaze KVIII bottoming out .... DD Asashio fails to find sub and abandons search DD Hagikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arashi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nowaki fails to find sub and abandons search Escort abandons search for sub working torps miss, non working torps hit... as asual... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 51,85 Japanese Ships DMS W-18 DMS W-15 TK Syoyo Maru DD Tawakaze SC CHa-15 SC CHa-11 Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal is sighted by escort Seal bottoming out .... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub and abandons search DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 19 NM, estimated altitude 42,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 22 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 38000 feet as if 36.000ft wouldn´t have been enough already... really funny what AE made out of aircombat... we´re going to rewrite history, high alt airwar wasn´t happening in the ETO but in the PTO... this is the best possible alt for Oscars on sweeps and in the game the Oscar has a twice as high maneuverability at 38.000ft than a P-47 or P-51 has at 5.000ft... go figure... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sparrow Battalion, at 76,135 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 13 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 61 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (1 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 13 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 2nd Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 9 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 9 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 30th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 32nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 53rd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 88,44 (Chengchow) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 32 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 17 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 27th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... the Sallies are coming from a too small airfield I guess... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Batavia , at 49,98 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 25 NM, estimated altitude 43,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 38000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st Chinese Corps, at 85,44 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 1st Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kalidjati at 50,99 Japanese Ships DD Murasame CL Natori DD Harusame DD Samidare DD Yudachi Allied Ships SS O19 SS O19 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Murasame DD Samidare fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yudachi fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub working torps... missed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 295 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2531 Defending force 66756 troops, 425 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1982 Japanese ground losses: 4 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 48 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 32nd Division 110th Division 35th Division 36th Division 41st Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 53rd Infantry Brigade 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 98th Chinese Corps 89th Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 27th Chinese Corps 48th Chinese Corps 34th Chinese Corps 5th New Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 40th Chinese Corps 13th Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps 24th Group Army 21st Group Army Jingcha War Area 39th Group Army 7th Group Army 1st War Area 10th Chinese Base Force

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 12:25:21 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 01, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kalidjati at 50,99 Japanese Ships BB Kongo CA Kumano CA Maya DD Tokitsukaze DD Amatsukaze DD Maikaze DD Yukikaze DD Asashio DD Hagikaze DD Arashi DD Nowaki Allied Ships SS O21, hits 1 SS O21 is sighted by escort O21 bottoming out .... DD Asashio attacking submerged sub .... DD Hagikaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arashi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nowaki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Asashio fails to find sub and abandons search DD Arashi fails to find sub and abandons search DD Nowaki fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Nowaki fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub next sub out of action, one hit, 23 sys damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Batavia at 50,98 Japanese Ships TB Kari DD Michishio Allied Ships SS O19 SS O19 is sighted by escort DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Michishio attacking submerged sub .... DD Michishio fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Lihir at 111,119 Japanese Ships xAK Kuraido Maru DD Yakaze Allied Ships SS Plunger SS Plunger launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Kuraido Maru Plunger diving deep .... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we even miss AKs when firing working torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Terempa at 55,83 Japanese Ships DMS W-18 DMS W-15 TK Syoyo Maru DD Tawakaze SC CHa-15 SC CHa-11 Allied Ships SS Sargo, hits 3 SS Sargo is sighted by escort DD Tawakaze attacking submerged sub .... SC CHa-15 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Tawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-15 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-11 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub three near misses, no real damage... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 39,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 30 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 33 P-39D Airacobra x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-Ic Oscar: 2 destroyed Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 5 destroyed P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 4 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (4 airborne, 10 on standby, 6 scrambling) 14 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 32400 , scrambling fighters between 32000 and 32400. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (2 airborne, 13 on standby, 0 scrambling) 15 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32100 , scrambling fighters to 32100. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 4 minutes AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (4 airborne, 9 on standby, 0 scrambling) 13 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 32400 , scrambling fighters between 32000 and 32400. Raid is overhead AE airwar stupidity... get the bounce and everything is fine, no matter what man rating... our 70 skilled fighters are shot out of the sky... the battle went on and on like this: Oscar dives and fires from behind, Oscar dives and fires from behind, Oscar dives and fires from behind... boom boom boom... if you play PBEM and don´t restrict yourselve to trying to play/fight the same way it was done in real life, the game can´t help you to produce realistic outcomes... go in as high as possible when you attack... don´t put up Cap if you defend... the fact that Japanese fighters can go far higher than Allied fighters puts us in a bad situation as the enemy will just keep on bouncing us... outnumbering the enemy, one of those myths... and the funny thing is that exactly the fighter with the worst high alt reputation, the P-39, did not worse than the others, flying at max alt... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 6 damaged Allied Ships xAKL De Klerk, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Port fuel hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 16 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sparrow Battalion, at 76,135 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 13 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 13 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 25 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 9 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 8 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 25000 feet 1 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Soerabaja , at 56,104 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 7 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 7 x A6M2 Zero sweeping at 25000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 29 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 14 P-39D Airacobra x 3 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses H81-A3: 1 destroyed P-39D Airacobra: 1 destroyed Aircraft Attacking: 16 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (0 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 6 being recalled, 2 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32400 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 39 minutes AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 3 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 32400 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes AVG/2nd Sqn with P-39D Airacobra (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 32100 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes more of the stupidity... but hey, post it on the main forum and you will be called idiot, troll or whatever nice they will find for you. It´s the fault of the Japanese player that he uses his fighters at the best possible way and this is 100% clearly max alt sweeps... it´s not the game that is wrong that should make Oscars at 38.000ft or Zeroes at 30.000ft+ completely useless... this kind of battle wasn´t possible in real life, not to talk about seeing the Oscars taking down the Allied fighters in droves... this is just ridicoulos... and for sure you can´t blame the players, especially if they get told on and on that the airroutine is so super duper now and you have to look at the aircraft stats etc... blah blah blah... but hey, perhaps this combat report is just fake? Yeah, in fact I manipulated it... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 30th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 18 Ki-30 Ann x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 38 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 68th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 30th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 7th Chinese Corps, at 88,44 (Chengchow) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 68 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 7th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 7th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 85th Chinese Corps, at 85,44 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 6 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 96th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 59th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Kalidjati at 50,99 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 16 Allied aircraft 139WH-3 x 23 B-339D x 18 CW-21B Demon x 3 CW-22 Falcon x 4 75A-7 Hawk x 5 Hurricane IIb Trop x 3 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses 139WH-3: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged B-339D: 5 destroyed CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed CW-22 Falcon: 2 damaged 75A-7 Hawk: 1 destroyed Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships BB Kongo BB Haruna xAK Syoka Maru xAKL Tonegawa Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Tadeshiwa CA Maya xAK Eiko Maru #2 DD Murasame Aircraft Attacking: 3 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 4 x CW-22 Falcon bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb 2 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 8 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 3 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 6 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 3 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 2 x B-339D sweeping at 6000 feet CAP engaged: Ryujo-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 1 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 12 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M2 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead Zuiho-1 with A6M2 Zero (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 6000 Raid is overhead Hosho-1 with A6M2 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 25 minutes Heavy smoke from fires obscuring xAKL Tonegawa Maru we are now trying to obliberate the enemy invasion of Java... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Kalidjati at 51,98 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 24 Allied aircraft 139WH-3 x 15 Hurricane IIb Trop x 4 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses 139WH-3: 6 destroyed Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships CVL Ryujo CVL Shoho CAP engaged: Hosho-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 13000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes Ryujo-1 with A6M2 Zero (4 airborne, 8 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 6000 and 12000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers Shoho-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters to 11000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 5 minutes 4 planes vectored on to bombers Zuiho-1 with A6M2 Zero (0 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) Group patrol altitude is 6000 , scrambling fighters to 2000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 1 minutes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 12 B-17E Fortress x 22 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 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 8000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Buna , at 99,129 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 8 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 6 B-17E Fortress x 6 LB-30 Liberator x 4 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged LB-30 Liberator: 3 damaged Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 10 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (8 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (8 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 8 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead oh how I love this stupidity that 60 bombers can´t attack together when they launch from a level 7 airfield... first there was only one Zero, the following strike meets 8 already... March 42 and we have not been able to launch a single combined strike out of Australia or India for the last three months... NOT EVEN ONE! This is the norm and not the exception... and this is for sure not reflecting reality. You can´t create a "your attacks will never work" feature and then say that there are now die rolls for this and that to reflect problems that were happening in real life too. So in four months of the war all ordered attacks were split up in real life? Yeah, sure... am meeting all fridging conditions that we´re told all the time... NOT ONE strike from Australia to New Guinea has gone in combined so far, not even ONE! [sm=crazy.gif] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Kalidjati at 50,99 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 7 Allied aircraft 139WH-3 x 12 B-339D x 1 CW-21B Demon x 1 CW-22 Falcon x 3 Hurricane IIb Trop x 1 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses 139WH-3: 3 destroyed, 5 damaged B-339D: 1 destroyed CW-21B Demon: 1 destroyed CW-22 Falcon: 2 damaged Hurricane IIb Trop: 1 destroyed Japanese Ships BB Kongo BB Haruna xAK Gokoku Maru #2 CL Yura CL Isuzu Aircraft Attacking: 3 x CW-22 Falcon bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 2 x 50 kg GP Bomb 1 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 2 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet Naval Attack: 3 x 300 kg SAP Bomb 2 x 139WH-3 bombing from 6000 feet * Naval Attack: 2 x 300 kg SAP Bomb CAP engaged: Ryujo-1 with A6M2 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 10000 Time for all group planes to reach interception is 14 minutes Shoho-1 with A6M2 Zero (3 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead Zuiho-1 with A6M2 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 10 minutes I should have just stood down ALL of the Dutch airforce and click on "withdraw" and let them rot in the aircraft and pilot pool... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Kalidjati (50,99) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 34529 troops, 312 guns, 391 vehicles, Assault Value = 1255 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 755 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 755 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Kalidjati !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 6th Tank Regiment 17th Indpt Guards Regiment 1st Tank Regiment 14th Tank Regiment 18th Division 5th Div /3 41st JAAF AF Bn 11th Shipping Engineer Regiment 91st JAAF AF Bn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 71496 troops, 626 guns, 175 vehicles, Assault Value = 2648 Defending force 66795 troops, 425 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1987 Japanese adjusted assault: 1173 Allied adjusted defense: 1034 [8\|] Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 2 Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+), experience(-) Attacker: disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 3164 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 234 disabled Non Combat: 7 destroyed, 114 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 6 (1 destroyed, 5 disabled) Allied ground losses: 5381 casualties reported Squads: 28 destroyed, 277 disabled Non Combat: 22 destroyed, 337 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Assaulting units: 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Division 53rd Infantry Brigade 32nd Division 41st Division 36th Division 110th Division 54th Infantry Brigade 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 27th Chinese Corps 40th Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 89th Chinese Corps 34th Chinese Corps 98th Chinese Corps 13th Chinese Corps 48th Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 5th New Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps 24th Group Army 1st War Area Jingcha War Area 21st Group Army 7th Group Army 39th Group Army 10th Chinese Base Force our troops got no chance, ordered to retreat... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 76,135 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 7264 troops, 52 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 292 Defending force 814 troops, 14 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 29 Japanese adjusted assault: 184 Allied adjusted defense: 3 Japanese assault odds: 61 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+), leaders(-), disruption(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 70 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units pursuing 1 Allied ground losses: 426 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 14 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 2nd Recon Regiment 16th Infantry Regiment 24th Infantry Regiment Defending units: Sparrow Battalion air losses of today... we shot down two Oscars during the replay but 7 are now showing up on the air loss list... overestimating what our Cap was able to do, they weren´t able to do anything against the Sputnik Oscar sweeps on 38.000ft... lol, 38.000ft... either the stats (especially UBER maneuverability) or the routine itselve is bullocks... another 3 heavy bombers lost to 9 Zeroes today... not ineffective Cap so to say. [image]local://upfiles/13774/26692B58688D4C6081327A609B09A2D9.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 1:03:15 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 02, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Koggala at 31,56 Japanese Ships SS I-154 Allied Ships xAKL Sinabang, Shell hits 9, heavy fires xAKL Sinabang is sighted by SS I-154 SS I-154 attacking xAKL Sinabang on the surface SS I-154 low on gun ammo, Minobe G. breaks off surface engagement and submerges IJN sub attacks a lonely xAKL South of Colombo but doesn´t fire any torps... the sub uses up most of it´s 12cm gun ammo and the small freighter isn´t even in sinking condition... 80:20 chance that the ship will make it... as PzB pointed out in his AAR already, the simulation of gun ammo for ships is off... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 46th Indian Brigade, at 76,136 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 14 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 47 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 14 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 67th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 2nd Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 44th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 67th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 7th Chinese Corps, at 88,44 (Chengchow) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 7th Chinese Corps ... guess at some point I´m going to use my Chinese biplanes to intervene, but I´m still unsure about it as I don´t want to see hordes of IJA bombers doing round the clock bombing in China as I need every single supply point... the 50.000 supplies I´ve burnt due to the fact that I didn´t realize that there´s damaged industry in China that all is set to repair at the beginning puts me in a completely helpless situation... [8\|] like I´ve said before, if you don´t realize this, it can break a major part of this game, as this is what I call China. It´s there and it´s a major part of the game. Better would be to have those things at DO NOT REPAIR when there are damaged sites as a player will learn the hard way... not to talk about the fact that you have to check all the bases... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 85th Chinese Corps, at 85,44 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 10 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 16th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 68th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Cam Ranh Bay at 64,73 Japanese Ships xAKL Anbo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAKL Kembu Maru PB Nako Maru #2 Allied Ships SS Perch SS Perch launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Anbo Maru Perch diving deep .... PB Nako Maru #2 attacking submerged sub .... PB Nako Maru #2 cannot reach attack position over SS Perch PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nako Maru #2 attacking submerged sub .... PB Nako Maru #2 cannot reach attack position over SS Perch PB Nako Maru #2 cannot establish contact with SS Perch PB Nako Maru #2 cannot reach attack position over SS Perch PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Nako Maru #2 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub now and then a kill... small freighter bites the dust... due to the high number of subs, my US fleet subs are the most dangerous to the enemy... even though we scored dozen after dozen duds, the fleet subs still account for the most kills, therefore I can not understand when people are saying they just leave them in port until later in the war... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Koggala at 29,53 Japanese Ships SS I-154 Allied Ships xAKL Elout, Shell hits 1 xAKL Elout is sighted by SS I-154 SS I-154 attacking on the surface SS I-154 low on gun ammo, Minobe G. breaks off surface engagement and submerges same sub attacks again today, again only with it´s deck gun (that had low ammo already earlier) and again no torp has been fired... now that´s realistic... "contact, ship spotted... man the deck gun... fire one shot... no more ammo sir... dive, dive, dive..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 76,136 Allied Shock attack Attacking force 2005 troops, 20 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 70 Defending force 1025 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 38 Allied adjusted assault: 6 Japanese adjusted defense: 34 Allied assault odds: 1 to 5 Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(+) Attacker: shock(+), disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 42 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 15 (0 destroyed, 15 disabled) Allied ground losses: 299 casualties reported Squads: 7 destroyed, 10 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: Sparrow Battalion 46th Indian Brigade Defending units: 2nd Recon Regiment no chance after the Betty attack...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 1:14:46 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 03, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 344 encounters mine field at Singapore (50,84) Allied Ships SS Sargo, Mine hits 4, on fire, heavy damage I was told that subs on patrol with a set reaction range do NOT react into spotted minefields or "bigger" ports ... ok, let´s see... while the minefield at Singapore for sure wasn´t spotted until this event, I would call Singapore with it´s level 9 (in words: n i n e) port for sure a "bigger" port... yet my sub reacted into the port while following an enemy TF... mine hit 1... boom... mine hit 2... boom... mine hit 3... boom... mine hit 4... boom... sunk... I did not set it to move into Singapore and there was no other reason than the sub reacting that cause this "happening"... subs DO react into BIG ports so there seems to be something not to be working as designed, at least not in evil castor´s edition... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Semarang at 53,100 Japanese Ships DD Yugumo CA Nachi DD Kawakaze DD Hatsuyuki DD Usugumo DD Fubuki DD Suzukaze Allied Ships SS KVII, hits 2 SS KVII launches 2 torpedoes at DD Yugumo DD Hatsuyuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Usugumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fubuki fails to find sub and abandons search DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Usugumo fails to find sub and abandons search DD Suzukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Suzukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Suzukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub more of the same, MK14 torps hit escorts on and on (but don´t explode) while working torps keep on missing... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Semarang at 53,100 Japanese Ships DD Yamakaze CA Nachi DD Kawakaze DD Hatsuyuki DD Usugumo DD Fubuki DD Suzukaze Allied Ships SS KVII, hits 6, heavy damage SS KVII launches 2 torpedoes at DD Yamakaze KVII bottoming out .... DD Hatsuyuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Usugumo fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Fubuki attacking submerged sub .... DD Suzukaze fails to find sub and abandons search Escort abandons search for sub more of the same... sub is in sinking condition... yet another one... can´t say IJN DDs are ineffective at all, lots of damaged and sunk subs... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Pescadores at 85,62 Japanese Ships CM Shirataka xAK Kinryu Maru Allied Ships SS Sturgeon SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at CM Shirataka Sturgeon diving deep .... Sub escapes detection and here are the MK14 duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tandjoengpinang at 51,85 Japanese Ships PB Shonon Maru #10 Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal is sighted by escort Seal bottoming out .... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shonon Maru #10 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balikpapan at 66,97 Japanese Ships E Shimushu Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 is sighted by escort S-38 diving deep .... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub lots of sub action today, we´re on the receiving end though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 26 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 30 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 30 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet I´ve got enough of the Sputnik sweeps and have flown out all my Cap... only remaining ac are damaged ones... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Akyab , at 54,45 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 45 NM, estimated altitude 37,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ib Oscar x 29 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 29 x Ki-43-Ib Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wyndham RAAF Base Force, at 75,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 41 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 13 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 85th Chinese Corps, at 85,44 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 13 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 13 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 41st Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 85th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lark Battalion, at 101,132 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 3 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 3 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 68th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 6 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 59th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 68th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 59th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balikpapan at 66,97 Japanese Ships xAK Ayato Maru, Torpedo hits 1 E Shimushu Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Ayato Maru E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub sub action aint over yet, we hit a fat freighter which has got quite a distance to the next major port... no heavy damaged noticed though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Koggala at 28,50 Japanese Ships SS I-154 Allied Ships xAKL Sinabang, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage xAKL Sinabang is sighted by SS I-154 SS I-154 launches 8 torpedoes the IJN takes revenge and now sinks the earlier damaged Sinabang... one of the subs with the wrong number of torp tubes... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Woodlark Island TF 291 troops unloading over beach at Woodlark Island, 104,133 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 295 troops, 38 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2485 Defending force 62290 troops, 425 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1640 Japanese ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 99 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 41st Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 36th Division 110th Division 35th Division 32nd Division 59th Division 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 34th Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 89th Chinese Corps 7th Chinese Corps 13th Chinese Corps 98th Chinese Corps 40th Chinese Corps 5th New Chinese Corps 48th Chinese Corps 27th Chinese Corps 33rd Chinese Corps 90th Chinese Corps 8th New Chinese Corps Jingcha War Area 1st War Area 24th Group Army 7th Group Army 39th Group Army 21st Group Army 10th Chinese Base Force our troops are on the move out to Loyang... enemy units (probably tanks) are flanking Loyang to the West already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Toboali (50,93) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 21 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Toboali !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: III/81st Naval Guard Unit

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 3:15:26 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 04, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Truk at 112,102 Japanese Ships PB Sonan Maru #5 PB Shuko Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Pickerel SS Pickerel launches 4 torpedoes at PB Sonan Maru #5 Pickerel diving deep .... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub guess? [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kiriwina Island at 104,131 Japanese Ships DD Yakaze xAK Kuraido Maru xAKL Kanaiyama Maru Allied Ships SS S-18 SS S-18 launches 4 torpedoes at DD Yakaze S-18 diving deep .... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub hmm... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wyndham RAAF Base Force, at 75,133 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 54 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 9 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 16 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 88,44 (Chengchow) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 61 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 13th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 13th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 90th Chinese Corps ... have decided to slowly move all the fragments of the AVG into China to ambush these raids... perhaps we can bag a dozen ac... will take a couple of days to be in position though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 12 B-17E Fortress x 15 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 9 Runway hits 34 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead this can´t be the whole strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 17 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 8 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead and we go in in bits and pieces again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 6 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead even though we have hit PM´s airfield on and on I have yet to get any info on any damage we´ve done... I highly doubt that the damage is always repaired instantly and I don´t know if the bombers observe any hits as I don´t get anything back... [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 2nd Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 6 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 29th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb those Nates and Sonias would be juicy targets for the AVG... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bandoeng (50,100) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 14505 troops, 124 guns, 225 vehicles, Assault Value = 563 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 323 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 323 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese forces CAPTURE Bandoeng !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+) Assaulting units: 1st Tank Regiment 18th Division 14th Tank Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Chengchow (88,44) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 72319 troops, 643 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 2520 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 2317 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2317 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Chengchow !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 41st Division 36th Division 32nd Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Division 110th Division 59th Division 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment Chengchow was abandoned today... thank god... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 49,99 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 18357 troops, 171 guns, 169 vehicles, Assault Value = 676 Defending force 430 troops, 12 guns, 1 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 487 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 487 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: op mode(-), leaders(+), leaders(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 477 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 62 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 8 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 7 (2 destroyed, 5 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 6th Tank Regiment 5th Division 17th Indpt Guards Regiment Defending units: Bandoeng Base Force Bandoeng´s bf wasn´t fast enough to move out... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Medan (46,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3632 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127 Defending force 2130 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 73 Japanese adjusted assault: 115 Allied adjusted defense: 53 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+) Japanese ground losses: 48 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 212 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 18 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Regiment Defending units: Medan Coastal Gun Battalion Medan Garrison Battalion Van Aaran Garrison Battalion Medan Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Woodlark Island (104,133) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 14 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Woodlark Island !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 8th Indpt SNLF Coy KB has been spotted again, now in the Canton Island area... again, no chance to get a shot at any of my convoys within the next four or five days at best... [:D] we don´t get info about carriers when we hover over the TF but as a PBY was shot down over this TF there´s no doubt that this is KB still on it´s raid... so far it was completely useless and I can only hope that fuel costs are high... [image]local://upfiles/13774/99BC9A37BEEA4F299519A5F509E1CAA3.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 4:11:47 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 05, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Butuan at 80,89, Range 8,000 Yards [X(] Japanese Ships DD Kazegumo DD Oyashio DD Hatsukaze DD Natsushio DD Yamagumo DD Minegumo Allied Ships PT-31 PT-32 PT-33 MTB 9 Improved night sighting under 89% moonlight Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 89% moonlight: 8,000 yards Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards DD Oyashio engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards DD Kazegumo engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards Range closes to 7,000 yards DD Minegumo engages PT-33 at 7,000 yards DD Oyashio engages PT-33 at 7,000 yards DD Kazegumo engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards DD Natsushio engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards DD Oyashio engages MTB 9 at 7,000 yards Astin W. orders Allied TF to disengage Range increases to 10,000 yards DD Yamagumo engages PT-33 at 10,000 yards DD Yamagumo engages MTB 9 at 10,000 yards DD Minegumo engages MTB 9 at 10,000 yards DD Oyashio engages PT-33 at 10,000 yards DD Kazegumo engages MTB 9 at 10,000 yards Task forces break off... wow, I was more than surprised when this attack popped up... didn´t know I had PTs left around Mindanoa... Rainer obviously knew about them... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wyndham RAAF Base Force, at 75,133 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 16 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 16 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 59th Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 43 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-30 Ann x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 3 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 9 x Ki-30 Ann bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 1 x 250 kg GP Bomb 3 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 68th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 30th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 59th Chinese Corps ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 53rd Chinese Corps, at 82,49 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-27b Nate x 9 Ki-51 Sonia x 6 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-51 Sonia bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 50 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,133 (Milne Bay) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Cebu 11 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CL Sendai SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 CL Sendai firing at Cebu USN Base Force SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Cebu TF 329 troops unloading over beach at Cebu, 80,86 Japanese ground losses: 72 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) 7.7mm T99 AAMG damaged beyond repair during unload of 65th Bde /2 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost overboard during unload of 65th Bde /2 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 65th Bde /3 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of 65th Bde /3 17 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of 65th Bde /4 10 Support troops lost in surf during unload of 65th Bde /4 10 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 65th Bde /5 10 Support troops accidentally lost during unload of 65th Bde /6 seems like the accidents end always in squads destroyed? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 46,91 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3554 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121 Defending force 557 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10 Japanese adjusted assault: 53 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 458 casualties reported Squads: 36 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 34 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 4 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 4th Ind.Mixed Regiment Defending units: Zuid KNIL Battalion So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion Djambi Base Force Teloekbetoeng Base Force Ex-Palembang´s defenders are still not all dead... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Medan (46,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3592 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 125 Defending force 1939 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 57 Japanese adjusted assault: 12 Allied adjusted defense: 8 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Combat modifiers Defender: fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-), fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 38 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Allied ground losses: 382 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 29 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Regiment Defending units: Medan Coastal Gun Battalion Medan Garrison Battalion Van Aaran Garrison Battalion Medan Base Force Sumatra has nothing that could slow down the Japanese... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Bhamo (63,44) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1112 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 40 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 40 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Bhamo !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: III./143rd Infantry Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Cebu (80,86) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2051 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 106 Defending force 6453 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 228 Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 81st PA Infantry Division Cebu USN Base Force Defending units: 65th Bde /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 4:20:03 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 06, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cebu Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CL Sendai DD Oshio SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 CL Sendai firing at 81st PA Infantry Division DD Oshio firing at Cebu USN Base Force SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Cebu at 80,86, Range 12,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Sendai DD Oshio DD Natsugumo SC Ch 4 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 18 AMC Asaka Maru xAK Yamaura Maru xAP Terukuni Maru xAP Husimi Maru xAP Kamo Maru xAP Kongo Maru Allied Ships PT-31 PT-32 PT-33 MTB 9 Allied Ships Reported to be Approaching! Japanese TF suspends unloading operations and begins to get underway Improved night sighting under 82% moonlight Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 82% moonlight: 11,000 yards Range closes to 11,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 11,000 yards Japanese TF attempts to evade combat Range increases to 12,000 yards... Range increases to 12,000 yards... Japanese Amphibious TF evades combat [:(] as Rainer "reminded" me last turn that I´ve still got some PTs around Mindanao I took the chance and used them today... we attacked the invasion TF off Cebu but the freighters fled in super pursuit mode... they suspend unloading and evade combat with PTs that are able to make 40 knots? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Batavia at 49,98, Range 8,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Isuzu CL Natori CL Yura DD Murasame DD Harusame DD Yudachi DD Samidare DD Tadeshiwa Allied Ships PT TM-10 PT TM-11 PT TM-12 PT TM-13, Shell hits 2, and is sunk PT TM-14, Shell hits 1, and is sunk PT TM-15, Shell hits 1, and is sunk Improved night sighting under 82% moonlight Maximum visibility in Overcast Conditions and 82% moonlight: 8,000 yards Range closes to 8,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 8,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 8,000 yards Colijn S. gains tactical advantage CL Natori engages PT TM-15 at 8,000 yards DD Samidare engages PT TM-15 at 8,000 yards DD Yudachi engages PT TM-15 at 8,000 yards DD Harusame engages PT TM-15 at 8,000 yards Range closes to 6,000 yards PT TM-15 engages DD Tadeshiwa at 6,000 yards PT TM-14 engages DD Samidare at 6,000 yards DD Murasame engages PT TM-15 at 6,000 yards Range increases to 7,000 yards CL Isuzu engages PT TM-15 at 7,000 yards DD Samidare engages PT TM-14 at 7,000 yards PT TM-15 sunk by DD Harusame at 7,000 yards DD Murasame engages PT TM-14 at 7,000 yards Range increases to 9,000 yards PT TM-14 sunk by CL Yura at 9,000 yards orders Allied TF to disengage Range increases to 11,000 yards DD Tadeshiwa engages PT TM-13 at 11,000 yards DD Yudachi engages PT TM-13 at 11,000 yards DD Harusame engages PT TM-12 at 11,000 yards DD Yudachi engages PT TM-13 at 11,000 yards DD Harusame engages PT TM-12 at 11,000 yards DD Murasame engages PT TM-13 at 11,000 yards Range closes to 10,000 yards DD Tadeshiwa engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards DD Yudachi engages PT TM-12 at 10,000 yards DD Harusame engages PT TM-12 at 10,000 yards DD Murasame engages PT TM-12 at 10,000 yards CL Natori engages PT TM-12 at 10,000 yards DD Samidare engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards DD Murasame engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards CL Natori engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards CL Isuzu engages PT TM-11 at 10,000 yards DD Samidare engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards DD Yudachi engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards DD Murasame engages PT TM-13 at 10,000 yards Range closes to 9,000 yards CL Yura engages PT TM-13 at 9,000 yards CL Yura engages PT TM-11 at 9,000 yards DD Tadeshiwa engages PT TM-13 at 9,000 yards DD Samidare engages PT TM-13 at 9,000 yards DD Yudachi engages PT TM-12 at 9,000 yards PT TM-13 sunk by DD Harusame at 9,000 yards Task forces break off... Rainer knows that I´ve got PTs around Java too and moves in to kill them off... as my PTs more or less have been completely useless in the past, I would just ignore them as they will soon lose their bases, will run out of fuel and will sink... last time he moved in with DDs he lost three or four to mines at Batavia... and... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 302 encounters mine field at Batavia (49,98) Japanese Ships DD Murasame, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D] ...probably loses another destroyer today... [:D] my PTs don´t do damage but they draw the enemy into my Batavia minefield again... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Car Nicobar at 37,61 Japanese Ships SS I-156, hits 1 Allied Ships xAKL Honolulan, Shell hits 2 SS I-156 attacking on the surface Ikura I. decides to submerge SS I-156 due to damage don´t know which damage but I´m happy... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cebu Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cebu Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 3 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 46th Indian Brigade, at 76,136 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 33 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 15 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 79 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 15 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,133 (Milne Bay) Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 90th Chinese Corps, at 87,43 (Loyang) Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 14 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb halve of the AVG is in China already... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 13 B-17E Fortress x 17 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 3 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 33 Aircraft Attacking: 8 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead the first burst from a Zero took down a B-17 again... even with limited fighter numbers around PM, if I would keep constantly flying attacks into the face or 1-6 Zeroes I would definetely lose more heavy bombers than I receive per month... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 9 LB-30 Liberator x 5 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses LB-30 Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 7 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead especially as my bomber NEVER go in as one strike... only the AE gods (devs) know why... do they know why? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Cebu Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 76,136 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3632 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 292 Defending force 1782 troops, 20 guns, 18 vehicles, Assault Value = 51 Japanese adjusted assault: 121 Allied adjusted defense: 25 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units pursuing 2 Allied ground losses: 690 casualties reported Squads: 31 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 53 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 4 (2 destroyed, 2 disabled) Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 16th Infantry Regiment 2nd Recon Regiment 24th Infantry Regiment Defending units: Sparrow Battalion 46th Indian Brigade I´m amazed to see two inf rgts following our retreating troops that far South... could mean that Rainer isn´t planning any more major invasions IMO as if I would plan to do another big offensive, I would use those two inf rgt otherwise than to pursue two completely trashed second class units... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Salamaua (98,127) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 402 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 105 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Salamaua !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), morale(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Allied ground losses: 32 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: II/84th Naval Guard Unit Defending units: C Coy/NG Rifles -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Cebu (80,86) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 2051 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 106 Defending force 6564 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 237 Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 81st PA Infantry Division Cebu USN Base Force Defending units: 65th Bde /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/29/2010 4:40:26 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 07, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lingga at 51,87 Japanese Ships DD Harusame DD Tadeshiwa DD Yudachi Allied Ships SS Truant SS Truant launches 6 torpedoes at DD Harusame Truant bottoming out .... DD Yudachi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yudachi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yudachi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yudachi fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yudachi attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub unbelievable, MK14 torps seem to hardly miss an escort... but the never explode, so... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Truk at 113,106 Japanese Ships PB Kanko Maru PB Shuko Maru #5 PB Sonan Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Triton, hits 2 SS Triton launches 6 torpedoes at PB Kanko Maru PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sonan Maru #5 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Shuko Maru #5 attacking submerged sub .... PB Shuko Maru #5 is out of ASW ammo PB Shuko Maru #5 attacking submerged sub .... PB Shuko Maru #5 is out of ASW ammo PB Shuko Maru #5 is out of ASW ammo PB Shuko Maru #5 is out of ASW ammo PB Shuko Maru #5 is out of ASW ammo PB Shuko Maru #5 is out of ASW ammo PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Shuko Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub more of the same... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Butuan at 80,89, Range 14,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Hatsuharu DD Nenohi DD Hatsushima DD Wakaba Allied Ships PT-31 PT-32 PT-33, Shell hits 1, and is sunk MTB 9, Shell hits 1, and is sunk Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 28,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 20,000 yards Range closes to 14,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 14,000 yards DD Wakaba engages PT-33 at 14,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-33 at 14,000 yards Range closes to 8,000 yards DD Wakaba engages PT-33 at 8,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-33 at 8,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-33 at 8,000 yards Range closes to 6,000 yards PT-33 sunk by DD Nenohi at 6,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages MTB 9 at 6,000 yards Range increases to 8,000 yards DD Wakaba engages PT-32 at 8,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 8,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages MTB 9 at 8,000 yards Range increases to 12,000 yards DD Wakaba engages MTB 9 at 12,000 yards DD Nenohi engages MTB 9 at 12,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 12,000 yards Astin W. orders Allied TF to disengage Range increases to 17,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 17,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 17,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages MTB 9 at 17,000 yards Range closes to 16,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 16,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages MTB 9 at 16,000 yards DD Wakaba engages MTB 9 at 16,000 yards Range increases to 17,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 17,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-31 at 17,000 yards DD Nenohi engages MTB 9 at 17,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 17,000 yards Astin W. orders Allied TF to disengage Range increases to 18,000 yards DD Wakaba engages PT-31 at 18,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-31 at 18,000 yards MTB 9 sunk by DD Hatsushima at 18,000 yards Range increases to 19,000 yards DD Wakaba engages PT-32 at 19,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 19,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 19,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 19,000 yards Task forces break off... The PTs were helpless... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wyndham RAAF Base Force, at 75,133 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 16 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 14 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 31 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 14 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 81st PA Infantry Division, at 80,86 (Cebu) Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-48-Ib Lily: 6 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb Also attacking Cebu USN Base Force ... Also attacking 81st PA Infantry Division ... preparation to take out this base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 93rd Chinese Corps, at 87,43 (Loyang) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 12 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged Allied ground losses: 79 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 18 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ... the Chinese really lack flak but now and then they take down an enemy aircraft... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,133 (Milne Bay) Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Balabac at 68,83 Japanese Ships xAK Chihaya Maru, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage E Shimushu Allied Ships SS KXIII SS KXIII launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Chihaya Maru KXIII diving deep .... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... E Shimushu fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub finally we get a detonating hit on an enemy ship again... South of Borneo... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Laysan Island at 163,94 Japanese Ships SS I-172 Allied Ships DM Gamble, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage xAP Montoro DM Breese SS I-172 launches 2 torpedoes at DM Gamble DM Breese fails to find sub, continues to search... DM Breese fails to find sub, continues to search... DM Breese fails to find sub, continues to search... DM Breese fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub the IJN takes immediete revenge though... [8\|] the DM breaks in two and I once again wonder why I include 4 of the escorts but only one is attacking the sub... after we lost a ship of course... the only thing that helps us is the fact that the enemy subs seem not to be where my convoys are... [:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Lahaina at 184,106 Japanese Ships SS I-2, hits 1 Allied Ships PC Travis PG Swan SS I-2 is located by PC Travis I-2 diving deep .... PG Swan fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Swan attacking submerged sub .... PG Swan cannot reach attack position over SS I-2 PG Swan fails to find sub, continues to search... PG Swan attacking submerged sub .... PG Swan cannot reach attack position over SS I-2 PG Swan fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub this sub was spotted at this same position yesterday and we´ve sent out a small ASW TF and amazingly the sub was still there... dozens of DCs dropped, scoring one hit... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Waingapoe TF 50 troops unloading over beach at Waingapoe, 63,113 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Ketapang TF 342 troops unloading over beach at Ketapang, 55,93 Japanese ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad lost from landing craft during unload of II./124th Infantry Bn 19 troops of a IJA Infantry Squad accidentally lost during unload of II./124th Infantry Bn -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Cebu (80,86) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 6636 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 245 Defending force 3543 troops, 47 guns, 53 vehicles, Assault Value = 106 Japanese adjusted assault: 101 Allied adjusted defense: 37 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Cebu !!! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses No Allied losses Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 313 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 17 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 22 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: 6920 casualties reported Squads: 243 destroyed, 96 disabled Non Combat: 363 destroyed, 76 disabled Engineers: 21 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 82 (82 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 96 (89 destroyed, 7 disabled) Units destroyed 2 Assaulting units: 65th Brigade Defending units: 81st PA Infantry Division Cebu USN Base Force the enemy didn´t suffer a SINGLE KIA... mmm, no comment... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Medan (46,76) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3612 troops, 25 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127 Defending force 1682 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 37 Japanese adjusted assault: 47 Allied adjusted defense: 3 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Medan !!! Combat modifiers Defender: morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 27 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 2427 casualties reported Squads: 54 destroyed, 54 disabled Non Combat: 89 destroyed, 52 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 8 (8 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 2 Units destroyed 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 41st Infantry Regiment Defending units: Medan Garrison Battalion Medan Coastal Gun Battalion Van Aaran Garrison Battalion Medan Base Force lots of ground losses all the day... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Batavia (49,98) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 5026 troops, 48 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 263 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 122 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 122 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese forces CAPTURE Batavia !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 1st Tank Regiment 6th Tank Regiment 17th Indpt Guards Regiment Rainer takes Batavia 100% INTACT... funny routines, the chance to see damage to oil/res sites in AE is something like 2% of what it was in WITP...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/30/2010 8:40:01 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 08, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Hengchun at 85,68 Japanese Ships PB Seki Maru #3 PB Toko Maru #4 Allied Ships SS Perch SS Perch is located by PB Seki Maru #3 Perch diving deep .... PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Toko Maru #4 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Seki Maru #3 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub another round to the escorts... anything else than DDs is pretty much helpless when trying to damage my subs, this is especially true in deep water... now IJN DDs in the SRA are a different story... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Wenchow at 90,60 Japanese Ships xAK Daisin Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage PB Choun Maru #21 Allied Ships SS Sturgeon SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Daisin Maru Sturgeon bottoming out .... PB Choun Maru #21 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choun Maru #21 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choun Maru #21 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choun Maru #21 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Choun Maru #21 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we´re patrolling the shipping lanes both North and South of Formosa... We hit a freighter North of Formosa... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Ketapang at 55,93 Japanese Ships xAK Kuroshio Maru xAK Kashiwara Maru PB Tokotsu Maru Allied Ships SS Trusty SS Trusty is sighted by escort PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Hengchun at 85,68 Japanese Ships xAK Senyo Maru PB Zosen Maru Allied Ships SS Thresher SS Thresher launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Senyo Maru PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Zosen Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub our subs are very active again today but the results are... mixed... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Etorofu at 128,48 Japanese Ships PB Okiyu Maru PB Kaiun Maru Allied Ships SS Shark SS Shark is located by PB Okiyu Maru PB Okiyu Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Kaiun Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Wyndham RAAF Base Force, at 75,133 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 15 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 13 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 23 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 13 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 80th Chinese Corps, at 87,43 (Loyang) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 22 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 76 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 10 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Aircraft Attacking: 22 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 7th Chinese Corps ... Also attacking 80th Chinese Corps ... we´ll soon going to intervene with those freebee attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 47 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 12 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb I´ve ordered some port attacks today as I wasn´t sure what it means when I get the message "coastwatcher spots ship in port of xy". As my patrols never spot any ships when my coastwatchers do I thought it could be that the coastwatcher report also ships disbanded in port... doesn´t seem so though as the following attacks show... no ships are hit in any of the locations we´ve attacked... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 6 No Allied losses Port hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb no chance to see combined strikes... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Horn Island , at 91,128 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 46 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 16 No Allied losses Port hits 3 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Horn Island , at 91,128 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 41 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 12 No Allied losses Port hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Port Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Milne Bay , at 101,133 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 4 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Port Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb Attack on Milne Bay splits up in three strikes... hey, not bad, have seen attacks on PM split up in 5 strikes... [8\|] we´re still at the 100% non working combination of airstrikes in this campaign... 100% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,133 (Milne Bay) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 14 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Oosthaven (48,96) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3942 troops, 44 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 138 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 62 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 62 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Oosthaven !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: fatigue(-) Assaulting units: 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Benkoelen (45,91) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3550 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121 Defending force 168 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4 Japanese adjusted assault: 105 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 105 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Benkoelen !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), morale(-) experience(-) Attacker: Allied ground losses: 53 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 3 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 4th Ind.Mixed Regiment Defending units: Zuid KNIL Battalion So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion Teloekbetoeng Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ketapang (55,93) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1450 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 57 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 14 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 14 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Ketapang !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(-) Assaulting units: II./124th Infantry Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Waingapoe (63,113) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1184 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 43 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 39 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 39 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Waingapoe !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+) Assaulting units: III./4th Infantry Battalion I don´t expect Java to hold longer than four weeks, even that we defend in mountaineous terrain... I realized too late that you don´t have a chance at all if defending in clear terrain and level 4 forts so I´ve switched preparation to the mountain hexes too late, same goes for moving engineers there to build forts... we´ll see, there´s enough supply and Java will fall long before supply has run out...

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/30/2010 8:57:48 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 09, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 64 encounters mine field at Batavia (49,98) Japanese Ships DMS W-3 DMS W-2 DMS W-1 3 mines cleared looks like Rainer is sick of losing DDs at Batavia and here come the minesweepers... not much mines left it seems... in total I guess he has lost 4 or 5 DDs to mines here and 3 or 4 subs to mines in the hex North West of Batavia...[:D] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Jolo at 74,90 Japanese Ships SC CHa-23 SC CHa-20 Allied Ships SS S-39 SS S-39 launches 4 torpedoes at SC CHa-23 S-39 bottoming out .... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub hard to hit with working torps... [;)] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Pescadores at 86,62 Japanese Ships xAKL Kamishima Maru Allied Ships SS Sturgeon SS Sturgeon launches 4 torpedoes at xAKL Kamishima Maru Sturgeon bottoming out .... Sub escapes detection D [:@] U [:@] D [:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 46th Indian Brigade, at 76,137 (Tennant Creek) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 49 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 G4M1 Betty x 13 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 21 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 13 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 80th Chinese Corps, at 87,43 (Loyang) Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 11 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 17 Allied aircraft H81-A3 x 8 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 8 destroyed, 1 damaged Allied ground losses: 14 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 6 x Ki-21-Ic Sally bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb CAP engaged: AVG/1st Sqn with H81-A3 (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead AVG/3rd Sqn with H81-A3 (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 10000 Raid is overhead Also attacking 93rd Chinese Corps ... and here´s the surprise for the IJAAF in China... took me nearly a week to have the AVG squadrons together in China (two are flying the Warhawk variant, one is flying the P-39). Have moved the H81-A3 to Sian (level 1 airfield - 5 hexes to target) but wasn´t sure if LRCAP works from a level 1 airfield. It did work and 8 Warhawks showed up over the target. Range of the P-39 was too short and Sian doesn´t have enough supplies to equip the fighters with drop tanks (how many supplies does it take?). The Sallies came in unescorted and the AVG had a field day. 10 Sallies were shot down over the target during the replay and some more were damaged. The loss list shows 16 bombers shot down which would mean the bomber strike was whiped out but I guess this is FOW as the enemy comes in from only one hex range if I identify their staging base correctly (small af to the North, therefore only reduced load). How is FOW working now? I know that the combat report is completely bullocks and absolutely underrates the actual losses. If this would be realistic, then it would have to OVERRATE losses as this is what happened in real life. Every side claimed more enemy ac destroyed than what really happened. The replay seems to be showing what really is happening, so you can count on the ac shot down over target as really lost, but you don´t know how many crash or how many are written off afterwards. This is when the aircraft loss list comes into play. But if this list is influenced by FOW then I wonder how the victory points (and therefore autovictory) is calculated. The ship loss list is highly influenced by FOW, that´s for sure (and it´s a good thing). I just wonder how this influences the victory point ratio. I´m sure that at least 6 of my BBs at Pearl Harbour showed up as sunk in Rainer´s loss list, in fact not a single one was actually sunk as the new repair routines are so powerful that I was able to save all BBs, even those that had up to 90 flt damage. Within the next 6 months I will have every BB that has been damaged at PH ready for action again. The first one or two will be ready within the next 7-8 weeks. Due to the small airfield at Sian, we lose three of our precious fighters... today, the first pilot attained ace status... and he also was wounded...[:(] [image]local://upfiles/13774/8ED212FAD4214FD7BAAAB987C9253E43.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby Brigade, at 101,133 (Milne Bay) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M1 Betty x 4 Japanese aircraft losses G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged Aircraft Attacking: 4 x G4M1 Betty bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 2 x 250 kg GP Bomb, 4 x 60 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Wakkanai at 123,48 Japanese Ships xAKL Nagaragawa Maru, Shell hits 6, heavy fires Allied Ships SS Shark xAKL Nagaragawa Maru is sighted by SS Shark SS Shark attacking xAKL Nagaragawa Maru on the surface Shane, L. decides to submerge SS Shark due to damage 6 4inch shells hit the small freighter but no torps were fired... not that far away from a bigger port so I guess the freighter will make it... it´s really amazing that Rainer still has not reacted to my subs doing patrols North of Hokkaido... I guess the TFs we engage here are auto convoys... and they are unescorted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tennant Creek (76,137) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 4657 troops, 30 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 165 Defending force 1296 troops, 20 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 41 Japanese adjusted assault: 91 Allied adjusted defense: 5 Japanese assault odds: 18 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tennant Creek !!! Combat modifiers Defender: op mode(-), disruption(-), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 28 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Allied ground losses: 696 casualties reported Squads: 21 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 29 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 6 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 2 (2 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 16 (16 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 2nd Recon Regiment 24th Infantry Regiment Defending units: Sparrow Battalion 46th Indian Brigade we get kicked out once again... those units are more or less destroyed and I doubt I will rebuild them anytime soon... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1265 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 73 Defending force 618 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Japanese adjusted assault: 42 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 42 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 20 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 187 casualties reported Squads: 12 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 11 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 82nd Naval Guard Unit I/84th Naval Guard Unit 5th Naval Construction Battalion 144th JAAF AF Bn Defending units: Lark Battalion Port Moresby Brigade

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/30/2010 9:14:06 AM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 10, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Naha at 95,66 Japanese Ships PB Tokuho Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Perch SS Perch is sighted by escort Perch bottoming out .... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokuho Maru #5 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub spotted a couple of convoys going into different directions around Okinawa... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Okinoerabushima at 97,66 Japanese Ships BB Yamashiro BB Fuso DD Matsukaze DD Asakaze DD Yukaze DD Sawakaze Allied Ships SS Thresher SS Thresher is sighted by escort DD Yukaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub also IJN heavy forces around Okinawa... wonder where they are heading to... retiring to Japan for refits? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tawi Tawi at 70,91 Japanese Ships TK Nissan Maru TK Ryuei Maru SC CHa-23 SC CHa-20 Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal launches 4 torpedoes at TK Nissan Maru Seal diving deep .... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub small tanker and defective torps... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 62,102 Japanese Ships E Tsuta, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage SC Ch 8 Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes at E Tsuta S-38 bottoming out .... SC Ch 8 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 8 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 8 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub today we also hit an escort though... shouldn´t survive a MK10 torp... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Naha at 96,66 Japanese Ships DD Makigumo BB Yamashiro BB Fuso DD Matsukaze DD Asakaze DD Yukaze DD Sawakaze Allied Ships SS Perch SS Perch launches 4 torpedoes at DD Makigumo Perch diving deep .... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... DD Sawakaze fails to find sub and abandons search DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze fails to find sub, continues to search... DD Yukaze attacking submerged sub .... Escort abandons search for sub Perch then dared to fire a salvo at one of the BBs´ escorts but missed... deep water hex and no damage to the sub... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Buitenzorg , at 48,99 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 13 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb guess those bombers are coming from Palembang... the Dutch have some AA units and claim one bomber shot down... mountain fortress Buitenzorg... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 1 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 12 B-17E Fortress x 25 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 3 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 13 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 10 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 4 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead I was searching for the base around Port Moresby where the Zeroes are based and I guess I´ve found it today... first time the heavy bombers shot down an enemy fighter during the replay, another one was torched on the ground with more of them being damaged... Lae is a level 3 airfield at the moment... this is the only base that seems to be in the process of being built up in this area... unfortunately we´re coming in at extended range and Townsville is the only major airfield in the region from where I launch the attacks on New Guinea... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 45 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 6 No Allied losses Runway hits 1 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb and needless to say that we are not able to launch a combined strike... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 36 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 4 No Allied losses Aircraft Attacking: 4 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (1 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 1 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead Training flight from 3rd Ku S-1 has been caught up in attack and this was funny, the Libs caught a Zero on training, but the fighter turned around immedietely... two Zeroes destroyed today but also two heavy bombers lost... a ratio we can´t afford... [image]local://upfiles/13774/EED2B79C2E104843B317DAB2A2B7208E.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Bandjermasin at 62,102 Japanese Ships E Tsuta, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage Allied Ships SS S-38 SS S-38 launches 4 torpedoes S-38 finishes the already dead Tsuta... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Timoeka TF 40 troops unloading over beach at Timoeka, 86,116 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Tacloban 1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships CL Sendai DD Natsugumo SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 CL Sendai firing at 93rd PA Infantry Regiment DD Natsugumo firing at 93rd PA Infantry Regiment SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops DD Natsugumo firing at enemy troops Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft Rainer really is going forward with mopping up bases... he takes out all those IMO unimportant bases at a really high speed... and he´s using some combat worthy units for this... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Tacloban TF 329 troops unloading over beach at Tacloban, 81,85 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Merak (48,97) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 30 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 30 to 1 (fort level 1) Japanese forces CAPTURE Merak !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 1st Tank Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1251 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 72 Defending force 1447 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 9 Japanese adjusted assault: 46 Allied adjusted defense: 5 Japanese assault odds: 9 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), fatigue(-), experience(-) supply(-) Attacker: Allied ground losses: 39 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 8 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 82nd Naval Guard Unit I/84th Naval Guard Unit 5th Naval Construction Battalion 144th JAAF AF Bn Defending units: Lark Battalion 15th RAAF Base Force one enemy construction unit here, wonder if Milne Bay will be built up or if the enemy will only build forts... the small garisson wouldn´t be much of a problem I guess if I would choose this base as a target for an invasion... at PM there seems to be still the division and the base force that has been landed there to take the base... no increase of port or airfield so I guess only fort building there too... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tacloban (81,85) Allied Bombardment attack Attacking force 851 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29 Defending force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Assaulting units: 93rd PA Infantry Regiment Defending units: 3rd Tank Rgt /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (1/30/2010 1:38:19 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 11, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Tacloban Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops my two remaining PTs should have attacked her tonight but didn´t... [8\|] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Toyohara at 125,46 Japanese Ships xAKL Nitiyu Maru Allied Ships SS Shark xAKL Nitiyu Maru is sighted by SS Shark SS Shark launches 2 torpedoes at xAKL Nitiyu Maru dud... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kalidjati at 50,99 Japanese Ships xAKL Fukuyo Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DMS W-6 DMS W-5 xAP Manzyu Maru xAK Eihuku Maru xAK Ayatosan Maru PB Sozan Maru PB Heiei Maru #7 PB Eiko Maru Allied Ships SS KXI Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 3 (2 destroyed, 1 disabled) SS KXI launches 2 torpedoes at xAKL Fukuyo Maru KXI bottoming out .... PB Sozan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub and abandons search PB Eiko Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Sozan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sozan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sozan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Sozan Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub 45cm torp should be enough for a small freighter... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kalidjati at 51,97, Range 12,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Natori CL Yura DD Shinonome DD Shirakumo DD Murakumo DD Uranami Allied Ships AG Canopus, Shell hits 3, and is sunk Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 32% moonlight: 12,000 yards CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 12,000 yards Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 12,000 yards DD Murakumo launches Long Lance Torpedoes at AG Canopus at 12,000 yards AG Canopus sunk by CL Yura at 12,000 yards AG Canopus sunk by CL Yura at 12,000 yards Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk... I´ve sent one ship out of Java and of course it gets caught by the enemy in the area... doesn´t really matter to lose this crappy ship but I still wonder if the naval spot - react - destroy routine is too effective... everytime you have one or more ships near the enemy you seem to end up in a fight... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kalidjati at 50,99, Range 10,000 Yards Japanese Ships DMS W-5 DMS W-6 PB Chosa Maru PB Eifuku Maru PB Eiko Maru PB Heiei Maru #7 PB Sozan Maru xAK Ayatosan Maru xAK Asakasan Maru xAK Syoka Maru xAK Iburi Maru xAK Yamagata Maru xAK Eihuku Maru xAK Koto Maru xAK Rokko Maru xAK Igasa Maru, Shell hits 2 xAKL Yagi Maru xAKL Shingetsu Maru xAKL Hachirogata Maru xAP Manzyu Maru Allied Ships PT TM-4 PT TM-5, Shell hits 1, and is sunk PT TM-6 PT TM-7 PT TM-8 PT TM-9 Allied Ships Reported to be Approaching! Japanese TF suspends unloading operations and begins to get underway Allied Ships Reported to be Approaching! Maximum visibility in Clear Conditions and 32% moonlight: 12,000 yards CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 10,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 10,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru screened from combat PB Eifuku Maru engages PT TM-9 at 10,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-4 at 10,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAK Igasa Maru at 10,000 yards Range closes to 9,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru , xAK Iburi Maru , xAK Syoka Maru , xAK Asakasan Maru , xAK Ayatosan Maru , xAKL Hachirogata Maru , xAKL Shingetsu Maru , xAKL Yagi Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Sozan Maru , PB Heiei Maru #7 , PB Eiko Maru , PB Eifuku Maru Range closes to 5,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru , xAK Iburi Maru , xAK Syoka Maru , xAK Asakasan Maru , xAK Ayatosan Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Sozan Maru , PB Heiei Maru #7 , PB Eifuku Maru PT TM-4 engages PB Eiko Maru at 5,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-9 at 5,000 yards PT TM-4 engages DMS W-5 at 5,000 yards Range closes to 2,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru , xAK Iburi Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Sozan Maru , PB Eifuku Maru DMS W-6 engages PT TM-8 at 2,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-7 at 2,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-5 at 2,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAKL Shingetsu Maru at 2,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Heiei Maru #7 PB Eiko Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards PB Eifuku Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards DMS W-5 engages PT TM-4 at 2,000 yards Range increases to 3,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru , xAK Iburi Maru , xAK Syoka Maru , xAK Asakasan Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Sozan Maru , PB Eifuku Maru PT TM-8 engages DMS W-6 at 3,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-7 at 3,000 yards PT TM-9 engages DMS W-6 at 3,000 yards PT TM-5 sunk by DMS W-6 at 3,000 yards Range closes to 2,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru , xAK Iburi Maru , xAK Syoka Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Sozan Maru , PB Eifuku Maru PB Eiko Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-7 at 2,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards PT TM-9 engages PB Heiei Maru #7 at 2,000 yards PT TM-7 engages DMS W-6 at 2,000 yards PT TM-9 engages PB Eifuku Maru at 2,000 yards PB Chosa Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAK Igasa Maru at 2,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Eifuku Maru PB Sozan Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards PB Eiko Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards PB Chosa Maru engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-9 at 2,000 yards Range increases to 4,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru , xAK Iburi Maru , xAK Syoka Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Heiei Maru #7 , PB Eifuku Maru DMS W-6 engages PT TM-9 at 4,000 yards PT TM-8 engages DMS W-6 at 4,000 yards PB Chosa Maru engages PT TM-9 at 4,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-9 at 4,000 yards DMS W-5 engages PT TM-4 at 4,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAKL Hachirogata Maru at 4,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAKL Yagi Maru at 4,000 yards Range closes to 3,000 yards xAP Manzyu Maru , xAK Igasa Maru , xAK Rokko Maru , xAK Koto Maru , xAK Eihuku Maru , xAK Yamagata Maru screened from combat - escorted by PB Sozan Maru , PB Eifuku Maru PB Chosa Maru engages PT TM-4 at 3,000 yards DMS W-5 engages PT TM-9 at 3,000 yards Range increases to 7,000 yards PB Sozan Maru engages PT TM-9 at 7,000 yards PB Eifuku Maru engages PT TM-9 at 7,000 yards PT TM-9 engages PB Chosa Maru at 7,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAK Igasa Maru at 7,000 yards Range increases to 12,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-6 at 12,000 yards DMS W-6 engages PT TM-4 at 12,000 yards PT TM-9 engages xAK Ayatosan Maru at 12,000 yards Task forces break off... we achieve nothing other than losing another Dutch PT... even if the enemy is unloading we don´t get a hit... when the remaining Dutch PTs will be destroyed I guess I won´t ever create new PTs because even if they only account for a single victory point I don´t like it when the intel screen shows hundreds of ships sunk (even if a good number would be PTs)... and as they don´t achieve anything anyway I won´t create anymore... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Toyohara at 125,46 Japanese Ships xAKL Nitian Maru, Shell hits 2 Allied Ships SS Shark xAKL Nitian Maru is sighted by SS Shark SS Shark attacking xAKL Nitian Maru on the surface Shane, L. decides to submerge SS Shark due to damage mmm... no torps fired and Shark has no damage, once again this routine acts strange... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Groot Natoena at 57,84 Japanese Ships DD Nowaki DD Hagikaze Allied Ships SS KXVIII SS KXVIII launches 2 torpedoes at DD Nowaki DD Hagikaze fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub a DUD, believe it or not... [:@] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Tacloban Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Baybay at 82,86, Range 20,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Hatsuharu DD Nenohi DD Hatsushima Allied Ships PT-31 PT-32 Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 26,000 yards CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 20,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 20,000 yards Kohama, Satoru crosses the 'T' DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 20,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 20,000 yards Range closes to 14,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 14,000 yards Astin W. orders Allied TF to disengage Range closes to 12,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 12,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 12,000 yards Range increases to 15,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 15,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 15,000 yards Range increases to 16,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-31 at 16,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 16,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 16,000 yards Range increases to 18,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 18,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-31 at 18,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 18,000 yards Range increases to 20,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 20,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 20,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 20,000 yards Astin W. orders Allied TF to disengage Range closes to 19,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 19,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 19,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 19,000 yards Task forces break off... now during the day our PTs are engaged by enemy destroyers... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Tacloban Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Cebu at 80,87, Range 14,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Hatsuharu DD Nenohi DD Hatsushima Allied Ships PT-31, Shell hits 1, and is sunk PT-32, Shell hits 1, and is sunk Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions: 25,000 yards Range closes to 14,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 14,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 14,000 yards Astin W. gains tactical advantage DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 14,000 yards Range closes to 7,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 7,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 7,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 7,000 yards Astin W. orders Allied TF to disengage Range increases to 9,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-32 at 9,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-32 at 9,000 yards Range increases to 11,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-32 at 11,000 yards PT-32 sunk by DD Nenohi at 11,000 yards Range increases to 12,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 12,000 yards Range increases to 13,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-31 at 13,000 yards DD Hatsuharu engages PT-31 at 13,000 yards orders Allied TF to disengage Range closes to 11,000 yards DD Hatsushima engages PT-31 at 11,000 yards DD Nenohi engages PT-31 at 11,000 yards PT-31 sunk by DD Hatsuharu at 11,000 yards Combat ends with last Allied ship sunk... and the react and destroy routine sent the DDs after our PTs that got sunk... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sian , at 83,41 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 40 NM, estimated altitude 40,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 23 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 23 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet funny air routine... am not dumb enough to send fighters up against the Sputniks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Sian , at 83,41 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 40 NM, estimated altitude 36,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 36000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Invasion Support action off Tacloban Defensive Guns fire at approaching troops in landing craft 2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Japanese Ships SC Ch 18 SC Ch 16 SC Ch 12 SC Ch 4 SC Ch 18 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 16 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 12 firing at enemy troops SC Ch 4 firing at enemy troops -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Tacloban (81,85) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 844 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29 Japanese adjusted assault: 27 Allied adjusted defense: 5 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Tacloban !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), leaders(-), fatigue(-), morale(-) experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 4 (0 destroyed, 4 disabled) Allied ground losses: 407 casualties reported Squads: 19 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 15 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 3rd Tank Regiment Defending units: 93rd PA Infantry Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Loyang (87,43) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 74103 troops, 714 guns, 174 vehicles, Assault Value = 2958 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 2 Japanese adjusted assault: 2823 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 2823 to 1 (fort level 2) Japanese forces CAPTURE Loyang !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 32nd Division 69th Division 36th Division 41st Division 6th Ind.Mixed Brigade 35th Division 110th Division 59th Division 51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 6th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 2nd Ind. Mountain Gun Regiment 12th Army 11th Field Artillery Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 45,75 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3366 troops, 20 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 127 Defending force 529 troops, 6 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Japanese adjusted assault: 115 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 115 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 399 casualties reported Squads: 10 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 25 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 6 (6 destroyed, 0 disabled) Units retreated 1 Units destroyed 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 113th Infantry Regiment Defending units: Medan Garrison Battalion Medan Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Timoeka (86,116) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 16 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Timoeka !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 1st Indpt SNLF Coy

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (2/1/2010 2:11:12 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 12, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Aogashima at 114,69 Japanese Ships xAK Brasil Maru Allied Ships SS Porpoise xAK Brasil Maru is sighted by SS Porpoise SS Porpoise launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Brasil Maru one of the very rare misses of MK14s... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Diamond Harbour at 52,40 Japanese Ships SS I-155 Allied Ships xAKL Silindoeng, Shell hits 8, heavy fires xAKL Silindoeng is sighted by SS I-155 SS I-155 attacking on the surface Shibata H. decides to submerge SS I-155 due to damage I-155 that recently has been hunting around Ceylon is now intercepting my convoys between Calcutta - Akyab - Cox Bazar... no torps fired but the deck gun hits put the small freighter in serious trouble... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Diamond Harbour at 52,40 Japanese Ships SS I-155 Allied Ships xAKL Silindoeng, Torpedo hits 5, heavy fires, heavy damage xAKL Silindoeng is sighted by SS I-155 SS I-155 launches 8 torpedoes and the follow on attack sees 5 out of 8 torps slam into the freighter... xAKLs are expandable though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [&:] Amphibious Assault at Ulak Island TF 77 troops unloading over beach at Ulak Island, 160,53 Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) 70mm T92 Howitzer accidentally lost during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun accidentally lost during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost overboard during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun lost overboard during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost overboard during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun lost in surf during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer damaged beyond repair during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun lost from landing craft during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost from landing craft during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun damaged beyond repair during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost overboard during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun accidentally lost during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer dropped into water during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun lost in surf during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer dropped into water during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun dropped into water during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer accidentally lost during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun accidentally lost during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer dropped into water during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun lost overboard during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost in surf during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun lost from landing craft during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost from landing craft during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 47mm Type 01 AT Gun accidentally lost during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer damaged beyond repair during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt 70mm T92 Howitzer lost from landing craft during unload of I./33rd Inf Regt what´s that??? a strange way of FOW? [&:] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Billiton TF 310 troops unloading over beach at Billiton, 52,93 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Shikuka at 126,44 Japanese Ships xAK Africa Maru Allied Ships SS Grenadier xAK Africa Maru is sighted by SS Grenadier SS Grenadier launches 6 torpedoes at xAK Africa Maru duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Sapporo at 120,49 Japanese Ships xAKL Nitian Maru Allied Ships SS Shark xAKL Nitian Maru is sighted by SS Shark SS Shark launches 2 torpedoes at xAKL Nitian Maru more duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,86 Japanese Ships SC CHa-23 SC CHa-20 Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal is sighted by escort Seal bottoming out .... SC CHa-23 fails to find sub and abandons search SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC CHa-20 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st War Area , at 86,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 19 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 26000 feet only 26.000 feet? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st War Area , at 86,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 26000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 15 B-17E Fortress x 9 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 5 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 40 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 3 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb the heavies achieve quite a hit rate if weather allows it... unfortunetely, weather is bad 80% of the time... if only the weatherforecast would be worth something... unfortunetely it isn´t... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 23 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 9 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 9 Aircraft Attacking: 9 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb I´m moving in another air HQ, perhaps this helps to see combined strike... but why shouldn´t one not be enough anyway? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 48 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 14 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 6 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 6 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 42 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft B-17E Fortress x 6 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Runway hits 4 Aircraft Attacking: 6 x B-17E Fortress bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Port Moresby , at 98,130 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 34 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 4 No Allied losses Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 5 Aircraft Attacking: 4 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb 5 strikes on the same target coming from the same base... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Shikuka at 126,44 Japanese Ships xAK Kaimei Maru Allied Ships SS Grenadier xAK Kaimei Maru is sighted by SS Grenadier SS Grenadier launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Kaimei Maru and even more duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Balabac at 71,86 Japanese Ships CL Kashii, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage [:D] xAK Kuroshio Maru PB Tokotsu Maru Allied Ships SS Seal SS Seal launches 4 torpedoes at CL Kashii Seal bottoming out .... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Tokotsu Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub but finally the most important salvo of the day achieved an exploding hit... only a third class CL but it went straight down as I´ve heard the sound of a sinking ship and Rainer admitted the cruiser was lost... no mag explosion so we must have had quite some luck to see it going down right off... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 26878 troops, 247 guns, 111 vehicles, Assault Value = 995 Defending force 19898 troops, 218 guns, 177 vehicles, Assault Value = 579 Japanese ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Assaulting units: 5th Division 18th Division 6th Tank Regiment Defending units: Mobiele Eenheid Battalion 4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion 1st KNIL Regiment 2nd KNIL Regiment Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion 1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion 1st Regt Cavalerie Roodenburg Battalion Van Altena Battalion Kalidjati Base Force KNIL Army Command 3rd KNIL AA Battalion 1 ML-KNIL Aviation ML-KNIL Merak Base Force Batavia Base Force Bandoeng Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 76,138 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1025 troops, 4 guns, 42 vehicles, Assault Value = 38 Defending force 666 troops, 18 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 18 Japanese adjusted assault: 8 Allied adjusted defense: 4 Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: leaders(-), disruption(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 12 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 199 casualties reported Squads: 9 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) Units retreated 2 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 2nd Recon Regiment Defending units: Sparrow Battalion 46th Indian Brigade -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ulak Island (160,53) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 596 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 21 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Ulak Island !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: I./33rd Inf Regt /1

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (2/1/2010 2:28:24 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 13, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Wakkanai at 123,48 Japanese Ships xAKL Mitsu Maru #3, Shell hits 14, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Seadragon xAKL Mitsu Maru #3 is sighted by SS Seadragon SS Seadragon attacking xAKL Mitsu Maru #3 on the surface Northern Japan is our preferred hunting ground at the moment... another small freighter is sunk... Seadragon sinks it´s third xAKL on this patrol and retires... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Chichi-jima at 117,78 Japanese Ships xAK Shinfuku Maru PB Santo Maru Allied Ships SS Porpoise SS Porpoise launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Shinfuku Maru Porpoise diving deep .... PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Santo Maru fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub we also score some duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kalidjati at 50,99 Japanese Ships PB Eifuku Maru PB Chosa Maru DMS W-6 DMS W-5 xAK Igasa Maru xAK Rokko Maru xAK Eihuku Maru xAK Yamagata Maru xAK Syoka Maru xAK Ayatosan Maru xAKL Hachirogata Maru xAKL Shingetsu Maru xAKL Yagi Maru PB Sozan Maru PB Heiei Maru #7 PB Eiko Maru Allied Ships SS KXI, hits 2 SS KXI is sighted by escort KXI bottoming out .... PB Sozan Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Eiko Maru attacking submerged sub .... PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Eiko Maru fails to find sub and abandons search PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... PB Heiei Maru #7 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub huge convoy unloading invasion troops for Java, the escorts achieve two near misses... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Green Island TF 308 troops unloading over beach at Green Island, 108,127 Japanese ground losses: 13 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled 17 troops of a SNLF Squad accidentally lost during unload of 4th Indpt SNLF Coy 17 troops of a SNLF Squad lost overboard during unload of 4th Indpt SNLF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Shikuka at 126,43 Japanese Ships xAK Tyoyo Maru Allied Ships SS Pickerel xAK Tyoyo Maru is sighted by SS Pickerel SS Pickerel launches 2 torpedoes at xAK Tyoyo Maru more duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 64 encounters mine field at Batavia (49,98) Japanese Ships DMS W-3 DMS W-2 DMS W-1 75 mines cleared the most dangerous minefield on the map is being cleared... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Wakkanai at 121,48 Japanese Ships xAKL Shinnan Maru, Shell hits 38, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Seadragon, hits 4 [:D] xAKL Shinnan Maru is sighted by SS Seadragon SS Seadragon attacking on the surface SS Seadragon low on gun ammo, Ferrall, W.E. breaks off surface engagement and submerges Seadragon heavily damages another xAKL, mostly cal.50 hits though... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st War Area , at 86,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 19 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 19 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 26000 feet looks like Rainer wants to lure me into putting up Cap again with his 26k attacks... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on KNIL Army Command , at 48,99 (Buitenzorg) Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 13 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-IIa Sally x 21 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-IIa Sally: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied ground losses: 10 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 21 x Ki-21-IIa Sally bombing from 6000 feet Ground Attack: 4 x 250 kg GP Bomb Also attacking 1st KNIL Regiment ... Also attacking KNIL Army Command ... Also attacking 1st KNIL Regiment ... Also attacking KNIL Army Command ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 1st War Area , at 86,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 31 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 3 No Japanese losses Aircraft Attacking: 3 x Ki-43-Ic Oscar sweeping at 26000 feet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 80th Chinese Corps, at 86,43 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 37 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-48-Ib Lily x 11 No Japanese losses Allied ground losses: 43 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 11 x Ki-48-Ib Lily bombing from 6000 feet * Ground Attack: 2 x 100 kg GP Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 45,90 Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 3550 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 121 Defending force 101 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4 Japanese adjusted assault: 53 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 53 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), morale(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+), leaders(-) Japanese ground losses: 5 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 34 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units retreated 3 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 4th Ind.Mixed Regiment Defending units: Zuid KNIL Battalion So.Sumatra Garrison Battalion Teloekbetoeng Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Buitenzorg (48,99) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 27552 troops, 247 guns, 213 vehicles, Assault Value = 995 Defending force 19914 troops, 220 guns, 177 vehicles, Assault Value = 579 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 1 Japanese adjusted assault: 660 Allied adjusted defense: 1345 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 2 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: leaders(+) Japanese ground losses: 649 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 25 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 44 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Vehicles lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled) Allied ground losses: 1413 casualties reported Squads: 37 destroyed, 69 disabled [:(] Non Combat: 11 destroyed, 35 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 14 (2 destroyed, 12 disabled) Assaulting units: 5th Division 18th Division 6th Tank Regiment Defending units: 4th KNIL Landstorm Battalion Batavia Coastal Gun Battalion Mobiele Eenheid Battalion 1st KNIL Regiment 1st KNIL Landstorm Battalion 2nd KNIL Regiment 1st Regt Cavalerie Roodenburg Battalion Van Altena Battalion 3rd KNIL AA Battalion Merak Base Force KNIL Army Command Kalidjati Base Force ML-KNIL Batavia Base Force 1 ML-KNIL Aviation Bandoeng Base Force even if we defend in a mountaineous hex, we won´t hold long I guess... even worse, we won´t really hurt the enemy as disablements are recovered quickly... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Myitkyina (64,42) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 12810 troops, 120 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 444 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 403 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 403 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Myitkyina !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: 33rd Division -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Palopo (67,103) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 504 troops, 3 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 22 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 21 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 21 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Palopo !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: Assaulting units: I/81st Naval Guard Unit -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Billiton (52,93) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 350 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 7 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 5 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 5 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Billiton !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: leaders(+), disruption(-) Assaulting units: 8th JAAF AF Coy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Green Island (108,127) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 325 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 15 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 15 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 15 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Green Island !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 4th Indpt SNLF Coy /1 KB has again been spotted... Rainer is not raiding deep with KB, he more or less moves from one frontline base in the Pacific to the next... but this is far from where my major convoys are moving to their targets... the Allied TFs seen in this screenshot are small supply convoys of one or two ships... [image]local://upfiles/13774/C2579CD98B074A8CBC9DF955489E5BE7.jpg[/image]

castor troy -> RE: AE = Alpine Edition <-> Rainer79 vs. ranting castor troy (2/1/2010 2:39:07 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Mar 14, 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 64 encounters mine field at Batavia (49,98) Japanese Ships DMS W-3 DMS W-2 DMS W-1 54 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 64 encounters mine field at Merak (48,97) Japanese Ships DMS W-2 DMS W-1 7 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Wakkanai at 123,48 Japanese Ships xAKL Natsukawa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Grenadier xAKL Natsukawa Maru is sighted by SS Grenadier SS Grenadier launches 6 torpedoes at xAKL Natsukawa Maru mostly small freighters going back and forth to Hokkaido and another one is sunk... guess these are resource convoys and they are still unescorted... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 64 encounters mine field at Merak (48,97) Japanese Ships DMS W-3 DMS W-2 DMS W-1 12 mines cleared -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Moppo at 99,53 Japanese Ships xAK Toei Maru xAK Hokuzyu Maru xAK Yuri Maru xAK Syunsei Maru xAK Havre Maru xAK Akagisan Maru SC Ch 24 Allied Ships SS Spearfish SS Spearfish launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Toei Maru SC Ch 24 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 24 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 24 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 24 fails to find sub, continues to search... SC Ch 24 fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub IIRC this is on the shipping lane from Port Arthur to Japan... it seems this is another nice place with lots of convoys... not having played the Japanese side yet I have to figure out myselve from where the constant convoys coming and where they are going to... duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 15 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 6 Allied aircraft B-17D Fortress x 17 B-17E Fortress x 29 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged Allied aircraft losses B-17D Fortress: 1 damaged B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged Airbase hits 7 Airbase supply hits 4 Runway hits 11 Aircraft Attacking: 12 x B-17D Fortress bombing from 6000 feet * Airfield Attack: 4 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 4 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 , scrambling fighters to 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 7 minutes thought we could attack Lae again but it was definetely a bad idea... [:(] we meet 6 Zeroes today and lose 5 bombers... which clearly tells us that we can´t even send heavy bombers against bases with only a small Cap... 5 bombers lost when only 6 fighters on Cap is hardly something we can afford... 15 is the MONTHLY replacement rate... [8\|] three bombers were shot down over the target or lost on the way home, two were write offs... one Zero shot down during the replay, the other probably crashed... [image]local://upfiles/13774/8CDAB57AEDFA4895828FB08FFF503487.jpg[/image] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Lae , at 99,126 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 35 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 2 Allied aircraft LB-30 Liberator x 5 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses LB-30 Liberator: 1 damaged Runway hits 2 Aircraft Attacking: 5 x LB-30 Liberator bombing from 6000 feet Airfield Attack: 8 x 500 lb GP Bomb CAP engaged: 3rd Ku S-1 with A6M2 Zero (2 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 2 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 8000 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Ominato at 118,52 Japanese Ships xAK Calcutta Maru Allied Ships SS Seadragon xAK Calcutta Maru is sighted by SS Seadragon SS Seadragon launches 4 torpedoes at xAK Calcutta Maru more duds... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Ontong Java TF 291 troops unloading over beach at Ontong Java, 115,131 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Baybay (81,86) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 690 troops, 0 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Defending force 479 troops, 4 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13 Japanese adjusted assault: 28 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 28 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Baybay !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), morale(-) experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(+), fatigue(-) Allied ground losses: 761 casualties reported Squads: 57 destroyed, 42 disabled Non Combat: 35 destroyed, 33 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 9 (6 destroyed, 3 disabled) Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 3rd Tank Regiment Defending units: 93rd PA Infantry Regiment -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Milne Bay (101,133) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 1314 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 75 Defending force 1399 troops, 2 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10 Japanese adjusted assault: 42 Allied adjusted defense: 5 Japanese assault odds: 8 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-), preparation(-), fatigue(-) morale(-), experience(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 94 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 82nd Naval Guard Unit I/84th Naval Guard Unit 5th Naval Construction Battalion 144th JAAF AF Bn Defending units: Lark Battalion 15th RAAF Base Force -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Ontong Java (115,131) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 342 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 16 Defending force 0 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 0 Japanese adjusted assault: 16 Allied adjusted defense: 1 Japanese assault odds: 16 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Ontong Java !!! Combat modifiers Attacker: shock(+), leaders(-) Assaulting units: 8th Indpt SNLF Coy /1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allied Unit(s) surrounded at Milne Bay the ex-Port Moresby defenders are surrendering at Milne Bay...

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