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Ron Saueracker -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/21/2010 4:16:19 AM)
Good luck Panzer! Apologies for not being able to start a campaign with you right now. Still want a crack at a later date when I have ample time.

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/21/2010 10:26:08 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Capt. Harlock quote: Gentlemen, I give you operation Spotlight, the offensive against Australia. Looks quite plausible. Would you be able to establish an operating airfield on the east coast? Yeah, that shouldnt be a problem, Im bringing some baseforces with me. The airunits in Australia are crappy enough anyway. I fear the B17s that will inevitably come knocking though, I think it will be hard to keep the base open in face of the 4Es Just looked over the east-coast invasion force and I can throw roughly 1100 AV into the fray, that should be enough to hold one base for a while, no?

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/21/2010 10:26:59 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker Good luck Panzer! Apologies for not being able to start a campaign with you right now. Still want a crack at a later date when I have ample time. Hey Ron! No worries, just let me know when you are ready, Ive got one slot reserved for you. :)

PaxMondo -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/21/2010 6:41:26 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund Edit: Oh, and another thing. An unknown enemy TF consisting of 3 ships of unknown class just showed up three hexes off Paramushiro Jima. I find that very odd...what is he doing up there now? I really cant imagine he will try to invade up there...its January, his losses will be absurd. A raid? Most likely it is the "single sub magnified to a CV battle group" optical recognition problem common with low exp aviators. Everything they see is a TF, including flotsam, jetsam, and discarded handi-wipes! [:D]

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/22/2010 5:48:33 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PaxMondo quote: ORIGINAL: Panzerjaeger Hortlund Edit: Oh, and another thing. An unknown enemy TF consisting of 3 ships of unknown class just showed up three hexes off Paramushiro Jima. I find that very odd...what is he doing up there now? I really cant imagine he will try to invade up there...its January, his losses will be absurd. A raid? Most likely it is the "single sub magnified to a CV battle group" optical recognition problem common with low exp aviators. Everything they see is a TF, including flotsam, jetsam, and discarded handi-wipes! [:D] Yeah, it seems it was a false alarm.

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/22/2010 5:53:46 PM)
I now have about 1000 AV on Java. Do you think I should reinforce with 4 more regiments from Singapore, or do I move on with those forces? From what I can tell, he is holding Batavia, Soerebaja and the mountain hex just southwest from Batavia. I have all the Hong Kong artillery in place together with two divisions and support units and some mixed units. The first wave for Australia is in the process of embarking their ships at Port Moresby, they should land in a week or two. Things should get interesting then... Also I wonder what Im doing wrong with my aircraft research, it is soon mid-january, and Ive only gotten three R&D factories to repair a single point each, meaning I get no research done whatsoever on my precious Tojos...

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/24/2010 12:06:47 PM)
8th April Things are going surprisingly smooth. We are ashore on Java in numbers, and a second landing at Sebarang (or whatever its called, that 5-port in the middle of the island) met with practically no resistance. Another two regiments ashore now. Ive got one division + heavy artillery besieging the mountain-hex south of Batavia, another division and a regiment heading to Tilijap and now two more Regiments ashore at Sebarang. All these forces should be enough to complete the conquest of Java in practically no-time. Ive got 400 AV waiting at Koepang to head ashore on Australia. Recon tells me the northern bases are undefended. Suits me perfectly. Initial invasion of Australia should begin tomorrow, with two regiments landing at Cooktown. Meanwhile the division is assembling at sea to head down south for the roadblock invasion. By the looks of things, they should be ashore within a week. In other news, the mop-up continues. Last base on Mindanao fell today, together with Makassar and Bandjermasin. Now all that is left is Balikpapan and the hex right next to it. The airforce is proving its capabilities, a sweep over Rangoon met 24 Buffalos and 12 P-40s from the AVG. We took down 19 enemy fighters for no own losses.

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (4/25/2010 6:21:11 AM)
Here is a snapshot of the current situation in China. Im focusing on an offensive in the North as you can see. The offensive is going pretty well. Ive defeated some Chinese units caught in the open and right now it seems the Chinese defences are converging on Nanyang which as 18 units. Suits me fine as I dont intend to attack that city for now. Ive blocked the road, and thats enough for the southern pincer. The threat of encirclement is of cource too big to ignore for the Chinese, so he cant rush all his forces north. I will either do a deep strike towards Sian, or the main advance will swing south to encircle the two frontline bases, havent decided yet. [image]local://upfiles/1562/2896507A5B2846FBAB4DF7EC915D1ED6.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (7/17/2010 8:13:35 AM)
Ive found some time for AE again and our game has progressed to the middle of February. Here is a screenshot of the int-screen and the most valuable ships sunk so far. [image]local://upfiles/1562/054E21A731044D7D93DE04E3A68DE6AB.jpg[/image] A short recap of the fronts: PI Im in the process of mopping up all the small islands. Bataan still remains in US hands, and right now a 700-AV force is besieging my forces at Clark. We are in a sort of Mexican standoff here since neither of us has enough forces to dislodge the other. Im fine with that since I hold all the bases except Bataan and I can bring in reinforcements later to finish off the defenders. All of Mindanao is in Japanese hands. Malaya A few scattered units remain in the Malaya penninsula. Kuantan is still in allied hands, all other bases are Japanese. All that remains here is some mopping up of the last stragglers. For some reason, they have been able to find retreat paths instead of surrendering when I have taken the bases, and it takes forever to follow them into the jungle to finish them off. NEI I have all of Java, all of Sumatra (except one base about to fall), all of the Celebes, Timor, etc. What remains here is to take some remaining dot-bases. Burma Here is the problem-child. I brought in too few forces at start and I have hardly made any progress at all. Rangoon is still in allied hands, but its about to fall. Ive recently brought in 2 new divisions and a handful of regiments to put some pressure here. I need to clear Mandalay before the monsoon-season kicks in.

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (7/17/2010 8:25:08 AM)
And here is a couple of pictures of the situation in Australia. The north coast in all in Japanese hands, all from Carnarvon to Cooktown. Right now there are two fronts. Darwin-front. Or the race to the south. I have roughly 1500 AVs here running south towards Tennant Creek. The allied forces here are few and scattered. I believe he has a division and some small units here (Gull force, etc). On the Brisbane front things are shaping up to be an interesting battle. Inital Japanese landings were at Cairns and Bundaberg. Ive also brought in some tank units at Normanton. Ive managed to push north and south from Bundaberg and the main allied defenceline right now is at Brisbane. Right now I want to take Charter Towers and Townsville before going further south. I want to avoid this two-front battle. I also believe I will not be able to take Brisbane withouth bringing in plenty of reinforcements. I think its pretty good progress for the japs so far though. Mid-February and all of the SRA is captured and half of Australia. [image]local://upfiles/1562/C26339620CF04A53BADAAA9D99E76314.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (7/18/2010 5:26:24 PM)
February 19th China Disasterous day for the airforce in China. Canton and/or Hong Kong is under threat from a Chinese probe moving south from Kukong. I have enough forces to hold Canton and Hong Kong, but I do not want to have Chinese units in the city hex of Canton. They are nightmarish to eject from that hex if they get in, and as long as they are there, I dont get the resources built there. So, Ive moved pretty much the entire Chinese front airforce to this area to soften up these units while they are in the open. Today the bombers flew, but the escorts did not. At the same time the entire AVG showed up. The result was a massacre. I lost 40-something Ki-48s and Ki-21s. Burma Looks like Rangoon will fall tomorrow. The last few attacks have been at 1-1 odds with no forts left. I let the units rest today and now we spotted some enemy units retreating north. Finally. When Rangoon is secured we can move up the railline towards Mandalay. I really want to clear this front before the Monsoons. I originally had too few units here. Only one Regiment and some supportunits. They managed to secure Pegu and Moulmein, but then they were defeated at Rangoon by the entire Burmese army. By that time an allied counterattack was heading south along the railline threatening to recapture Pegu and routing the entire front. I pressed the panic-button and brought in two divisions from Java together with a couple of Regiments. I believe I have enough units here now to finish the Irrawaddy-campaign. Ive dropped a para unit behind him to try to scare him off. That has developed into a series of airbattles over Mandalay and Shwebo as I fly in supply and he tries to intercept my transports and bomb the paras. [image]local://upfiles/1562/5ACBAEA5E26A4A209BBCFBEB3F879113.jpg[/image] Australia Tennant Cross fell today. The base was only defended by a baseforce and my tank regiment had no problems clearing them out. That means the Australian forces moving south from Katherine are cut off. I doubt I will be able to encircle them though, these new retreat-rules makes it pretty much impossible to completely surround an enemy unit it seems. First units arrived at Townsville today. Tomorrow the 21st Division will arrive. There are two units reported defending the base. If I manage to secure Townsville, I will have cleared the entire coastline down to Bundaberg. He has got 5 units at Charter Towers, the last remaining defence in northern Australia.

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (7/18/2010 5:45:07 PM)
Here is a map of the strategic situation. [image]local://upfiles/1562/094A3702CD854EB5839CEDC78C88D756.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (7/20/2010 7:15:37 AM)
February 20th Some small measure of revenge today for the air-disaster yesterday. Meanwhile some omnious clouds appear on the horizon. Ace told me in an email that he has picked the target for his first counterattack. Since Japanese signal intelligence is what it is, I expect my first hint of what that target is will be the appearance of an invasion fleet a few hexes off shore. Time to look over the defences. Meanwhile... Indian Ocean We captured Diego Garcia today. Its just a small force of two naval guards on board some AMCs, but it was enough to do the job. As I suspected DG was not reinforced at all. Its easy as an allied player to forget about this base, but now when its in japanese hands it is disasterous for the India - Australia convoys. The invasion TF was escorted by two CVEs and two CVLs, and as an added bonus, they happened to stumble upon two convoys. One is 10-15 AKs loaded with fuel...oddly enough. Is he low on tankers? The fuel load means that a single 60 kg bomb hit will turn the AK into a blaze though and even some of my floatplanes managed to get kills. The other convoy seems to be the AO TAN 1-6 ships from the NEI. Apparently he is using them too to haul fuel to Australia. Now I will put some aircraft on DG and use the mini-KB as a harassing force in this region. Burma Rangoon fell. Finally. Time to move up norht. Australia Some bad luck from my opponent this time. He had ordered a counterattack at Townsville. But since the 21st Division managed to arrive during the turn, the counterattack failed miserably. 3rd Australian Division and 1st Motor Brigade shocked their way into the Japanese division and 1-14 odds. He lost over 600 troops and his units must be disrupted through the roof. The base should fall tomorrow and that will effectively end the resistance up here. Another setback for the allies in Australia happened just south of Daly Waters. A large stack of units fleeing south ran into a japanese tank regiment. 3rd Motor Brigade, 2nd and 6th Infantry Brigades, 4th Cavalry brigade and an aussie batallion shock attacked and only got 1-2 odds. I wonder if he is low on supply here. His unmodified AV was close to 300, and his modified AV ended up around 35. In the south, an encircling force consisting of an armored regiment and a MG batallion was turned back by a tank regiment. That was important since I dont have that many forces at the frontline down here. If I had lost, Toowoomba would have been threatened. [image]local://upfiles/1562/C5ED61428ED44688B5EE0D1849D990B3.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (11/13/2010 3:55:07 PM)
Ive decided to try to pick up this AAR again. This will be a text-only post, but I will post some screenshots when I get the next turn. April 29th 1942... Yamato enters service A short recap of the various fronts. China We are running a huge offensive operation up north. Sian is besieged and will probably fall soon. Lvl 2 forts, he has 1600 AV to my 2500. I have relocated alot of the Imperial airforce to help in this northern thrust. Burma Mandalay is taken, we are pushing north towards Lashio. Philippines Bataan still holds, but will fall within a month. 800 AV behind lvl 2 forts are defending against my 1600 AV, I am also moving in two more brigades here to finish the siege as soon as possible. Most of the units here will head to Burma after the battle is over. Australia The campaign is all but over here and Im about to switch over to the defensive. Frontline is just outside Brisbane, and we hold all of the coast from Brisbane to Darwin to Port Hedland to Carnavaron. Centpac Tarawa and Tabituea are in Japanese hands, we are trying to fortify these islands Stuff that has happened since the last update I lost a CVE to a USN carrier raid to Cocos Islands. KB raided the waters between Pearl Harbor and San Fransisco and stumbled upon a huge troop transport convoy. We sunk at least one division in that encounter. B-17s did a port strike on Port Hedland and managed to sink several support ships, AKEs, AGs, ADs and AO.

Hortlund -> A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:17:42 PM)
China [image]local://upfiles/1562/E2AB302C7AB8440FB140E8F7A8A351DA.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:18:21 PM)
Burma [image]local://upfiles/1562/5F6BA54A97F64C6B88923630E0F47F4C.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:18:51 PM)
Eastern Australia [image]local://upfiles/1562/D51DA35D85D64F2C927CB0005A368B7E.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:19:27 PM)
Gilberts [image]local://upfiles/1562/A7D8356CDBEA423AA1D0436FF17165A1.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:20:26 PM)
Diego Garcia [image]local://upfiles/1562/82EF6D782B464179A844DFA761217827.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:21:00 PM)
Alice Springs [image]local://upfiles/1562/56AEDC47D05B4ADAB651FF7A8C292E79.jpg[/image]

Hortlund -> RE: A tour of the frontline (11/29/2010 2:21:37 PM)
Port Hedland [image]local://upfiles/1562/49E493C64D3D40C698FA3D42266A5774.jpg[/image]

Walloc -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (11/29/2010 3:46:43 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PaxMondo On aircraft alone, historically the US lost 188 a/c that day for 29 JAP, in addition to all the ships (18 sank or severely damaged) and port and airfield damage. I've never seen better than about 50 a/c ... have you? And 18 ships on the initial attack? Rarely see more than 10 targetted and very rarely get one BB actually sank, let alone the historical 5BB's, 3CL's, 3DD's and 3AUX which were sunk, not mention the others damaged. /highjack on Since i see this all the time u might wana try look in the air thread. Post 1900-1910 approx on page 63. Playing scn #1 or 2 with non historical first turn seems to be the norm and as shown in the thread is makes all the difference damage wise on PH. I know it shouldnt according to the manual, but u can test it ur self. I've never seen any test that repudes the results in my findings.Quite the opoosite actually. Seems that this knowledge isnt paticular widespred. Hope it helps, Rasmus /highjack off

Hortlund -> RE: Big ship, bigger war - Adventures of the Yamato - AAR vs Acepylut (A) (2/23/2011 7:28:46 PM)
Just a short post to say I have not forgotten about this AAR. I'm planning to pick it up again when 43 arrives. It seems there are plenty of AARs covering early 42, but not so many showing 43-44. I will highlight one thing though...the Japanese Dunkirk in Australia I knew the allied counterattack would start in Australia. It is only reasonable since he has reinforced Australia alot with US forces and there are plenty of "free" (ie restricted) Australian units. I also dont think it is possible to defend in open ground against the allies, so I never planned on holding firm down south. Instead I wanted to delay the inevitable offensive as long as possible by agressive airforce operations and by looking two sizes bigger than I really am in Australia. Things worked fine, I had 20-something units in Maryborough, including two full size divisions and 5-10 artillery and AAA each. The allies were bypassing the coastline by moving up the roads inland. I decided it was time to bail out, and ordered everyone except a rearguard to strat move north up towards Townsville. However, one tank unit moved alot faster than I had anticipated, and the shifting to strat mode combined with the two day turns we are playing meant that my units were intercepted between Maryborough and Bundaberg. There they were, sitting in the middle of nowhere in strat mode. At the same time, Bundaberg fell to allied tanks. Our forces were in grave danger of destruction. I managed to move the troops back into Maryborough, and caught in that pocket were practically all my forces on the east coast of Australia. Over 1400 AV if I remember correctly. This could be a complete disaster. Fortunately I had a large portion of the fleet stationed in Rabaul together with enough APs to lift more than four divisions (aka the counterinvasion force). The entire fleet set sail towards Maryborough. 4 CVs, 6 BBs including the Yamato, around 100 transports, dozens of destroyers. To rescue my troops (and to pick up all that heavy artillery aswell, I had alot of heavy guns from Manchuko there and I did not want to leave them behind) the transports would have to enter the port and stay there for several days while loading the heavy equipment. All this three hexes from the largest allied airbase on the east coast (Brisbane) and with P38s thick as flies in the sky. While I was gathering the fleet more allied forces closed in for the kill, and the B17s were pounding the airfield to dust. At this point I had no idea where the allied CVs were either, 2 of them were spotted two months ago in the Indian Ocean, but all of the others were unspotted. That meant I had to take into account that Halsey could come storming into the middle of the evacuation at any day. Some tense days followed, the KB took up position in the deep water just off Frasier Island, while several SCTFs took up blocking positions in the surrounding hexes. Fortunately he did not defend with anything more than PTs and he did not dare attack the KB (perhaps thanks to my psyops, telling him I had every carrier in the Imperial fleet in that hex). A small surface combat TF consisting of some CLs and DDs were turned back by my screening forces. All in all, the evacuation took 8 days. I had 4 different amphib TFs, two to load AAA and art (they went in first, days 1-4) and two to take the infantry. The allies had entered the hex, but their attack was unsuccessful, they only brought 1-1,5k AV and my infantry divisions could defend behind lvl 4 forts. After the guns had been evacuated, the mega-oversized amphib TFs (I think I had loading capacity for 3 divisions in each TF picking up a single division) pulled out the divisions. In the end I think I lost something like 1000 men, or around 30 AV. That is not bad considering that the pocket originally consisted of around 50k men and 1400 AV. Lesson learned though. Do not wait too long to pull back when you are attempting a fighting retreat. [image]local://upfiles/1562/91B216F74A8E472DAF29924F6E409A66.jpg[/image]

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