IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs

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SeethingErmine -> IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 2:51:31 PM)
I think it's "the emperor demands your ritual suicide" time for my task force commander! [:D] quote: Night Time Surface Combat, near Baker Island at 145,136, Range 12,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Kiso CL Tenryu CL Yubari DD Ikazuchi DD Inazuma Allied Ships xAK Tambua xAK Adelong xAK Iron Crown xAK Iron Prince Reduced sighting due to 3% moonlight Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 3% moonlight: 9,000 yards Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 9,000 yards Japanese TF attempts to evade combat Range increases to 12,000 yards... Range increases to 12,000 yards... Both Task Forces evade combat The situation, of course, is that my task force is "low" on ammo - around 40% for most of the main gun armaments, except for the long lance torps which are all used up. Notably, not a single gun is actually out of ammo. One thing that surprised me is I reran the turn on High and then Absolute threat tolerance and my TF still ran away. I suppose it makes sense that threat tolerance doesn't interact with the low ammo retreat override, but the "never retreat" description on absolute kind of fooled me. Makes me wish I had an "engage defenseless transports until you are literally out of ammo" button though. [:)] I seem to run into this a lot, where I think the TF is good for one more intercept, but it refuses to engage before reloading ammo. I guess I need to route any TF close to 50% for home? Or is there something I'm missing?

String -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 2:56:55 PM)
Perhaps they thought those were battleships?

viberpol -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 3:00:36 PM)
Maybe 3% moonlight means that they weren't almost completely blind, but tried to evade collision & rather not thinking about combat... [;)] althought the visibility of 9000 yards seem quite good... [&:]

SeethingErmine -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 3:07:43 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: String Perhaps they thought those were battleships? Haha, I'm sure that's what the mission report from the commanding officer said, at any rate. [:)]

Don Bowen -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 3:16:50 PM)
Take a look at the stats for the TF commander.

John 3rd -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 3:36:06 PM)
Don't look at his stats! Simply order him to 'atone' for his failure! [sm=00000036.gif]

SeethingErmine -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 3:48:00 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Don Bowen Take a look at the stats for the TF commander. CPT Oda Tamejiko 62 Ldr, 68 Insp, 64 Nav, 55 Agg An inspiring retreat order, no doubt! The task force got an ops message about ammo and was rerouted after evading combat, so I'm 99% sure that's the only explanation needed here. Funny thing is the TF actually spotted and reacted into this enemy TF (it was going by in the next hex), before deciding to run away.

SeethingErmine -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 4:30:49 PM)
I went back and kicked the three ships lowest on ammo out of the TF and reran the turn. This time the TF started at 60% gun and 80+% torp ammo, and ended up with much better results. quote: Night Time Surface Combat, near Baker Island at 145,136, Range 9,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Kiso CL Tenryu Allied Ships xAK Tambua, Shell hits 10, Torpedo hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Adelong, Shell hits 1 xAK Iron Crown, Shell hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, and is sunk xAK Iron Prince, Shell hits 1 Reduced sighting due to 3% moonlight Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 3% moonlight: 9,000 yards Range closes to 11,000 yards... Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 9,000 yards Japanese open fire on surprised Allied ships at 9,000 yards CL Tenryu fires at xAK Tambua at 9,000 yards CL Tenryu fires at xAK Iron Crown at 9,000 yards Range closes to 8,000 yards Range closes to 6,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Iron Prince at 6,000 yards xAK Iron Crown sunk by CL Tenryu at 6,000 yards CL Tenryu engages xAK Tambua at 6,000 yards Range closes to 4,000 yards CL Tenryu engages xAK Iron Prince at 4,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Tambua at 4,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Tambua at 4,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Adelong at 4,000 yards Range increases to 6,000 yards CL Tenryu engages xAK Tambua at 6,000 yards Allied Task Force Manages to Escape Task forces break off... Afterwards, the cargo ships actually stumbled into my TF a second time. However, on this fight the ammo level for the TF had fallen below some key threshold, so retreat from the burning hulks is ordered immediately. quote: Night Time Surface Combat, near Baker Island at 144,136, Range 3,000 Yards Japanese Ships CL Kiso CL Tenryu Allied Ships xAK Adelong, Shell hits 5, on fire xAK Iron Prince, on fire Reduced sighting due to 3% moonlight Maximum visibility in Partly Cloudy Conditions and 3% moonlight: 3,000 yards Range closes to 11,000 yards... Range closes to 10,000 yards... Range closes to 9,000 yards... Range closes to 8,000 yards... Range closes to 7,000 yards... Range closes to 6,000 yards... Range closes to 5,000 yards... Range closes to 4,000 yards... Range closes to 3,000 yards... CONTACT: Japanese lookouts spot Allied task force at 3,000 yards CONTACT: Allied lookouts spot Japanese task force at 3,000 yards CL Tenryu engages xAK Adelong at 3,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Adelong at 3,000 yards Oda, Tamejiko orders Japanese TF to disengage Range closes to 2,000 yards CL Tenryu engages xAK Adelong at 2,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Adelong at 2,000 yards Range increases to 7,000 yards CL Tenryu engages xAK Adelong at 7,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Adelong at 7,000 yards CL Kiso engages xAK Adelong at 7,000 yards Task forces break off...

Chickenboy -> RE: IJN Cruisers Flee Fearsome xAKs (2/28/2010 7:19:10 PM)
Yeah, you don't want to be too near those burning hulks. It could be dangerous. It may have been a fire ship trap! Running away is a good alternative...[:@] Ritual atonement is the order of the day. Offer him a serrated blade too.

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