aztez -> RE: aztez (a) vs Katsuragi (j) ...lessons learned. (3/7/2010 5:56:12 PM)
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Borneo (december 20th - 21st 1941) There were a lot of surface combat action around Kuching and Singkawang. Actuallu more than was to be expected... The first blows were delivered at night on december 21st. We did ok with this encounter alltough CA Houston was badly damaged. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kuching at 58,88, Range 5,000 Yards Japanese Ships CA Mogami, Shell hits 1 CA Suzuya CA Kumano, Shell hits 6 DD Maikaze DD Nowaki DD Arashi, Shell hits 2 DD Hagikaze Allied Ships CA Houston, Shell hits 9, on fire CL De Ruyter CL Tromp CL Marblehead, Shell hits 1 CL Boise DD Barker DD Bulmer DD Paul Jones, Shell hits 1 DD Parrott DD Stewart DD Banckert DD Witte de With DD Kortenaer DD Piet Hein DD Van Ghent After the battle his cruisers withdrew towards Saigon and ABDA fleet had an open field againts enemy transports in Kuching. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Kuching at 58,88, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Hakaze, Shell hits 15, heavy fires, heavy damage AMC Saigon Maru, Shell hits 3, Torpedo hits 2, and is sunk xAK Victoria Maru, Shell hits 7, heavy fires, heavy damage xAP Argentina Maru, Shell hits 4, heavy fires xAP Baikal Maru Allied Ships CL De Ruyter CL Tromp CL Marblehead, on fire CL Boise DD Barker DD Bulmer DD Paul Jones DD Parrott DD Stewart DD Banckert DD Witte de With DD Piet Hein DD Van Ghent Another bunch of transports send to bottom. I know he has a lot of these around but every bit helps. What wasn't to be expected was the news that BB Huyga, BB Ise, BB Nagato and BB Fuso showed up at Singkawang. At first they delivered nasty naval bombardment here neutralizing the airfield and thus destroying our LRCAP efforts. After that they made short work of our smaller surface combat TF in this area. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Singkawang at 56,88, Range 5,000 Yards Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses No Allied losses Japanese Ships BB Nagato, Shell hits 1 BB Fuso BB Ise, Shell hits 5 BB Hyuga CL Yura DD Mikazuki DD Yakaze Allied Ships CL Mauritius, Shell hits 11, and is sunk DD Encounter DD Isis, Shell hits 1 DD Jupiter, Shell hits 4, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day Time Surface Combat, near Singkawang at 56,87, Range 20,000 Yards Japanese Ships BB Nagato, Shell hits 1 BB Fuso BB Ise BB Hyuga CL Yura DD Mikazuki, Shell hits 1, on fire DD Yakaze Allied Ships DD Encounter DD Isis, Shell hits 11, heavy fires, heavy damage These ships were not spotted by our patrol planes. At least we hurt DD Mikazuki which is in serious trouble. Near Balikpapan CVL Ruyjo sunk two dutch xAKL's loading in friendly harbour. Than we almost got lucky. This torpedo actually hit the CVL but unfortunately it was an dud. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Donggala at 69,96 Japanese Ships CVL Ryujo CA Haguro DD Kuroshio DD Sanae DD Kuretake DD Wakatake DD Amatsukaze Allied Ships SS KX SS KX launches 2 torpedoes at CVL Ryujo We also lost some Vilderbeest planes which engaged the CA TF supporting these landings. The bad news is that Kuching will most likely fall next turn since he managed to land in enough troops. We also have now released the Philippine base force at Cebu. There is noway we can transport it via sea so instead I'am using PBY aircraft to move into Soerabaja. Nice amount of action and CL Boise + co. might tangle up with those Battleships next turn. We shall see how it goes... [image]local://upfiles/15617/5564C64D215E45E9B35B78768A8BAC79.jpg[/image]
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