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Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/3/2011 9:40:54 PM)
The E type escorts are definitely too lethal, as is USN ASW. The problem is, again, that when you have 14 depth charges dropped they EACH roll to hit ( same as for the bombs ). What would make sense is to change them to PATTERNs and model them that way. It is on the list of things for me to change as I do agree that ASW is completely unrealistic right now in the game. Of course if I changed it I would be changing ALL ships in the game, not just the E class escorts so that's a non-trivial task. Doable but it would take a night and, right now, my opponent has enough submarines he doesn't appear too bothered about the ASW. He has requested the changes to night-fighters and bomber defensive armament ( which I've implemented above and agreed to ). If he asks for subs I'll do it quicker but, for right now, it is a change which will come over the next week or so of gametime when I find time for it. The Ki-201 is the Japanese version of the Me-262. I've modded it a little as I think it was under-rated vs the P-80 which had hugely superior manoeuvre ratings which I don't see as being justified based on the reading I've done. Just to be safe though I haven't tweaked it too much, just a bit. I've also reduced the P-80 manoeuvre ( which at 28 at all altitude bands simply wasn't justified... It didn't out-turn dedicated turn fighters from anything I've read. ) Kapitanma, Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy them.

witpqs -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/3/2011 9:45:09 PM)
Don't recall what exactly they did, but have a look at DaBabes. There was much discussion about stock and then they made some adjustments in DaBabes.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/4/2011 3:38:34 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 24, 45 The reinforcement chain to Okinawa is beginning to come together now. Basically xAKLs and APDs bring the troops and equipment to Tokarra Retto where they unload under cover of 200 first-line fighters Ki-94 IIs, J7W1s, Ki-100IIs and A7M2s. Barges and DD flotillas then move the troops and equipment to Amami Oshima and from there barges escorted by SCs move the forces to Okinawa. All in all I can deliver about two divisions a week this way at the moment and I'm hoping to increase that to 4 divisions a week by the end of the first week of October. My plan is to begin tightening the noose a little. I'm seeing signs of enemy CVE TFs gathering at Manilla and am expecting an invasion or resupply effort in the next fortnight. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kuroshima at 99,61 Japanese Ships DD Kawagiri DD Yakaze DD Murakaze DD Kiyokaze Allied Ships SS Trumpetfish, hits 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Doryu DD Doryu DD Doryu Allied Ships PT-124 PT-125 PT-126, Shell hits 7, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 1,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Doryu DD Doryu DD Doryu Allied Ships PT-61 PT-82 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tokara Retto at 99,62 Japanese Ships MGB G-231 MGB G-465 MGB G-463 MGB G-233 Allied Ships SS Sirago -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Amami Oshima at 98,63 Japanese Ships E Otsu E Io E Urumi Allied Ships SS Flasher, hits 14, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Manila , at 79,77 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 165 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 34 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-264 Angel x 55 Allied aircraft P-51D Mustang x 13 P-61C Black Widow x 13 F6F-5N Hellcat x 7 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-264 Angel: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged Allied aircraft losses P-51D Mustang: 1 destroyed P-61C Black Widow: 2 destroyed Allied Ships CVE Kalinin Bay, Bomb hits 1, on fire -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Daito Shoto , at 98,69 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-2 Privateer x 14 No Allied losses Runway hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Kuroshima at 98,61 Japanese Ships E No.76 E No.12 E No.150 E No.132 E No.52 Allied Ships SS Plaice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 97,64 Japanese Ships LB-5014, Shell hits 2, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Springer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Nago at 96,64 Japanese Ships LB-519 Allied Ships SS Haddo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Nago at 96,64 Japanese Ships LB-520 Allied Ships SS Haddo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Koshiki-jima Retto at 99,60 Japanese Ships E No.194 E No.160 E No.80 E No.217 E No.192 E No.190 Allied Ships SS Sturgeon, hits 19, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 97,62 Japanese Ships E No.12 E No.50 E No.8 E No.150 E No.132 E No.76 E No.52 Allied Ships SS Gato -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 10 NM, estimated altitude 44,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 60 A6M8 Zero x 61 A7M2 Sam x 46 J2M2 Jack x 8 J7W1 Shinden x 77 N1K1-J George x 18 N1K5-J George x 32 Ki-84a Frank x 26 Ki-94-II x 41 Ki-100-II Tony x 13 Ki-201 Karyu x 32 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 50 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 4 destroyed A6M8 Zero: 5 destroyed A7M2 Sam: 5 destroyed J7W1 Shinden: 2 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed N1K5-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 4 destroyed Ki-100-II Tony: 1 destroyed Ki-201 Karyu: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-51H Mustang: 3 destroyed Sigh, a bad day to be a Japanese fighter pilot. Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you. Anyways, it is all good attrition of the P-51Hs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 13 NM, estimated altitude 42,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 40 A6M8 Zero x 38 A7M2 Sam x 38 J2M2 Jack x 6 J7W1 Shinden x 65 N1K1-J George x 15 N1K5-J George x 27 Ki-84a Frank x 15 Ki-94-II x 46 Ki-100-II Tony x 8 Ki-201 Karyu x 31 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 4 destroyed A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed A7M2 Sam: 1 destroyed J7W1 Shinden: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-51H Mustang: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 44,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 23 A6M8 Zero x 22 A7M2 Sam x 32 J2M2 Jack x 3 J7W1 Shinden x 58 N1K1-J George x 11 N1K5-J George x 23 Ki-84a Frank x 10 Ki-94-II x 44 Ki-100-II Tony x 5 Ki-201 Karyu x 29 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 16 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 3 destroyed A6M8 Zero: 1 destroyed A7M2 Sam: 1 destroyed J2M2 Jack: 1 destroyed J7W1 Shinden: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Ki-201 Karyu: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses P-51H Mustang: 2 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 23rd Div Remnants , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 1,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 48 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 47 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 210 NM, estimated altitude 25,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 65 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 18 A6M8 Zero x 17 A7M2 Sam x 28 J2M2 Jack x 2 J7W1 Shinden x 56 N1K1-J George x 9 N1K5-J George x 22 Ki-84a Frank x 8 Ki-94-II x 43 Ki-100-II Tony x 4 Ki-201 Karyu x 27 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 583 Japanese aircraft losses J7W1 Shinden: 1 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 16 damaged Heavy Industry hits 31 Manpower hits 25 Fires 16816 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 10 A6M8 Zero x 14 A7M2 Sam x 25 J2M2 Jack x 2 J7W1 Shinden x 48 N1K1-J George x 4 N1K5-J George x 15 Ki-84a Frank x 5 Ki-94-II x 37 Ki-100-II Tony x 3 Ki-201 Karyu x 22 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 18 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Heavy Industry hits 6 Fires 15913 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 162 NM, estimated altitude 27,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 50 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 10 A6M8 Zero x 13 A7M2 Sam x 25 J2M2 Jack x 2 J7W1 Shinden x 46 N1K1-J George x 3 N1K5-J George x 15 Ki-84a Frank x 3 Ki-94-II x 37 Ki-100-II Tony x 3 Ki-201 Karyu x 21 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 24 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 3 destroyed, 9 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 120 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 124 P-38L Lightning x 14 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 183 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 57 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 3 A6M8 Zero x 5 A7M2 Sam x 17 J2M2 Jack x 2 J7W1 Shinden x 32 N1K1-J George x 3 N1K5-J George x 10 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Ki-94-II x 23 Ki-100-II Tony x 3 Ki-201 Karyu x 13 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 13 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 2 destroyed, 11 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 15 NM, estimated altitude 45,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M5 Zero x 2 A6M8 Zero x 5 A7M2 Sam x 12 J2M2 Jack x 1 J7W1 Shinden x 27 N1K1-J George x 2 N1K5-J George x 5 Ki-84a Frank x 2 Ki-94-II x 20 Ki-100-II Tony x 3 Ki-201 Karyu x 9 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 50 Japanese aircraft losses A6M5 Zero: 1 destroyed A6M8 Zero: 2 destroyed A7M2 Sam: 2 destroyed J7W1 Shinden: 3 destroyed N1K1-J George: 1 destroyed N1K5-J George: 3 destroyed Ki-84a Frank: 1 destroyed Ki-94-II: 1 destroyed Ki-100-II Tony: 1 destroyed Ki-201 Karyu: 1 destroyed No Allied losses 16 to 0. Go Japan !!! Oh, wait !! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Naha (95,66) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 85010 troops, 911 guns, 109 vehicles, Assault Value = 3235 Defending force 82284 troops, 551 guns, 1800 vehicles, Assault Value = 1623 Japanese ground losses: 288 casualties reported Squads: 6 destroyed, 14 disabled Non Combat: 4 destroyed, 14 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 4th Tank Division 21st Ind.Mixed Regiment 17th Ind.Mixed Brigade 102nd Division 77th Division 126th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Tank Regiment 66th Ind.Mixed Brigade 2nd Amphibious Brigade 312th Division 11th Tank Regiment 109th Ind.Mixed Brigade 1st SP Gun Battalion 355th Division Kamikaze Armored Division 107th Division Hirohito Armored Division 4th Ind.Tank Brigade 8th SP Gun Battalion 103rd Division 7th Ind.Tank Brigade 3rd Guards Division 303rd Division 5th Ind.Tank Brigade 56th Army 40th Army 16th Area Army 17th Hvy.Artillery Regiment 54th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 541st Parachute Regiment 28th Airborne Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 97th Infantry Division 296th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 503rd Parachute Regiment Tenth Army Combat Engineer Regiment 93rd Infantry Division Tenth Army Engineer Aviation Battalion 54th TC Wing 232nd USN Base Force Fifth USAAF Eng Engineer Aviation Battalion 148th USA Base Force 6th USMC Air Wing Base Force 46th Construction Regiment 177th USAAF Base Force 14th Marine AA Battalion 33rd Aviation Base Force 178th USAAF Base Force 35th USN Naval Construction Regiment 165th Field Artillery Battalion V US Fighter Cmnd 229th USN Base Force 212th Coast AA Regiment Tenth US Army 36th Aviation Base Force 77th Coast AA Regiment II US Corps 5th USMC Air Wing Base Force Southwest Pacific 151st USA Base Force V US Bomber Cmnd 36th USN Naval Construction Regiment 230th USN Base Force 462nd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion So, it'll be quiet for another week and then we'll probably see some invasion TFs nosing into the Okinawa area and I'll unleash the kamis wholesale. That should get interesting.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/4/2011 9:20:23 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 25, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 13 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Japanese Ships MGB G-229, Mine hits 1, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 97,64 Japanese Ships ML G-217 ML G-432 ML G-316 Allied Ships SS Springer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships MGB G-225 MGB G-227 MGB G-230 MGB G-235 MGB G-237 MGB G-240 MGB G-462 MGB G-467 Allied Ships PT-61 PT-82, Shell hits 8, and is sunk PT-124, Shell hits 2, on fire PT-125, Shell hits 8, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 48 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Japanese Ships MGB G-240, Mine hits 1, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Tokara Retto at 99,63 Japanese Ships SC CHa-28 SC CHa-12 xAKL Yurishima Maru xAKL Tatsumaki Maru xAKL Miyakawa Maru #4 xAKL Kaino Maru SC CHa-36 SC CHa-35 SC CHa-34 SC CHa-33 Allied Ships SS Plaice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amami Oshima at 98,62 Japanese Ships E No.194 E No.158 E No.48 E No.217 E No.192 Allied Ships SS Bream, hits 33, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Naha at 95,66 Japanese Ships MGB G-468 MGB G-239 Allied Ships SS Caiman, hits 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 28 minutes Japanese aircraft G3M3 Nell x 12 G4M2 Betty x 19 G4M2a Betty x 48 Allied aircraft P-61C Black Widow x 12 F4U-1A Corsair x 11 F6F-5N Hellcat x 24 Japanese aircraft losses G4M2 Betty: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged G4M2a Betty: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged No Allied losses Runway hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 80 NM, estimated altitude 8,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 22 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-67-Ib Peggy x 3 Allied aircraft P-61C Black Widow x 11 F4U-1A Corsair x 8 F6F-5N Hellcat x 20 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-67-Ib Peggy: 1 destroyed No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 103 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 32 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-49-IIb Helen x 3 Allied aircraft P-61C Black Widow x 11 F4U-1A Corsair x 7 F6F-5N Hellcat x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-49-IIb Helen: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 15 Ki-21-IIb Sally x 6 Allied aircraft P-61C Black Widow x 10 F4U-1A Corsair x 6 F6F-5N Hellcat x 17 No Japanese losses No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 98,63 Japanese Ships SC CHa-22 SC CHa-31 SC CHa-26 xAKL Yurishima Maru xAKL Takeshijima Maru xAKL Meito Maru SC CHa-36 SC CHa-35 SC CHa-34 SC CHa-33 Allied Ships SS Tinosa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 97,64 Japanese Ships LB-526 LB-5012 LB-5007 LB-5002 LB-530 LB-527 SC Ch 41 Allied Ships SS Springer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Tokara Retto at 99,63 Japanese Ships xAKL Daietsu Maru, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage PB Kantori Maru xAKL Mayara Maru xAKL Kaimyo Maru xAKL Higashiyama Maru PB Nishho Maru PB Kyo Maru #10 PB Kure Maru #5 Allied Ships SS Plaice To be fair, at this point, the Allies are losing more subs than I am xAKLs in the waters around Tokara Retto. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Tokara Retto at 99,62 Japanese Ships E No.154 E No.217, Shell hits 1, on fire E No.194 E No.192 E No.190 Allied Ships SS Sirago, hits 9, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Aparri at 82,73 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 22 NM, estimated altitude 5,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft B6N2 Jill x 8 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 10 F6F-5 Hellcat x 10 Japanese aircraft losses B6N2 Jill: 4 destroyed No Allied losses Allied Ships DE French Aircraft Attacking: 1 x B6N2 Jill flying as kamikaze Kamikaze: 2 x 250 kg SAP Bomb The CAP killed 7 and the 8th missed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Hengchun at 84,67 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 111 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 48 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 10 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 48 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Doryu, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Doryu, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Doryu, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Hengchun at 84,67 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 51 NM, estimated altitude 6,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft Mosquito FB.40 x 24 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid spotted at 134 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 40 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 63 B-25J11 Mitchell x 60 P-38L Lightning x 62 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 11 Runway hits 118 Same old same old. In preparation for the coming invasion I'm pulling more and more bombers from the night-time attacks on Okinawa and beginning serious training and upgrading. Right now I'm looking at upgrading all of my actual combat units to the B7A2 and using the D4Y4s as kamikazes mainly. That'll boost my monthly kamikaze supply to about 1200 planes which should be enough to significantly degrade the Allies.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/5/2011 3:25:10 PM)
Well I'm going to try to bring this up to date as my opponent appears to have suffered a "Catastropic Morale Failure" when launching his first amphibious invasion and is considering quitting if his emails are a sign of his morale.... Personally I don't understand it, he lost a few BBs in invading one of my islands but he has about 30 or so BBs in reserve, more than enough to get the job done. After 1 month of war he has lost 1 CV, 4 BBs, 1 CVE, 3 to 4 BBs, 1 to 2 CAs and 2 CLs. He has also lost about 20 DDs. In return I've lost about 10 DDs. Proportionally speaking my losses are much heavier than his so I really don't see why these losses are causing a morale failure. I've offered to swap sides and play on as the Americans if he wishes to play as Japan. We'll see what happens. Alternately I'll ask if anyone wants to take over. The Americans are still incredibly strong and I see no reason they won't win, in the end. AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 26, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships DD Ushio DD Take DD Kaede DD Keyaki DD Enoki DD Hatsuzakura DD Yaezakura DD Kuzu DD Hishi DD Yakaze DD Yukaze DD Namikaze DD Tawa DD Hanekimo DD Kawagiri DD Kiyokaze DD Murakaze Allied Ships PT-61 PT-124, Shell hits 2, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Calayan at 82,71 Japanese Ships SS RO-50 Allied Ships LST-911 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 97,63 Japanese Ships APD T-21 APD T-16 APD T-11 APD T-6 APD T-28 APD T-27 APD T-26 APD T-25 Allied Ships SS Tench -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66 Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses F6F-5N Hellcat: 1 destroyed on ground Japanese Ships DD Murakaze DD Kiyokaze DD Kawagiri DD Hanekimo DD Tawa DD Namikaze DD Yukaze DD Yakaze DD Hishi DD Kuzu DD Yaezakura DD Hatsuzakura DD Enoki DD Keyaki DD Kaede DD Take DD Ushio Allied ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 4 Runway hits 29 Just building the narrative again. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 42,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 25 No Allied losses Most of the Allied heavy blows are just hitting thin air. This is allowing me to build up my air force and by the end of the 1st week in October I reckon I will have enough fighters to commit 600 to the Okinawa/Tokarra Reto axis and cover some significant resupply convoys to Okinawa with CAP. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 805/1878th Engineer Aviation Battalion, at 80,74 (San Fernando) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 96 NM, estimated altitude 41,370 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-74-I Patsy x 4 Allied aircraft F6F-5 Hellcat x 8 No Japanese losses No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 129 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 56 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 12 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 22 No Allied losses Japanese Ships MTB G-627 MTB G-306 MTB G-10 MTB G-203 MTB G-407, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk MTB G-620 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 23rd Div Remnants , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 48 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 136 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 11 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 3 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled I figure about 100 AV won't get out. That means over 800 AV has been rescued from under the noses of the Allies. Not bad at all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 159 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 69 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 25 F4U-4 Corsair x 12 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 22 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 2 damaged Japanese Ships APD T-24, Bomb hits 4, heavy fires, heavy damage APD T-18, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage APD T-15 APD T-8, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage APD T-14, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage APD T-7 APD T-28, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Japanese ground losses: Guns lost 4 (4 destroyed, 0 disabled) Vehicles lost 8 (2 destroyed, 6 disabled) I don't actually know how this happened. My ships had more than enough time to get in, unload and get out.... or so I thought. Ah well, sh*t happens. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 217 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 64 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 48 B-25J11 Mitchell x 48 P-38L Lightning x 56 P-51H Mustang x 10 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 16 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 12 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 157 A quiet day. Yet more CVEs are showing up at Manilla. I omitted the endless bombing of Naha from the CR to save a bit of space.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/5/2011 3:33:56 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 27, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Amami Oshima at 97,63 Japanese Ships APD T-8, Torpedo hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage Allied Ships SS Tench -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 139 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Allied Ships SS Caiman, Mine hits 1, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Time Surface Combat, near Naha at 95,66, Range 2,000 Yards Japanese Ships BB Nagato CA Takao CL Sakawa DD Hibiki DD Maki DD Kiri DD Sugi DD Kashi DD Kaya DD Nara DD Tsubaki DD Yanagi DD Nire DD Hagi DD Kaki DD Shii DD Sumire DD Odake DD Kaba DD Hatsuume DD Tochi DD Kamikaze DD Harukaze DD Sawakaze DD Shiokaze Allied Ships PT-61 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Naval bombardment of Naha at 95,66 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! Allied aircraft no flights Allied aircraft losses F4U-4 Corsair: 1 destroyed on ground P-47N Thunderbolt: 2 destroyed on ground F4U-1A Corsair: 1 destroyed on ground SB2C-5 Helldiver: 3 destroyed on ground F6F-5N Hellcat: 2 destroyed on ground Japanese Ships BB Nagato CA Takao CL Sakawa DD Shiokaze DD Sawakaze DD Harukaze DD Kamikaze DD Tochi DD Hatsuume DD Kaba DD Odake DD Sumire DD Shii DD Kaki DD Hagi DD Nire DD Yanagi DD Nara DD Kaya DD Kashi DD Sugi DD Kiri DD Maki DD Hibiki Allied ground losses: 131 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 22 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Airbase hits 16 Runway hits 37 F1M2 Pete acting as spotter for BB Nagato BB Nagato firing at 232nd USN Base Force 232nd USN Base Force firing at BB Nagato CA Takao firing at Naha CL Sakawa firing at Naha DD Shiokaze firing at Naha DD Sawakaze firing at Naha DD Harukaze firing at 97th Infantry Division DD Kamikaze firing at Naha DD Tochi firing at Naha DD Hatsuume firing at 93rd Infantry Division DD Kaba firing at Naha DD Odake firing at 93rd Infantry Division DD Sumire firing at Naha DD Shii firing at Naha DD Kaki firing at Naha DD Hagi firing at Naha DD Nire firing at 93rd Infantry Division DD Yanagi firing at Naha DD Nara firing at Naha DD Kaya firing at Naha DD Kashi firing at 97th Infantry Division DD Sugi firing at Naha DD Kiri firing at Naha DD Maki firing at Naha DD Hibiki firing at 93rd Infantry Division -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 98,63 Japanese Ships E No.52 E No.46 E No.150 E No.132 E No.76 Allied Ships SS Tinosa, hits 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 284 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Allied Ships PT-61, Mine hits 1, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub vs Sub: SS RO-67 attacking SS Angler at 85,68 - near Hengchun Japanese Ships SS RO-67 Allied Ships SS Angler, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Naha at 95,66 Japanese Ships SSX Ha-41 Allied Ships PT-61, heavy damage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Amami Oshima at 98,64 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 127 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 55 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-100-I Tony x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 19 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 18 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-100-I Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 1 damaged Japanese Ships DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Takao at 84,65 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 95 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 41 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 10 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 48 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 2 damaged Japanese Ships DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 23rd Div Remnants , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 4,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 72 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 102 casualties reported Squads: 3 destroyed, 3 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Takao at 84,65 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 163 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 44 minutes Allied aircraft Mosquito FB.40 x 24 Allied aircraft losses Mosquito FB.40: 8 damaged Mosquito FB.40: 1 destroyed by flak Japanese Ships DD Shinyo, Shell hits 6 DD Shinyo, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Shinyo, Shell hits 4 DD Shinyo, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires DD Shinyo This was an attempt by me to get Shinyos into a couple of TFs loading at Aparri. I think he is loading troop convoys ( LSTs, LCIs etc ) there for an invasion of the Ishigaki islands or to reinforce Okinawa. Unfortunately his air cover is too good and I was spotted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid spotted at 137 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 40 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 63 B-25J11 Mitchell x 60 P-38L Lightning x 70 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses A-26C Invader: 1 damaged B-25J11 Mitchell: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 253 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Takao at 84,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 10 NM, estimated altitude 41,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Allied aircraft P-38L Lightning x 51 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Takao at 84,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 214 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 93 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 10 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 47 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 18 damaged Japanese Ships DD Shinyo, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Takao at 84,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 168 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 45 minutes Allied aircraft Mosquito FB.40 x 16 Allied aircraft losses Mosquito FB.40: 16 damaged Mosquito FB.40: 1 destroyed by flak Japanese Ships DD Shinyo, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Shinyo DD Shinyo, Shell hits 3 DD Shinyo, Shell hits 3 DD Shinyo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Naha (95,66) Japanese Deliberate attack Attacking force 102849 troops, 1003 guns, 2265 vehicles, Assault Value = 3968 Defending force 83106 troops, 556 guns, 1808 vehicles, Assault Value = 1642 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Japanese adjusted assault: 2340 Allied adjusted defense: 2073 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 3) Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 3 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), disruption(-), preparation(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 7877 casualties reported Squads: 49 destroyed, 537 disabled Non Combat: 64 destroyed, 660 disabled Engineers: 4 destroyed, 44 disabled Vehicles lost 253 (43 destroyed, 210 disabled) Allied ground losses: 2802 casualties reported Squads: 18 destroyed, 86 disabled Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 269 disabled Engineers: 5 destroyed, 33 disabled Vehicles lost 59 (4 destroyed, 55 disabled) Assaulting units: 3rd Guards Division Hirohito Armored Division 21st Ind.Mixed Regiment 2nd Amphibious Brigade 303rd Division 46th Division 103rd Division 4th Tank Division 56th Infantry Brigade 5th Ind.Mixed Brigade 109th Ind.Mixed Brigade 4th Ind.Tank Brigade 70th Infantry Brigade 126th Ind.Mixed Brigade 17th Ind.Mixed Brigade 26th Tank Regiment 66th Ind.Mixed Brigade 107th Division 102nd Division 312th Division 8th SP Gun Battalion 7th Ind.Tank Brigade Kamikaze Armored Division 355th Division 11th Tank Regiment 1st SP Gun Battalion 77th Division 96th Ind.Mixed Brigade 5th Ind.Tank Brigade 17th Hvy.Artillery Regiment 16th Area Army 56th Army 40th Army 54th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 97th Infantry Division 503rd Parachute Regiment 28th Airborne Tank Battalion 541st Parachute Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion Tenth Army Combat Engineer Regiment 296th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 232nd USN Base Force 229th USN Base Force 77th Coast AA Regiment Tenth Army Engineer Aviation Battalion V US Fighter Cmnd 33rd Aviation Base Force 36th USN Naval Construction Regiment 5th USMC Air Wing Base Force 212th Coast AA Regiment II US Corps 151st USA Base Force 14th Marine AA Battalion Tenth US Army 36th Aviation Base Force 165th Field Artillery Battalion 46th Construction Regiment 148th USA Base Force 177th USAAF Base Force V US Bomber Cmnd Southwest Pacific 6th USMC Air Wing Base Force 54th TC Wing 230th USN Base Force 178th USAAF Base Force Fifth USAAF Eng Engineer Aviation Battalion 35th USN Naval Construction Regiment 462nd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion Damn, I got 1:1 far too early. I'll let it go at least a week before i attack again so he can build his fortifications back to Level 4. Then I'll drop them and mount attacks a little more closely together to begin a wearing down as I replace burnt out divisions with new units pulled from mainland Japan. The husks will, later, go to defend the second defensive line while the units which aren't burnt out will man the first defensive line. By the time the Allies break through that my disablements will be fixed and the second defensive line will be strong enough to hold for some time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 82,72 (near Aparri) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 9126 troops, 126 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 346 Defending force 4843 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 123 Allied adjusted assault: 202 Japanese adjusted defense: 121 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 406 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 13 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 187 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 20 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 24 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Filipino Inf Regiment Defending units: Hayashi Detachment 23rd Div Remnants So, all in all things are going well although I'm going to have to slow down at Naha lest it become too threatened too quickly. I'd rather lure him into invading somewhere else around Ishigaki so I can get another garrison of hostages before I take Naha BUT if he does try to seriously reinforce Naha then I'll just have to attack repeatedly until it falls.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/5/2011 3:51:03 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 28, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submarine attack near Kochi at 106,61 Japanese Ships E No.217 Allied Ships SS Raton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 80 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Japanese Ships SSX Ha-33, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage The minefield gods demand a sacrifice every now and then. I think I've finally cleared all the USN PT boats etc out of Naha. So, clear runs for the bombardment fleets --- but I need to stop them as I don't want it to fall too quickly, plus my spidey-sense tells me his CVs are at sea and I don't want my single BB ambushed and lost to airpower. I'll stage a small sacrifice of old DDs at Okinawa and use that as a reason to call of further bombardments. He'll buy that and losing some of my precious DDs will convince him it wasn't planned. After all who would lose 10% of their DDs and real combat power in order to maintain a deception? Well, I would. It'll also provide a pretext for me basing fighters into the Okinawa region again. The necessary orders have been given. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Nago at 96,64 Japanese Ships LB-5001 SC Ch 41 LB-5013 LB-5008 LB-5003 LB-530 LB-528 LB-523 SC CHa-40 Allied Ships SS Haddo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 42 NM, estimated altitude 43,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 46 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 44 NM, estimated altitude 46,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 15 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 24 NM, estimated altitude 47,500 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft Spitfire F.XIV x 14 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Amami Oshima at 98,64 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 218 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 94 minutes Allied aircraft P-47N Thunderbolt x 36 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 19 No Allied losses Japanese Ships MTB G-1011 MTB G-554, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk MTB G-1030 MTB G-1029 MTB G-1008, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk MTB G-1012, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk MTB G-1017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid spotted at 132 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 39 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 60 B-25J11 Mitchell x 60 P-38L Lightning x 71 P-51H Mustang x 10 F4U-4 Corsair x 17 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses A-26C Invader: 3 damaged B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 109 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 22,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 17 No Allied losses Hmm, Ishigaki sweeps. 1 week to 10 days from invasion either here (or the two neighbouring islands ) or a reinforcement run into Naha. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on 805/1878th Engineer Aviation Battalion, at 80,74 (San Fernando) Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 178 NM, estimated altitude 41,370 feet. Estimated time to target is 49 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-74-I Patsy x 3 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 2 F6F-5 Hellcat x 3 No Japanese losses No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 62 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Allied aircraft SB2C-5 Helldiver x 48 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 12 damaged Runway hits 2 These are from a land base, not CVs or CVEs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Hayashi Detachment , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 9 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 2 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 48 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 90 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Naha (95,66) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 100804 troops, 1060 guns, 126 vehicles, Assault Value = 3353 Defending force 81040 troops, 547 guns, 1808 vehicles, Assault Value = 1538 Japanese ground losses: 135 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 82,72 (near Aparri) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 8920 troops, 126 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 332 Defending force 4246 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 87 Allied adjusted assault: 129 Japanese adjusted defense: 25 Allied assault odds: 5 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 486 casualties reported Squads: 4 destroyed, 20 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 31 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 151 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 9 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 16 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Filipino Inf Regiment Defending units: Hayashi Detachment 23rd Div Remnants Same old, same old. It looks like he is beginning to look at reducing Ishigaki though. So, he'll land on one of the three Ishigaki Chain islands or reinforce Naha. I have a major upgrade cycle for Ohkas coming on 1st October but I'll try and get that done quickly and be ready for combat by 3rd or 4th October - which will be the earliest he'll invade the Ishigaki chain. Naha should take him an additional 3 days which gives an ETA of 6th to 7th October at the earliest. If he goes for Naha I'll hit him with 600 Ohkas--- which will devastate him. Really though he should invade Daito Shoto and use transport planes and flying boats to fly his troops into Naha. That would give him numbers, AV and would allow him to reinforce Naha without risking his shipping to my Ohkas. It would also mean he'd only face my Ki-43 kamikazes instead of the Ohkas he'll face at either the Ishigaki chain or Okinawa ( and the Ohkas are immeasurably more deadly than Ki-43s.... but only have a range of 1 hex so can be easily avoided. No sign of any preparation around Daito Shoto though... He might be luring me into a false sense of security obviously but I've already placed an additional division there as I think it is by far the best place for him to invade now.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 11:52:55 AM)
A word on defensive plans for the Ishigaki/Okinawa/Daito Shoto region. 1. Anti-amphibious kamis: Ohkas with a range of 1 will base on the islands which may be invaded and will sortie to attack escorting BBs, CAs and whichever AKAs and APAs are present. With their large warhead size any hit on a transport should equal a kill. 2. Val/Kate/Zero kamis: These are medium range kamis which will sortie out to maximum range at low level ( 100 feet ). Their job will be to get in under Allied radar and launch surprise attacks on the amphibious TFs and covering CV TFs. I don't expect these to be too successful as they are rather slow and open to interception but I'll use them while I have them. Down the road I anticipate replacing A6M2 variants and Vals and Kates with A6M7s, Jacks and JIlls and Judys. I'll keep the Grace in reserve to outfit both my dive-bomber and torpedo-bomber groups. 3. I have built a Level 7 Airfield in south-western Japan and have prepped it with huge numbers of torpedoes in various Air HQs ready to receive my 132 G9Ms. All of the possible invasion sites are within range of that airfield and will be subject to attacks by the G9Ms. Range will be limited to prevent the G9Ms attacking enemy CV TFs. Right now I just want to kill BBs and amphibious ships. Once enough BBs are killed my kamikazes will have a much better chance of expending themselves vs CVs instead of BBs when they attack the CV TFs over the next year. As regards the G9M my math is that for every 36 G9Ms committed to action I can expect 8 torpedo hits vs enemy BBs/CVs. I can expect probably twice as many vs CVEs. If my G9Ms sortie in strength I could be looking at 32 torpedo hits - which I estimate is enough to sink 4 BBs and 2 CAs for the 132 G9Ms which would sortie. Losses to the G9Ms would average about 50% which would mean that in that battle I'd lose 2 months worth of production ( I make 40 per month ). That's a trade I'd happily take though. If escorted losses would, obviously, be a lot lower but I don't have any escorts to waste here. I need every plane I have to upgrade the defences in the Home Islands - right now I still have one of my best IJA fighter groups flying Ki-43 III Oscars over Tokyo and innumerable IJAAF and IJNAF airgroups flying CAP over the Home Islands in Ki-61s or A6M5s. 4. MTBs and Shinyos are standing ready to counter any attempt to reinforce Okinawa. If they try that I can literally flood Okinawa with 100+ MTBs/ Shinyo Flotillas and expect to cause significant carnage. If he makes for the Ishigaki region or Daito Shoto things will be tougher but I have placed Shinyos so they can attack on the first night after amphibious landings begin. If I'm lucky they might hit some BBs and transports. 5. The IJN is holding itself in readiness in Shimosoeki and Nagasaki and will sortie once the enemy fleet is committed to an invasion. It will gather at either Amami Oshima or Okinawa under strong CAP ready to dash in for a night-time raid on Okinawa ( from Amami Oshima ) or the Ishigaki chain/Daito ( from Okinawa ). 6. My best IJNAAF single and twin-engined torpedo bomber squadrons stand ready to fly into Okinawa and/or Formosa in order to fly night-time torpedo bomber attacks on the enemy fleet ( including CV TFs ). ALL Japan's flying boats and ALL of my Fast Transports are arrayed in south-western Japan ready to fly troops in irrespective of losses. Once the Allied amphibious forces have been removed from the scene ( after unloading their troops ) the APDs will dash in delivering 1/3rd of a division every 2 days from Okinawa ( where I have gathered a reserve of over 1,000 AV with which to fight this upcoming battle.... I'm sure my opponent has no idea my local reserve is so sizeable... Wherever he lands needs to survive for 4 days on its own and then he'll have to retire in the face of continuous kamikaze attacks and I'll reinforce whatever island he has landed in with 1 division every 4 days by sea and air. He SHOULD invade Daito Shoto but I think he is much more likely to invade Ishigaki or reinforce Okinawa. In order to help lure him into the Ishigaki chain - which is where I want him to attack, I have purposely only reinforced two of the three islands. The third, Miyako-jima, I have left unreinforced. It has, in effect, the appearance of having been forgotten. Instead it is actually perfectly positioned to be within Oscar range of Okinawa and Formosa and is the island in the Ishigaki chain my slow BB can reach during the night-time phase if it steams at full speed from Okinawa.... Since I'd like to give my BB a chance of surviving the upcoming battle I want it to arrive at night and depart by daytime. Hence I'm trying to lure him towards Miyako-jima by making it very inviting.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 2:09:13 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 29, 45 Sometimes when you want to make a sacrifice it ends up costing more than you though... Read on. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 115 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Japanese Ships DD Hatsuzakura, Mine hits 1, heavy damage DD Namikaze, Mine hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amami Oshima at 97,64 Japanese Ships LB-208 LB-203 LB-522 LB-517 SC CHa-5 Allied Ships SS Springer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amami Oshima at 97,63 Japanese Ships DD Ushio, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Yaezakura DD Take DD Murakaze DD Hanekimo DD Tawa DD Yukaze Allied Ships SS Tench, hits 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 44,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 50 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 14 NM, estimated altitude 45,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 16 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on 871st Engineer Aviation Battalion, at 80,74 (San Fernando) Weather in hex: Thunderstorms Raid detected at 108 NM, estimated altitude 43,370 feet. Estimated time to target is 29 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-74-I Patsy x 3 Allied aircraft F6F-5 Hellcat x 4 No Japanese losses No Allied losses These are just CAP recon really. I'm very impressed with the Ki-74s ability to not be intercepted though. I am thinking of beginning a production line of some 50 per month in order to provide enough planes to outfit a single Kamikaze Chutai --- which can launch a kamikaze mission every week. The long range would make for excellent harrassment and they would be effective if I selectively filled that group with partially trained pilots with Exp in the 40s or 50s - as opposed to the 10s and 20s which are going into most of my kamikaze groups. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 264 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 115 minutes Allied aircraft P-47N Thunderbolt x 38 F4U-4 Corsair x 10 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 20 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 2 damaged SB2C-5 Helldiver: 1 destroyed by flak Japanese Ships DD Namikaze, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk DD Kawagiri, Bomb hits 1, on fire DD Kiyokaze, Bomb hits 2, on fire Ouch, my LRCAP didn't fly. We're already up to 6 DDs sunk or damaged and it only gets worse. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 255 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 111 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 23 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 18 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 1 damaged SB2C-5 Helldiver: 1 destroyed by flak Japanese Ships DD Kiyokaze, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage DD Kawagiri, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage DD Hatsuzakura, Bomb hits 4, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 207 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 62 minutes Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 48 B-25J11 Mitchell x 48 P-38L Lightning x 51 P-51H Mustang x 10 Allied aircraft losses A-26C Invader: 2 damaged B-25J11 Mitchell: 2 damaged Airbase hits 19 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 123 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Naha (95,66) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 101624 troops, 1067 guns, 129 vehicles, Assault Value = 3441 Defending force 79390 troops, 549 guns, 1808 vehicles, Assault Value = 1542 Japanese ground losses: 115 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Allied ground losses: 26 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 109th Ind.Mixed Brigade 5th Ind.Mixed Brigade 303rd Division 26th Tank Regiment 70th Infantry Brigade 4th Tank Division 7th Ind.Tank Brigade Kamikaze Armored Division 8th SP Gun Battalion 77th Division 11th Tank Regiment 96th Ind.Mixed Brigade 103rd Division 1st SP Gun Battalion 4th Ind.Tank Brigade 46th Division 126th Ind.Mixed Brigade 66th Ind.Mixed Brigade 3rd Guards Division 2nd Amphibious Brigade Hirohito Armored Division 56th Infantry Brigade 107th Division 21st Ind.Mixed Regiment 102nd Division 355th Division 17th Ind.Mixed Brigade 312th Division 5th Ind.Tank Brigade 56th Army 17th Hvy.Artillery Regiment 16th Area Army 40th Army 54th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 296th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion 541st Parachute Regiment 97th Infantry Division 28th Airborne Tank Battalion Tenth Army Combat Engineer Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 178th USAAF Base Force 54th TC Wing 77th Coast AA Regiment 36th Aviation Base Force 151st USA Base Force 230th USN Base Force 229th USN Base Force Tenth US Army 14th Marine AA Battalion 165th Field Artillery Battalion 46th Construction Regiment 35th USN Naval Construction Regiment 148th USA Base Force 232nd USN Base Force 36th USN Naval Construction Regiment II US Corps 33rd Aviation Base Force 6th USMC Air Wing Base Force 177th USAAF Base Force Fifth USAAF Eng Engineer Aviation Battalion 212th Coast AA Regiment Tenth Army Engineer Aviation Battalion Southwest Pacific 462nd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion A quite day overall but the loss of 4 DDs and two more seriously damaged was a bit more than I had been planning on. Ah well, I can spin the losses as the reason why I amn't bombarding anymore and thus lessen his reason to question why I'm holding the BB and CA back.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 2:12:59 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Sep 30, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 80 encounters mine field at Naha (95,66) Japanese Ships SSX Ha-40, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage I've removed the large number of Allied fighter sweeps and IJAAF and IJNAF night bombing raids on Naha. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Pescadores at 84,63 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 138 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 60 minutes Allied aircraft SB2C-5 Helldiver x 14 No Allied losses Japanese Ships LB-222, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-224, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk LB-229, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-227, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-232, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-223, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-221, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk LB-226, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk He's definitely trying to clear the waters around Formosa. It is looking more and more like he'll hit Ishigaki. I'm flying more reinforcements in to two of the islands but leaving Miyoka unreinforced and tempting... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hayashi Detachment , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 3,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 48 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 39 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hayashi Detachment , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 24 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 22 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 237 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 70 minutes Allied aircraft B-25J11 Mitchell x 50 P-47N Thunderbolt x 40 F4U-4 Corsair x 24 No Allied losses Japanese Ships SS Ha-D-139, Bomb hits 3, and is sunk SSX Ha-16, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk xAKL Daiten Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Daijukyo Maru, Bomb hits 3, heavy fires, heavy damage xAKL Sankao Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk xAK Dainiti Maru, Bomb hits 1, heavy fires, heavy damage xAKL Heiku Maru, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk SS Ha-D-152, Bomb hits 2, and is sunk xAKL Kurama Maru, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage DD Kiyokaze, Bomb hits 2, heavy fires, heavy damage xAK Daihachikyo Maru, Bomb hits 1, and is sunk These were all pretty much xAKs and xAKLs which had had to dock from damage sustained during the initial landing. The subs were damaged by mines or US ASW and the DD was damaged yesterday. Japanese ground losses: 8 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Port hits 6 Port fuel hits 1 Port supply hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 124 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 53 minutes Allied aircraft F6F-5 Hellcat x 10 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 62 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 13 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 51 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 82,72 (near Aparri) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 8777 troops, 126 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 321 Defending force 2911 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 29 Allied adjusted assault: 194 Japanese adjusted defense: 4 Allied assault odds: 48 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), supply(-) Attacker: leaders(+), fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 345 casualties reported Squads: 5 destroyed, 11 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 51 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 24 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Filipino Inf Regiment Defending units: Hayashi Detachment 23rd Div Remnants

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 2:16:12 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Oct 01, 45 Today's the day a lot of my Ohka groups upgraded from 36 to 108 plane groups.... I tried to take advantage of this before the Allies arrived by upgrading today but, unfortunately we ran into a bit of an incompatibility between the mod and the beta which required a database change. End result my ugprades were delayed by 3 days and the Allies when they do land will face far fewer Ohkas than they otherwise would. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hayashi Detachment , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 21 NM, estimated altitude 5,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 5 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 48 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 53 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Amami Oshima , at 98,64 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 246 NM, estimated altitude 42,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 71 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 66 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kume-jima , at 94,65 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-25J11 Mitchell x 51 P-47N Thunderbolt x 41 F4U-4 Corsair x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ka-1: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 8 Runway hits 40 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid spotted at 205 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 61 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 63 B-25J11 Mitchell x 60 P-38L Lightning x 62 P-51H Mustang x 10 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-46-II Dinah: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses A-26C Invader: 2 damaged B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 13 Runway hits 147 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Hayashi Detachment , at 82,72 , near Aparri Weather in hex: Overcast Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 1,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft Beaufighter 21 x 24 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 82,72 (near Aparri) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 8769 troops, 126 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 319 Defending force 2168 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 10 Allied adjusted assault: 213 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 213 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), disruption(-), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 1480 casualties reported Squads: 50 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 75 destroyed, 18 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units destroyed 1 Allied ground losses: 3 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Filipino Inf Regiment Defending units: Hayashi Detachment 23rd Div Remnants Another quiet day. I'm concentrating my recon in the waters between the Eastern Philippines and Saipan. I expect the USN CVs to show up there escorting ships which will come down western Luzon and then back up eastern Luzon in an effort to avoid my defences operating out of Formosa.

jeffk3510 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 2:27:07 PM)
Have you noticed which are more effective? Ohka or kamis? Just curious...

SuluSea -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 3:18:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Nemo121 Today's the day a lot of my Ohka groups upgraded from 36 to 108 plane groups.... Did much of Japanese industry start out damaged? It would seem if you guys picked up the war sometime in 45 the damage to industry inflicted by the Allies should be modelled some at the start of the campaign.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 6:15:40 PM)
Jeff, No, not really since we've only been playing with the altitude bug fixed for a few days by this stage. What I will say is that I modelled Ohkas to be very difficult to intercept under the right circumstances BUT to be very poor at striking their targets once they get through. Oscar IIIs on the other hand have a much higher hit rate once they begin their attack run, although they are much more interceptable on the run in. So, really, it isn't a case of better it is a case of the Ohkas and Oscars being very different kamikaze platforms with very different technical-tactical characteristics.... When you've got an amphibious TF covered by BBs sitting in your base Ohkas are supreme. When you've got anything else at all Oscars are far superior. The trick is that being able to strike an amphibious TF squatting in your hex landing troops irrespective of the airfield damage and to some extent the CAP is a capability well worth having. That makes the Ohkas useful. Also, when they hit a BB they cause damage so that's useful too. Oscars just bounce off. I tell you something which doesn't bounce off a BB - Ki-264 Angels. I am giving serious thought to using a small number of them as Kamikazes vs high-value targets. With the absolute best pilots and high value targets to go after I think they might actually achieve something worthwhile. SuluSea, Absolutely. The Japanese begin with about 9,000 HI production per day. I have been bombed down to 6,400 HI or so ( although I'm actively repairing HI ) per day and have reduced my production accordingly. At this stage though I mostly need to build planes, and planes are, relatively speaking, cheap. I'm investing very little in the navy or the army right now as the upgrades to the army are relatively cheap. Still, I'm operating off less than half the HI a Japanese player usually expands to, maybe 40% of what a good player can sustain. I have given a lot of time and effort to bringing resources and OIL home and have literally sucked China dry. Many bases in China have red exclamation marks due to lack of supply and no base in China has ANY OIL left. I'm probably three weeks away from having sucked all the RESOURCES out also. If I can stabilise the front along the Formosa to Japan line then I'll begin looking at sending huge tanker and xAK convoys to Formosa to suck the OIL, RESOURCES and FUEL out of there also. With a little luck and with my reduced HI production I can survive off quite low FUEL stocks, particularly since my tankers and xAKs won't have to make long trips to pick up the raw resources anymore - which saves yet more fuel. I also intend to expend the IJN BB and CA relatively early on in order to save fuel in the long term. I don't mind fueling DDs but a BB? No, I cannot afford that anymore. MY CVs are all docked and won't be going anywhere for quite some time. When they do sortie it'll most likely be a raid on the Allied supply lines and feature fuel efficiency as one of its guiding goals.

SuluSea -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 8:04:55 PM)
Thanks for getting back with me Nemo. Looking forward to seeing and learning how to defend with some of these toys you have.

jeffk3510 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 9:33:15 PM)
Thanks Nemo. I have never played as Japan. I think when we finally get settled in on our move, and I can play the game in the evenings without any headaches, I will give Japan a try. Always look forward to you AARs. Thanks.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 10:03:08 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Oct 02, 45 Allied CVs are confirmed midway between Saipan and the Phillipines. So, we'll have an invasion within the week for sure. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 74 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 26 minutes Japanese aircraft G4M3a Betty x 17 Allied aircraft P-61C Black Widow x 10 F4U-1A Corsair x 11 F6F-5N Hellcat x 24 Japanese aircraft losses G4M3a Betty: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Naha , at 95,66 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid detected at 77 NM, estimated altitude 7,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 21 minutes Japanese aircraft Ki-21-Ic Sally x 14 Ki-49-IIa Helen x 9 Ki-67-Ia Peggy x 5 Ki-67-Ib Peggy x 27 Allied aircraft P-61C Black Widow x 7 F4U-1A Corsair x 8 F6F-5N Hellcat x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-21-Ic Sally: 5 damaged Ki-21-Ic Sally: 1 destroyed by flak Ki-49-IIa Helen: 1 damaged Ki-67-Ia Peggy: 1 destroyed Ki-67-Ib Peggy: 1 destroyed Ki-67-Ib Peggy: 1 destroyed by flak Allied aircraft losses P-61C Black Widow: 3 damaged P-61C Black Widow: 1 destroyed on ground B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 destroyed on ground Runway hits 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Shikotan at 126,53 Japanese Ships LST T-158, Torpedo hits 2, heavy damage LST T-174 LST T-152 LST T-144 LST T-139 E No.83 Allied Ships SS Scabbardfish Japanese ground losses: 15 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Aparri at 82,73 Weather in hex: Light cloud Raid detected at 224 NM, estimated altitude 37,400 feet. Estimated time to target is 56 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 24 Ki-43-IIIa Oscar x 24 The Zeroes kept the enemy off the Oscars but the Oscars wasted themselves against fast-moving PT boats and every single one missed. Still the proof of concept was important and I really wanted to test my plans for getting Ohkas through CV CAP if the CVs have a lot of planes on high CAP. Allied aircraft P-47N Thunderbolt x 15 F4U-1A Corsair x 8 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 14 destroyed Ki-43-IIIa Oscar: 14 destroyed No Allied losses Allied Ships PT-317 PT-315 PT-318 PT-319 PT-314 PT-316 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 126 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 37 minutes Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 59 B-25J11 Mitchell x 143 P-47N Thunderbolt x 29 F6F-5 Hellcat x 24 Allied aircraft losses A-26C Invader: 2 damaged Japanese ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 6 Airbase supply hits 7 Runway hits 89 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 32 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft SB2C-5 Helldiver x 44 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 12 damaged Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Kume-jima , at 94,65 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 27 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-25J11 Mitchell x 47 P-47N Thunderbolt x 36 F4U-4 Corsair x 23 Japanese aircraft losses Ka-1: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Airbase hits 5 Runway hits 35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft B-25J11 Mitchell x 62 P-47N Thunderbolt x 29 Allied aircraft losses B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 damaged Airbase hits 3 Runway hits 47 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki Brigade, at 90,66 (Ishigaki) Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 73 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 17 minutes Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 63 P-51H Mustang x 37 No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 56 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-47N Thunderbolt x 58 F6F-5 Hellcat x 24 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 20 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Runway hits 25 I'd be happier if he wasn't being so obvious. He's hitting Ishigaki so hard that it makes me think he is going to land in the Ishigaki chain. I doubt he'll land at Ishigaki itself though. Looks like the Miyaki (sic ) jima trap might work after all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 174 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 75 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 23 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 14 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Japanese ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 2 Runway hits 24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Wakayama at 108,62 Japanese Ships E No.46 E No.150 E No.132 E No.76 E No.52 Allied Ships SS Searaven, hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Naha (95,66) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 855 troops, 49 guns, 73 vehicles, Assault Value = 3881 Defending force 80272 troops, 559 guns, 1812 vehicles, Assault Value = 1562 Japanese ground losses: Vehicles lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Vehicles lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: 56th Infantry Brigade Hirohito Armored Division 29th Ind. Engineer Regiment 4th Tank Division 21st Ind.Mixed Regiment 70th Infantry Brigade 5th Ind.Mixed Brigade 2nd Amphibious Brigade 8th SP Gun Battalion 355th Division 26th Tank Regiment 66th Ind.Mixed Brigade Kamikaze Armored Division 5th Ind.Tank Brigade 107th Division 96th Ind.Mixed Brigade 77th Division 46th Division 11th Tank Regiment 3rd Guards Division 1st SP Gun Battalion 102nd Division 126th Ind.Mixed Brigade 109th Ind.Mixed Brigade 49th Ind.Mixed Brigade 17th Ind.Mixed Brigade 312th Division 303rd Division 7th Ind.Tank Brigade 103rd Division 4th Ind.Tank Brigade 30th Ind. Engineer Regiment 40th Army 56th Army 17th Hvy.Artillery Regiment 16th Area Army 54th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 28th Airborne Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 296th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 97th Infantry Division 541st Parachute Regiment Tenth Army Combat Engineer Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 35th USN Naval Construction Regiment 36th Aviation Base Force 33rd Aviation Base Force 178th USAAF Base Force 6th USMC Air Wing Base Force II US Corps Tenth US Army 232nd USN Base Force 212th Coast AA Regiment 177th USAAF Base Force 148th USA Base Force Southwest Pacific 54th TC Wing 230th USN Base Force 151st USA Base Force 229th USN Base Force 46th Construction Regiment Tenth Army Engineer Aviation Battalion 165th Field Artillery Battalion Fifth USAAF Eng Engineer Aviation Battalion 36th USN Naval Construction Regiment 14th Marine AA Battalion 77th Coast AA Regiment 462nd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 82,72 (near Aparri) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 8809 troops, 126 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 323 Defending force 1155 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6 Allied adjusted assault: 160 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 160 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(+), fatigue(-), supply(-) Attacker: fatigue(-) Japanese ground losses: 143 casualties reported Squads: 12 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 12 destroyed, 5 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 9 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Filipino Inf Regiment Defending units: 23rd Div Remnants /1 In response to the presence of USN CVs nearing the Formosa/Okinawa line I am beginning to bring IJAAF and IJNAF fighters into south-wstern Japan with a view to providing CAP for surface fleet elements which will begin gathering around Okinawa/Amami Oshima in 2 days. Everything is ready except: 1. Ki-264s. The upgrade/downgrade in order to get the change from individual bombs to sticks of bombs has left them repairing at a rate of 2 Ki-264s a day, which means I'll need 2 months to repair them all. Crazy. 2. The Ohka upgrade bug we ran into won't be fixed until tomorrow's turn when I upgrade the database with the fix. I'm not sure I'll have enough time to repair all of the Ohkas before he lands. Current time update: I summarise the next two days since nothing much happened in them and there's no point posting me "nothing's happening" text... October 3rd and 4th literally nothing happened as I stood my bombers down to prep for the fight once he invades and he just kept hitting Ishigaki again and again with hundreds of bombers a day while his TFs crept closer and closer. I am counting over 20 CVs, what appear to be two-dozen BBs and literally hundreds of DDs and smaller craft. I see lots of LCI/LSTs etc. I wonder is he trying to invade with them instead of with APAs or AKAs? We'll find out soon enough October 5th. The Allies are within 3 hexes of the Ishigaki chain and can land on any of them. My bet is Miyaki-jima ( sic). I tried to mount an ambush but I overlooked the fact that two of the squadrons involved had been left on 100% LRCAP so they were butchered by the Americans over Ishigaki due to excessive fatigue. Cost me 30 first-line pilots and 40+ Ki-94 IIs. Ah well, live and learn. I think he'll invade tomorrow and have set the G9Ms to cover Ishigaki and the neighbouring islands. I have 300 Oscars within 8 hexes of the various TFs split between Formosa, the Ishigaki islands, Okinawa and Daito Shoto. I also have 200 Ohkas in the Ishigaki chain. I should have had about 600 but most haven't finished repairing from the delayed upgrades. Damn but that bug is going to prove expensive. So, tomorrow we should see some serious action. Tomorrow's turn will bring us right up to date with the game. From now on out it'll play out in real time as we've played enough with interference from FatR that I'm now comfortable trying to play a real-time game free of that cheat. Obviously if he contacts my opponent then I'll stop posting up to date reports and analysis. We'll see how it goes.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 10:27:42 PM)
AFTER ACTION REPORTS FOR Oct 06, 45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Kushiro at 122,54 Japanese Ships LST T-159 LST T-174 LST T-156 LST T-147 LST T-142 LST T-137 E No.83 E No.81 Allied Ships SS Finback, hits 13, and is sunk -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TF 119 encounters mine field at Fukuoka (103,57) Japanese Ships E Etoforu, Mine hits 1 My own mine. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Amami Oshima at 97,64 Japanese Ships SC CHa-37 SC CHa-6 ML G-609 LB-1010 LB-1008 LB-1003 SC CHa-38 SC CHa-10 Allied Ships SS Springer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Daito Shoto , at 98,69 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 20,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft PB4Y-2 Privateer x 15 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-29B Superfort x 35 No Japanese losses No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 Well, Miyako Jima it is... He wouldn't be bombing with B-29s unless that was his target. Excellent, now to see if my troop delivery plans work out. If they do I'll win, if they don't he will. NB each hit by a B-29 actually represents a "stick" of 4 bombs and thus the 11 runway hits do as much damage as 44 500lb hits normally do. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Nago , at 95,65 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 159 NM, estimated altitude 17,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 37 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-32 Dominator x 48 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-43-IIIa Oscar: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid detected at 24 NM, estimated altitude 30,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 44 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 156 NM, estimated altitude 18,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 48 minutes Japanese aircraft J1N1-S Irving x 34 J1N1-Sa Irving x 5 Ki-46-III KAI Dinah x 13 Ki-102c Randy x 18 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 184 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 1 damaged Manpower hits 4 Fires 11920 More firebombing.It does seem a bit overpowered to me still though. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night Air attack on Nagoya , at 111,60 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 76 NM, estimated altitude 19,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 23 minutes Japanese aircraft J1N1-S Irving x 26 J1N1-Sa Irving x 4 Ki-46-III KAI Dinah x 13 Ki-102c Randy x 18 Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 11 No Japanese losses No Allied losses The 11 B29s managed to fight off the 61 night-fighters using concentrated defensive fire from flying in formation.... at night. chuckle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Amami Oshima at 97,63 Japanese Ships DD Tsubaki DD Sugi DD Take DD Sumire DD Shii DD Kaki DD Hagi Allied Ships SS Tench, hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Nago at 96,64 Japanese Ships LB-5055 MGB G-467 LB-5064 LB-5059 LB-5054 LB-564 MGB G-468 Allied Ships SS Haddo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Ishigaki at 90,67 Japanese Ships SS Ha-205, hits 11 Allied Ships CA Minneapolis BB Tennessee BB California CA San Francisco DD Sigsbee DD Helm DD Bagley DD Sampson DD Swanson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Japanese Ships SS Ha-208 Allied Ships BB Arkansas BB Nevada DE Grady AM Dynamic APA Navarro APA Leonard Wood APA Harris AKA Towner xAP Cape Victory xAP Golden Gate xAP Golden Eagle DD Crane DD Crosby DD Mustin DD Anderson Transports. SS Ha-208 is sighted by escort DD Crane fails to find sub and abandons search DD Crosby fails to find sub and abandons search DD Mustin fails to find sub and abandons search DD Anderson fails to find sub, continues to search... Escort abandons search for sub -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sub attack near Nago at 96,64 Japanese Ships LB-202 LB-208 LB-203 LB-524 LB-519 SC CHa-5 Allied Ships SS Haddo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASW attack near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Japanese Ships SS Ha-208, hits 15 Allied Ships DD Halford, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage DD Hailey DD John Henley DD Lewis Hancock DD Paul Hamilton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 43,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 11 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 45 FM-1 Wildcat x 6 FM-2 Wildcat x 42 F4U-1D Corsair x 63 F4U-4 Corsair x 33 F6F-5 Hellcat x 139 F8F-1 Bearcat x 39 360ish USN and USAAF fighters sweeping the skies of Miyako-jima. Good thing I had no fighters there. He should have put these guys on LRCAP at low altitude. Later on he'll miss them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 23 NM, estimated altitude 44,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 45 FM-1 Wildcat x 6 FM-2 Wildcat x 12 F4U-1D Corsair x 36 F4U-4 Corsair x 33 F6F-5 Hellcat x 97 F8F-1 Bearcat x 29 Another 250ish fighters. That brings us to 610 or so fighters sweeping Miyako-jima so far this morning. No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 43,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 33 FM-1 Wildcat x 12 FM-2 Wildcat x 30 F4U-1D Corsair x 54 F4U-4 Corsair x 33 F6F-5 Hellcat x 137 F8F-1 Bearcat x 19 Ah and another 320. That makes 970 so far. No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 33 NM, estimated altitude 6,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Japanese aircraft G9M Marlin x 12 Ah, the first G9Ms arrive. These are piloted by my absolute best pilots, have my best leaders and haven't flown a single combat mission so far in the campaign. I baby these guys soooooo much since I expect them to be decisive when committed. Let's see how they do. Reasoning that the Allied would have massive aerial superiority I opted to send the G9Ms in at wavetop height to avoid radar. They went in at 100 feet with orders to pop up to 200 feet to launch their torpedoes. They were spotted only 6 minutes out. The lowest Allied CAP was at 7,000 feet and even diving 3000 feet per minute and positioned perfectly above the G9Ms that gives almost no time to intercept. The vast majority of the 440 Allied fighters were out of position to intercept. In fact based on the altitudes in the CR I think only the 14 planes highlighted below the results of the strike were actually in a position to intercept.... 9 Hellcats and 5 FM1 Wildcats. Not nearly enough. Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 43 FM-1 Wildcat x 14 FM-2 Wildcat x 41 F4U-1D Corsair x 44 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 238 F8F-1 Bearcat x 40 Japanese aircraft losses G9M Marlin: 12 damaged G9M Marlin: 1 destroyed by flak Allied aircraft losses F6F-5 Hellcat: 1 destroyed Allied Ships BB Arkansas, Torpedo hits 1 BB Idaho, Torpedo hits 1 BB Mississippi, Torpedo hits 3, and is sunk CA Tuscaloosa, Torpedo hits 1 I heard sinking sounds after this combat so I believe the Mississipi was actually sunk. Damage to the others would be minimal. 1 torpedo doesn't do much to a modern or even an old BB. Still, that was an awfully good hit rate - probably because they weren't meaningfully intercepted before the attack. CAP engaged: VC(F)-21 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-33 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VF-35 with F6F-5 Hellcat (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (3 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VF-37 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-41 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VF-60 with F6F-5 Hellcat (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-63 with FM-1 Wildcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (5 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 7000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-68 with FM-2 Wildcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-76 with FM-2 Wildcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-77 with FM-2 Wildcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-80 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-84 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-85 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-88 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-91 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VOC(F)-1 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-3 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-4 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-5 with FM-1 Wildcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 7000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-7 with F6F-5 Hellcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 35 NM, estimated altitude 4,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft G9M Marlin x 9 Not quite the concentrated punch I was looking for. Still, 9 is better than 0. Again they benefit from the misallocated CAP. Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 43 FM-1 Wildcat x 14 FM-2 Wildcat x 55 F4U-1D Corsair x 43 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 280 F8F-1 Bearcat x 40 Japanese aircraft losses G9M Marlin: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged G9M Marlin: 1 destroyed by flak 4 out of 9 destroyed. Roughly 50% losses. No Allied losses Allied Ships BB Pennsylvania BB Tennessee, Torpedo hits 1 CAP engaged: VC(F)-20 with FM-2 Wildcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VF-26 with F6F-5 Hellcat (7 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 7 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-27 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (2 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-82 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-90 with FM-2 Wildcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (1 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-97 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (6 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-33 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VF-37 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-68 with FM-2 Wildcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-76 with FM-2 Wildcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-77 with FM-2 Wildcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 Raid is overhead VC(F)-80 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-84 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-85 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-88 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VC(F)-91 with F6F-5 Hellcat (9 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) (4 plane(s) diverted to support CAP in hex.) 9 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 37300 Raid is overhead VF-1 with F8F-1 Bearcat (5 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 5 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38700 Raid is overhead VBF-1 with F4U-4 Corsair (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 41600 Raid is overhead VF-7 with F8F-1 Bearcat (6 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 6 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 38700 Raid is overhead VBF-7 with F4U-4 Corsair (4 airborne, 0 on standby, 0 scrambling) 4 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 41600 Raid is overhead Banzai! - Maeda B. in a G9M Marlin is willing to die for the Emperor [image]local://upfiles/10809/BCA8970CE1714ABB873D3C4CEC158101.jpg[/image]

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 10:40:31 PM)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 5,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Again they went in at 100 feet and again the CAP was out of place. Japanese aircraft Ohka Model 11 x 26 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 43 FM-1 Wildcat x 12 FM-2 Wildcat x 64 F4U-1D Corsair x 36 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 291 F8F-1 Bearcat x 40 Japanese aircraft losses Ohka Model 11: 16 destroyed Ohka Model 11: 2 destroyed by flak Even with the CAP out of place 3 were downed by fighters and 2 by FlAK. Many more were damaged by FlAK and Ohkas are so flimsy that any damage means they miss. No Allied losses Allied Ships CA St. Paul, Kamikaze hits 1, on fire CL Astoria II AM Penguin DD Braine CA Pittsburgh CL Atlanta II CL Houston II LCI-70 LCI-987, Kamikaze hits 1, and is sunk Allied ground losses: 303 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 19 destroyed, 7 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Aircraft Attacking: 10 x Ohka Model 11 flying as kamikaze Kamikaze: 1 x Ohka Bomb 13 x Ohka Model 11 flying as kamikaze Kamikaze: 1 x Ohka Bomb -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 4,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 29 minutes Japanese aircraft Ka-1 x 9 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 43 FM-1 Wildcat x 12 FM-2 Wildcat x 64 F4U-1D Corsair x 36 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 302 F8F-1 Bearcat x 40 Japanese aircraft losses Ka-1: 4 destroyed These are too slow to get in close even at 100 feet. No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Hengchun , at 84,67 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 103 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 48 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1A Corsair x 18 F6F-5 Hellcat x 9 TBM-3 Avenger x 96 No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 108 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 119 NM, estimated altitude 12,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 55 minutes Japanese aircraft A7M2 Sam x 28 N1K5-J George x 21 Ki-84a Frank x 10 Ki-84r Frank x 21 Ki-94-II x 23 Ki-100-II Tony x 13 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 1 TBM-3 Avenger x 42 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-100-II Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-4 Corsair: 1 destroyed TBM-3 Avenger: 25 destroyed, 8 damaged TBM-3 Avenger: 1 destroyed by flak Ah the first tranche of my CAP protecting the fleet as it gathers and prepares to fight at Miyako-jima tonight. Japanese Ships DD Shinyo DD Hagi DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Sumire DD Shinyo DD Shinyo DD Keyaki -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Overcast Raid detected at 30 NM, estimated altitude 44,600 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 16 FM-1 Wildcat x 8 FM-2 Wildcat x 35 F4U-1D Corsair x 13 F4U-4 Corsair x 26 F6F-5 Hellcat x 165 F8F-1 Bearcat x 23 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iriomote , at 89,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 25 NM, estimated altitude 11,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft F4U-1D Corsair x 21 Allied aircraft losses F4U-1D Corsair: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Light rain Raid detected at 147 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 64 minutes Japanese aircraft A7M2 Sam x 25 N1K5-J George x 14 Ki-84a Frank x 10 Ki-84r Frank x 15 Ki-94-II x 22 Ki-100-II Tony x 12 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 18 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 19 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-100-II Tony: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-4 Corsair: 1 destroyed SB2C-5 Helldiver: 14 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid detected at 190 NM, estimated altitude 26,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 59 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 8 B-29-25 Superfort x 168 P-51H Mustang x 22 No Allied losses Runway hits 5 The weather has really effected his aim. Bad luck for him, great news for me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 30 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Allied aircraft P-47N Thunderbolt x 28 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 44 Allied aircraft losses SB2C-5 Helldiver: 13 damaged Runway hits 5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iriomote , at 89,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 29 NM, estimated altitude 31,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Allied aircraft B-17G Fortress x 121 B-24J Liberator x 116 Allied aircraft losses B-17G Fortress: 1 damaged Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 127 NM, estimated altitude 15,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 38 minutes Allied aircraft A-26C Invader x 60 B-25J11 Mitchell x 200 Allied aircraft losses A-26C Invader: 4 damaged B-25J11 Mitchell: 1 damaged Japanese ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Airbase hits 7 Runway hits 62 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iriomote , at 89,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 20 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 6 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 79 Allied aircraft losses B-24J Liberator: 1 destroyed by flak Runway hits 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 28 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 9 minutes Allied aircraft B-24J Liberator x 72 No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iriomote , at 89,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 22 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-17G Fortress x 79 Japanese aircraft losses H6K4 Mavis: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Runway hits 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Takao , at 84,65 Weather in hex: Moderate rain Raid spotted at 145 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 35 minutes Allied aircraft P-51D Mustang x 12 A-26C Invader x 42 No Allied losses Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 37 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Iriomote , at 89,65 Weather in hex: Heavy cloud Raid spotted at 8 NM, estimated altitude 28,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 3 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft B-17G Fortress x 27 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-94-II: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Airbase hits 2 Airbase supply hits 1 Runway hits 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning Air attack on Ishigaki , at 90,66 Weather in hex: Severe storms Raid spotted at 27 NM, estimated altitude 29,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 8 minutes Allied aircraft B-29-25 Superfort x 30 Allied aircraft losses B-29-25 Superfort: 1 damaged -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 5,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 7 minutes Japanese aircraft G9M Marlin x 22 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 43 FM-1 Wildcat x 10 FM-2 Wildcat x 34 F4U-1D Corsair x 44 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 237 F8F-1 Bearcat x 40 Japanese aircraft losses G9M Marlin: 7 destroyed, 8 damaged G9M Marlin: 1 destroyed by flak The fighters got quite a few of them but in the long run this worked to my advantage as many of the G9M pilots decided their planes were too badly damaged to survive and decided to kamikaze into American BBs. I got reports that each of the 4 planes which kamikaze'd penetrated the belt or deck armour and exploded inside the bowels of the US BBs. No Allied losses Allied Ships BB Arkansas, Torpedo hits 1 BB Pennsylvania, Torpedo hits 1, Kamikaze hits 2, on fire CA St. Paul, Torpedo hits 1 BB Tennessee, Torpedo hits 1, Kamikaze hits 2 CL Astoria II CA Pittsburgh Iizuka V. gives his life for the Emperor by ramming BB Tennessee Juni I. gives his life for the Emperor by ramming BB Pennsylvania -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Miyako-jima at 91,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 34 NM, estimated altitude 1,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 4 minutes Japanese aircraft Ohka Model 11 x 29 Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 43 FM-1 Wildcat x 14 FM-2 Wildcat x 44 F4U-1D Corsair x 42 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 256 F8F-1 Bearcat x 40 Japanese aircraft losses Ohka Model 11: 19 destroyed Ohka Model 11: 2 destroyed by flak No Allied losses Allied Ships BB Idaho BB New Mexico LCI-70 LCI(M)-1088 AM Penguin LCI-992 LCI(R)-785 The CAP did better now, having pulled lower by the G9Ms and over half of the Ohkas comitted were destroyed before they saw the Allied fleet. The rest missed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Ishigaki at 89,69 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 31 NM, estimated altitude 5,100 feet. Estimated time to target is 10 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Sen Baku x 7 Allied aircraft FM-1 Wildcat x 4 FM-2 Wildcat x 18 F4U-4 Corsair x 6 F6F-5 Hellcat x 53 F8F-1 Bearcat x 3 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Sen Baku: 3 destroyed No Allied losses -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 117 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 54 minutes Japanese aircraft A7M2 Sam x 26 N1K5-J George x 19 Ki-84a Frank x 9 Ki-84r Frank x 21 Ki-94-II x 23 Ki-100-II Tony x 13 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 12 TBM-3 Avenger x 11 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-94-II: 1 destroyed Allied aircraft losses F4U-4 Corsair: 1 destroyed TBM-3 Avenger: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Nago at 95,65 Weather in hex: Heavy rain Raid detected at 118 NM, estimated altitude 14,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 51 minutes Japanese aircraft A7M2 Sam x 20 N1K5-J George x 15 Ki-84a Frank x 9 Ki-84r Frank x 10 Ki-94-II x 21 Ki-100-II Tony x 7 Allied aircraft F4U-4 Corsair x 4 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 2 No Japanese losses Allied aircraft losses F4U-4 Corsair: 1 destroyed SB2C-5 Helldiver: 1 destroyed -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 29 NM, estimated altitude 10,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 13 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft P-51H Mustang x 46 FM-1 Wildcat x 10 FM-2 Wildcat x 18 F4U-1D Corsair x 22 F4U-4 Corsair x 8 F6F-5 Hellcat x 122 F8F-1 Bearcat x 17 TBF-1 Avenger x 32 TBM-1C Avenger x 40 TBM-3 Avenger x 164 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-94-II: 7 destroyed on ground Ka-1: 1 destroyed on ground Allied aircraft losses TBM-3 Avenger: 11 damaged Airbase hits 21 Airbase supply hits 17 Runway hits 202 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Afternoon Air attack on Miyako-jima , at 91,66 Weather in hex: Clear sky Raid detected at 28 NM, estimated altitude 13,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 12 minutes Japanese aircraft no flights Allied aircraft Corsair IV x 38 Firefly F.I x 10 P-51H Mustang x 57 FM-1 Wildcat x 10 FM-2 Wildcat x 32 F4U-1D Corsair x 56 F4U-4 Corsair x 20 F6F-5 Hellcat x 164 F8F-1 Bearcat x 67 SB2C-5 Helldiver x 113 Japanese aircraft losses Ki-94-II: 1 destroyed on ground No Allied losses Airbase hits 4 Airbase supply hits 5 Runway hits 131 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Miyako-jima at 91,66 - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 115 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships BB New Mexico, Shell hits 6 BB Idaho, Shell hits 1 CA Tuscaloosa, Shell hits 2 CA New Orleans, Shell hits 1 DD Dale, Shell hits 1 DD Dewey, Shell hits 1 DD Clark DD Balch DD Downes, Shell hits 1 DD Cassin DD Flusser DD Maury DD McCall Japanese ground losses: 638 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 16 disabled Non Combat: 8 destroyed, 44 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Naval bombardment of Miyako-jima at 91,66 Japanese aircraft no flights Japanese aircraft losses Ki-94-II: 1 destroyed on ground Ka-1: 1 destroyed on ground Allied Ships BB California CA San Francisco CA Minneapolis Airbase hits 1 Airbase supply hits 3 Runway hits 110 Port hits 27 Port supply hits 5 BB California firing at Miyako-jima CA San Francisco firing at Miyako-jima CA Minneapolis firing at Miyako-jima -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Miyako-jima (91,66) 76 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships LCI(R)-769, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage LCI(G)-467 LCI-70 LCI(G)-455 LCI-69 SC-645 SC-644 SC-642 LCI-68 LCI(M)-1089 LCI(M)-1088 LCI(M)-975 LCI(M)-952 LCI(M)-951 LCI(R)-785 LCI(R)-772 LCI(R)-771 LCI(R)-770 AM Penguin LCI-798 LCI-797 Japanese ground losses: 182 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 19 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Allied ground losses: 27 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Looks like he went for a mix of AKAs/APAs and LCIs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Miyako-jima (91,66) TF 35 troops unloading over beach at Miyako-jima, 91,66 Allied ground losses: 29 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 6 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (0 destroyed, 1 disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pre-Invasion action off Miyako-jima (91,66) - Coastal Guns Fire Back! 407 Coastal gun shots fired in defense. Allied Ships BB Nevada CL Richmond, Shell hits 2 DD Crane, Shell hits 3 DD Crosby, Shell hits 1, on fire, heavy damage This was hit by a Coastal Defence Shinyo PT Boat. DD Anderson DD Lansdowne DD Charles Hughes, Shell hits 3 DD Hilary Jones, Shell hits 4 BB Arkansas APA Mellette DD Mustin Japanese ground losses: 371 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 8 disabled Non Combat: 6 destroyed, 26 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Guns lost 13 (1 destroyed, 12 disabled) Allied ground losses: 7 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled [image]local://upfiles/10809/9105808FA40247BB93D9FD044F739EEE.jpg[/image]

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 10:50:35 PM)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amphibious Assault at Miyako-jima (91,66) TF 162 troops unloading over beach at Miyako-jima, 91,66 Allied ground losses: 2521 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 367 disabled Non Combat: 1 destroyed, 280 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 111 (0 destroyed, 111 disabled) Vehicles lost 168 (1 destroyed, 167 disabled) OUCH!!!! That's a division's worth of combat troops lost right there to disablement. Motorized Support lost overboard during unload of 43rd Infantry Div /4 12 Support troops lost overboard during unload of 43rd Infantry Div /9 13 troops of a USA Rifle Squad lost in surf during unload of 43rd Infantry Div /10 10 troops of a US Cmbt Eng Sqd lost from landing craft during unload of XI Corps Combat Engr Rgt /2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Naha (95,66) Japanese Deliberate attack Since I knew he was going to attack at the Ishigaki Chain yesterday I wanted some insurance myself by ramping up the pressure at Naha. Attacks will be more frequent there now until I know if I can hold on to Miyako-jima. Attacking force 130658 troops, 1254 guns, 2354 vehicles, Assault Value = 4127 Note how reinforcements are increasing my base AV in spite of horrific losses in the past few attacks. Defending force 81149 troops, 569 guns, 1824 vehicles, Assault Value = 1579 Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 3 Japanese adjusted assault: 2684 Allied adjusted defense: 8133 Japanese assault odds: 1 to 3 (fort level 3) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), leaders(+), preparation(-) experience(-) Attacker: Japanese ground losses: 7305 casualties reported Squads: 138 destroyed, 791 disabled Non Combat: 48 destroyed, 336 disabled Engineers: 3 destroyed, 82 disabled Vehicles lost 192 (49 destroyed, 143 disabled) Units destroyed 1 I lost a 12 SP Gun Company. No major loss. Allied ground losses: 2696 casualties reported Squads: 74 destroyed, 29 disabled Non Combat: 40 destroyed, 284 disabled Engineers: 8 destroyed, 53 disabled Vehicles lost 92 (13 destroyed, 79 disabled) 74 Combat Squads destroyed.... Hmm, I think another one of his defending regiments just bit the dust. Assaulting units: 8th SP Gun Battalion 109th Ind.Mixed Brigade 46th Division 303rd Division 2nd Amphibious Brigade 66th Ind.Mixed Brigade 49th Ind.Mixed Brigade 4th Tank Division 56th Infantry Brigade 29th Ind. Engineer Regiment 11th Tank Regiment 21st Ind.Mixed Regiment 70th Infantry Brigade 5th Ind.Mixed Brigade 126th Ind.Mixed Brigade 102nd Division 312th Division 355th Division 4th Ind.Tank Brigade 1st SP Gun Battalion 17th Ind.Mixed Brigade 7th Ind.Tank Brigade 5th Ind.Tank Brigade Kamikaze Armored Division 96th Ind.Mixed Brigade 103rd Division 26th Tank Regiment 3rd Guards Division 107th Division 77th Division Hirohito Armored Division 30th Ind. Engineer Regiment 16th Area Army 56th Army 40th Army 17th Hvy.Artillery Regiment 54th Medium Field Artillery Regiment Defending units: 541st Parachute Regiment 193rd Tank Battalion Tenth Army Combat Engineer Regiment 97th Infantry Division 28th Airborne Tank Battalion 296th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 93rd Infantry Division 46th Construction Regiment 35th USN Naval Construction Regiment 230th USN Base Force 178th USAAF Base Force 212th Coast AA Regiment 151st USA Base Force 148th USA Base Force II US Corps Southwest Pacific 54th TC Wing 14th Marine AA Battalion 6th USMC Air Wing Base Force 232nd USN Base Force 165th Field Artillery Battalion Tenth Army Engineer Aviation Battalion 33rd Aviation Base Force 36th USN Naval Construction Regiment 36th Aviation Base Force 229th USN Base Force 77th Coast AA Regiment Tenth US Army Fifth USAAF Eng Engineer Aviation Battalion 177th USAAF Base Force 462nd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at Miyako-jima (91,66) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 10932 troops, 128 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 258 Defending force 17701 troops, 285 guns, 339 vehicles, Assault Value = 648 Hmm, my troops are highly disabled by the enemy bombers and suchlike but a bare 2.5 : 1 advantage doesn't seem like it will be enough. The only thing which can make it easy for Miyako-jima to fall is the effect of disruption from enemy bomber and naval bombardment. By bringing in additional troops I can spread the disruption around multiple units and thus preserve adjusted AV. Japanese ground losses: 11 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 1 (1 destroyed, 0 disabled) Assaulting units: Miyako-jima Brigade 69th Infantry Bde /1 Defending units: 102nd Combat Engr Rgt /1 43rd Infantry Div /1 XI Corps Combat Engr Rgt /1 Americal Infantry Div /1 112th Cavalry Rgt /6 It is particularly important to note that his entire units have NOT unloaded. This means he'll have to stick around tonight to unload the rest of his troops.... that's it then, the IJN is comitted to its death-ride off the waters of Miyako-jima. All combat-capable IJN warships of DD size or larger are ordered to sprint from Okinawa ( where they've been hiding out for the past two days ) into the waters around Miyako-jima. DDs will, if they survive, refuel in Formosa while the BB/CA TF will make for Shanghai to refuel. More of the Ohkas which have finished repairing at Nagasaki are repaired and by tomorrow morning some 300 Ohkas will be available at Ishigaki and Miyako-jima to fly kamikaze missions into the amphibious TFs at Miyako-jima. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ground combat at 82,72 (near Aparri) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 8951 troops, 126 guns, 135 vehicles, Assault Value = 335 Defending force 256 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1 Allied adjusted assault: 350 Japanese adjusted defense: 1 Allied assault odds: 350 to 1 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 371 casualties reported Squads: 11 destroyed, 0 disabled Non Combat: 38 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Units destroyed 1 Assaulting units: 111th(Sep) Infantry Regiment 24th (Sep) Infantry Regiment 1st Filipino Inf Regiment Defending units: 23rd Div Remnants /1 So, tonight and tomorrow should be interesting. At this point my opponent suffered a little morale failure. After pointing out to him that one bad day does not a war make I think he will continue. Personally though I only think I sank 1 to 2 BBs and only managed that because his CAP altitudes were too high. I think that, going forward, he has at least 30 more BBs to bring to bear and will learn the lesson about CAP altitude. I've offered to swap sides if he doesn't wish to continue and to play as the Allies if he'd prefer. We'll see what happens. I hope he'll choose to continue though. He's a good guy and relaxed to play against. [image]local://upfiles/10809/93C3A5A7F7B14BB98E7A21B553DC294A.jpg[/image]

Cribtop -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/6/2011 11:58:04 PM)
This game, and many of Nemo's games from the Japanese perspective in particular, remind me of a story (which I hope is illustrative of an important point). Long ago (the 90's I belive, maybe earlier), there was a great strategic space game called "Master of Orion." You gathered resources, designed and researched ships, sent them into battle over systems, and then invaded and captured planets. Most of us built "American" empires, meaning that we chose to maximize resources spent on R&D to achieve a qualitative edge in starship design and swept the map of our enemies. This was very fun. The only boring part of the game was the planetary invasion phase. Basically if you had wiped out the enemy spacefaring navy, your navy wiped out their orbital defenses and you landed in decent order. Assuming you brought enough troops to the party, planetary conquest was a simple odds calculation and you took the planet. My younger brother, always a serious kamikaze style player of all games before he even knew what kamikaze meant, chose a different approach. One of the races (some type of lizard people) reproduced at twice the rate of the others and were especially tough in ground combat but had few tech or shipborne advantages. Most of us avoided them like the plague 'cause building cool ships and winning space battles was "where it was at" in Master of Orion. My brother observed and studied ground combat and concluded that while MANY of your troop transports were killed upon attack if there were enemy fleet units and orbital defenses still present in the system, a certain percentage got through. He then extrapolated the impact on his economy of committing all production to just three areas: 1) troops (assisted by the 2X reproduction rate); 2) transports; and 3) planetary defenses for conquered systems. He did NOT build a spacefaring navy. He unleashed the horde against his enemies to our side-splitting laughter. The carnage for his unprotected transports was horrific, but about 25% got through. The survivors used their edge in ground combat... and still lost. Until the next wave of mass reproduced lizard warriors arrived the following day from a different system, and the next, and the next. By which time, the lizard system the first wave came from had reproduced back to full and attacked again. Rinse & repeat. Eventually, the enemy system fell. There was no real defense other than to attack his home worlds into the teeth of massive ground forces with combat advantages. The bloodletting, even though virtual, was sickening to watch. Hardened wargamers with adolescent male ignorance of suffering were literally horrified, which is quite a feat to pull off. But the lizard people won game after game after game. Ok, why did I type all that? Because my brother analyzed the system and found a new way to win through looking at things in a fresh perspective, similar to Nemo (although far less sophisticated). But there is a deeper insight, IMHO, into the question "Why can Nemo even hold his own as Japan in a Downfall Scenario." Most AE players have either been a part of, or studied extensively, the Western way of war (specifically the synthesis of US Army and German doctrine often used by NATO). Nemo has told us repeatedly that he follows Soviet doctrine, but we don't listen. He is MUCH more willing to suffer losses and to study exchange rates than most of us. We don't want exchange rates, we want our superior brains to figure out ways of smashing the enemy without significant losses to our own forces. This aversion to casualties is inherent to the NATO way and I think we fail to see how influenced we are by this doctrine. We thus miss opportunities to win by favorable attrition that seem obvious to Nemo. There, I'm done. Sorry for the bilblical length post, but I think many of us are fascinated by Nemo's seemingly alien play style and are trying to figure out what makes him tick. IMHO this is part of it. We hear him say "favorable attrition" and "acceptance of battle" but don't really follow through because we want to keep our shiny toys above the waterline. Be honest, how many of you would choose to intentionally seek to lose your last BB and your last CA in an attritional conflict because you realize you won't have the fuel to sail them much longer and now is the time to seek to extract value from their destruction (see Nemo's mention of just this in the last few posts). Food for thought for us all.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/7/2011 12:32:16 AM)
A fascinating contribution. I'll add something I received from my opponent in the last couple of days since the landings at Miyako-jima. He stated that, historically, Japan couldn't have invaded Okinawa. I pointed out that I hadn't added any ships or new armour ( although I had amalgamated a few armoured regiments into armoured divisions but that was purely organisational ) and that landing at Nago had cost me 200 ships ( mostly tiny sub-1000 ton xAKLs and SCs. He also stated that he was "unable" to reinforce Naha because it would cost him ships. I pointed out that, just maybe, he needed to be willing to lose a dozen or two dozen DDs to force the passage. Given the point you raised it seemed interesting to highlight this difference in approaches. It seemed to me that he had discounted the relief of Naha because it might cost him a few dozen ships lost to mines and kamis. That's just the price of doing business. In the long run losing Naha will cost him many multiples of the force it would take him to hold it. I am, of course, paraphrasing what he said and so it is subject to my interpretation that he is quite casualty averse --- which is working well for me as it means a lot of bluster and show can get him to back off when just testing my line might actually break it.

inqistor -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 9:42:15 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Nemo121 The 11 B29s managed to fight off the 61 night-fighters using concentrated defensive fire from flying in formation.... at night. chuckle Considering, that there is quite a lot "Fighter chased off by defensive fire" reports... Have you thought, about actually REDUCING range, not accuracy, of bombers defensive MGs? As I understand, they are different Devices, from fighters MGs already. That way fighters will begin attack outside bombers defensive fire.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 12:03:28 PM)
I thought of that but a few reasons made me choose to alter accuracy instead of range: 1. The programme already reduces accuracy as the range increases anyway so if I changed range but not accuracy you'd have a situation where bomber defensive fire was no threat out to, for example, a range fo 3 but then turned just as deadly as it ever was. This wasn't in keeping with what I understood of the historical record and yielded unbelievable results. 2. In terms of actual acceptability of the changes ( people tend to resist change, even if it is warranted ) reducing accuracy made more sense since it simply doesn't make sense that a hand-held 0.5cal HMG would have the same chance to hit, at a given range, as one of the wing-mounted 0.5cal HMGs in a P-51 or P-47. Cmobining the two reasons I felt that accuracy was the thing which had to be changed first. I am holding a few tweaks to range in reserve if we still aren't getting believable results. I am holding a reduction in range from 5 to 3 of the defensive armaments in reserve should we need it... However, I'm hopeful the latest changes will yield good outcomes. I've also been tweaking the ASW to make it less likely to hit ( but as damaging when it does hit ) and that seems to be functioning reasonably well also. I expect my opponent won't get a turn back to me until early next week. It'll probably take him a week ( from about Wednesday ) to reconsider the situation and make the necessary decisions so that gives me time to complete this additional round of revisions based on gameplay.

witpqs -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 3:08:31 PM)
The guns on a B-29 (or at least most of them?) were not hand held. They were operated by a much improved remote system that freed the gunner from the effects of recoil and greatly improved accuracy.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 4:48:08 PM)
Allowance is made for the different constructions of turrets... Whether they are merely hand-held on sponsons, partially stabilised or fully hydraulically stabilised ( such as on the B29 ). Each has different accuracy ratings to reflect the improvements in accuracy which come with various mountings.

witpqs -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 6:03:15 PM)
Cool, didn't know you had that one under control.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 6:06:21 PM)
No sweat, I realise I didn't post screenshots explaining it. I'll remedy that while I wait for my opponent to make his next move.... I'll also finish off the revision of the mod and post it here for people to download, should they so wish.

witpqs -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 7:07:41 PM)
Nah, don't bother. I just had come across the info about the gunnery systems on the B-29 being vastly improved and I knew you were trying to get results closer to historical capabilities. BTW, IIRC they said the A-26 models got that technology from the B-29. Not really sure if there were others.

Nemo121 -> RE: Nemesis... FatR PROHIBITED !!!! (6/11/2011 8:17:22 PM)
Aye, there were... Many of the later-war bombers on all sides were designed with remote-controlled gun turrets. This had first really been trialled on the Me-410 in which some of the rear-firing armaments were remotely controlled using periscopic sights. Basically it came about due to a desire to streamline, save weight and/or as a result of the move to higher and higher altitudes necessitating pressurised crew quarters --- and it being much more weight-effective to have a small pressurised crew area + remote-controlled guns than it was to pressurise the entire length of the plane in order to accomodate gunners dotted throughout the airframe. The B-29's control system allowed various gunners to control the gun at various times depending on where the fighter came in from. I believe the idea was to achieve concentration of fire. It appears this was too complex or some to manage. Some swore by it, others swore at it [8D]. Here's a good page showing the control station and also the division of turrets which could be selected based on gunner position etc etc.... B-29 Defensive Gunner Station Overall, taking everything into acount, I decided that I would rate all hydraullically operated, remote-controlled, periscopically sighted defensive stations as being equal - whether they were on the B-29, A-26 or Ki-264. They are rated as, roughly, twice as effective as a manned hydraulic station and so the B-29 is much fiercer defensively than the B-17 or B-24.... Overall though I believe that the need to calibrate the sight for enemy airplane wingtip to wingtip size in order to generate accurate distance to target readings necessary to allow the trigonometry necessary to get the gun to align and fire at the 3-dimensional point in space which the sighting station was looking at ( the sighting station not being co-located and thus requiring the solving of this trigonetric puzzle in order to generate a hit ) was so complex as to be prone to huge failures in practice and greatly reduced the effectiveness of such stations to no better than manned stations. I've given them the benefit of the doubt though, just not as much benefit as some would. The non co-location of sight and gun necessitating accurate distance to target in order to generate hits is just a bit of a fatal flaw IMO. In the heat of battle who is going to have time to set the sights properly for different plane types in the midst of all the confusion and stress that goes on? Very few, I think.

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