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FeurerKrieg -> RE: March 29th, 1942 (1/27/2014 6:35:35 AM)
March 30th, 1942 India/Burma No submarine attacks today, and our Vals manage to score four hits against enemy submarines. One is a Dutch class sub, so that is good since their torpedoes work. Unfortunately Shokaku continues to worsen. Today she picks up a point of System, float and engine damage. Current state is 36/80/52. I am increasingly getting nervous about losing a perfectly good ship to submarines in the process of guarding a ship that may not make it home even if the way was clear. Now that the destroyers are on station, I am considering sending everything else east. The other carriers are already damaged after all and another two torpedo hits could possibly sink any of them. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/33042-ceylon_zps79226414.jpg[/image] Sub near Ceylon On land we attack Trincomalee again and drop forts to level 1. We get a 1:1 result and about 1:4 casualties. Maybe it will fall tomorrow, but hard to say for sure. The Brits do send some Blenheims at our troops, but they don't do any damage. Also, our troops seem to have rested up a fair bit at Colombo, and the 2nd Tank regiment, formerly at Trincomalee has arrived here so we attack today. We get 2:1 odds against fort level 3, and drop forts to 2. I certainly didn't expect a 2:1 result, so we must have got a good die roll. Clearly the enemy troops lost a lot of fight during their failed shock attack a few days back. This bodes well given that the 38th, 16th, 48th and 55th Divisions are all on their way over the next couple weeks. Also, a review of the combat screens indicates that the enemy 46th Ind Brigade must have wiped itself out in that shock attack since it is no longer on the land combat screen. DEI On the west end of Flores Island we capture Ruteng. A small raid of 5 B-17E attack Koepang but only lightly damage the airfields there. We have large group of transports waiting off the coast of Palembang for the base to fall and our minesweepers to clear it so we can get the 55th Div and 21st Brigade loaded up for Ceylon and Burma ASAP. Today, some Catalinas from Palembang fly out and attack us. The first pair misses, but the second manages to hit an xAP with a bomb. The ship will be fine, but it does have to go back to Singapore for repair. Those Allies never stop fighting, that is for sure. On land, we attack Palembang again and only get 1:1 odds this time. Guess it they are being stubborn. We were low on supply and high on fatigues so I'm sure that contributed. Philippines Guiuan is occupied today. Pacific B-17's show up at Port Moresby. It has been a little while since they were here. 5th Sentai is still using Oscar As while they wait for the Nick to start production. 16x B-17Es attack, we lose 1 Oscar on the ground and 1 in the air. China The AVG is over Pingsiang today, but our Oscar Sweeps and escorts do well and we bring down 11 H81-A3 and lose 3 Oscars. They do manage to get to the bombers on one raid and we lose 3 Anns. The Chinese try again on the ground and only get 1:2 - this time against level 1 forts though. Notably they do NOT bring down our fort level. Submarines I-160 takes a shot at an AM near Brisbane, but misses. Other R Kawabata was found today. Given that he was a low xp trainee, I suspect he just landed his plane at the wrong airstrip and got 'lost' at the local saki den. Also, since I will probably forget to mention it by the time I get to April 15th, I have switched a couple of my Oscar R&D factories to Vals so I can build the Myojo pool for late war trainer/kamikaze units. I also switched one of my J1N1 R&D factories over to the K-45 Nick D model.

FeurerKrieg -> March 31th, 1942 (1/27/2014 7:36:27 AM)
March 31th, 1942 India/Burma Only one sub hit today (Shark class) but Shokaku settles a little lower in the water today as we get another 'temporary repairs failure' message. She picks up 3 System and 2 Float damage. Current status is 39/82/52. The rest of the fleet is definitely leaving tomorrow. Too many subs around to risk good ships for the slowly sinking Shokaku. Shokaku will be left with a half a dozen destroyers and a slow cruiser in the escort TF. Also the two upgraded ASW TF's of four DD's each will follow. We are about 3 more days from being past the 'corner' of Colombo Hudson range so we can start heading due east. Then at some point we'll need to decide whether to go for Trincomalee or Georgetown. At Trincomalee our attack again doesn't take the base. We only get 1:1 odds, but the casualties are quite lopsided so shouldn't be much longer. Also we drop forts to zero. The 4th Air Division has actually arrived after a several day walk from Koggala. So as soon as Trincomalee goes down, we will be ready to fly torpedo bombers. Interesting note was the adjusted AV for this fight was 101 versus 101 - exactly the same! The xAK Manko Maru which had been trying to hang in there at Jaffna finally is overcome today and sinks. We send some Sally's at Rangoon today and they damage several planes on the ground. Two H81-A3 and 1 Buffalo are destroyed. Some Anns try to hit a pair of motor boats as well, but they miss. Still no sign of the British fleet. I've checked several ports, but nothing. Where did they go? I don't think could have escaped west since the KB would have got them. I'm going to send my battleship fleet to Trincomalee so they will be in place to guard the troop convoys bringing in the 48th and 16th division since those TF's have some of my fastest and largest xAP's in them. A British surface attack while those big ships are unloading such solid divisions would be a major problem. DEI West of Jesselton, we make the last attack to push a Royal Navy base force into Beaufort. As soon as this Nav Gd unit reaches Beaufort, we will simultaneously attack four locations on Borneo to eliminate all the guerrillas still around in one shot. The Catalinas from Palembang attack again and this time the hit an xAK. Again, the ship is fine, but will need fixed at Singapore. At Palembang, the base goes down easy with a 14:1 result. Since there is still a dot base in Allied hands, the enemy troops retreat to the west, but Palembang is now ours! We destroy 7 Do-24K-1 and 3 Catalinas and now the Allied eyes in the DEI are effectively poked out. Aside from few more small, mostly dot, bases, the DEI campaign has ended on March 31st, 1942. The facilities at Palembang are in great shape. We have 1020 refineries, of which 10 are damaged and 900 oil centers, of which 9 are damaged. Very nice! We will get some tankers in here ASAP and start shipping this fuel home. Once China has a solid route open, I'll ship to Singapore instead, but for now, this still will be shipped directly to the Home Islands. Philippines Suriago is occupied today. Pacific B-17's hit Port Moresby again, but miss the target today. As our ships continue to converge on Luganville and get organized for the hop over to Noumea, a Val gets a hit on an enemy sub. This probably lets John know our carriers are here, so I suspect he will probably stay back to protect Suva rather than risk a battle with lopsided odds. In about three days we will sail for Noumea. I'll send a fast transport TF down to grab Tanna as well. Our carriers will generally stay west of Efate, so it is possible a well placed Allied CV force could hit our TF going to Tanna, but those ships won't linger there. Other CA Chokai is returned to service at Singapore. CA Takao and Atago are returned to services at Tokyo. The latter two will head to Rabaul. We have four air units due for withdrawal, but one of them is sitting on the carriers operating near Luganville, so I'll pay the penalty to keep it in action for another week or so. Just long enough to get the troops over to Noumea.

FeurerKrieg -> March Summary (2/1/2014 5:55:32 AM)
Another month comes to an end, and it was a lively one. The rate of base captures slows some as we run into some opposition during our Flores Islands cleanup in the DEI. Although that has been dealt with, there won't be that many more bases to vacuum up as we get closer to our planned expansion goals. This month we capture 54 bases, compared to 85 last month. The highlights of the month were the capture of Luganville, Bataan and the fact that Trincomalee is nearly captured. With luck we will finally take Colombo in April, as well as Noumea and maybe even Suva depending on what the US CV arm does. The naval war picked up in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Although we did sink a British carrier, it was at a high cost as we will probably lose Shokaku. There have been some successes though as we damaged Royal Sovereign and put Resolution under with nearly all submarine attacks. The DEI is firmly under our control now, and Palembang has finally been taken, safe from any Allied bombing attacks. It is in excellent shape with little damage sustained by the facilities there. We have convoys setup for most of the bases throughout the DEI and Heavy Industry expansion going on in order to minimize the amount of product we need to ship out of those islands. In preparation for the late war, we have adjusted some R&D to account for a better night fighter mix, and also have expanded LI in areas that we expect to control for a long time such as the Home Islands and Korea. If and when we ever run low on fuel, the extra LI will still be pumping out supply for us. We are starting to pull some maneuvers in China that will hopefully work out well in the coming months. The Chinese are already showing signs of low supply and that should work to our benefit. Beyond April, the only open objectives still are to secure northern Australia and Burma. Some numbers for February - Bases captured: 54 VP Ratio Mar 1: 1.796:1 (Japan) VP Ratio Apr 1: 2.191:1 (Japan) Air losses: 359 Japan, 302 Allies Ships lost - Allies: 27 Ships, 543 Points Ships lost - Japan: 17 Ships, 68 Points Capital Ships lost (entire war): Allies CV Saratoga CV Indomitable BB Resolution BB Prince of Wales BC Repulse CA San Francisco CA Australia CA Canberra CL Adelaide CL Caledon CL Dragon CL Enterprise CL Java CL Leander CL Marblehead CL Mauritius CL Perth Japan CL Kashima Here is the sub list, and below that current scoreboard. We only lost one sub in March, but it is unfortunately our 2nd highest scorer. The .2's and.4's on the list are from splitting up the credit for taking down Resolution. With 5 for 5 hits and 3.4 ships sunk, I-165 has a commanding lead now. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar42SubBoard_zpsb589ca40.jpg[/image]

FeurerKrieg -> RE: March Summary (2/2/2014 4:57:28 AM)
April 1st, 1942 India/Burma A close call today! SS KIX fires four torpedoes at Zuikaku and thankfully misses. Then, later, SS Grayback fires four more at Zuikaku - they miss as well. Lucky carrier! John mentioned something about 'ships that are supposedly sunk sailing across his cross hairs'. I imagine that FOW is telling him all four of my big CV's went down. Clearly he knows there is at least one carrier still afloat now if he had any doubts about FOW. Shokaku suffers another setback with "Damage Control parties trapped in flooded compartment aboard CV Shokaku ..." and float damage goes up a point to 83. Experience drops from 55/51 down to 51/46. The crew seems to be fighting a losing battle. On the plus side, we did get two more Val hits on Allied subs in the area. Given the risk these subs pose to my three good carriers, I am thinking I will have to leave Shokaku behind soon. Shokaku: 39/83/52 On the land, we launch a shock attack at Trincomalee and the base finally surrenders. We capture about 12,000 Commonwealth troops and take ove a nice size port and airfield. The port will be good since we should be able to unload the inbound divisions within two days of their arrival. I've checked the British arrival times, and there are a couple of units that John could attempt to send in as reinforcements arriving soon. One of the divisions arrives at Madras, so I'm going to drop some sub laid mines there to maybe catch some transports if he tries something there. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4142-Ceylon_zps79d15eae.jpg[/image] Trincomalee goes down - one more base and Ceylon is ours. DEI We drop off some troops at Mataram. There are a some Dutch still left here and I think I'll need another unit or two to actually take the island. Minesweepers move in and start clearing mines from Palembang, 87 mines cleared today. Philippines Siargao is occupied today. Pacific Some B-17's do little damage at Port Moresby. We capture Woodlark Island with a small barge force. China We try a DA at Sining and only get 1:2. We'll probably have to wait for the brigades that have trekked across the desert to get here before this base is ours. Submarines Near Brisbane, I-160 fires at DD Worden and misses. Other Madras expands to size 8 AF today. I've no doubt that we will see 4E bombers flying from this base once the British start to get some. About 8 subchasers start refit at Tokyo, Singapore and one at Babeldaob. DD Natsugump also starts refit at Manila.

FeurerKrieg -> April 2nd, 1942 (2/2/2014 5:13:58 AM)
April 2nd, 1942 India/Burma Our DMS arrive to sweep for mines at Trincomalee and they clear out 47. They also get attacked by SS Salmon which misses. After much consideration, Huryu, Soryu and Zuikaku head away from Shokaku. They leave slow light cruiser Kashii and four destroyers in the escort TF, as well as the two mod-2 depth charge TFs of ASW (two TFs of 4 DD's each), to try and keep the carrier covered on the way home. Perhaps feeling the pressure to get home in one piece, the crew steps it up and drops float damage by a point - Shokaku is now at 39/82/52. On land, some Blenheim IV's attack our troops at Colombo and we have few Oscars on CAP. They have some some Hurricane IIa's in the mix, plus a Martlet and the normal IIbs. We lose a couple Oscars but don't take much damage from the bombers. The notable thing is the IIa Hurricanes. I haven't seen them for a while and it makes me wonder if the IIb pools are running low for John. Some Sally's hit Rangoon and manage to destroy a Hudson on the ground. DEI Four B-17E's attack Koepang. Our Tojos are here and they shoot down one of the big planes outright. The other three only manage one airfield hit. Pacific Pentecost Island, near Luganville is occupied today. Luganville goes to AF 2. We should have it up to AF 3 pretty quickly as well. China Near Taiyuan we finally push the last Chinese unit back across the river towards Yenan. Other Saipan goes to AF 5 and I think we will stop it there. Dili hits AF 4 and that will stop as well.

FeurerKrieg -> April 3rd, 1942 (2/2/2014 5:46:52 AM)
April 3rd, 1942 India/Burma There are a series of air battles over Ceylon today. Hurricane IIa's from Madras sweep Trincomalee, but we had already stuffed the base with Oscars and some of the TBs that had been at Koggala. We put up 59 Oscars against 16 Hurricanes there. The Blenheim's come back to Colombo and we have 19 Oscars on CAP there against a small escort of 2 Hurricane IIa and 4 Hurricane IIb. Finally 8 Hurricane IIb sweep over Koggala and we put up 8 Oscars there. At the end of it all, we lose 4 Oscars to 8 Hurricanes, 1 Martlet and 2 Blenheim IVs. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4342-colombo_zpse9b22a09.jpg[/image] Lots of air combat at Ceylon CL Kashii protects Shokaku the hard way by taking a torpedo from O23. The small carrier can't take much, so one torpedo may be enough to do her in. Shokaku herself manages to drop another float point - the ship is now at 39/81/64, and very close to the place where she can turn east since we will be past Hudson range of Colombo. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4342-Ceylon_zpsfe1eefbd.jpg[/image] CL Kashii takes one for the team DEI The dot base of Tanahdjampea is occupied today. Philippines We manage to hit a KXI Class sub near Bataan Island twice today with Sallys on ASW. They are getting pretty good - most 60's skill. Pacific Our troops ships are loaded and will set sail for Noumea tomorrow (from Luganville), although they won't go far due to low ops points from refueling and stuff. Car Div 2 is loitering just west of Luganville, and our battleships will be escorting the amphib group. China he Chinese try attacking us at Tienshui and we get a good result. Their lack of supply shows as they only get 1:9 result and take pretty heavy casualties. And the nailbiter at Pingsiang comes to a close as the Chinese attack on the same day that our reinforcements arrive. They get a 1:7 result and tomorrow we will counterattack to take advantage of their likely high disruption. This is where we have been severely outnumbered and I wasn't sure if we could hold long enough. quote: Ground combat at Pingsiang (82,54) Allied Deliberate attack Attacking force 43665 troops, 296 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 836 Defending force 29560 troops, 211 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 853 Allied adjusted assault: 169 Japanese adjusted defense: 1305 Allied assault odds: 1 to 7 (fort level 1) Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), forts(+), op mode(-), leaders(+) preparation(-) Attacker: disruption(-) Japanese ground losses: 423 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 39 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 4 disabled Allied ground losses: 2377 casualties reported Squads: 72 destroyed, 189 disabled Non Combat: 2 destroyed, 25 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 22 disabled Assaulting units: 37th Chinese Corps 73rd Chinese Corps 26th Chinese Corps 74th Chinese Corps 29th Group Army 57th AT Gun Regiment 4th Heavy Mortar Regiment Defending units: 12th Ind.Mixed Brigade 6th Division 69th Division

FeurerKrieg -> April 4th, 1942 (2/3/2014 3:02:26 AM)
April 4th, 1942 India/Burma Our destroyers chase away SS Swordfish from Shokaku, but CL Kashii is again called upon to sacrifice herself by stopping a torpedo launched by SS O16. Kashii goes under, and we lose our second 18 knot cruiser. The destroyers also spot and chase off SS O20. Shokaku suffers a bit, and picks up a point of sys damage and a float point. The ship is at 40/82/52 now. On the plus side, the ship is now headed east since it manage to cover two hexes today and is now past the immediate threat of Colombo airstrikes. Hiryu, Soryu and Zuikaku are well out of the sub infested waters now and headed to Singapore. After doing some repair math I have decided that Zuikaku will head to a size 100 repair yard at the Home Islands, Soryu will go to Hong Kong and Hiryu will repair at Singapore. This will get all three carriers back in action in a little over a month. Our minelaying mission at Madras goes poorly, as we discover enemy mines are there the hard way. Of the three subs we sent in, two hit mines. Thankfully they are still afloat. One is a bit iffy, but if it can make it back to Trincomalee I think it will be fine. We manage to put down 40 mines, but an AMc there sweeps them up right away. The damaged subs will lay theirs at Trincomalee in case the British surface ships decide to come by and bombard the place. More air battles over Ceylon - 13 Hurricane IIa's sweep Trincomalee and meet 70 Oscars. Plus another Blenheim attack at Colombo meets our CAP. By the end of the day we lose about 6 Oscars and take down 12 Hurricanes and 1 Blenheim. DEI Next to Ternate we occupy the small base of Djailolo. 6 B-17E hit Koepang, and we shoot one down with the Tojos and another goes down to AA fire. Philippines Pacific Lunga reaches size four airfield - now our Betties and Nells can fly at full strength. Our fast transport TF drops the 1st Inpt SNLF Coy on Tanna and they capture the base. Our tranports head towards Koumac while the Car Div 2 lingers nearby. China Our counterattack at Pingsiang goes well, with at 2:1 result which send the Chinese running with 14,000 casualties - 99% of which are destroyed squads. The 6th and 69th Divisions will follow and cross the river to the northwest to see if we can shake things up a bit. If I can get enough gathered around Changsha I could trap a big stack there, but I might not quite be able to do that. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4442-China_zpsb3eba7a6.jpg[/image] Moving to flank Changsha Other Five destroyers go into refit at Yokohama.

FeurerKrieg -> April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 7:18:45 AM)
April 5th, 1942 A quiet day in most places, except for the South Pacific where an unexpected carrier battle breaks out! India/Burma Another sweep of Trincomalee, but this time only 5 Hurricanes come by. We shoot down three for no loses. Unfortunately, a couple Mabels and six Kates decide to go after a mine sweeper at Colombo and bring 25 Oscars with them. I say unfortunately because the 22 Hurricanes (6xIIa, 16xIIb) on CAP chew up our Oscars on escort badly. We lose 16 Oscars and only down 3 Hurricane IIb. All the TBs make it home and they do sink the AMc Rahman, but at the cost of a bunch of fighter planes. Shokaku has no close calls today and manages to drop a point of float damage bringing her down to 40/81/52. Philippines Allied subs have been hanging out off Bataan for a while, so I finally decided to mine the area. A couple hundred mines there should eventually hit any subs loitering there. Pacific Here was the main event of the day. USN carriers show up about 5 hexes southeast of Luganville. I suspect they were planning to hit the transports there, but only John knows for sure. In any case, one of our carrier TF's reacts, splitting our forces into two groups. Even so, we still have a decent range advantage on the US Carriers as our closer TF (Akagi) is six hexes away, and the other (Kaga) is seven hexes away. Our first strike from the Kaga TF is a nice one - 44 Zeros, 29 Kates (both N1 and N2), and 17 Vals. Enemy CAP consists of 14 Buffalos, 12 F4F-3 Wildcats and 13 F4F-4 Wildcats. The Zeros do well and although we lose 4 or 5 Zeros, we only lose 1 Kate and 1 Val to A2A. We lose another Kate to AA fire. Unfortunately, the weather is pretty rough and we don't get a lot of hits. The Vals do well, putting 4 bombs on CV Enterprise, 2 on Yorktown and 1 on Lexington. One Kate does manage to hit Yorktown with a torpedo as well. Our second strike, from the Akagi TF, does better. 46 Zeros, 36 Kates and 18 Vals are met by a reduced CAP of 3 Buffalos, 4 F4F-3 and 6 F4F-4. We get through the CAP easily, and lose a Kate and a Val to AA fire. However, we score a few more hits this time. Enterprise gets four torpedoes, Lexington gets two torps and a bomb, CA Northhampton gets a bomb and CA Indianpolis gets a torpedo. The first US strikes arrives over the Kaga TF, surprising since it is farther away. It consists of 12 Wildcats and 28 SBD's. We take down a few Wildcats, but most of the Dauntlesses get through. CVL Zuiho takes three bomb hits, CVL Ryujo gets one and CVE Hosho gets one. No heavy damage marks yet, just fires. However, Zuiho's planes divert to Luganville. The final strike of the morning is the US TBD's going for Luganville. They carry bombs in and drop them on three of our transports. One will probably sink (3 bomb hits), the other two should survive (1 hit each). The afternoon gets off to an interesting start. 9 Bettys make the long flight down from Lunga to attack the enemy carriers. Along the way, 3 Kates and 9 Zeros of the rebased Zuiho groups join them from Luganville. This group finds Yorktown and manages to drop three bombs on her - one of which is from one of the Bettys! Next up the Akagi TF reacts again and moves a hex closer to the enemy. First is a strike of 46 Zeros, 40 Kate and 18 Vals. No enemy CAP is present so our bombers have it easy with only AA fire to worry about. No planes are lost but they manage a bomb and torpedo on Yorktown, with assorted other hits on cruisers and DD's that I'll summarize below. Our next strike from the Kaga TF - minus Zuiho - is 30 Zeros and 44 Kates. Again, no enemy CAP. This one puts a torpedo into Yorktown and confirms her sunk, taking several planes down with her. Indianapolis get three torpedoes and is also confirmed sunk. Northhampton gets a torpedo as well. Although there was no enemy CAP, somebody is still flying planes because 3 Wildcats and 29 SBDs show up over over the Kaga TF and although we take a bite out of the SBDs, 20 of them still get through. They hit zuiho with four bombs, one of which causes an ammo explosion, and CVE Unyo is hit with 1 bomb. The last attack of the day is 4 TBDs attacking Akagi now that it is within 5 hexes. Our CAP of 75 Zeros makes easy work of the TBDs and none of them go home. Overall a great fight - our carriers and battleships are in good shape (except Zuiho and Unyo) and they will all head east. The battleships will hope to cross paths with some slower damaged ships while our carriers will make sure we finish off Enterprise and Lexington. Suva is still a good distance away, and with only a size 2 airfield we don't have much to worry about from there. Our troop ships will continue on towards Koumac. Unfortunately Zuiho is in bad shape. Unlike Shokaku, Zuiho has raging fires so I don't expect her to survive tomorrow. CVL Ryujo and CVE Unyo are hardly scratched from the single bombs they each took. However, CVE Hosho has some damage and will need to head to Rabaul to get fixed, but it really is in no danger of sinking, other than from submarines. Below are some screenshots of the battle, as well as a summary of hits on ships as well as the status of our carriers. Hits - Allies CV Lexington 2 bombs, 2 torps CV Enterprise 4 bombs, 4 torps CV Yorktown 6 bombs, 3 torps (sunk) CA Northhampton 1 bombs, 1 torp CA Indianapolis 0 bombs, 5 torps (sunk) CA Chester 2 bombs, 1 torps CA Chicago 4 bombs, 1 torp CA Pensacola 2 bombs, 2 torps DD Dunlap 0 bombs, 1 torp DD Ellet 1 bombs, 0 torp DD Craven 2 bombs, 0 torp IJN CVL Zuiho 7 bombs(79/75/15/75) CVL Ryujo 1 bomb (6/2/2/0) CVE Hosho 1 bomb (25/5/1/0) CVE Unyo 1 bomb (4/1/3/0) [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4542-EfateCVAM_zps25214a58.jpg[/image] Morning air action [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4542-EfateCVPM_zps1b8791b6.jpg[/image] Afternoon air action [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4542-Airlosses2_zps8264f49e.jpg[/image] Air losses Other Paramushiro Jima hits AF level 3 and DD Minegumo begins refit at Singapore. We get a report of AMc Agra having sunk at Chittagong back on February 13th, 1942. We also get a report of the AMC Kookaburra having sunk at Port Moresby back on January 22nd, 1942.

offenseman -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 1:22:27 PM)
Great results, especially coming after the big battle on the other end of the map. That is a lot of power projection lost by the Allies. Well done!

jeffk3510 -> RE: March Summary (2/3/2014 3:58:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg Another month comes to an end, and it was a lively one. The rate of base captures slows some as we run into some opposition during our Flores Islands cleanup in the DEI. Although that has been dealt with, there won't be that many more bases to vacuum up as we get closer to our planned expansion goals. This month we capture 54 bases, compared to 85 last month. The highlights of the month were the capture of Luganville, Bataan and the fact that Trincomalee is nearly captured. With luck we will finally take Colombo in April, as well as Noumea and maybe even Suva depending on what the US CV arm does. The naval war picked up in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Although we did sink a British carrier, it was at a high cost as we will probably lose Shokaku. There have been some successes though as we damaged Royal Sovereign and put Resolution under with nearly all submarine attacks. The DEI is firmly under our control now, and Palembang has finally been taken, safe from any Allied bombing attacks. It is in excellent shape with little damage sustained by the facilities there. We have convoys setup for most of the bases throughout the DEI and Heavy Industry expansion going on in order to minimize the amount of product we need to ship out of those islands. In preparation for the late war, we have adjusted some R&D to account for a better night fighter mix, and also have expanded LI in areas that we expect to control for a long time such as the Home Islands and Korea. If and when we ever run low on fuel, the extra LI will still be pumping out supply for us. We are starting to pull some maneuvers in China that will hopefully work out well in the coming months. The Chinese are already showing signs of low supply and that should work to our benefit. Beyond April, the only open objectives still are to secure northern Australia and Burma. Some numbers for February - Bases captured: 54 VP Ratio Mar 1: 1.796:1 (Japan) VP Ratio Apr 1: 2.191:1 (Japan) Air losses: 359 Japan, 302 Allies Ships lost - Allies: 27 Ships, 543 Points Ships lost - Japan: 17 Ships, 68 Points Capital Ships lost (entire war): Allies CV Saratoga CV Indomitable BB Resolution BB Prince of Wales BC Repulse CA San Francisco CA Australia CA Canberra CL Adelaide CL Caledon CL Dragon CL Enterprise CL Java CL Leander CL Marblehead CL Mauritius CL Perth Japan CL Kashima Here is the sub list, and below that current scoreboard. We only lost one sub in March, but it is unfortunately our 2nd highest scorer. The .2's and.4's on the list are from splitting up the credit for taking down Resolution. With 5 for 5 hits and 3.4 ships sunk, I-165 has a commanding lead now. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/Mar42SubBoard_zpsb589ca40.jpg[/image] Enjoying watching you push forward... What program is that with the sub information, and does it keep track of sunk tonnage by sub for you? If so, I want this!!

jeffk3510 -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 4:08:56 PM)
That is a huge blow for the Allies.. looks like free reign down there for some time..

JocMeister -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 4:27:30 PM)
Congrats! That�s a solid result!

FeurerKrieg -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 5:02:59 PM)
Hi Jeff - There is a sub tracking program out there, and I have the worksheet that does it, but I don't have the correct version of excel to use it. The sheet you see is just me manually typing in submarine activity and then each month I sort and update each sub with that month's shots/hits/kills. I also check over old hits to make sure ships haven't been reported killed. CV battle - Yes, I think a good result and I agree it will be nice having a free hand in the Pacific for a while. April 6th was a busy day - not only tracking down the US ships, but the British decide to get frisky as well! Lots of action on both sides of the globe. I'll try to get that report done tonight, it is another long one though.

ny59giants -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 5:57:49 PM)
KUDOS!! [&o][&o] To others playing Allies, why don't you place those 18 plane Marine fighter groups on your American CVs early in the war when they have just 27 fighters until July '42 re-sizing?? For me, its SOP as it helps with survivability even with some still having the old Buffaloes. 135 fighters are what you should have faced. [:(]

obvert -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/3/2014 6:53:01 PM)
Nice work there in the South Pacific. That'll ease the pain of Shokaku. Now you have a good year, maybe a year and a half to do as you like.

FeurerKrieg -> April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/4/2014 6:24:06 AM)
April 6th, 1942 Another lively day! Action on both sides of the Empire today. India/Burma Apparently realizing that my heavy cover for Shokaku had left the scene, the British run some fast light cruisers out to try and take out our carrier for good! Yikes! Just to set the scene, we have two ASW TFs of 3 destroyers each (I may have said four before, but it was changed to 3 when the other carriers left). Also, Shokaku has lost CL Kashii, so she is sailing with only five DD's in her TF. It is a rainy night, with 67% moon, so max visibility is only 6,000 yards. The enemy TF consists of CL Emerald, CL Ceres, CL Colombo and five DDs (John Edwards, Decoy, Fortune, Griffin and Hotspur). The first TF that the cruisers encounter consists of DD's Yamakaze, Kawakaze, and Umikaze. Our boys try to disengage, but the enemy cruisers are fast and they are out for blood. Shots start flying at 5,000 yards and we get as close as 2,000 yards before we are able to get away into the rain. Overall - our boys do excellent given the odds. Umikaze opens up initially hitting Hotspur and Colombo with guns, and also manages to put a torpedo into Colombo causing heavy damage to the light cruiser. Yamakaze also does well, putting some hits on John Edwards, Hotspur and one on Griffin. Kawakaze comes in late, but hits Griffin and Hotspur as well. Colombo gets some revenge on Umikaze however, and puts a 6inch shell into the destroyer. Ceres does the same so Umikaze isn't in good shape by the time we are able to make our escape. Yamakaze looks bad in the picture below, but only has 15 sys and 15 fires, so she should be fine. Thus, round one sees CL Emerald with 1 hit, CL Colombo with 7 shells and a torp hit, DD Edwards has 4 hits, Griffin has 2 hits and Hotpur goes under after 12 shells find her. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4642-round1ceylon_zpsdc9fe365.jpg[/image] Round 1 While Shokaku and her five escorts do their best to get out of the way, our other three brave destroyers engage what's left of the enemy TF. DDs Tokitsukaze, Yudachi and Samidare spot CL Emerald, CL Ceres and DD Decoy still heading towards the carrier. This time our DD's get to within 4,000 yards and as Ceres pelts Tokitsukaze with AA gunfire, Tokitsukaze hits back with a gun round and then puts a torpedo into Ceres and the ship appears to sink immediately. This seems to dissuade the Brits from further combat and they disengage. We manage to hit Emerald with a shell on the way out, but our destroyers escape unscathed! [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4642-round2ceylon_zps6f5a6a2a.jpg[/image] Round 2 So far all seems great - only one destroyer is likely to sink (Umikaze) and we sink an enemy DD and maybe two light cruisers (these torps are the big 61 cm ones after all). Just when we think we are out of the woods, though, SS KIX takes a crack at Shokaku since the ASW TF's have been chased away! DD Suzukaze gets in the way of a torpedo and is sunk, but Shokaku lives another day. Unfortunately, because of the high speed used to get away from the enemy cruisers, Shokaku's damages jumps up 7 float points and 3 engine points to 40/88/55. Umikaze struggles and has several messages about fires and flooding, but ends the day still above the waves with 74/60/28 damage and 64 fires. Those 64 fires will likely do the ship in tomorrow, but she fought well! That's just the night! Once the sun is up, British planes attack our battleships arriving at Trincomalee! First a pair of unescorted Albacores attack, but our Oscars shoot them both down easily. Next 5 Hurricanes and 2 more Albacores come in and again, we take the TBs down easily and a couple Hurricanes as well. Finally seven Swordfish come in but thankfully they have no escort, so our Oscars take them all down easily. We lost a couple Oscars but our battleships are safe for another day! Blenheims again attack at Colombo, but we only have a couple Oscars from CAP leaking over since most were on LRCAP over the surface fleet. We don't really engage, and we lose a couple squads to the Blens. DEI Pakanbaroe, next to Padang on Sumatra, is occupied by us today. Philippines The mines laid yesterday immediately do the trick as SS Spearfish hits on and has fire and heavy damage. It is a long way from a friendly port, that is for sure. Pacific This will be in the next post - this report is already pretty long!

FeurerKrieg -> April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/4/2014 7:15:16 AM)
April 6th, 1942 continued A couple things I missed in the last post - one is that SS Trusty was found three times by DD Samidare and Kawakaze after their surface fights. Thankfully Trusty wasn't able to torpedo them. Also, our battleship TF was attack by SS Salmon, but we were saved by a dud torpedo. Anyway - onwards to the Pacific! Pacific All kinds of action here, as we dive into the remains of the Allied fleet and have a field day. First up, Zuiho sinks early in the night phase, so that's a bummer, but not unexpected. The rest of the fleet will do their best to make sure her death was not in vain! First, our amphib force makes landfall at Koumac without incident. So the entire basis for our combat ships to be in the area was successful. The 28th Division and 8th Tank Regiment will march down the island and seize Noumea. The rest of the night is pretty quite. Once the sun comes up, the first combat action of the day occurs when our Akagi TF stumbles across CA Chester, CA Chicago and three DD's! Both TF's bolt from each other, but not before CA Ashigara hits Chicago at the impressive range of 30,000 yards. The shell doesn't penetrate Chicago's deck armor, but still a nice shot. Next, as CA Chester and Chicago flee our carrier TF, they cross the path of I-9 which fires a spread of six torpedoes at CA Chester and hits with three of them. I-9 gets away and then returns later for another attempt, but DD Benham gets in the way so I-9 fires at Benham, misses, leaves and calls it a day. A good one for any sub to put three fish into a heavy cruiser. During the AM Search phase we get three hits on unidentified destroyers and one hit on a CV - not sure which one it was. The first airstrike we launch is from the Akaki TF and is 49 Zeros, 34 Kates and 6 Vals. They find the most important enemy ships - Lexington and Enterprise. Lex gets 3 torpedoes and Enterprise gets 4 bombs hits - both ships are reported sunk. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4642-efate1_zpsc6a22642.jpg[/image] The last two big carriers go down After that we have strikes going all over the place to try and get various USN Ships. 4 Kates and 7 Vals attack CA Northhampton, scoring a torpedo hit. 13 Kates armed with bombs find CA Chicago and manage to hit Chicago with 3, DD Benham with 3 and DD Fanning with 2. 19 Vals find DD Dunlap and hit with two bombs, sinking the ship. 6 Kates and 8 Vals hit DD Cummings and Mahan, and score 1 bomb hit on Cummings. 3 Kates fail to hit DD Gridley and with that the morning comes to an end. In the afternoon, we keep at it. During the search phase Vals hit DD Cummings once and DD Mahan twice. Then the naval strikes start. 25 Vals attack CA Chicago, and a pair of DD's. Chicago gets six bombs, DD Fanning gets 1 and D Maury takes 1. 6 Vals miss Gridley. 24 Kates go to where Chicago was, but find the ship has sunk. 26 Kates hit DD Ellet and Gridley. Ellet is hit once while Gridley gets hit six times and is confirmed sunk. 5 Kates miss DD Cummings. 7 Kates and 8 Vals hit both DD Cummings and Mahan with two bombs each, sinking Cummings. With that the day ends. Our surface force failed to connect with any enemy ships, but our air wings do plenty of damage. Here is the summary of hits from both yesterday and today. We will surround Suva with subs and hopefully catch some of these damaged ships. Every destroyer listed below is at 'heavy damage, heavy fires', so some might not make it home, although the Allied damage control is legendary. The 'sunk' notes below are those that were listed as sunk in the replay. For comparison a screen shot of the sunk ships list is also below. Hits (both days) - CV Lexington 2 bombs, 5 torps (sunk) CV Enterprise 8 bombs, 4 torps (sunk) CV Yorktown 6 bombs, 3 torps (sunk) CA Northhampton 1 bomb , 2 torp CA Indianapolis 0 bombs, 5 torps (sunk) CA Chester 2 bombs, 4 torps (sunk) CA Chicago 13 bombs, 1 torp (sunk) CA Pensacola 2 bombs, 2 torps DD Dunlap 2 bombs, 1 torp (sunk) DD Ellet 2 bomb , 0 torp DD Craven 2 bombs, 0 torp DD Benham 3 bombs, 0 torp DD Fanning 3 bombs, 0 torp DD Cummings 4 bomb , 0 torp (sunk) DD Maury 1 bomb , 0 torp DD Gridley 6 bombs, 0 torp (sunk) DD Mahan 4 bombs, 0 torp [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4642-shiplosses_zps42f2d175.jpg[/image] [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4642-Airlosses_zps2b6adc26.jpg[/image]

obvert -> RE: April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/4/2014 7:41:57 AM)
Way to clean it up! [:)]

JocMeister -> RE: April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/4/2014 8:59:26 AM)
Sorry if I missed something from earlier but why the heck does your opponent operate only 3 CVs in the SOPAC? Where is Wasp Hornet and Saratoga?

FeurerKrieg -> RE: April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/4/2014 5:00:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: JocMeister Sorry if I missed something from earlier but why the heck does your opponent operate only 3 CVs in the SOPAC? Where is Wasp Hornet and Saratoga? Saratoga was sunk back on January 2nd. I believe Hornet would be on map now, but wouldn't have been able to reach this battle unless she had been sailing full speed. I don't think Wasp has arrived yet. John did comment in an email right after this battle that he didn't expect me to have so many CVL/CVE's here. He may also have some FOW telling him I lost a carrier from our January battle. Also, I have had all CV/CVL/CVE on accelerated production since day 1 so he may not have expected Junyo and a couple CVE's to be here yet. It is always hard to tell what info the other side has, that is for sure.

FeurerKrieg -> April 7th, 1942 (2/5/2014 7:27:44 AM)
April 7th, 1942 Relative calm descends on the war for a couple of days... India/Burma DD Umikaze can't take the damage and goes under in the night. Much more significant is that Shokaku finally loses her fight with the enemy submarine forces. SS Haddock manages to sneak past the escorts and hits with two torpedoes. One is a dud, but one detonates which puts Shokaku under. Hard to say if she would have made it home anyway, but still a sad day. The crew certainly fought to keep her afloat! [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4742-shokaku_zps7fefb406.jpg[/image] Shokaku's luck finally runs out DEI B-17E's hit Dili for no damage. On Borneo a coordinated day of attacks was launched on enemy remnants. In four places - Melak, outside Kuching, Tandjoengselor, and Beaufort - we attack simultaneously to ensure none of the enemy units have retreat paths. Everywhere we have victories and in all about 1,800 British and Dutch troops surrender. All bases on Borneo, including the inland ones, are now occupied and there are no rogue units roaming around. Philippines SS Spearfish hits another mine at Bataan which should be the end of that sub. Pacific Koumac is occupied for 'free' today. Probably helped that we had a division and a tank regiment sitting on the base ready to attack. SS Sturgeon fires at some transports we have headed to Port Moresby to pick up the 21st Division now that an attack on Suva can be safely carried out without worrying about US Carriers. Sturgeon misses so all is good. SS Seawolk attacks a group of yard oilers we are using to move fuel to Port Moresby. Don't want to risk bigger tankers so these YO's come in handy for this. I also have a pair of YO's moving the oil from Formosa to the Home Islands. They have just enough fuel to make the round trip. Seawolf misses too. SS S-41 is chased away. I clearly need to get some ASW planes down here. In the warzone, Our surface combat group finds DD Mahan and a couple 40cm shells from Mutsu are enough to take care of the destroyer. Some SBD-3's attack our battleships from Suva, 6 DBs to be exact, but they all miss. Our carriers take a southwesterly route home to avoid the obvious return path which is probably littered with enemy subs. We'll head towards Koumac and then turn north. The carriers will go and rearm, refuel and rest a couple days while our infantry march down to Noumea and we get the 8th Division and 21st Divisions loaded up from Luganville and Port Moresby respectively. Transports will also load up the 26th from Koumac as soon as it is captured, and then all three divisions will head to Suva. Submarines Near Suva, our subs try to catch enemy ships headed back there after the battle. I-19 and I-1 both take shots at DD Maury but miss. I-164 however finds DD Ellet and hits the damaged destroyer with a torpedo, sinking the ship. Near Brisbane, I-160 gets spotted a couple times by AMs and DD Worden.

offenseman -> RE: April 7th, 1942 (2/5/2014 1:16:49 PM)
That was really an amazing series of turns for Shokaku. The sub attacks, float damage going up and down. More fun to watch than TV. [:)] Sorry she was lost though.

setloz -> RE: April 7th, 1942 (2/5/2014 2:17:43 PM)
Shokaku for Indomitable. Not a good trade. :( But you did get the 3 USN CVs and you're still in the lead. just caught up reading your AAR, very good read. Thanks for keeping it.

FeurerKrieg -> RE: April 7th, 1942 (2/5/2014 10:17:03 PM)
Yes, I agree a bad trade, but looking on the bright side, at least it wasn't Shokaku for nothing!

jeffk3510 -> RE: April 5th, 1942 - CV Battle! (2/5/2014 10:42:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants KUDOS!! [&o][&o] To others playing Allies, why don't you place those 18 plane Marine fighter groups on your American CVs early in the war when they have just 27 fighters until July '42 re-sizing?? For me, its SOP as it helps with survivability even with some still having the old Buffaloes. 135 fighters are what you should have faced. [:(] None of them are Carrier Trained.. Carrier Capable, yes. Not trained. That takes something like 180 days, correct?

jeffk3510 -> RE: April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/5/2014 10:45:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Feurer Krieg quote: ORIGINAL: JocMeister Sorry if I missed something from earlier but why the heck does your opponent operate only 3 CVs in the SOPAC? Where is Wasp Hornet and Saratoga? Saratoga was sunk back on January 2nd. I believe Hornet would be on map now, but wouldn't have been able to reach this battle unless she had been sailing full speed. I don't think Wasp has arrived yet. John did comment in an email right after this battle that he didn't expect me to have so many CVL/CVE's here. He may also have some FOW telling him I lost a carrier from our January battle. Also, I have had all CV/CVL/CVE on accelerated production since day 1 so he may not have expected Junyo and a couple CVE's to be here yet. It is always hard to tell what info the other side has, that is for sure. Wasp doesn't show up till around June 10/11th or so.

ny59giants -> RE: April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/5/2014 11:45:01 PM)
quote: None of them are Carrier Trained. Carrier Capable, yes. Not trained. That takes something like 180 days, correct? No, only 90 days. You don't suffer much in the way of op losses or in combat effectiveness.

FeurerKrieg -> RE: April 6th, 1942 - fighting everywhere! (2/6/2014 12:14:50 AM)
I agree with that, I have several carrier capable A6M2 units on my CVs. Just had one get carrier trained the other day, but to reduce ops losses you can put the none-trained ones on Escort, 0 CAP and up the CAP on the others. That way, unless a strike is launched, you non-trained pilots aren't flying.

FeurerKrieg -> April 8th, 1942 (2/7/2014 12:39:59 AM)
April 8th, 1942 India/Burma Our ASW attacks SS Swordfish near Koggala, but doesn't get any hits. Our own I-123 lays a minefield at Trincomalee before finally pulling up to the pier to stablize it's flooding. Mines are hard to come by, so we wouldn't want the sub to sink with a full load. Hopefully the mines will help if the British battleships show up. I still haven't been able to locate them, so all sectors are still on alert. I expect a sudden bombardment anytime. Blenheim's switch to Trincomalee today and we have no CAP up since our cap is LRCAPing the incoming 16th and 48th Divisions and their battleship escorts. The Blen's don't hit anything anyway so no problem there. Our ASW misses SS Salmon which takes a shot at a small convoy hauling a pair of AA units in. Salmon misses though. DEI B-17's at Dili do little damage. We attack at Mataram and the defenders are tough! We only get a 1:5 result against forts of only level 1. We'll bring in some more small units before we try to attack again. Worst case I'll have to wait for the Brigade that is in the interior of Borneo to reach Balikpapan and haul it down here. Philippines Today SS Cuttlefish hits a mine at Bataan. So far those mines are paying off! Pacific Just north of Tanna, the dot base of Erromango is occupied. China The Chinese send a Corp across the river southwest of Hengyang. We have two-thirds of a division there and the Chinese unit is beat up good with a 1:41 result. We take zero casualties while the Chinese take 1,400. We will attack tomorrow and bounce that unit back to Hengyang. Submarines I-160 takes a shot at DD Worden near Bribane but misses. Other Always nice to see these... SS Shark determined to have been sunk on or about Mar, 21, 1942 AM Warrnambool is reported to have been sunk near Derby on Feb 06, 1942 xAP Republic is reported to have been sunk near Derby on Jan 20, 1942

FeurerKrieg -> April 9th, 1942 (2/7/2014 1:12:09 AM)
April 9th, 1942 India/Burma We chase SS Salmon away as the 16th and 48th Division unload. These empty fast transports should start home tomorrow. I'll be glad to get them out of harms way. Although reinforcement are on the way, I don't want to Brits to rebuild very much so I do a deliberate attack at Colombo today. Results are 1:1 and forts drop to 2. We lose more than they do, but with 45,000 more troops on the way I think we will be okay. DEI Some Dutch refugees that I must have missed come out of woods and sit on Sibolga causing it to flip back to Allies during the freebie phase. I have a tank unit up that way that will go clear the base before I load them up for Burma. Pacific Belep Island, just north of Koumac, is occupied. I had unloaded an SNLF unit there, but now I will reload it and move them over to Koumac. A couple SBD's from Noumea attack our transports at Belep that just dropped off the SNLF there. They manage to sink one of our nice big xAP's. The other transports will have to get to Koumac where our BB's will have more AA and likely draw the SBD attacks. In the afternoon, two SBD's attack the BBs. Our Pete's on CAP damage the bombers, and the bombs they drop miss Hiei. As soon as we take Noumea this won't be a problem. [image]http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj283/bfeurer/4842-noumea_zpsb3ca7911.jpg[/image] Didn't really expect SBD's down here One nice thing about the YO's moving oil is that so far the USN Subs keep deciding they aren't worth wasting a torpedo on (Captain of SS Sturgeon elects not to launch torpedoes at this target). In the meantime I have fuel flowing to Port Moresby. Nice! B-17's hit Horn Island but do no damage. China At Hengyang, we counter attack the unit that came across the river an easily bounce it back. We get 11:1 odds and the enemy unit loses about 2,500 men. Submarines North of Suva, I-7 takes a shot a DD McCall but misses. Other Shortlands goes to airfield size 2.

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