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obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (5/23/2012 10:39:32 AM)

Sounds like you've already changed it, but curious about changing out an Ha-35 engine factory. Isn't that one of the most useful engines to the end of the war?

I must be behind on some things here. What is the state of the DEI now? Do you have a screenshot to show us?



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (5/23/2012 10:50:20 AM)

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ORIGINAL: obvert

Sounds like you've already changed it, but curious about changing out an Ha-35 engine factory. Isn't that one of the most useful engines to the end of the war?

I must be behind on some things here. What is the state of the DEI now? Do you have a screenshot to show us?


I can attach a screenshot next turn, that might be today or tomorrow.

I had 300 Ha-35s a month built. Even in the worst scenario I dont need that many so I converted a size 30 factory to Ha-34.

My Ha-35 use:

A6M2-N: 10
A6M3: 120(only 30 active)
B5N2: 30(turned off)
Ki-43-Ic: 50(turned off but next month I'll have the IIa available and will turn this back on again)
Ki-45: 30
Ki-56: 10(turned off)

Later I will probably expand Zero production just slightly when M5 becomes available. Also J1N1 uses Ha-35 and I will build 10 or so/month.

Current Ha-35 need would be 290 if all aircraft factories were on. The 270/month of Ha-35s now built is too much but I am producing some engines to reserve before either converting more factories to Ha-45 or turning them off, temporarily or for good.


July 17

An xAK carrying a Marine unit to Lunga gets torpedoed and sunk near Munda. The surviving xAK picks up most of the men who were aboard.

DEI: Manado invasion in 2 days. Transports at Koepang and Soerebaja start loading troops due to various places, like Burma...



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/1/2012 1:19:09 PM)

July 18, July 19


Burma: JAAF keeps bombing Chittacong. No resistance. No Allied movements detected. Japanese reinforcements, in the form of several infantry divisions as well as artillery and armored units, start arriving at Rangoon from tomorrow.

DEI: Japan invades Manado and reinforces Ambon invasion forces. Both places should fall shortly - Manado apparently has no supplies and Ambon defenders face 4:1 odds and just lost their last fortification level.

Kido Butai: is happily together again as Shokaku and Zuikaku rejoin it. They have the radars installed now, those should help a lot should KB become under aerial attack.

Industry: Ha-45 enters production and 2 first engines of the type are built today. Factories should turn out approximately 120 of them a month.



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/5/2012 5:19:47 PM)

July 20


Solomons: Hero of the day is the crew of xAK Yuri Maru. Returning towards Rabaul from its supply cargo mission, it got attacked by an Allied submarine near Munda. The sub attacked on the surface, but in the ensuing duel the Yuri Maru managed to score 2 120mm gun hits on the submarine. An internal explosion and heavy damage was observed. The submarine itself failed to score a single gun or torpedo hit on the Yuri Maru. Yuri Maru's crew experience went from 16 to 61... Banzai!

Timor Sea:

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obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/5/2012 8:47:11 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Erkki

quote:

ORIGINAL: obvert

Sounds like you've already changed it, but curious about changing out an Ha-35 engine factory. Isn't that one of the most useful engines to the end of the war?

I must be behind on some things here. What is the state of the DEI now? Do you have a screenshot to show us?


I can attach a screenshot next turn, that might be today or tomorrow.

I had 300 Ha-35s a month built. Even in the worst scenario I dont need that many so I converted a size 30 factory to Ha-34.

My Ha-35 use:

A6M2-N: 10
A6M3: 120(only 30 active)
B5N2: 30(turned off)
Ki-43-Ic: 50(turned off but next month I'll have the IIa available and will turn this back on again)
Ki-45: 30
Ki-56: 10(turned off)


I just went over 500 engines in the pool, which is great to push forward all research projects using this engine. That's the only reason to keep building a lot, then once that goal has been reached and established I'll taper off.

That's aamzing about the Yuri Maru! Definitely haven't seen that happen yet.

What are all of those ships doing on your map? Are you invading West OZ?



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/7/2012 11:48:02 AM)

July 21


Submarines:

xAK Yuri Maru isnt that lucky today. It gets attacked by another submarine that procees to fire about 20 torpedoes... And one of them isnt a dud. Yuri Maru is 40nm from Rabaul now but will likely sunk as fires and damage are high.

Near Karachi in India, Japanese I-11 attacks a Royal Navy destroyer squadron and scores a hit on DD Griffin - but its a dud! I-11 is hit by 5 near misses and will have to retire with moderate but probably non lethal damage.


Burma: Japanese bombers hit Chittacong yet again. Yesterday they scored just 1 runway hit but do much better today with 3 base, 2 supply and I think 12 runway hits (54 bombers at 14kft, partly cloudy).


DEI: Ambon falls.


Timor Sea: detection levels of some of the task forces has risen to 1/0, but there have been no sightings of Allied aircraft or submarines here for months. Tomorrow is the landing day, targets are Broome, Derby and Port Hedland. The purpose of this operation is to make Bart react and attrit the Allies, deny the Allies some bases in the area as well as threaten, and if plausible, cut off and take Darwin by land. Providing the troops air cover will be a problem, but there are no big airfields anywhere nearby other than Darwin, so Allied bombers will most probably not be problem for at least a month. Allied armored units might become an issue, but as the Australian bases have not been built up at all, Bart more likely than not already has trouble keeping his units supplied. Northern Australia seems to only has the garrisons that begin the war there.



Crackaces -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/7/2012 4:32:13 PM)

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detection levels of some of the task forces has risen to 1/0, but there have been no sightings of Allied aircraft or submarines here for months


The Allied player might have picked up on some radio traffic ..



obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/7/2012 6:02:13 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Crackaces

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detection levels of some of the task forces has risen to 1/0, but there have been no sightings of Allied aircraft or submarines here for months


The Allied player might have picked up on some radio traffic ..


I find that at my bases quite a lot!



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/12/2012 8:35:16 AM)

July 22


Submarines: xAK Yuri Maru sinks at sea...


Timor Sea: Port Hedland invaded! Broome invaded! Derby invaded! All these places should fall easily tomorrow. Then we'll land the support units.


Economy:

Heavy Industry pool hit 500,000 today. Its rising by almost 5,000 units a day.

Home Islands have more fuel, supply and resources than ever before today. Oil is still dropping but there isnt much I can do about it. I need to ship in more of it, and fuel of course...

Been thinking about doing this for some time, and finally did it today. CV Aso project is halted for now. I cant afford to keep her accelerated until her completion, instead she could only be advanced by about 180 days - which would bring her completion date to somewhere in December 1944. Once the CV Hiyo is completed in 10 days, the Aso will be continued in something like 2 days on 1 day off pattern until the hull is laid, and then built normally.



obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/12/2012 9:46:28 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Erkki

Economy:

Heavy Industry pool hit 500,000 today. Its rising by almost 5,000 units a day.

Home Islands have more fuel, supply and resources than ever before today. Oil is still dropping but there isnt much I can do about it. I need to ship in more of it, and fuel of course...

Been thinking about doing this for some time, and finally did it today. CV Aso project is halted for now. I cant afford to keep her accelerated until her completion, instead she could only be advanced by about 180 days - which would bring her completion date to somewhere in December 1944. Once the CV Hiyo is completed in 10 days, the Aso will be continued in something like 2 days on 1 day off pattern until the hull is laid, and then built normally.


Since I'm a bit ahead of you I though I'd add that the 5k a day mark is a good target. I keep shooting for that, and usually fall just a bit short, but I'm entering December with over 900k in the bank. My goal for the year mark has been a million, and I should surpass that easily, all while producing just about whatever I want to produce.

Not sure if you're building Musashi, but I halted that for just a bit and it gave me such an enormous pool I can start that again and get others accelerated. I also halted later subs, just kept the ones in the next 4 months or so going, and I'll start them again when Musashi is done if I feel the need.



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/12/2012 6:33:37 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: obvert

Since I'm a bit ahead of you I though I'd add that the 5k a day mark is a good target. I keep shooting for that, and usually fall just a bit short, but I'm entering December with over 900k in the bank. My goal for the year mark has been a million, and I should surpass that easily, all while producing just about whatever I want to produce.

Not sure if you're building Musashi, but I halted that for just a bit and it gave me such an enormous pool I can start that again and get others accelerated. I also halted later subs, just kept the ones in the next 4 months or so going, and I'll start them again when Musashi is done if I feel the need.


Hey,

I'm building Musashi. I thought about halting her for a week or 2, but the sooner shes built the more likely shes going to achieve me something before eventually going down. And halting doesnt make her any cheaper to build... So I rather temporarily halt submarines. I only have 4 submarines built at any time because I have a feeling that the Allied ASW is even more powerful in the DBB than it is in the stock game and because Bart is fully exploiting the out of map movement and the vast shipping capacity the Allies already have and the subs I now have get shots at Allied shipping only very rarely(we're talking about twice a month or so) despite patrolling everywhere the Allies need to sail convoys - so far we've had more shots on naval combat TFs than cargo/transport, or even ASW...!

The other side of the fence, Allied submarines seem to regularly get completely ignored by Japanese escort vessels and the best IJN ASW asset seem to be lone xAKs: I have a 12-plane squadron at Rabaul flying ASW at 2000ft 80%, all pilots are ASW 70+ and NavS 60+ and they so far in 4 months they havent attacked any of the 5 to 10 submarines regularly spotted in the area. Waste of pilot training capacity and supplies! [:(]



obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/12/2012 7:23:51 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Erkki

The other side of the fence, Allied submarines seem to regularly get completely ignored by Japanese escort vessels and the best IJN ASW asset seem to be lone xAKs: I have a 12-plane squadron at Rabaul flying ASW at 2000ft 80%, all pilots are ASW 70+ and NavS 60+ and they so far in 4 months they havent attacked any of the 5 to 10 submarines regularly spotted in the area. Waste of pilot training capacity and supplies! [:(]


I wonder of something changed. I used to get a lot of hits from IJAAF Sallys and Helens. Not so many any more. My pilots are 70+ ASW and mostly 70+ low naval flying at 1k or 2k. It might have to do with the changes they put in on low level bombing by 2E and 4E non-attack bombers. Been wondering this for some time.

If that is a reason, does it make sense to fly them at 6k to get full bomb package? I have heard some players fly them that high and have gotten results. But again that was a while ago.

I've 'missed' at least 20 attempts by subs on capital ships and CVs, for I think 1 hit. Crazy. While he's hit my Carriers twice with Mk 14 torps!



SqzMyLemon -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/12/2012 8:19:33 PM)

I've run into the same problem with my ASW platforms. I'm too lazy to go back and see when we upgraded to the last official update, but my ASW has dropped off the map. My air ASW attacks are down and my once effective E's and SC's are now no longer doing anything against submarines besides reacting to them. I don't understand, it's like my ASW has just gone to sleep across the board.



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/14/2012 9:57:56 AM)

On the AASW: I dont think rising the alt from 2,000ft to 6,000 would effect much. They are not attacking the submarines they spot daily so I doubt increasing the payload will help. Hmm...


July 23


Australia: Derby, Broome and Port Hedland fall! Interestingly, aerial reconnaissance reports no activity whatsoever elsewhere in the AUS. Maybe they'll react when the crack 88 experience 33rd Infantry Division lands at Darwin, supported by battleships, in about 30 days? Wave 2 task forces will now drop some support units (including armor). Targets are Nookabah and then Katherine. Allied forces in the area are minimal and so poorly supplied that the xAKs of the Derby landing force actually wiped out the whole garrison in less than 24 hours!

Pearl Harbor: intelligence reports the harbor to have 146 ships, including at least 1 CV and an unholy number of destroyers and cruisers... I believe that at least all the USN CVs are there.

KB: Main body of the KB is in the Central Pacific, now equipped with Shokaku and Zuikaku's radars...



obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/14/2012 2:07:46 PM)

quote:

On the AASW: I dont think rising the alt from 2,000ft to 6,000 would effect much. They are not attacking the submarines they spot daily so I doubt increasing the payload will help. Hmm...


There are some very frequented areas patrolled by ASW in my game. I'll do some experiments. I'll set everything to 1k for a month. Then 2k. Then 6k. I'll see if it makes a difference. They're all IJAAF, all trained to 70 ASW 60-70 Low Nav.



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/19/2012 11:50:54 AM)

July 24



Burma: yet another day of bombing Chittacong. Dacca hit AF size 5 today and I'm expecting to see enemy air units there soon. I cant escort bombers that far but at least it goes both ways, plus its pretty far to LRCAP Chittacong.


DEI: Mataram fell today. The unit that took it will be loaded on transports immediately to secure Waingapoe(100% preparation).


Australia: unloading troops as planned, no Allied intervention. The leading division advances first 15 miles. No enemy troop movements spotted in Darwin or anywhere else.


Submarines: an Allied submarine is attacked near Timor by a G3M3 that is flying 45 degrees outside of assigned search arc... And a Japanese submarine spots a convoy of 4 ships (unknown types) off Moulmein, New Caledonia, heading North.


Industry: CV Hiyo and CVE Chuyo available in 8 days. Ki-61-Ia and Ki-44-IIb advance a month each to 10/42 and 11/42. Ki-61-Ia R&D factories are moved to Ki-61-Ib. Ki-43-IIa and A6M3a are available from the beginning of next month!



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/26/2012 2:27:41 PM)

July 25


Burma: another day of bombing. AAA shoots down a Ki-21. There are multiple task forces unloading troops at Rangoon: infantry, aviation support, anti-aircraft artillery, armor, headquarters...

DEI: Mataram & Saumlaki invaded in 4 days.

Australia: all quiet, units unloading. A single Allied submarine is sighted off Exmouth, heading East.



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/28/2012 8:10:29 AM)

Early tomorrow morning I will leave to spend a hopefully happy 11 days in Bavaria and Austria. The weatherman is promising day temperatures of 32C to 37C for next weekend and the following week in Vienna, which suits me fine after the last rainy week.

This AAR will (hopefully) be continued 12th or 13th of July.



obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/28/2012 8:21:04 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Erkki

Early tomorrow morning I will leave to spend a hopefully happy 11 days in Bavaria and Austria. The weatherman is promising day temperatures of 32C to 37C for next weekend and the following week in Vienna, which suits me fine after the last rainy week.

This AAR will (hopefully) be continued 12th or 13th of July.


Enjoy the vacation!

I wish England was getting that kind of weather. It's still 20-25 and cloudy here. [:(]



PaxMondo -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/28/2012 9:58:19 AM)


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ORIGINAL: obvert


quote:

ORIGINAL: Erkki

Early tomorrow morning I will leave to spend a hopefully happy 11 days in Bavaria and Austria. The weatherman is promising day temperatures of 32C to 37C for next weekend and the following week in Vienna, which suits me fine after the last rainy week.

This AAR will (hopefully) be continued 12th or 13th of July.


Enjoy the vacation!

+1

[8D]



SqzMyLemon -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/28/2012 3:50:17 PM)

Enjoy your trip!



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (6/28/2012 8:16:29 PM)

Thx all! I'll post some photos once I'll get back, too. [;)] 10 hours before the flight departs, and looks like we were able to play another turn after all!


July 26

CENPAC: We've had information on Pearl Harbor's status for 2 consecutive days now. Both days had Pearl reported to have over 130 ships in the bay (but slightly different numbers) with multiple battleships and destroyers. No CVs. Today the aircraft numbers almost doubled from yesterday(and 4x compared to 2 weeks ago) but no CVs.

The Allies might be or might not be up to something. I believe that the USN CV fleet is off or nearby Pearl. It is also still very possible that it is still sitting there, just no CVs happened to be sighted. Considering that the CV fleet did arrive there 2 weeks ago already, I believe that it is a very real possibility that the CVs have left today or yesterday and are heading somewhere - to raid CENPAC or near Japan, to Australia or SOPAC, perhaps even to support an offensive?


Australia: all quiet so far.



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (7/12/2012 5:33:00 PM)

Hello everyone, I'm back!

However it looks like this game will be on hold (by my opponent) at least until 1st of August.

Photos from Bavaria and Austria will follow in a day or two!



Erkki -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (8/4/2012 4:02:23 PM)

Hello again everyone. I have recently had trouble logging in on the forums and am now writing from another computer and via a different ISP.

As you must have read in Joseph's AAR, our opponent Smeulders has decided to stop both of his PBEM games. Unfortunately he makes the second PBEM opponent of mine who quits in summer 1942.

Main reasons were his dissatisfaction to his own performance in the game as well as how little there was happening in the game. As this scenario was DaBabes where Japan is IMHO in even worse position than it is in Scenario 1, I believe that the lack of action was at least partly his "fault". I did not want to risk too many operations just for the sake of action - many forumites know that Allies can take literally 90%+ losses and still win, while losing even a handful of ships can be catastrophic to Japan and cannot be afforded. I cannot help thinking that losing a carrier (or in the case of the first game, 4 carriers) early in the game contributed to the decisions of my opponents to end the games early. However, I cannot know what everything was in the background and will have to live with this.

Personally I would have been ready to continue the game even at rather low rate of turns we had been having before the summer. I am now considering finding another opponent for this game, hoping to find another "history player" rather than a "player of a game" player, who agrees to the same House Rules we had been using in the game.

I hope you have enjoyed the AAR. Was anyone still interested to see the pictures I took in Bavaria and Austria? [;)]



SqzMyLemon -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (8/4/2012 6:36:39 PM)

Sorry to see this one end as well Erkki, but it is what it is. Without being too critical, I agree, it takes two people to make the game interesting, so it's probably for the best that you can now look for another game. Jocke had already expressed an interest for a game against me otherwise I'd offer myself as an opponent, but three games would see me kicked out of the house. Good luck finding an opponent and I hope you are able to complete the next game.



obvert -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (8/5/2012 9:42:43 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: Erkki

Hello again everyone. I have recently had trouble logging in on the forums and am now writing from another computer and via a different ISP.

As you must have read in Joseph's AAR, our opponent Smeulders has decided to stop both of his PBEM games. Unfortunately he makes the second PBEM opponent of mine who quits in summer 1942.

Main reasons were his dissatisfaction to his own performance in the game as well as how little there was happening in the game. As this scenario was DaBabes where Japan is IMHO in even worse position than it is in Scenario 1, I believe that the lack of action was at least partly his "fault". I did not want to risk too many operations just for the sake of action - many forumites know that Allies can take literally 90%+ losses and still win, while losing even a handful of ships can be catastrophic to Japan and cannot be afforded. I cannot help thinking that losing a carrier (or in the case of the first game, 4 carriers) early in the game contributed to the decisions of my opponents to end the games early. However, I cannot know what everything was in the background and will have to live with this.

Personally I would have been ready to continue the game even at rather low rate of turns we had been having before the summer. I am now considering finding another opponent for this game, hoping to find another "history player" rather than a "player of a game" player, who agrees to the same House Rules we had been using in the game.

I hope you have enjoyed the AAR. Was anyone still interested to see the pictures I took in Bavaria and Austria? [;)]


Another IJ AAR grinding to a halt, and another of my favorites. Sorry for you to go this far and then have it just stop. I would also offer a game but that would put me at three and also might involve considerable upset at HQ. I hope you find a suitable opponent and choose to do an AAR in your next game.

Definitely post some pics. [:)]



SqzMyLemon -> RE: Aboard the Red Castle - Erkki(J) vs. Smeulders(A) - no lookin'! (8/6/2012 9:32:07 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Erkki

As this scenario was DaBabes where Japan is IMHO in even worse position than it is in Scenario 1


Hi Erkki,

Can you explain this to me a little. I'm about to possibly play a Da Babes 'B' Light and am curious why you think Da Babes is worse than Scenario 1. Shackled with PDU off last game I certainly don't want to embark on another game if it's too weighted against Japan being competitive and makes for an un-entertaining game. What are your thoughts? Thanks.

Joseph



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