RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please

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Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (2/28/2014 5:37:09 PM)
June 24th 1942 Air Losses: 4 Japanese, 2 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Batan Island Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Batan Island, Catundanes Over 200 turns! China Same old attacks. Burma Quiet Australia Quiet Pacific Near San Francisco I-30 puts a torpedo into an xAK. No sinking sounds and no cargo losses reported. Near Rabaul, Haddock spends more time diving deep and sounding depth charges explode above. Engineering Onnekotan-Jima to 2, Tienshui to 3, Amchitka Island to 4. Allies expand Cooktown to 4 and various others. R&D Ki-44-IIc now 9/43 (expected 11/42).

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (2/28/2014 8:00:30 PM)
June 25th 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Catundanes Allies occupy: Japanese land at: China Same old attacks. Experimental bombardment at Kweiyang: quote: Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 40883 troops, 316 guns, 51 vehicles, Assault Value = 1312 Defending force 66142 troops, 237 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1713 Japanese ground losses: 18 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 36 casualties reported Squads: 2 destroyed, 2 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Assaulting units: 59th Division 40th Division 36th Division 21st Ind.Mixed Brigade 3rd Army 28th Field AA Machinecannon Company Defending units: 37th Chinese Corps 28th Chinese Corps 79th Chinese Corps 68th Chinese Corps 8th Chinese Corps 2nd Prov Chinese Corps 4th War Area 6th War Area 32nd Group Army Can I attack here? I expect he has at least forts 4. He probably is in supply. I have Army and Command HQ both 100% prepped for the base. I think I need to wait until I have some artillery and air power has softened up the defense for at least a week. Burma Quiet Australia Quiet Pacific Inconclusive ASW action. Engineering Magwe expands airfield to 8, that will be useful. Allies expand Perth to 8 and some other places. Economy Both Mukden and Harbin are short fuel for HI. R&D Nakajima Ha-45 now 2/43. Aichi Ha-60 now 8/42.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 6:38:22 AM)
Last turns sigint report looks like: quote: SIG INT REPORT FOR Jun 25, 42 Radio transmissions detected at Los Angeles (225,76). Radio transmissions detected at Anchorage (181,36). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Sydney (90,167). Three heavy volume of traffic messages at Pearl! Does this mean something interesting is going on (like invasion forces loading) or is it just chance? It ups the Detection on Pearl to 3/1 and mouse over reports: 211 ships in dock (identifying PG and DE in the list), only 28 fighters, 6 bombers and 3 auxiliary. How accurate is that likely to be? Does the absence of any heavy ships listed mean there are none in dock?

Mike McCreery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 10:43:47 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Last turns sigint report looks like: quote: SIG INT REPORT FOR Jun 25, 42 Radio transmissions detected at Los Angeles (225,76). Radio transmissions detected at Anchorage (181,36). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Sydney (90,167). Three heavy volume of traffic messages at Pearl! Does this mean something interesting is going on (like invasion forces loading) or is it just chance? It ups the Detection on Pearl to 3/1 and mouse over reports: 211 ships in dock (identifying PG and DE in the list), only 28 fighters, 6 bombers and 3 auxiliary. How accurate is that likely to be? Does the absence of any heavy ships listed mean there are none in dock? With the 3/1 detection level I would not count on the info being complete.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 12:43:17 PM)
June 26th 1942 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 4 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Allies occupy: Japanese land at: China Good strike softening up Kweiyang. Unescorted Allied bombers are intercepted but not fast enough to get any hits on them. Burma Wellington bombers hit the oil at Magwe at night and knock out 12 points of oil production. One bomber is shot down by flak, despite having 150 heavy flak guns there. Is it worth repairing? 1000 supply and it produces 10 oil that becomes 9 fuel that in turn is 9 supply and HI so that is a pay back in 112 days. It is unlikely I can keep Magwe running until October so probably not worthwhile. Allied bombers also hit some of the troops in the Jungle. Australia Quiet Pacific A raiding force of carriers finds an unescorted xAK convoy between Pearl and the West Coast and sinks 16 ships. Unfortunately, there is no interesting cargo - I think they were heading for San Francisco empty. Even more regrettably, Glens spot a much better looking convoy outbound. No chance of attacking that as the raiders will head for safety. Engineering Amami Oshima airfield to 1. This will become an ASW base eventually.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 12:45:47 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Wargmr quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Last turns sigint report looks like: quote: SIG INT REPORT FOR Jun 25, 42 Radio transmissions detected at Los Angeles (225,76). Radio transmissions detected at Anchorage (181,36). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Pearl Harbor (180,107). Heavy Volume of Radio transmissions detected at Sydney (90,167). Three heavy volume of traffic messages at Pearl! Does this mean something interesting is going on (like invasion forces loading) or is it just chance? It ups the Detection on Pearl to 3/1 and mouse over reports: 211 ships in dock (identifying PG and DE in the list), only 28 fighters, 6 bombers and 3 auxiliary. How accurate is that likely to be? Does the absence of any heavy ships listed mean there are none in dock? With the 3/1 detection level I would not count on the info being complete. Agreed, one of the interesting, and difficult, things I find is how much attention to pay to all the small snippets of information obtained. Unconfirmed sightings, radio transmissions at bases, etc. It must be even worse for the Allies when you add in coastwatcher sightings and decrypts.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 3:20:10 PM)
June 27th 1942 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 2 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Truscott (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: China More softening up of Kweiyang, airfield now shows as 100% damaged. Allied bombers strike at the resources at Haiphong - not sure why as I am swilling in resources. Burma He continues to bomb in the jungle. Australia Quiet Pacific Ineffective ASW. Engineering Taiping airfield to 6 and Allies continue to accumulate VP. Economy A lot of oil is moved from Urumchi, I think to Fusan. Given that I have no luck moving fuel but oil is moved, I have turned the refineries off.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 6:18:59 PM)
Managing pilots has been taking too much time. So I am trying to set up an assembly line for pilots. For example, IJAAF fighter pilot training might run as: At Mukden there are 166 Nates. These groups take pilots from the replacement pool and train them using escort training. When the pilots reach an air skill of 70 they are moved to Group Reserve. At Kobe there are 102 Nates. These groups take pilots from the group reserve of the Mukden groups and train them using Ground attack at 100 feet. When they reach a defense skill of 70 they are transferred to general reserve. At Palembang, Rangoon, Bangkok, Soerabaja there are groups with various older models that fly CAP and take pilots from the general reserve with the least experience. When the pilots reach experience 65+ they are released back into general reserve. Front-line groups take the most experienced pilots from general reserve. Is this sort of assembly line likely to work? I'ld like to carry on like this so that, eventually, each base only has one sort of training going on. This should make it easier to check progress.

koniu -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 7:27:43 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery Is this sort of assembly line likely to work? I have similar training program running from over two years. I must say it is very effective. I usually harvest my pilots once in week. What i learn is that You don`t need to train them to 70 in air skill. 65 is my goal, after that they move to train defense. When they finish that they start flying CAP in rears. Flying CAP not only building XP but also air skill will reach 70 very fast

obvert -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 8:58:55 PM)
In fact, it seems much quicker to train to 40exp and 60 air skill if you have time to let them fly CAP somewhere. I just never have this time. Mine go right to the front. Your assembly line should work well, but why? Why not just train to approximately 65-70 air skill and then change them to train strafe/defensive skill for a few weeks, then ready? Seems like more clicks to take them out of one group into another, then into reserve.

offenseman -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/1/2014 10:18:38 PM)
That has worked for me but as Obvert said, just use the same units, saves some time.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/2/2014 6:25:20 AM)
Thanks guys for the comments. I have been doing training by changing the regime of each air group. However, the two problems I have been having with this are: 1) As I run through all the groups at Mukden (for example) I have to keep looking to work out what that group is working on. So one idea was to have all the groups at each place doing the same thing. 2) Pilots train at different rates so after a bit there is may be a quarter of the group trained in Air skill to an adequate level. At that point I change it to work on strafing and after a bit some of the pilots have adequate defense skill. However, it won't be all those with adequate air skill and there is no way to sort those that have good defense and good air skill so I need to pick individually which get sent to reserve. It is even more of a problem with level bombers where there is a need to distinguish the ASW/low nav pilots from the Ground/low nav pilots. The idea of the assembly line was to remove the need to think as I checked groups at a place.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/2/2014 6:59:24 AM)
June 28th 1942 Air Losses: 2 Japanese, 1 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Tockangbesi-eilanden (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: No Allied aircraft seen anywhere this day. The one loss was an ops loss for a Skytrain, he has been using a few of these each day - may be flying supplies into China. China Strikes at Kweiyang keep it 100% closed and disable another 50 squads. At point A below Chinese have appeared, I assume these are the remnants from Sining, if he moves East he can free the forces trapped there, but they will still have a long walk to reach supply and even more to be useful. Can't do anything to stop this, unless I divert some bombers. At point B below the strongest division has left Tienshui. Should I risk an attack to destroy the remainder? Last bombardment: quote: Ground combat at Tienshui (81,38) Japanese Bombardment attack Attacking force 4203 troops, 273 guns, 306 vehicles, Assault Value = 1040 Defending force 72440 troops, 204 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1483 Allied ground losses: 643 casualties reported Squads: 24 destroyed, 7 disabled Non Combat: 3 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 1 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 3 (1 destroyed, 2 disabled) Assaulting units: 13th Indpt Infantry Regiment 37th Division 19th Division 22nd Ind Engineer Regiment 29th Ind Engineer Regiment 36th Const Co 207th JAAF AF Bn 13th Ind.Art.Mortar Battalion 8th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 10th Mortar Battalion 2nd Medium Field Artillery Regiment Tonei Hvy Gun Regiment 1st Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 12th Army 15th Ind.Medium Field Artillery Regiment 15th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 51st Ind.Mtn.Gun Battalion 2nd Hvy.Artillery Regiment 7th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 6th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion 30th Field AA Machinecannon Company 27th Fld AA Machinecannon Company 14th Medium Field Artillery Regiment 22nd Field AA Machinecannon Company 4th Ind.Hvy.Art. Battalion Mongol Garrison Army 49th Const Co 26th Field Artillery Regiment 86th JAAF AF Coy Defending units: 16th Chinese Corps 19th Chinese Corps 9th Chinese Corps 29th Chinese Corps 8th Route Army 41st Chinese Corps 47th Chinese Corps 93rd Chinese Corps 15th Chinese Corps 2nd War Area 34th Group Army He will have no forts. The troops have been bombarded daily for a couple of weeks so must be tired. There is a supply path to Chungking of about 90 points and the weekly supply run will have been made yesterday so the forces may be in supply. His retreating forces reached Tienshui on the 14th. If he moves in combat mode it takes 23 days to reach the mountains, in move mode he can make it in 16 days. Burma Quiet Australia Quiet Pacific Ineffective ASW. Engineering Quiet Economy Mukden and Harbin are again short of fuel. [image]local://upfiles/43194/56567BF33A3C403DAB7A8EE80177E8BA.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/2/2014 10:51:23 AM)
June 29th 1942 Air Losses: 0 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Damar (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: China Strikes at Kweiyang are toned down to allow aircraft to repair but still keep the airfield closed. Night strike by Mitchells at Lanchow has no effect. Worrying as I have little defense there. Usual Allied and Japanese bombardments continue. Burma Wellingtons launch a night strike at Magwe. Nicks engage and shoot one down for no loss. No damage. Many Blenheims target the Imperial Guards Division in the jungle for no effect. Australia B-17E strike at Wyndham airfield. There is little there so this is of little concern. One B-17E is lost to ops. Lightnings sweep Katherine but find noone there. Pacific Ineffective ASW. Two claimed hits by aircraft on the SS Finback near Truk. Unfortunately, they are only 100 Kg bombs from Lillies. Near New Zealand, in the map below, the circled sub is attacked twice by SBD-3 dive bombers. A clear indication of Allied carriers nearby. The other subs are not attacked so best guess is that they are further South. I have no idea where they are heading. Engineering Sian airfield expands to 6. R&D A6M5c now 8/44. [image]local://upfiles/43194/12495211E57740BF9A3277B26F543678.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:00:24 AM)
June 30th 1942 Air Losses: 32 Japanese, 11 Allied, 21 Pilots Japanese occupy: Malu (air drop) Allies occupy: Cox's Bazar (auto) Japanese land at: China Strikes at Kweiyang keep the airfield closed and continue to damage troops. Night strike by Mitchells at Lanchow has no effect. Usual Allied and Japanese bombardments continue. Burma Magwe is swept by Lightnings. 4 are shot down. Australia Lightnings sweep Katherine but find noone there. Pacific Ineffective ASW. Between Noumea and Fiji an Allied task force is spotted. It reports as below. Some Nells and Zeroes attack but are unable to penetrate CAP and the Nells do not return[:(]. The Zeroes however take down more defenders than they lose. That is 6 different squadrons on CAP. quote: Afternoon Air attack on TF, near Nadi at 126,162 Weather in hex: Partial cloud Raid detected at 72 NM, estimated altitude 9,000 feet. Estimated time to target is 28 minutes Japanese aircraft A6M2 Zero x 22 G3M2 Nell x 11 Allied aircraft Martlet II x 15 F4F-3 Wildcat x 14 F4F-4 Wildcat x 59 Japanese aircraft losses A6M2 Zero: 2 destroyed G3M2 Nell: 8 destroyed Allied aircraft losses Martlet II: 1 destroyed F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed CAP engaged: VF-2 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 3000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 33 minutes 10 planes vectored on to bombers VF-3 with F4F-3 Wildcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 5000 and 8000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 29 minutes 12 planes vectored on to bombers VF-71 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 13 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 4 being recalled, 0 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 10000 , scrambling fighters between 1000 and 13000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 30 minutes 19 planes vectored on to bombers No.881 Sqn FAA with Martlet II (0 airborne, 10 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 1 being recalled, 4 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 2000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 31 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers VMF-213 with F4F-4 Wildcat (0 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 0 plane(s) not yet engaged, 0 being recalled, 3 out of immediate contact. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 8000 and 10000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 34 minutes 9 planes vectored on to bombers VMF-214 with F4F-4 Wildcat (3 airborne, 6 on standby, 0 scrambling) 3 plane(s) intercepting now. Group patrol altitude is 15000 , scrambling fighters between 4000 and 15000. Time for all group planes to reach interception is 27 minutes 6 planes vectored on to bombers Two subs off New Zealand are spotted by carrier aircraft, showing that there are more carriers in the area. Engineering Roi-Namur forts expand to 4. Production The air groups on the Shokaku and Zuikaku resize so I am now free to set their size as preferred. I am thinking 15 Kate, 21 Val and 36 A6M5 might be a good split. Any thoughts on this? When the other carriers return to base I will follow the same plan 50% fighters, torpedo bombers to use 1/3 of sorties at a time, dive bombers for the rest. The H8K1 Emily is available. I should have the H8K2 available 23rd September and plan to swap all the patrol groups as soon as possible so I will not build this. Harbin is short fuel. [image]local://upfiles/43194/7C3C9E8EDD7746C8B5DB4F67BA1AFA0D.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:10:16 AM)
June In Review June has not been a good month. Low point was the loss of 3 CVE. In China some of the trapped forces near Tienshui managed to escape. The gap between Kweiyang and Kunming has widened but no break through is possible until Kweiyang and the road from Tuyun can be cleared. The Allied air force remains undamaged and he is starting city attacks from within China. In Burma the defense is solidifying and there has been no move. Magwe has suffered minor damage and is producing beyond when I expected. A raid on the convoy lines to Pearl managed to get through a gap in the Allied search but netted only a returning convoy not an outbound one. Showing the CVs seems to have triggered Allied action in the South Pacific. The defense of Northern Australia looks weak. The Aleutians have been strengthened and should hold through the winter of 42/43 at least. The economy is looking good and better aircraft are beginning to show their value on the front lines. Although the Lightning still remains a menace. Objectives for July are to defend, except in China where the aim will be to take Kweiyang and open the South. Also, reduce some of the cut off Chinese forces to free up some divisions.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:17:34 AM)
End June Info Total VP: Japanese +1109, Allied +1457 Bases: Japanese +561, Allied +762 Air: Allied loss +169, Japanese loss +421 Army: Allied loss +186, Japanese loss +13 Ships: Allied loss 22/+338, Japanese loss 6/+299 The ship and air losses reflect the loss of 3 CVE. Even without that though air losses seem to be running at 2:1 in the Allied favour. Overall VP ratio is 2.89::1. [image]local://upfiles/43194/ECE4B6CE673543F69F2014BB832B2E13.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:26:46 AM)
July Economy Oil: -81,155 Fuel: +85,509 Supply: +31,291 HI: +56,416 Vehicles: -6,456 Armament: +12,425 The gain in fuel probably reflects that much of the fleet has been doing nothing. The drop in vehicles is because of outfitting the remainder of the 1st and 2nd Tank Division. Due to a lack of adequate planning, I won't be able to create these until mid July for the 2nd and late July for the 1st. Supply increase is nice to have but much less than I would like. The 37 damaged oil centers are: 12 at Magwe, 6 at Lanchow and 19 at Urumchi. The ones at Urumchi will not be fixed due to the difficulty getting oil or fuel from there. At Lanchow I have not been able to get the supply there to fix them. At Magwe I am not fixing them as I expect Allies would just destroy them again. [image]local://upfiles/43194/096D6302F7EB45CBB05F5283FFB1032A.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:31:26 AM)
June ships sunk 3 CVE and a DD lost in a bad move. 1 SC lost to a sub. 1 xAKL flooded while moving to a shipyard. Allied losses probably have another 6 to 8 xAK. The SS claim is questionable, it took one DC and an 8cm gun hit. [image]local://upfiles/43194/7106F36124C04255A45DAFB7B59B7EAE.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:35:29 AM)
Engine Production I still would like to expand Ha-35 production to 520 and Ha-33 to 340. The rest are fine as they are (R&D ones will expand once researched). [image]local://upfiles/43194/3375B44DEDD84BE2B4400CB0EE3B9D30.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 11:53:15 AM)
Aircraft Pools A6M2, G4M1, Ki-15-II, KI-51-II, H6K2-L, H6K4 factories are currently turned off. Fighter pools are keeping pace with demand and slowly shifting to the A6M5, Ki-45 KAIa, and Ki-44-IIa. IJA bomber pools are barely managing and to switch to the Ki-49-IIa is slow. Many groups still need upgrade from the Ki-48-1b. IJN bomber pools are fine with many G3M2 and B5N1 that will probably be kept until they can be used as Kamikazes. Other pools are doing well. Nearly all the ship board float planes have been switched to the E13A1 and the land-based training groups rounded out. [image]local://upfiles/43194/B5FDDA9C50E24213B4185AC7C34FF817.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/3/2014 9:17:47 PM)
July 1st 1942 Air Losses: 1 Japanese, 4 Allied, 0 Pilots Japanese occupy: Bara (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: China Night strike by Mitchells at Lanchow has no effect is intercepted by a couple of Nicks but no planes shot down. Slightly confused here as he has B-25C Mitchell attacking at 3000 feet with a full bomb load. I thought it was supposed to be reduced below 6000 feet. So the only reasons not to fly below 6000 feet are flak and possible barrage balloons if the base has AF + Port > 6 and may have forts? May change some of my attack altitudes in China. Bombardments continue. Burma Blenheims target the jungle again. Australia Lightnings sweep harmlessly. Much recon of bases by the Allies. Pacific Now can see two task forces off Noumea. One of 2 ships the other 10 containing a PG, DE, DE. Guessed he would move forward closer and my subs were misplaced. They get attacked by Dive bombers but take no damage. Also lots more subs spotted around Rabaul and Truk. My carriers are well spotted as they head for home. The despairing cries of two Catalina crews shot down by CAP are a clue[:)]. Engineering Tienshui airfield expands to 4. R&D Ki-43-IIb accelerates to 12/42. Reinforcements SS I-33.

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/4/2014 2:02:54 PM)
July 2nd 1942 Air Losses: 28 Japanese, 15 Allied, 8 Pilots Japanese occupy: Boeton (air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: China Continuing attacks and bombardments. Some of the badly damaged Chinese forces from Tienshui have made it to the mountains. Burma Blenheims target the jungle again, and are met by Oscars, 8 Blenheims shot down for no loss[:)]. Australia B-17s hit Katherine, a Ki-15-II is lost on the ground and a B-17E is shot down by flak[:)]. Pacific Near Noumea, misjudged his movement and all my subs are bypassed. Some Nells and Zeroes decide to die without effect[:(]. Now report there as 7 task forces in the Mare' hex. (Does this count as a base hex that halves the effectiveness of CV? It is a dot-base of mine.) Looks like 2 CV, 1 Amph, 1 SCTF and 2ASW task forces. However, spotting is patchy so there could be more. A number of SBD attack mini-subs in the Noumea hex and are lost to CAP. If he attacks Noumea it could be interesting. The base is stacked to 80% of the stacking limit and includes some of the better support artillery. Forts are at level 3. I will be interested in seeing how quickly he can take it. It makes more sense for him to head for Koumac first. That is poorly defended. Engineering Dili airfield expands to 2. R&D Ki-43-IV accelerates to 2/45. Economy Dropped some fuel at Hong Kong. It seems to have flowed to the Manchuko factories and to Fusan alright so may try dropping more there. Oil seems to be flowing from Urumchi okay. [image]local://upfiles/43194/8624E6BFA8F149B390F88A10224FBE9F.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 10:39:52 AM)
July 3rd 1942 Air Losses: 5 Japanese, 5 Allied, 1 Pilots Japanese occupy: Selaroe(air drop) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: La Foe China Continuing attacks and bombardments. Burma Quiet Australia B-17s hit Katherine. New Caledonia Not too sure what is going on. An MTB group engages a task force containing the Lexington and Saratoga but they break off before any attack can be launched. The MTB then engage a bombardment task force of the Maryland, West Virginia and Arizona and 5 DE. Two MTB are sunk by direct hits from the main batteries of the BB. Only one of the MTB launches at a BB and three don't attack at all[:@]. No hits are scored[:(]. The remaining MTB retreat West into what appears to be a very large amphibious convoy. They fail to close to attack but do cause: quote: xAP Thomas Barry collides with xAP Talma at 114 , 160 xAK Barbara Olson collides with xAP Talma at 114 , 160 Then they head North ignoring the chance to refuel at Koumac and preferring to run out of fuel at sea. A single mini-sub in the Noumea hex engages another task force and is lost: quote: ASW attack near Noumea at 115,160 Japanese Ships SSX Ha-8, hits 2, heavy damage Allied Ships DD Le Triomphant xAP Mataroa xAP Dunera xAP Santa Maria This task force appears to have moved through the Noumea has (missing all mines) and headed for La Foa. A night naval bombardment of Noumea doesn't do much damage - maybe the guns had expended too much ammo shooting at gnats. Both task forces then land at La Foa. Reported forces landing are: quote: 754th Tank Bn /1 110th Cmbt Engr Bn /1 Americal Infantry Div /8 193rd Tank Bn /1 24th MAG /1 188th FA Bn /4 181st FA Bn /1 1st Marine Defense Battalion 183rd FA Bn /1 1st Marine Air Wing /1 1st US Naval Const Bn /1 ComAirCenPac /1 Engineering Manila airfield expands to 7. Allies expand Chungking airfield to 6. Reinforcements DD Makinami and DD Takanami adds two Yugomu class destroyers to the fleet.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 11:54:58 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery June In Review June has not been a good month. Buck up! It could be a lot worse. I think you are doing very well. Certainly, far far better than me. [:)] Can I see a shot of your pilot pools? How many in Tracom?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 12:14:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe quote: ORIGINAL: Spidery June In Review June has not been a good month. Buck up! It could be a lot worse. I think you are doing very well. Certainly, far far better than me. [:)] Can I see a shot of your pilot pools? How many in Tracom? Cheers, I am not down - it was just an observation. The attached shows the raw numbers in the various pools but doesn't give much of a clue about quality. The large number of army transport pilots is because I am not using the transports much. I have pulled all the trained transport pilots out of them and am, mostly, using them for general training to get pilots with some defense skill before they specialise. Mostly the pilots in reserve have 70+ in the relevant skills but experience is lacking. EDIT: The IJN bomber pilot training is generally not so good and there are few with adequate NavT. [image]local://upfiles/43194/93C64C7A6BC04F5FA94238C0B30ED1E1.jpg[/image]

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 1:28:27 PM)
July 4th 1942 Air Losses: 13 Japanese, 11 Allied, 4 Pilots Japanese occupy: Moa(air drop), Green Island (auto) Allies occupy: Japanese land at: Allies land at: China Continuing attacks and bombardments. Try an air attack a bit close to the plains and encounter some Hurricanes. The air-air combat goes quite well with 7 Hurricanes shot down[:)] but a few manage to engage the Lilies after the bombing run. Looks a bit more promising. Burma Quiet Australia B-17s hit Katherine. Katherine is feeling hard done by[:D]. New Caledonia Lots of sub attacks and attacks by air on subs. The I-171 looks like a goner[:(]: quote: ASW attack near Noumea at 115,160 Japanese Ships SS I-171, hits 15 Allied Ships BB Warspite CL Trenton CL Concord DE Gilmer DE Rathburne DE Hatfield DE King But damage is only 47/37/3[8D]. However, it has disbanded into Noumea - not the safest place to be[8\|]. A mini-sub is lost. RO-61 damages the xAP Talma, it was damaged in two collisions yesterday[:-], and it appears to have still had some guns on board[8D]. Warspite and Pennyslvania bombard Noumea. Again damage is not much. The infantry units here are hardly phased but the ART, AA, ENG, etc. are all having 60-70 disruption; is this normal? The Allied attack at La Foa fails[sm=00000116.gif]! quote: Ground combat at La Foa (114,159) Allied Shock attack Attacking force 3508 troops, 135 guns, 229 vehicles, Assault Value = 147 Defending force 1793 troops, 12 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58 Allied adjusted assault: 53 Japanese adjusted defense: 49 Allied assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 0) Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 0 Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), leaders(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 191 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 25 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 57 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 5 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 1 disabled Assaulting units: 754th Tank Battalion 193rd Tank Battalion 110th Cmbt Engr Bn /1 Americal Infantry Div /8 24th MAG /1 1st Marine Defense Battalion 188th Field Artillery Battalion 183rd Field Artillery Battalion 1st US Naval Const Bn /1 181st Field Artillery Battalion 1st Marine Air Wing /1 ComAirCenPac /1 Defending units: 41st Naval Guard Unit Pacific KB keeps shooting down Catalinas as it is tracked moving South, 2 more today. Lots of attacks by air on subs in the Rabaul area. 3 Hits are claimed[:)]. At Rabaul, there are 15 Jakes on night naval search, 18 Sallies and 10 Lilies on day ASW.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 1:40:22 PM)
Shore bombardments seem pretty random to me. I am sure detection level plays a big part, Leader as well. AA and ART seem pretty high priorities for a shore bombardment to target.

Lowpe -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 2:01:46 PM)
Have you assigned Instructors to your training groups?

Spidery -> RE: Castles in the Sand - Spidery(J) vs MrKane(A) no MrKane please (3/5/2014 2:33:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Have you assigned Instructors to your training groups? The larger groups have had high Leadership leaders assigned to them, particularly the IJN ones. The smaller groups have not been touched. Now that I have a good supply of PP I need to look around the map and move leaders around so that good leaders aren't in dead end jobs. Is that what you meant or is there something else meant by instructors?

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