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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/18/2020 12:17:10 AM)

And finally, finally, my admirals decided that they could not come back to the HI after hanging out on the West Coast without at least some scalps on their belt. Lots of planes flew in the AM and in the PM turns. Even the BB floatplanes got in on the act with their 60 kg bombload and hit a few ships. I chose these two BBs specifically because of their large floatplane component.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/18/2020 12:23:08 AM)

Here is the list of known sunk ships. Lots of low value LCIs (which did not seem to have any troops on board which is really too bad). But, there were a lot of AKs that were reported as heavy fire/heavy damage (see, e.g. previous post) and lots of sinking sounds in subsequent damage repair cycles. While I did not sink any troops these all appeared to be fuel convoys as many of the bomb its were followed by reports of fuel cargo burning. So, this may interrupt the fuel pipeline for just a little while both by sinking ships and I imagine Scott will have to rein in the convoys while he makes sure I'm cleared out of the way.

I suspect that Scott will be able to hunt down my CVEs pretty easily since I can only really go to the HI. So, I'm likely to lose far more than 2-1 on VP as he sinks 100+ point small carriers and two 200 point BBs in exchange for 9 point AKs. But, my thinking is that all of these ships are likely to be blasted by either his carriers or by B-29s raiding that ports where my ships hole up. So, since those VP are gone anyway I might as well get as much from them as I can. Besides, any discombobulating I can do of his attacks may buy me precious days of survival.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:35:14 AM)

Nov. 26, 1944 and, as Roosevelt basks in the glow of his election to a 4th term not too much happened. My TF of the US coast managed to sink some additional LCIs and perhaps some more AKs. I may not know until the US surrenders to me soon. :) Scott did launch a deliberate attack at Manila and got 5-1 odds. It held, but barely. Looks like the end is nigh.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:37:07 AM)

Well, on the 27th the end was nigh. First, Scott went all out over Nagasaki. He also took Manila and attempted a shock attack in China. But, in the end, I'm not too displeased as the VP gap narrowed, but I still have a nice lead with no obvious VP point losses on the horizon except for the almost certain doom for my CVEs now heading back from the West Coast.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:39:23 AM)

Over Nagasaki Scott put up some truly impressive fighter sweeps. But, he took some heavy losses and I even got into the bomber stream a little bit (but no real dent in his capabilities). The airbase there is out of commission so I've relocated the air defense to Fukokua. Judging by the numbers, I may have lost more planes but Scott's losses were also high.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:42:20 AM)

My West Coast Marauders were able to say good bye with one final strike on Scott's LCIs. They're only one point each but I did see about 30 of them go down overall (about a CL or so). I'm not sure if losing the mortar and rocket launching LCs will hurt him any, but it sure doesn't help. :)

There were some naval battles off of Kagoashima where I tried to get the jump on his BB TF that is guarding his building up airfields. My MTBs and two DD TFs did not inflict any real damage and I lost two DDs. But, at least they gave it a shot.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:46:09 AM)

As I suspected, Scott launched a second assault on Manila and this time took it. There will be major Japanese army losses for the next couple of turns, but I actually appear to have inflicted more damage on him than I thought that I would. My reverse airlift was able to bring out about 2.5 divisions, most of the air support units, the AT units, the construction units and even the remnants of a three AA units so my acutal land losses will be far less than they otherwise might have been. Manila held out for almost 5 months and Scott lost a LOT of planes to flak and troops/devicies to bombardments and attacks so I have to count this as a victory.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:48:00 AM)

Scott also tried a shock attack here in China. I'm very glad that my boys held as four of my divisions are the ones that were beat up escaping a potential pocket. If I had retreated here, scott would have pummeled me with armor attacks every turn and torn a huge hole in my line. As it stands, he has armor battalions running around in my rear area but the center is tying down his main advance.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 12:48:43 AM)

A lot of dead engineers in this one. Looks like they may be combat engineers which would be helpful for his future sieges.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 2:46:30 AM)

If he has armor in the open away from his airfields, you could try low level bombing them. Otherwise, sweep with a few good fighter units if available to knock down his CAPing fighters. Don't forget to LRCAP any of his airfields that you can to increase his ops losses, you won't need many planes for that and they don't need to be good ones either.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/20/2020 11:57:07 AM)

RangerJoe,

Those are all good points. Right now my fighters are almost all tied up on home defense. I do strike him with low level attacks now and again but I don't keep with it because when his CAP hits me it costs a lot of bombers. I keep forgetting about the LRCAP idea. I'm going to use training zero squadrons to see if that will help! Thanks!![&o]



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/24/2020 9:14:01 PM)

Another day passes and more death and destruction. There was major air raids over Nagasaki which I had to leave undefended due to the beat up nature of the airfield there. My flak did ok, but not as well as expected.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/24/2020 9:17:06 PM)

The firebombing of Nagasaki took out my heavy industry production (I have lots of those points saved up so I don't really care about that). The fire level does not look particularly high but Scott was bombing me at over 20,000 feet so that may have tamped down some of his bombing results. The Mushsahi will never fight again. There is not enough time for it to be repaired and Scott sank most of the other ships that were in port there. I did send my surface TFs to attack one of his surface fleets. Then my boys rebased to Fukakuoa and sheltered under the air umbrella there.

I turned off all the repair at Nagasaki. No sense spending supply to rebuild VP for Scott to harvest.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/24/2020 9:18:36 PM)

The good news was in China. My four divisions held off another shock attack from Scott and this time my losses were far less than his. I also pushed back an armored battalion that he had pushed near Canton.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/24/2020 9:19:31 PM)

Site of the battles.

Scott did attack at Manila and I still have troops left there. Each day they tie him down in gold.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/24/2020 9:24:36 PM)

See if you can use the Mushashi as a CAP trap. If you are going to lose it otherwise . . .



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/24/2020 9:48:22 PM)

He has been sweeping Nagasaki with 300-400 fighters every turn. The airfield this time was at 30% runway and 70% service damage so I'm waiting a turn to see if it will repair down to an acceptable level then I'll push the fighters in there.

BTW, I took your advice on the LRCAP over his airbases. I've got a squadron over three of them in and near Okinawa. Let's hope he looses more bombers!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/25/2020 7:24:59 PM)

Another savage day of strat bombing over Nagasaki. I opted to not oppose this one or tomorrow's as my fighters rest and take on replacements. But, Scott is starting to pick up VP this way and by staying at high altitude he is avoiding the flak losses that would put a dent into his campaign.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/26/2020 10:08:38 PM)

Not much really happened on this last day of November. Scott did not bomb Nagasaki (I think in part because of bad weather) and not much naval combat. Scott is making his way through the Pacific picking off my various bases that I control and invaded Jolo which has been isolated for a long long time. :)

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/27/2020 8:39:00 PM)

November is now in the history books. It looks like Scott picked up about 10,000 VP this month and I got 3,000 or so. I'm not crushed by this given that I lost Manila and Scott won a major carrier battle. And, I still have a 10,000 point lead so we just need to hang on until the US gets tired of this war. :)

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/27/2020 8:40:55 PM)

About 3.3 million supply and more than 1 million fuel so it's not desperate. I've also taken to shuttling fuel that accumulates in ports to other ports that have HI to try to keep some of the HI in China/Korea churning out supply points. I think I have way more than enough HI points to last out the war so I only keep the HI turned on to keep supply flowing.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/27/2020 8:43:04 PM)

Current aircraft/engine production. We're kind of all in on the Frank. And, I'm increasing the George2 since it seems like a better plane (and I can use the large pool of navy pilots I have to fly it). the Jack 5 just showed up this turn and I"m producing Tonys and zero 5cs.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/27/2020 8:44:02 PM)

The Frank is the most destroyed plane but it's nice to see some US planes on this list as well. Scott's fighter arm is now basically Corsairs.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (2/27/2020 8:46:32 PM)

A series of sea battles on the Home Islands this turn. Not the best result since I lost a BB and my last CA. I did get through to Scott's AKs and he probably lost about three more than are listed here. As I've said, if I don't use my ships they eventually get blasted to smithereens by his airforce so any points they're getting for me will help to counterbalance the losses that those ships represent. They're basically dead ships sailing.

I do think I put the hurt on the Iowa as it was escorted away but, sadly, not of my DDs got a torpedo hit on any of the BBs that they fought.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/1/2020 2:03:27 PM)

It's now December 2nd. Nothing very dramatic. Scott cleaned out Manila and launched another bloody attack on Marcus Island. He pounded the airfield at Fukokua so I can imagine some pretty intensive strat bombing there over the next few turns. Otherwise, another turn of grind.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/1/2020 6:23:49 PM)

Have a rapid response team of AAA units ready to rail in to the potential target. [X(]



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/2/2020 1:01:38 PM)

quote:

Have a rapid response team of AAA units ready to rail in to the potential target.


Because Scott can switch his bombing targets with ease I think my AA would just wind up chasing him around. Tokyo has the most AA defense right now followed by Nagasaki.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/2/2020 10:50:23 PM)

December 3rd 1944 was not a bad turn for the Empire of Japan. Japanese air losses were less than twice allied air losses and there was not strategic bombing. My Franks continue to be shot down in droves but the Frank Rs are still about 2 months away.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/2/2020 10:52:56 PM)

It was even a good turn at sea. The "Razor" in command of the Hiei managed to take out the CA Astoria as well as a DD (I watched them go down so those are confirmed kills). I"ll wind up losing 3 DDs for the fight so that's not too bad. The Japanese navy is rapidly disappearing but at least it's taking some VP with it as it goes.

My West Coast CV raiding force is, alas, still too far away to send it's planes back to the HI and the American Carriers are nowhere to be found. I suspect Scott is coming to sink my poor boys!

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Bif1961 -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/3/2020 4:59:53 PM)

I notice you had practically no oil in the Home Islands, what impact will that have on your economy?



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