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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/26/2020 1:55:59 PM)

That is a lot of torpedo hits for those MTBs. You must have good crews.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/26/2020 2:37:17 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

That is a lot of torpedo hits for those MTBs. You must have good crews.

Looking at the combat report the US TF did not attempt to get underway until they contacted me at a range of 2,000. The ships were basically sitting ducks and I must have rolled really well.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/27/2020 12:37:01 PM)

Another turn and not too much of note. Scott lost some beaufighters over Guam that tried to bomb a little AKL supply shuttle I have there and ran into my CAP. A small group of my planes tried a Kamikaze attack on a lone AK and missed (which is a very sad epitaph for a Kamikaze pixel pilot!).

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/27/2020 12:39:49 PM)

In China Scott seems to be going all in for his push up the coast. He has hammered my units there repeatedly with his medium bomber force and this turn he tossed in the strat bombers as well. I dodged his land force that is coming my way this turn and I have another division there to add to my forces.

More importantly, I remembered that I have lots and lots of AA units sitting around in Manchuria with nothing to do until the Russians show up. So, this turn I stripped that garrison of anything that said AA and sent it to Shanghai.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/27/2020 8:26:45 PM)

Another turn more plane losses and strat bombing. :)

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/27/2020 9:28:15 PM)

If he is strat bombing a base where the airfield is shut down and the bombers are not escorted, do you have float fighters that you could base there?

You could also base them at a seaside base with NO airfield and they could not be bombed on the ground.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/28/2020 3:44:21 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

If he is strat bombing a base where the airfield is shut down and the bombers are not escorted, do you have float fighters that you could base there?

You could also base them at a seaside base with NO airfield and they could not be bombed on the ground.

That is an interesting idea. Scott essentially sweeps each strat bombing target with 200+ fighters so if I just put up some float fighters they'll be blown away. Still, if he starts to get lazy . . . :)



RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/28/2020 5:22:13 PM)

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ORIGINAL: John B.


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

If he is strat bombing a base where the airfield is shut down and the bombers are not escorted, do you have float fighters that you could base there?

You could also base them at a seaside base with NO airfield and they could not be bombed on the ground.

That is an interesting idea. Scott essentially sweeps each strat bombing target with 200+ fighters so if I just put up some float fighters they'll be blown away. Still, if he starts to get lazy . . . :)


Fighters on training won't be swept. They might intercept the bombers. [;)]



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/28/2020 6:25:28 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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ORIGINAL: John B.


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

If he is strat bombing a base where the airfield is shut down and the bombers are not escorted, do you have float fighters that you could base there?

You could also base them at a seaside base with NO airfield and they could not be bombed on the ground.

That is an interesting idea. Scott essentially sweeps each strat bombing target with 200+ fighters so if I just put up some float fighters they'll be blown away. Still, if he starts to get lazy . . . :)


Fighters on training won't be swept. They might intercept the bombers. [;)]

Oh, interesting!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/28/2020 6:28:06 PM)

Another day and more death in the air. Savage air battles over Hiroshima and strat bombing of Nagasaki. He took a lot of flak losses over Nagasaki.

Speaking of air battles, the Frank really is not a very good plane is it? I keep losing it in droves. I'll upgrade to the Frank model r in about two weeks, but it does not seem like much of an improvement.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/28/2020 8:39:33 PM)

Do you have the KI-83 with good pilots for sweeping? Someone had good luck with those. If you sweep over a hex with your own units, you may not lose the pilot either.

As far as training fighters go, if he does not escort the bombers and he has not shut down the airbase, you can do that anywhere. The risk is the airfield getting bombed. But if there is a lot of flak, bombing accuracy should be lower and bomber losses higher.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/29/2020 2:59:19 PM)


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

Do you have the KI-83 with good pilots for sweeping? Someone had good luck with those. If you sweep over a hex with your own units, you may not lose the pilot either.

As far as training fighters go, if he does not escort the bombers and he has not shut down the airbase, you can do that anywhere. The risk is the airfield getting bombed. But if there is a lot of flak, bombing accuracy should be lower and bomber losses higher.

Sadly, the Ki-83 is not due to show up until 10/45. :( I think the Frank model r will be my best army fighter in this game until the very end. The navy has some good planes in the fray. I"ve got the Jack 5 and the George 2 both of which seem to be pretty good.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/30/2020 6:11:09 PM)

Well it's Christmas Eve and it appears Scott did not have much CAP over one of the off-shore islands. The result was 8 hits (!) on his APA force there. I confirmed that one of them sank and the rest are going to have flotation damage that will keep them from doing much for awhile. This is extra impressive given that these were old model Kates and the lost a couple to CAP on their way in.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/30/2020 6:13:24 PM)

The sad news was that I had a bunch of fighters on CAP over China that jumped a flight of his B-29s and did not shoot down any of them. [:(] It's a wonder that Scott does not just send those boys over the HI unescorted and not wasting time on fighter sweeps.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/30/2020 6:17:22 PM)

Then, on Christmas Day we each got a gift. First, Scott did not have much CAP over his TF and I got through with another torpedo hit on an APA (this one went down thanks to a subsequent attack by a mini-sub. True heroes who went to a watery grave). But, most of the bombers I had set to fly anti-ship missions did not launch. :(

I did get in a bombardment of one of his offshore islands. I lost two destroyers to mines but I sank 20 PT boats so it was an equal loss (which favors Japan at this moment). It seems to me that those pesky craft are most effective on nights of poor visibility so I'm going to hoard the MTBs until the current moon wanes.



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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/30/2020 6:18:23 PM)

It looks like a killed a few fighters in my shore bombardment while Scott hammered the China boys with more from his medium and his heavy bombers.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/31/2020 8:54:13 PM)

Christmas Day 1944 may have been dreary for the 101st airborne, but it was a good day for the Empire of Japan. Here is the current score board. Scott did not make any headway in China and continues to move forward in S.E. Asia. But, I've gotten almost all of my troops out of there so now I just want to keep his divisions busy as long as possible.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/31/2020 8:55:47 PM)

You may have noticed the high number of allied planes destroyed on the field in the VP screen and that's because we can scratch one flattop. True, it's a CVE but it has a flat deck and that makes the Emperor smile. I'm almost certain it went down as there were sinking sounds right after the torpedo hit, the ship is reported as sunk, and we have all the dead carrier planes.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (3/31/2020 8:58:15 PM)

And, in a day dedicated to the Japanese submarine corps, this boat showed true Samurai spirit. First, it hit the destroyer and then, when it was forced to surface it put a torpedo into an APA. There were sinking sounds after my sub sank. My money would be on the destroyer since it's a smaller ship (and RO boats have smaller torpedoes). In either event, it was a good fight!

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Bif1961 -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/1/2020 4:09:05 PM)

Japanese MTBs had two torpedoes each so 15 reported hits would be 5 torpedo hits over 100% which would be 10 hits possible from 5 MTBs.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/1/2020 10:10:39 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Bif1961

Japanese MTBs had two torpedoes each so 15 reported hits would be 5 torpedo hits over 100% which would be 10 hits possible from 5 MTBs.

Well, the crews may have embellished just a little. :) But they clearly did some damage!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/1/2020 10:13:42 PM)

This was a good and a bad turn for the Japanese. First, the good news. Scott lost a lot of medium bombers to flak over Nagasaki where he attempted to put the airfield out of commission and failed. Also, my night bombing got through and killed some allied fighters on the ground. That is always welcome.

I finally figured out how to use my air dropped mines and, thus far, all they've done is to give his minesweepers something to do (an AMc was reported hit but continued to sweep mines).

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/1/2020 10:15:04 PM)

The bad news is that on the Chinese coast Scott had an unexpected breakthrough. I guess the boys could not continue to take the incessent pounding from the air that they have endured. More than 100 medium bombers per turn plus the strat bomber force now and again.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/1/2020 10:15:35 PM)

This may be my worst land defeat of the war! Ouch!

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/2/2020 10:36:54 PM)

December 29th was a pretty ho hum turn. [>:] Which is good news for the Empire of Japan. I sent some mavises and Emilys on a long range night bombing mission over what I think is Scott's Strat bombing base and they ran into night fighters. Oh well, it was worth a shot.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/2/2020 10:39:25 PM)

But, here is a very troubling development. I thought that if you upgraded an aircraft factory to the next fighter on the upgrade tree there was no damage done to the factory so you could (a) start producing the fighter right away and (b) you did not have to pay to repair the factories.

But, here you can see that I attempted to upgrade a Frank-a factory to a Frank-b factory and it was damaged. If this is true, I'll wind up paying 430,000 in supply just to upgrade my Frank factories and I'll lose out on their production in the interim. Is there something that I'm missing?

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RangerJoe -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/2/2020 10:44:03 PM)

Frank a upgrades to Frank r. Frank b upgrades to Frank r. There is no other link between Frank a and Frank b.



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/2/2020 10:59:49 PM)

Oh I see. Thanks for the quick response!!



John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/4/2020 10:49:25 PM)

We're almost at the end of 1944 and this time Scott's bombers did not fare so well over my divisions on China's coast. This was the result with just about 40% of the Manchuria flak in the hex. I imagine Scott won't come in at 8,000 feet again. [:D] But, at some point he'll so a shore bombardment and he's also likely to hit other parts of the Chinese front. But, it was nice to get a little payback.

Scott has also taken to bombing Strat bombing targets in Japan where I'm not defending with flak. Not much can be done about it, I'm afraid. I just have to grin and bear it.

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John B. -> RE: Quisling! An AFB does Japan (No PanzerKat) (4/4/2020 10:50:29 PM)

Here are the actual report air losses from last turn.

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