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GetAssista -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/26/2020 5:26:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BBfanboy quote: ORIGINAL: GetAssista So, how is it all going? This is quite a big lull already, there are murmurs in the peanut gallery [8D] Shhhh! Our US members are having secret Thanksgiving AE planning conferences - necessary work of course! The turkey and beverages are incidental ... Ah, that one, I see now! I did not realize it is that bad though [:)]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 12:39:47 PM)
Jan 10, 1942 US and Dutch forces combine in a nice bombardment of Geraldton... [image]local://upfiles/44178/4C9D2EDD818D416C9C4337DECB1ED8EA.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 12:41:43 PM)
More bombing here... [image]local://upfiles/44178/AF418AD4915B44D199B333FCF94E2EC5.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 12:49:12 PM)
Cleaning up the paratroopers... An great result at Bundaberg...will SR troops in today and we should be able to hold, until the non stop ship bombardments start. Isolating an IJA division here would be great, if only temporary. [image]local://upfiles/44178/9C5EB3A9C4064DBA863A4C0D8C0D926D.jpg[/image]

RangerJoe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 12:59:32 PM)
If you can bomb the Japanese Bundaberg, that would be nice. Mining the waters in the area as well might help wreck any relief troops and supplies as well. But nice work on those paratroopers, hopefully you can get more Japanese to die for their emperor soon.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 1:29:48 PM)
Where are the troops in Sian going? Are some heading into the mountains off road? I cannot find the dozen tank regiments...I think they are off flanking up the road towards Kungchang...but I thought they would get spotted today. I assigned my pitiful bombers to recon, and they didn't spot anything. Indian Mountain Guns started arriving at Kungchang today...which is good, while 2 pounder AT will be flown to Chengtu later today, and then onto Kungchang. Building Tienshui up to a level 1 runway to facilitate air transport. [image]local://upfiles/44178/D3C41AEFB114415A9BDFCD879E944287.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 7:15:23 PM)
Jan 11, 1942 Keeping up the bombardments! [image]local://upfiles/44178/00D33DAAFDD64793A32BA181516D9528.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 7:18:18 PM)
Banshees hit the IJA tanks... [image]local://upfiles/44178/47D4E6B26BDE4EB9AA585E4FBD45A9DF.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 7:26:35 PM)
Way too timid here, the Yanks should have arrived two days ago along with an Aussie Division... More bombing at Cloncurry… Ground combat at Bundaberg (96,155) Japanese Shock attack Attacking force 10407 troops, 50 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 338 Defending force 7802 troops, 183 guns, 82 vehicles, Assault Value = 168 Japanese adjusted assault: 478 Allied adjusted defense: 117 Japanese assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 0) Japanese forces CAPTURE Bundaberg !!! Combat modifiers Defender: terrain(+), preparation(-), experience(-) Attacker: shock(+) Japanese ground losses: 290 casualties reported Squads: 0 destroyed, 32 disabled Non Combat: 0 destroyed, 2 disabled Engineers: 0 destroyed, 0 disabled Allied ground losses: 2711 casualties reported Squads: 40 destroyed, 30 disabled Non Combat: 183 destroyed, 12 disabled Engineers: 28 destroyed, 0 disabled Guns lost 68 (62 destroyed, 6 disabled) Vehicles lost 90 (87 destroyed, 3 disabled) Units retreated 6 Units destroyed 1 Defeated Allied Units Retreating! Assaulting units: 4th Division Defending units: 17th MG Battalion 34th Infantry Regiment 5th RAA Coastal Artillery Regiment Bundaberg RAN Base Force 2/16th Field Regiment 1st Medium Regiment 2nd RAA Coastal Artillery Regiment Good news, another fighter squadron shows up in Oz, bringing the total now present to 7, but only two are full strength. 20th PS (P) arrives at Brisbane

BBfanboy -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 7:49:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Banshees hit the IJA tanks... [image]local://upfiles/44178/47D4E6B26BDE4EB9AA585E4FBD45A9DF.jpg[/image] I have also found that the bigger bomb carried by DBs helps against tanks. Have you been flying at dive bombing altitude or lower? I was losing too many planes with dive bombing so I switched to level bombing from just above IJ light AA levels. Still effective bombing.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (11/30/2020 10:24:43 PM)
I let them dive bomb since I know there is no AA present larger than a machine gun....

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 1:22:48 PM)
The situation on the ground looks very good for the Allies currently around Perth. I believe Japan will have a very difficult time replacing losses. Any suggestions for pulling off a nonbase bombardment? I have all float planes doing recon there, wirraways doing recon, set the task force to bombard, 0 range, escorts bombard, remain on station, direct, absolute. Any other ideas? Will appoint an aggressive task force commander...would inspiration help to? [image]local://upfiles/44178/B25D95BFA4CE44AA9DD426A11FCB9FE3.jpg[/image]

witpqs -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 1:48:22 PM)
My own experience is rather lame. I assume lots of Recon will help.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 1:52:12 PM)
Bundaberg...situation not great, but hope to score some victories in the next day or two. [image]local://upfiles/44178/A19D9AF9A25F4387B5968984B1FE6C67.jpg[/image]

ny59giants -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 1:57:25 PM)
Its been years since I did this, but if my memory is reliable [:D], you come in as SC TF with "remain on station." The next day, switch over to "bombard TF" and allow return to base with that hex as target. I did this to west of Calcutta as Japan. Place a LRCAP over TF/hex.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 2:09:26 PM)
Some of the ground reinforcements heading for western Australia... [image]local://upfiles/44178/BBDA5E38DA8B49568C061C3D1CD17181.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 2:22:09 PM)
The British and American warships will break down into multiple small task forces race into a patrol plot ending in Chittagong where we will have fighters protecting the base. Our ships are not spotted. I suspect this will be bloody. What a bloody game! [image]local://upfiles/44178/254095DF33564365B023EE729637B0D2.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 2:23:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: ny59giants Its been years since I did this, but if my memory is reliable [:D], you come in as SC TF with "remain on station." The next day, switch over to "bombard TF" and allow return to base with that hex as target. I did this to west of Calcutta as Japan. Place a LRCAP over TF/hex. Ooooh, that is not good as the tanks will move away by then.[:(] But that kind of jives with my sketchy memory of having pulled it off before...

RangerJoe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 3:00:28 PM)
If there is no CAP, have fighters strafe, they will also bomb. Even if they don't destroy the tank, they can cause a lot of disruption, fatigue, and disablements.

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 3:52:57 PM)
Turns away...I pulled the fighters back to rest and lighten the AV support demand at Perth (if they had bombs, I would have used them). Another dive bomber squadron is enroute… I suspect a fair bit of fireworks... This is the first time the Allies will be using multiple small task force, none smaller than 3, off Chittagong. Japan ship losses so far: CVL, CS, CAx3, CLx4, DDx10. That is a hefty early expansion price.

BBfanboy -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 4:27:42 PM)
For non-base bombardments the key thing seems to be a very good DL on the target. Recon night and day for a couple of turns before the bombardment, and of course have your FPs up for the bombardment itself. I was using "remain on station" because there was no significant air threat, but usually the ships would bombard at night first. Having two or more bombardment TFs also seemed to help - one large TF tends to have several ships that hardly fire at all while smaller ones empty their mags. And I am not sure of this, but I think the first bombardment TF raises the target DL a bit so the next one is more effective. Edit: Forgot to mention: You can use your DDs to bombard too if you allow them to bombard and to approach closer than the 15K yards the AI likes to stay at. Someone recently posted that having the standoff range set to 0 keeps the AI from approaching closely to shore but setting it at 1 gets the DDs at least to approach as close as that (1000 yards) to shore. That seemed to be true when I tried it.

BBfanboy -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 4:38:22 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lowpe Turns away...I pulled the fighters back to rest and lighten the AV support demand at Perth (if they had bombs, I would have used them). Another dive bomber squadron is enroute… I suspect a fair bit of fireworks... This is the first time the Allies will be using multiple small task force, none smaller than 3, off Chittagong. Japan ship losses so far: CVL, CS, CAx3, CLx4, DDx10. That is a hefty early expansion price. Unsustainable! Greta will get after them for that! [:'(]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 8:51:52 PM)
Jan 13th, 1942 Japan going for Chittagong! [image]local://upfiles/44178/C45D42FFA21F42A4836595C0336AD32C.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 8:56:12 PM)
It is an absolute knife fight, and disaster strikes! This task force was supposed to be the last in! [image]local://upfiles/44178/9B89B3F6F4E94E4897E77CE05A953211.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 8:59:29 PM)
In Chittagong harbor, long lances strike hard again! Combats are starting out very close in... [image]local://upfiles/44178/8984940FBD70416C862C1770D6040E5B.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 9:02:58 PM)
Another fight at Chittagong, and no Allied ships sunk! [image]local://upfiles/44178/E0BE80A7004F427CBCBA15FB0F5E204F.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 9:09:40 PM)
No other naval combats take place...where are our light cruisers? The bombardment is pulled off... [image]local://upfiles/44178/B3AC489D64804F73AF88B6EEB2A08B04.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 9:11:49 PM)
Found the IJA Tank Spearhead! I guess they turned back to clear the roadblock south of Sian? [image]local://upfiles/44178/B2D7AF40590145BA9940AD81054B683A.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 9:13:42 PM)
For now we will hold here... [image]local://upfiles/44178/A99C726F5ACB45F498508CE646849D05.jpg[/image]

Lowpe -> RE: Spanking Lowpe (NJP72 vs Lowpe (A)) (12/3/2020 9:22:14 PM)
What an absolutely disappointing fight...our Light Cruisers are now 4 hexes from the IJN invasion fleet...our Heavy Cruiser intercepted the IJN after they bombarded, but got thoroughly destroyed.... [image]local://upfiles/44178/B633D13795574ECCAFA16752B5D9B6E2.jpg[/image]

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