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RE: it goes on... - 3/29/2009 4:16:24 PM   
castor troy


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Coastal Guns at Pago Pago, 98,110, firing at TF 1025
TF 1025 troops unloading over beach at Pago Pago, 98,110


16 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Ravnaas


Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

this is still the same TF that has been unloading here for a week now...

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TF 59 troops unloading over beach at Bulla, 40,75


Japanese ground losses:
74 casualties reported

this is my TF unloading at Bulla. Want to clear that base that was used as base for enemy patrol aircraft...

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Coastal Guns at Pago Pago, 98,110, firing at TF 1025
TF 1025 troops unloading over beach at Pago Pago, 98,110


2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported

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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 148

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 97

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 138
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 151

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 138
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 37
SBD Dauntless x 14
TBF Avenger x 16
Hurricane IIb x 13
P-36A Mohawk x 69


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
SBD Dauntless: 1 damaged
TBF Avenger: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 57

Aircraft Attacking:
36 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 36
OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 4
B-26B Marauder x 13


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 3 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 1 damaged

Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-26B Marauder bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 7
PB2Y Coronado x 6
A-20B Boston x 69
PV-1 Ventura x 57
B-25C Mitchell x 14


Allied aircraft losses
A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Port hits 4
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 11th Tank Regiment, at 25,85


Allied aircraft
Swordfish x 17


Allied aircraft losses
Swordfish: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Swordfish bombing at 10000 feet
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and here´s the joke of the day...

Day Air attack on TF at 25,83


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 15
SBD Dauntless x 45
TBF Avenger x 6
Spitfire Vb x 13
P-40E Warhawk x 52


Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 8 damaged
TBF Avenger: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
CL Yubari, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
CL Tenryu
CL Kinu, Bomb hits 1
CL Isuzu
CL Tatsuta
CL Abukuma

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
2 x TBF Avenger launching torpedoes at 200 feet

this game will never bem nearly in a state without serious bugs. I´m not talking about some minor glitches but bugs that just ruin every fun playing this crap. Guess where this fast transport TF ended up today! 2 (in words: T W O) hexes North of Derby!!!! It is supposed to move in and out at night, go into position the day before (means 6 hexes off the target). Well, the borked movement routine (as borked as the crappy programmed routine that´s responsible for the ground movement) just place it two hexes off Derby, a base that is full of Allied LBA. The only reason we didn´t lose the whole damned TF was the fact that the bombers at Broome were set to ground attacks and Derby was clouded in in the morning.

I have no problems losing ships due to my faults or stupidity, but losing a light cruiser due to a fridging game bug is just a f*cking joke...

Yubari lies dead in the water with 99 sys, 64 flt and 43 fire. It doesn´t even take more air attacks, the ship is dead anyway... guess it will be finished off tomorrow... the first cruiser I lose in the war... lost due to a bug...


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15546 troops, 178 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1864

Defending force 268302 troops, 1401 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6356



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22638 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3154

Defending force 185512 troops, 43 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5253



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 21777 troops, 237 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 5785

Defending force 145674 troops, 1121 guns, 396 vehicles, Assault Value = 2817



Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3433 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 193

Defending force 31236 troops, 358 guns, 32 vehicles, Assault Value = 120



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 25596 troops, 358 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 120

Defending force 11076 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 193


Japanese ground losses:
376 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported



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RE: it goes on... - 3/29/2009 4:30:42 PM   
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RE: it goes on... - 3/29/2009 5:27:39 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Rainer79

What was the mission of that FT squadron?



fast transport... and fast transports do the same as surface combat and naval bombardment TFs: they stay off their destination at their max range and then go in at night to be out of LBA range during the day again. In this case the TF just parked itself off a base with major LBA without any reason to do so. Fully fueled the day before and all orders were correctly given. Wasn´t my fault to lose Yubari...

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RE: it goes on... - 3/29/2009 5:29:56 PM   
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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
CA Frobisher
CA Hawkins
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
BB Tennessee
BB Pennsylvania

Japanese ground losses:
370 casualties reported
Guns lost 14

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 18
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 4
Port supply hits 5

not much left to be destroyed...

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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 106

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 47

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 5
A6M3a Zero x 135
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 114
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 36
SBD Dauntless x 2
TBF Avenger x 15
Hurricane IIb x 13
P-36A Mohawk x 93


Allied aircraft losses
P-36A Mohawk: 7 damaged

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 60

Aircraft Attacking:
35 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 4
PB2Y Coronado x 5
A-20B Boston x 63
PV-1 Ventura x 58
B-25C Mitchell x 3


Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
10 casualties reported

Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 26,81


Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 9
Beaufort I x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CL Yubari, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet
3 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

that´s it...

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Day Air attack on TF at 26,81


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 9
SBD Dauntless x 35
Swordfish x 11
TBF Avenger x 4
Spitfire Vb x 14
Beaufort I x 14
P-40E Warhawk x 20


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
CL Yubari, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

the light cruiser was already sunk...

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Ground combat at Bulla

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 1437 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 40

Defending force 576 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 18



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported

shock attack tomorrow...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15574 troops, 178 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863

Defending force 267818 troops, 1398 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6341



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22634 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3154

Defending force 185039 troops, 41 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5248



Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 24515 troops, 323 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 5831

Defending force 146689 troops, 1137 guns, 397 vehicles, Assault Value = 2838



Allied ground losses:
99 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 3438 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 174

Defending force 31576 troops, 368 guns, 33 vehicles, Assault Value = 132



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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 25916 troops, 368 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 132

Defending force 10138 troops, 15 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 174


Japanese ground losses:
566 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

the enemy will kick us off the island with bombardments only... looks like it would be best to just land a dozen art units to kill the enemy with Verdun style artillery attacks...

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RE: it goes on... - 3/29/2009 6:16:51 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: castor troy
fast transport... and fast transports do the same as surface combat and naval bombardment TFs: they stay off their destination at their max range and then go in at night to be out of LBA range during the day again. In this case the TF just parked itself off a base with major LBA without any reason to do so. Fully fueled the day before and all orders were correctly given. Wasn´t my fault to lose Yubari...


With the front at Wyndham and the allied bomber stacks at the other bases there I was actually just wondering where these ships were headed.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/29/2009 6:59:12 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Rainer79


quote:

ORIGINAL: castor troy
fast transport... and fast transports do the same as surface combat and naval bombardment TFs: they stay off their destination at their max range and then go in at night to be out of LBA range during the day again. In this case the TF just parked itself off a base with major LBA without any reason to do so. Fully fueled the day before and all orders were correctly given. Wasn´t my fault to lose Yubari...


With the front at Wyndham and the allied bomber stacks at the other bases there I was actually just wondering where these ships were headed.



They were heading to Derby to drop off some supply for my tank units.

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RE: it goes on... - 3/30/2009 9:13:35 AM   
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TF 84 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Japanese Ships
DD Suzukaze, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Shiratsuyu, Mine hits 1, on fire
DD Yamagumo, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

how many times my opponent entered hexes with ten thousand of mines and hit nothing is unbelievable... as unbelievable as what happens to my surface combat and bombardment TFs all the time... I could looks like Miller is the master of die rolls...

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Sub attack at 7,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
AK Empire Launcelot, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Miller spotted KB moving West from Koepang to intercept a probable supply convoy (that was spotted by my subs North of Perth) to Northern Australia and therefore he sent them full speed back towards Perth. This small AK is sunk with two torps...

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 5 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 5 destroyed
TBF Avenger: 1 destroyed
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 4 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Myoko
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
1987 casualties reported
Guns lost 11
Vehicles lost 19

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 70

for the loss of 3 DDs we do at least some damage with our bombardment...

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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
BB California
BB Arizona
BB Oklahoma
BB Nevada
BB West Virginia
BB Colorado
BB Maryland

Japanese ground losses:
614 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 24
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

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Sub attack at 7,92

Japanese Ships
SS I-19

Allied Ships
AK Empire Launcelot, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Empire Launcelot takes another two torps... ridicoulos, I-19 used up all her torps to finish ONE small AK...

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Sub attack at 7,93

Japanese Ships
SS I-165

Allied Ships
AK Empire Valour, Torpedo hits 4, on fire, heavy damage

another attack on this convoy, small AK Empire Valour goes down also...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 59
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 19

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Bulla , at 40,75

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 111

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 11
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 70

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
A6M3a Zero x 138
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 106
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 37
SBD Dauntless x 16
TBF Avenger x 14
Hurricane IIb x 13
P-36A Mohawk x 63


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 2 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
33 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 66

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 6
PB2Y Coronado x 6
A-20B Boston x 43
PV-1 Ventura x 56
B-25C Mitchell x 10


No Allied losses

Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,79

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 9

Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 8

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 6 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Takao

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet

Attack out of WYNDHAM! Miller puts 200 bombers back into the base! Looks like he doesn´t care at all about his supply there... serves me well. Leaking Cap from Koepang...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,79

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 9

Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 10

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 6 damaged

Japanese Ships
CA Tone
CA Kumano

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet

another strike on my bombardment TF that is returning to Timor... at the end of the day, one British Liberator is accounted for being shot down A2A...

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Day Air attack on TF at 26,82


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 6
SBD Dauntless x 35
TBF Avenger x 2
Spitfire Vb x 7
Beaufort I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 34


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 1 damaged
Beaufort I: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Yamagumo, Bomb hits 2, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Shiratsuyu, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Suzukaze, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

like I´ve said, Miller seems to be the master of die rolls... first three of my DDs hit mines at Derby and then, well, they are all moderately damaged and end up in the SAME TF... and those three DDs are SUNK. DD losses at 15 now. Guess at least a dozen of them are lost because they originally either hit a mine or were torped by a PT...




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Ground combat at Bulla

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 1483 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 42

Defending force 585 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 17

Japanese max assault: 74 - adjusted assault: 70

Allied max defense: 13 - adjusted defense: 3

Japanese assault odds: 23 to 1 (fort level 0)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Bulla base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
1380 casualties reported

the two unit fragments didn´t have much of a chance... good example of the myth that you don´t have to capture oil/resources early because they are stored by the Allied for you. They AREN´T! Bulla has 70 resources and was producing resources for 15 months now. So there should be over 30.000 resources now. How many did we capture? 2800! That´s a myth folks, capture your resources and oil asap, the Allied don´t store them for you... and no, Miller did NOT move them out...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15579 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867

Defending force 272131 troops, 1424 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6321



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22654 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 3154

Defending force 184428 troops, 39 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5237



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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 5300 troops, 183 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5871

Defending force 147260 troops, 1154 guns, 399 vehicles, Assault Value = 2841



Allied ground losses:
247 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12551 troops, 78 guns, 561 vehicles, Assault Value = 1807

Defending force 36690 troops, 209 guns, 132 vehicles, Assault Value = 604



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26113 troops, 381 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 134

Defending force 8720 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 130


Japanese ground losses:
724 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 235 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 98

Defending force 31853 troops, 381 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 134



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1





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RE: it goes on... - 3/30/2009 10:16:00 AM   
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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 9 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 2 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 6 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 2 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
TBF Avenger: 2 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Nachi
CA Takao


Allied ground losses:
1654 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 9

Airbase hits 25
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 115

going to knock out Derby and Wyndham. We will keep using our CAs (as long as they can move 6 hexes at least), then we will switch over to using the fast BBs together with the cruisers (when they can only move 5 hexes due to sys damage). And when the enemy´s airfields at Broome and Derby are knocked out we can also use KB´s Kates to keep them damaged. This could enable us to move in AKs to drop off supplies for our tanks. Mines are the biggest threat at the moment, they damage our ships and the SBDs and torp bombers kill our ships afterwards...

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ASW attack at 25,83

Japanese Ships
DD Fubuki
DD Akatsuki
DD Ariake
DD Shigure
DD Asagumo
DD Oshio
DD Amatsukaze

Allied Ships
SS Runner

escorts of our bombardment TF... all fail to locate the sub...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 59
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 36

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Dili , at 31,77

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 30
B-17E Fortress x 70
B-24D Liberator x 94

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-46-III Dinah: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 1 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
101 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 24
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 195

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet
9 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet
26 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet

200 4Es attack the more or less empty (only the Dinah III Chutai there) airfield of Dili and nuke it... Unbelievable what damage those bastards do in one attack. Flak is ueless, the insane number of ONE bomber is lost... ridicoulos...

but hey, Miller should fly more attacks like this one, it came from Wyndham! How much supply is being used by 200 4Es for an attack? 400? 600? 800? If I were Miller, I would not burn my precious supply in Wyndham for absolutely senseless attacks on an empty airfield on Timor.

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 17
A6M3a Zero x 137
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 116
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 45
Kittyhawk I x 5


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 2 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
33 x TBF Avenger bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 6
PB2Y Coronado x 6
A-20B Boston x 73
PV-1 Ventura x 56
B-25C Mitchell x 10


Allied aircraft losses
PBY Catalina: 1 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Port hits 3
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 40th USA Division, at 36,89

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 69
Ki-46-III Dinah x 3

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
87 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

40th USA div is now one hex below the junction to Wyndham... one more div is following two hexes South...




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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 311006 troops, 3123 guns, 68 vehicles, Assault Value = 5914

Defending force 150104 troops, 1200 guns, 402 vehicles, Assault Value = 2959

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 7

Japanese max assault: 5449 - adjusted assault: 2501

Allied max defense: 3192 - adjusted defense: 4977

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 7)


Japanese ground losses:
13042 casualties reported
Guns lost 224
Vehicles lost 23

Allied ground losses:
3961 casualties reported
Guns lost 62
Vehicles lost 6

another devastating attack, we suffer even slightly more losses than last time. Seems that supply isn´t an issue for the Allied yet. Our adjusted av once again looks horrible... two divs will be moved out and fresh ones in...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15584 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866

Defending force 271438 troops, 1412 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6297



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22662 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2820

Defending force 184065 troops, 35 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5225



Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12645 troops, 78 guns, 564 vehicles, Assault Value = 1810

Defending force 35561 troops, 203 guns, 124 vehicles, Assault Value = 596



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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26381 troops, 383 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 149

Defending force 8254 troops, 19 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 105


Japanese ground losses:
453 casualties reported
Guns lost 7


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 235 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 92

Defending force 32221 troops, 383 guns, 34 vehicles, Assault Value = 149






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Status: offline 		And here are the enemy troops at Derby. It doesn´t look that bad, especially the fact that two of the Allied bgd are in the lead of the troop stack, so my attack will hit those two bgds hard. All we need are supplies, if we get supplies to our tanks we will finish off Derby, even if the enemy is sitting behind level 9 forts. At least I hope so...




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ASW attack near Kwajalein at 79,79

Japanese Ships
MSW Ranzan Maru
MSW Misago Maru #11
MSW Kyo Maru #3
MSW Kyo Maru #1

Allied Ships
SS Seal

sub in base hex...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 59
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 21
A6M3a Zero x 138
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 150
Port hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 38
SBD Dauntless x 16
TBF Avenger x 16
Hurricane IIb x 13
P-36A Mohawk x 91


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 damaged
SBD Dauntless: 2 damaged
TBF Avenger: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 89

Aircraft Attacking:
34 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 43
OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 2
Kittyhawk I x 9


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
OS2U-3 Kingfisher: 1 damaged

Port hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
28 x TBF Avenger bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 84th Naval Guard Unit, at 98,110


Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 40
PV-1 Ventura x 37
B-25C Mitchell x 7


Allied aircraft losses
A-20B Boston: 1 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
47 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

no need to fly ground attacks, the enemy bombardments (and only the bombardments!) have totally wrecked our inf units...

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Day Air attack on 134th IJN Base Force, at 98,110


Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 10
PV-1 Ventura x 18
B-25C Mitchell x 3


Allied aircraft losses
A-20B Boston: 2 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 13
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 120

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 11

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 12 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed

Expected Miller to set his bombers at Wyndham on nav attack again and as Darwin is only 7 hexes away (closer than my ships going to Derby or the ships at Koepang) the bombers show up unescorted to meet a crappy Cap. I´ve got 289 fighters on Cap there, we see 133 in the air (Cap is set to 90% ). Again not even 50% and this really starts to suck...

The enemy bomber crews´ morale is low and all turn back. This was amazing as they had quite some time to rest.

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 13
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 120

Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 10
B-24D Liberator x 33

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 14 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 7 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 3 destroyed, 26 damaged

the Brits had a higher morale and suffered...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 13
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 120

Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 2 damaged

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Day Air attack on TF, near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 13
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 120

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 damaged

the US crews seem to be no threat for the moment if they go in against capped targets. What I really need is the Tony (gun value 10) and radar. The Tony is still at 9/43 and I won´t get radar until 1/44... and by then it will be too late...




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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15664 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1865

Defending force 270689 troops, 1400 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6279



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22662 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2820

Defending force 183931 troops, 34 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5215



Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8316 troops, 281 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4788

Defending force 147095 troops, 1137 guns, 399 vehicles, Assault Value = 2935



Allied ground losses:
232 casualties reported
Guns lost 8
Vehicles lost 4


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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12722 troops, 78 guns, 567 vehicles, Assault Value = 1812

Defending force 37112 troops, 207 guns, 125 vehicles, Assault Value = 598



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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 26719 troops, 392 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 162

Defending force 7867 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 95


Japanese ground losses:
262 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 235 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 79

Defending force 32679 troops, 392 guns, 36 vehicles, Assault Value = 162






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RE: it goes on... - 3/30/2009 9:20:07 PM   
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It's the Southern Area Panzer Army!

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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Are there any Japanese tanks in the Pacific that you DON'T have at Derby?

NO

It's the Southern Area Panzer Army!

YES





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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
DD Stuart
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
BB Pennsylvania

Japanese ground losses:
560 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 27
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 4

how many bombardments have you seen when the Allied did NOT achieve hits on the base?

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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
BB California
BB Arizona
BB Oklahoma
BB Nevada
BB West Virginia
BB Colorado
BB Maryland

Japanese ground losses:
345 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 42
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 5

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 59
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 34

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 26
A6M3a Zero x 136
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 10
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 109
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 42
OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 2
Kittyhawk I x 3


No Allied losses

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x TBF Avenger bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 84th Naval Guard Unit, at 98,110


Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 54
PV-1 Ventura x 45
B-25C Mitchell x 6


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
51 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

ground attacks on dead untis...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Upolu at 97,109

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 62
G4M1 Betty x 31

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 30

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 11 destroyed, 8 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Delawarean, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Steelmaker, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Dellwood, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Selma City, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Crux, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Alcona, Torpedo hits 1, on fire


Allied ground losses:
184 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

one of the good examples of how dumb this game engine is (or how poor the programming was). There are two big spotted enemy TFs outside of Upolu (means without CAP!!!) and what is attacked? The TF that is capped... stupid... couple of torp hits but I doubt that even one AK will sink. Not worth losing half a dozen high exp Naval pilots... 31 out of 54 Betties launched...




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Sub attack near Noumea at 68,113

Japanese Ships
SS I-124, hits 3, on fire

Allied Ships
CVE Long Island, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
DD Clark
DD Balch
DD Selfridge
DD Edwards
DD Gillespie
DD Gansevoort
DD Frazier
DD Waller
DD Philip
DD Jenkins
DD Conway
DD Aulick

nothing to cheer here, one torp hit only does some damage and we hit the crappiest Allied carrier on the map... In return our mine laying sub is hit hard (or course it is...) and retires with 50+ flt damage... Long Island suffered an ammo storage explosion but that doesn´t even bring her into a state of being heavily damaged...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15675 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866

Defending force 270089 troops, 1392 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6271



Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22647 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2825

Defending force 183544 troops, 30 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5214



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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8336 troops, 283 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4838

Defending force 152842 troops, 1170 guns, 400 vehicles, Assault Value = 3095



Allied ground losses:
494 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

5000 additional Allied troops in ONE turn!!!!! What the heck? We´ve spotted 200+ Allied transport ac at the base but where from are the troops coming? From Timor? Must be a bug then, the airfield is totally damaged there, wouldn´t wonder if he nevertheless could pick up troops from there... great...

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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27026 troops, 403 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 172

Defending force 6526 troops, 7 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 78


Japanese ground losses:
495 casualties reported
Guns lost 4





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TF 3 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Japanese Ships
DD Harusame, Mine hits 1, on fire

if the ship won´t be killed off by a sub tomorrow then it should make it...

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ASW attack near Derby at 24,85

Japanese Ships
DD Fubuki
DD Akatsuki
DD Ariake
DD Shigure
DD Asagumo

Allied Ships
SS Gurnard

bombardment TF´s escort meets a sub at Derby...

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

25 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
CA Maya, Shell hits 9
CA Atago
CA Chikuma
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
68 casualties reported
Guns lost 8



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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 3 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Nachi
CA Takao

Allied Ships
AK Barwon, Shell hits 1, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
337 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 5

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 19
Port supply hits 1

hey! We hit the airfield?

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85

Japanese Ships
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya
CA Haguro
CA Myoko


Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

while Miller seems to nearly always gets very good results with his bombardment we´re stuck with results like this one most of the time... another DD heavily damaged today... for nothing... at least it won´t sink...

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ASW attack at 67,113

Japanese Ships
SS I-124, hits 1, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Le Triomphant
DD Arunta
DD Panther
DD Pakenham
DD Isaac Sweers
DD Selfridge
DD Balch
DD Clark

Miller sent an ASW TF after my sub that is retiring North... he told me he hopes to kill it this turn... well, he uses 8 DDs and only 6 are allowed in an ASW TF...

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Sub attack at 26,81

Japanese Ships
DD Akatsuki
DD Fubuki
DD Ariake
DD Shigure
DD Asagumo
DD Oshio

Allied Ships
SS Runner, hits 2

two near misses... my DDs stay useless...

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TF 34 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Japanese Ships
AG AG-2088, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

sent barges to Derby, they bring in nearly 2000 supplies. Refuelling them with my bombardment TFs on the way in and out... my tank units are mostly fully supplied now...

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ASW attack at 67,112

Japanese Ships
SS I-124, hits 6, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Le Triomphant
DD Arunta
DD Panther

hurrey... I-124 is nearly dead... would mean the second mine layer sub lost... trying to make Shortlands (level 3 port), but that´s a 9 day journey...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 59
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 14

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 138
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 66
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 74
Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 19
F4F-4 Wildcat x 44
Hurricane IIb x 13
P-36A Mohawk x 98


Allied aircraft losses
P-36A Mohawk: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 117

Aircraft Attacking:
37 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
PB2Y Coronado x 5
PV-1 Ventura x 71

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K Emily: 2 destroyed
B5N Kate: 2 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 9 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 65

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 134th IJN Base Force, at 98,110


Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 20
B-25C Mitchell x 6


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 43rd USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 68

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

Miller moves four US Army divs into the railroad crossing South of Darwin. I have enough divisions to counter him... 4 divisions are not threat for us, just a little diversion... in the last couple of days and within the next week we will have moved in 3 new divisions alone by ship to Darwin... it remains the same, all depends on the supply level of Wyndham. As soon as they run out of supplies, they will be dead...

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Day Air attack on TF at 34,84

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 8
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 71

Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 16
B-24D Liberator x 41

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 16 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 4 destroyed, 8 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed, 23 damaged

Japanese Ships
BB Yamashiro
BB Musashi

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet

moving two bombardment TFs towards Wyndham as I don´t want to have his bombers and transport aircraft there. Land based fighters from Darwin are flying LRCAP... all but 2 British Liberators turn back... enemy 4Es are no threat when they have low morale and are engaged by fighters...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,79

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 94
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 65

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 18

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 13 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 destroyed, 10 damaged

mini KB and land based fighters from Koepang are covering our bombardment TFs that are returning from Derby. Also here, the enemy turned back completely...

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Day Air attack on TF at 27,79

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 94
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 65

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-44-IIb Tojo: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

another three Fortresses attack from Broome but achieve nothing. Broome is now the major airbase in the area and is fully stacked, means there are 400 aircraft. Recon says there are more than 700 but I guess this is wrong recon and Paul isn´t violating the stacking rule. Looks like I will soon have to visit Broome with my cruisers...




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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15695 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1868

Defending force 269460 troops, 1381 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6259



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22625 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2815

Defending force 183173 troops, 29 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5212



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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8360 troops, 285 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4905

Defending force 157039 troops, 1238 guns, 401 vehicles, Assault Value = 3329



Allied ground losses:
164 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

what the hell is going on here? Another 5000 troops more and the av went up by 200+ in one day! as they are not coming from Derby, they must be picked up from Lautern. Great, being picked up with Dakotas from a totally trashed airfield there but I can´t use patrol ac to pick up troops from Pago Pago. While my patrols land on water and can´t pick up troops from the damaged airfield there, Miller seems to be able to pick up troops from a totally damaged airfield with his transports... laughable stupid...

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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27226 troops, 411 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 175

Defending force 6305 troops, 13 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 78

Allied max assault: 148 - adjusted assault: 104

Japanese max defense: 47 - adjusted defense: 25

Allied assault odds: 4 to 1 (fort level 9)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 8


Japanese ground losses:
260 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
139 casualties reported
Guns lost 14
Vehicles lost 1





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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Dakota I: 3 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 23 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
6030 casualties reported
Guns lost 136
Vehicles lost 28

Airbase hits 17
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 39

we nuke the support troops at the base but yet again, the hits on the airfield are not what I would like to see. But I shouldn´t complain at all after such an result... as you can see, there are a lot of enemy transport ac...

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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
DD Van Ghent
DD Piet Hein
DD Evertsen
DD Banckert
DD Vampire
DD Voyager
CL Richmond
CL Raleigh
CL Detroit
CL Marblehead
CL Concord

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 48
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 10
Port supply hits 3

again, the enemy has no probs to hit the base...

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AP Ume Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Haddo

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported

Ume Maru carries parts of another div that arrives at Darwin today... the ship will unload and will be disbanded in port and will 100% live on...

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Sub attack near Darwin at 36,84

Japanese Ships
AP Ural Maru

Allied Ships
SS Haddo

another attack, this time the torps failed to detonate...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
A6M3a Zero x 123
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 62
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 138

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 105

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Wyndham , at 30,86

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 27
Ki-49 Helen x 92
Ki-46-II Dinah x 3

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
C-47 Dakota: 6 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
Dakota I: 2 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 16000 feet

If I could have been sure about the BBs nuking the enemy support troops at the base (more than two dozen I guess) then I would have set my bombers to attack lower but two dozen more hits and over a dozen more ac destroyed on the ground (fow, you have to double those ac torched on the ground)... my bombers are coming from Darwin...

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Day Air attack on Wyndham , at 30,86

Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 35
G4M1 Betty x 9

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
C-47 Dakota: 1 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed

Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 16000 feet

the naval bombers are coming from the bases North of Timor, means going in unescorted. That was some risk but we haven´t spotted fighters at Wyndham for weeks...

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Day Air attack on Wyndham , at 30,86

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 134

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 9 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
C-47 Dakota: 16 destroyed
Dakota I: 2 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed

Airbase hits 7
Runway hits 70

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 16000 feet

and again a lot of enemy ac destroyed on the ground... would be cool if we would achieve some supply hits also... flak fire was pathetic...

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
PB2Y Coronado x 5
PV-1 Ventura x 64

Japanese aircraft losses
No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 2 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 70

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 134th IJN Base Force, at 98,110


Allied aircraft
A-20B Boston x 37
B-25C Mitchell x 6


Allied aircraft losses
A-20B Boston: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Upolu at 97,109

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 66
G4M1 Betty x 16

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 25
P-40E Warhawk x 35

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 7 destroyed, 11 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 9 destroyed, 7 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed, 27 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Dellwood, heavy damage
AK Sagadahoc, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Mobile City, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Shaula, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

I just can´t believe it... why on earth is this attack again going in against a TF at Upolu when we spot an uncapped big TF East of Pago Pago and another one West of it. Both were in range also... We lose more precious Zero pilots, perhaps we sunk two AKs today. The attack two days ago and today scored hits but we haven´t got a single message of an enemy AK going down so far...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Upolu at 97,109

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 58
G4M1 Betty x 13

Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 27

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 10 destroyed, 12 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 3 destroyed, 8 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed, 12 damaged

Allied Ships
SC SC-631
AK Mobile City, on fire, heavy damage
AK Sagadahoc, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet

another stupid attack in the afternooon, this time even worse as the Zero pilots now have fatigue over 40. There should be a toggle for the player if you want to attack shipping in enemy ports as the game engine is just too dumb (or the programmer...)

you should have a couple of choices. Attack spotted carriers? Attack shipping at enemy bases? Attack all shipping? etc... those should be doable orders and would make sense. Of course it could also result in bombers not attacking AKs if they get misidentified but that wouldn´t be that bad...






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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15703 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1869

Defending force 268684 troops, 1369 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 6246



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22643 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2815

Defending force 182893 troops, 26 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5201



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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8410 troops, 286 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4965

Defending force 144939 troops, 1113 guns, 373 vehicles, Assault Value = 3277



Allied ground losses:
94 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 34400 troops, 385 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1159

Defending force 40205 troops, 569 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1008



Allied ground losses:
51 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

these are the enemy divs South of Darwin (three at the moment, another one is coming in tomorrow...)

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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 27144 troops, 404 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 160

Defending force 5667 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 61

Allied max assault: 132 - adjusted assault: 93

Japanese max defense: 36 - adjusted defense: 37

Allied assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 8)

Allied Assault reduces fortifications to 7


Japanese ground losses:
219 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
173 casualties reported
Guns lost 11





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RE: it goes on... - 4/1/2009 12:39:40 PM   
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TF 9 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86)

Japanese Ships
DD Shiokaze, Mine hits 1, on fire

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Musashi
BB Yamato


Allied ground losses:
500 casualties reported
Guns lost 15

super stupid it has become young Padawan...

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Sub attack at 33,84

Japanese Ships
DD Shiokaze, on fire

Allied Ships
SS Haddo

Shiokaze will make Darwin and will live on...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 57
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 22
F4F-4 Wildcat x 48
Hurricane IIb x 13
P-36A Mohawk x 109


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 72

Aircraft Attacking:
45 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
PB2Y Coronado x 5
A-20B Boston x 81
PV-1 Ventura x 58
B-25C Mitchell x 10


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported

Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 57

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
83 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 43rd USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 20

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15717 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1867

Defending force 267560 troops, 1360 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 6224



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22643 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2818

Defending force 182626 troops, 23 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5198



Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 51738 troops, 591 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1160

Defending force 40158 troops, 555 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1007



Allied ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

stalemate 4 hexes South of Darwin now. We can´t do anything, the enemy can´t do anything. Hopefully my ground attacks and the long supply line will see the enemy being without adequate supply. Am thinking about moving in three more divs and ordering a shock attack.

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8396 troops, 285 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4911

Defending force 145106 troops, 1112 guns, 374 vehicles, Assault Value = 3260



Allied ground losses:
311 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27224 troops, 400 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 152

Defending force 5347 troops, 5 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 58


Japanese ground losses:
324 casualties reported
Guns lost 1



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RE: it goes on... - 4/1/2009 12:45:05 PM   
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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
DD Stuart
CL Concord
CL Marblehead
CL Detroit
CL Raleigh
CL Richmond
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
BB Pennsylvania

Japanese ground losses:
228 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 75
Port hits 6
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 7

as you can see, the enemy always hits the base, with all his might... something that isn´t possible for the Japanese it seems...

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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
BB California
BB Arizona
BB Oklahoma
BB Nevada
BB West Virginia
BB Colorado
BB Maryland

Japanese ground losses:
403 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 50
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 2

even though you don´t see many casualties anymore, those attacks are always nukes. The only reason I don´t suffer thousands of ground losses is the fact that they are all totally wrecked already. Would I get so many hits in Northern Australia, the Allied would suffer ten thousands of casualties every time... well, we only hit stupid mines... never seen it that often...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 58
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 64

Japanese aircraft losses
E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed, 26 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 10000 feet

wonder what that attack was for...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 21
F4F-4 Wildcat x 48
Hurricane IIb x 14
P-36A Mohawk x 94


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 5 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 1 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 84

Aircraft Attacking:
34 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
PB2Y Coronado x 6
A-20B Boston x 72
PV-1 Ventura x 67
B-25C Mitchell x 9


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported

Port hits 2
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 43rd USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 50

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15737 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1868

Defending force 266629 troops, 1346 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 6209



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22687 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2819

Defending force 182607 troops, 21 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5207



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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 51887 troops, 595 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1662

Defending force 40085 troops, 545 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1008



Allied ground losses:
105 casualties reported
Guns lost 8


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8373 troops, 285 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4447

Defending force 144592 troops, 1111 guns, 377 vehicles, Assault Value = 3207



Allied ground losses:
316 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27503 troops, 405 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 174

Defending force 4157 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 35


Japanese ground losses:
252 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 13421 troops, 170 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 998

Defending force 74765 troops, 850 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 1662




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RE: it goes on... - 4/1/2009 1:31:44 PM   
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TF 51 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Japanese Ships
DD Shigure, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
DD Yugure, Mine hits 1, on fire

seriously, can it get any more stupid? I have never experienced something like this before, dozens of DDs have hit mines so far, while the Allied go in and out of my bases and never anything happens. It´s just stupid, nothing else...

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Sub attack at 5,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
AK Empire Seaman, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

North of Perth, another small AK is hit...

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85

Japanese Ships
CA Takao
CA Chikuma
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
123 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

it´s so stupid... it´s so stupid... it´s so stupid... it just pisses me off...

naval bombardments is one of those stories in WITP. While I was used to hear from AFB how crappy it is that the IJN is hardcoded to achieve naval bombardment nukes ALL the time, this AAR clearly proves that it isn´t like this. Heck, when you look at the dozen up to a hundred hits the Allied achieve with EVERY of their attacks then it seems to prove that not the IJN is hardcoded to get nuke bombardments but the Allied. Or it´s all just about dumb luck and I´m too stupid to get lucky die rolls. While I hit mines 4 times out of 5 times I enter a base with a single or some more mines the enemy does not, even if he enters hexes with thousands of mines... on the other hand, he has been doing nukes since the beginning of this campaign...

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 5 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Chokai
CA Maya

Allied Ships
AK Barwon, Shell hits 1, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
1408 casualties reported
Guns lost 12
Vehicles lost 6

Airbase hits 11
Runway hits 36
Port hits 1

WOW! 36 hits? A nuke...

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Dakota I: 1 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Abukuma
CL Isuzu
CL Nagara
CA Suzuya
CA Ashigara
CA Atago

Allied Ships
AK Barwon, Shell hits 1, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
250 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 26

and another 26 hits from the bigger TF? wohooooo!!!

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Sub attack at 25,84

Japanese Ships
CL Isuzu
DD Oshio
DD Tanikaze
DD Hagikaze
DD Maikaze

Allied Ships
SS Kingfish, hits 1

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Sub attack at 27,79

Allied Ships
SS Scorpion

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ASW attack near Tongatapu Island at 94,114

Japanese Ships
SS I-123, hits 4

Allied Ships
DD Fox
DD John D. Edwards
DD Edsall
DD Bulmer
DD Barker
DD Alden

and the oh so crappy Allied ASW... what Paul described as totally useless and overdone changes of IJN subs in Nikmod is something I can´t confirm. Being in a hex with Allied ASW forces is most times bad news for my subs and if I would employ them like I did near Pago Pago, I would loses dozens of them in two weeks. 3 subs were sunk, another half a dozen damaged. Pretty crappy if you ask me...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 135
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 70
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 152

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 79
Port hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 167
J1N1-R Irving x 4
Ki-49 Helen x 132
Ki-46-III Dinah x 5
Ki-46-II Dinah x 4

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2
Boomerang II x 4
Spitfire Vb x 6
P-40E Warhawk x 2

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 2 destroyed, 5 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 7 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 6 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 5 destroyed
Boomerang II: 6 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 13 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 6 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 1 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 7 destroyed
Dakota I: 3 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported

Airbase hits 18
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 106

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet

moved out the Tojos from Koepang and sent in IJA medium bombers instead (operating at max range) to go in with 81 land based Zeroes. Ask me how I looked like when I saw 167 Zeros as escorts! Mini KB returned to Koepang and even though it is set to 80% Cap, it launched 90%+ of it´s fighters to escort this strike... I hate those glitches... not the first time I see this... my naval bombardments were pretty useless, the only effect they have is that Miller always moves out everything that can fly the day when he sees my TFs going into position and therefore I knew I could bomb the base today without having to fear to meet 200 fighters on Cap. Our escorts did an excellent job and the bombers achieved a nice hit rate. We had a 10:1 kill rate A2A today, the enemy did NOT bounce us for the whole engagement. Note the C-47 again, this means bad news, more about that later on...

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Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 81
G3M Nell x 17
G4M1 Betty x 81

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
C-47 Dakota: 4 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 4 destroyed
Dakota I: 3 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
8 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 70

Aircraft Attacking:
18 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 10000 feet

another strike coming in at max escort range for the Zeros, flak fire was only pathetic, at least the enemy base forces got disrupted by my naval bombardments. This seems to be the only effect. We achieved 238 hits on the airfield today BUT the damned airfield was NOT closed in the afternoon. Recon aircraft reported dozens of Allied fighters on Cap in the afternoon again. Depressing... as are the mine hits and the pathetic naval bombardments...

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Day Air attack on Pago Pago , at 98,110


Allied aircraft
PBY Catalina x 5
PB2Y Coronado x 4
A-20B Boston x 37
PV-1 Ventura x 60
B-25C Mitchell x 12


No Allied losses

Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet

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Day Air attack on 37th USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 19

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on 43rd USA Division, at 36,88

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 29

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
72 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 25,84


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 52
Beaufort I x 8


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Shigure, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

Shigure was only able to move one hex after it hit a mine during the night so it would have been dead anyway. It immedietely disappeared after this torp hit... 16 DDs lost now, another two dozen in dry dock... 14 of those DDs lost (and all the damaged ones) were lost either due to PTs or mines (means they were hit by them and immediately sank or they were finished off by LBA they next day).

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Day Air attack on TF at 26,82


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 11


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Yugure, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-17E Fortress bombing at 10000 feet

Shigure moved four hexes but then took a 500lb bomb, now lost also but not sunk yet. Flt at 80 and fires at 32... say good bye. 17 DDs lost. 15 due to PTs or mines...




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Sub attack at 5,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-9

Allied Ships
AK Empire Seaman, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage

the AK is finished off...

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ASW attack near Tongatapu Island at 94,114

Japanese Ships
SS I-123

Allied Ships
DD Fox
DD John D. Edwards
DD Edsall
DD Bulmer
DD Barker
DD Alden

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Sub attack at 27,79

Japanese Ships
DD Teruzuki
DD Naganami
DD Makinami
DD Makigumo
DD Akigumo
DD Hatsuzuki
DD Susuzuki
DD Akizuki
CL Agano

Allied Ships
SS Scorpion, hits 3, on fire

one hit, two near misses...

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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 56872 troops, 173 guns, 3139 vehicles, Assault Value = 1912

Defending force 40358 troops, 280 guns, 120 vehicles, Assault Value = 848

Japanese max assault: 3300 - adjusted assault: 2230

Allied max defense: 773 - adjusted defense: 1024

Japanese assault odds: 2 to 1 (fort level 9)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 7


Japanese ground losses:
1007 casualties reported
Guns lost 14
Vehicles lost 32

Allied ground losses:
2935 casualties reported
Guns lost 59
Vehicles lost 8

this is what I meant with C-47 and bad news... the shock attack wasn´t bad but Miller moves whole divisions around in two days with his hundreds of transports he has in Northern Australia. And due to the fact that my naval bombardments are totally useless I can´t do anything about it. I knock out one base for two days, he uses the other two. On the third day he can use all three bases again... The fact that he seems to be able to pick up troops from 100% damaged airfields doesn´t make it any better...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15743 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1871

Defending force 265689 troops, 1335 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 6197



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22687 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2821

Defending force 182212 troops, 22 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5203



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52017 troops, 604 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1660

Defending force 54469 troops, 747 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1356



Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8380 troops, 287 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4490

Defending force 142783 troops, 1113 guns, 375 vehicles, Assault Value = 3055



Allied ground losses:
391 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 27912 troops, 416 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 187

Defending force 3948 troops, 11 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 31


Japanese ground losses:
493 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 13409 troops, 172 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1355

Defending force 74844 troops, 860 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 1660


Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported





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RE: it goes on... - 4/1/2009 3:33:59 PM   
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ASW attack near Noumea at 68,113

Japanese Ships
SS I-122, hits 1

Allied Ships
SC SC-703
SC SC-702
SC SC-647
SC SC-646
SC SC-642
SC SC-633

one near miss... it´s obvious that - unlike the Allied - we can´t park our subs in base hexes... we can´t even move in without being attacked...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 57
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 35
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 82

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 87
Port hits 1
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

have transferred out a lot of fighters as I´ve smell a hard fighting coming up...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 18
F4F-4 Wildcat x 53
Hurricane IIb x 16
P-36A Mohawk x 108


Allied aircraft losses
P-36A Mohawk: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
24 casualties reported

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 89

Aircraft Attacking:
41 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 114th IJN Base Force, at 98,110


Allied aircraft
TBF Avenger x 32
Kittyhawk I x 3


Allied aircraft losses
TBF Avenger: 3 damaged

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x TBF Avenger bombing at 6000 feet

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15742 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1866

Defending force 264667 troops, 1325 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 6190



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22656 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2820

Defending force 181536 troops, 18 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5188



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52099 troops, 606 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1666

Defending force 54638 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1361



Allied ground losses:
51 casualties reported

4 vs 4 divs...

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8366 troops, 288 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4541

Defending force 146185 troops, 1128 guns, 375 vehicles, Assault Value = 3102



Allied ground losses:
272 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

troop number and av going up... the transports are at Wyndham again...

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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 11815 troops, 68 guns, 542 vehicles, Assault Value = 1841

Defending force 36656 troops, 197 guns, 106 vehicles, Assault Value = 738

as it is now, I´m confident that I can take this base if I can bring supply to my tanks. I´m working on that one and if everything goes according to the plan then supply should arrive in five days. If we can take Derby, then Broome is only a cakewalk (guess there are only 9 base forces) and I´m also quite confident that Wyndham will be lost also then...

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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 28237 troops, 422 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 196

Defending force 3567 troops, 9 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 23


Japanese ground losses:
340 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14489 troops, 204 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1356

Defending force 74962 troops, 859 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 1666


Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


and here comes the screenshot of the day! It looks like Miller is going in for his next invasion. At the moment I´m thinking about an attack on Thursday Island as he tried to grab it with paras earlier and he knows I only have a nav guard and a base force there. Could of course also be an attack on PM or a try to pass North but going to Derby that way would be strange so I´m pretty sure this is an attack on Thursday Island. This must mean that we will face his carriers also. We have a couple of bases to fly attacks on the Allied and this time we will do that. All my daitais are alerted and I have massed quite a lot ac in the area... will try a probing attack tomorrow to see how many fighters are on Cap - I guess at least 225 (F4F-4 and Seafires). I can bring 600 land based fighters and 400 bombers of all different types. This time I want to sink ships...







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RE: it goes on... - 4/1/2009 6:04:20 PM   
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TF 93 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86)

Japanese Ships
DD Samidare, Mine hits 1, on fire

looking for the appropriate smiley....

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ASW attack near Pago Pago at 98,110

Japanese Ships
SS I-29, hits 7, on fire

Allied Ships
DMS Chandler
DMS Perry
DMS Dorsey

it´s most of the times now either sunk or heavily damaged when my subs end up in the same hex as Allied ASW vessels... no matter which type, no matter how many...

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
C-47 Dakota: 24 destroyed
Dakota I: 4 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 3 destroyed
PB2Y Coronado: 2 destroyed
Beaufort I: 3 destroyed
F-5A Lightning: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Ise
BB Yamashiro
BB Musashi


Allied ground losses:
9942 casualties reported
Guns lost 77
Vehicles lost 18

Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 6
Runway hits 68

this time we get a nuke... important to get the 6 supply hits...

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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

1 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
DD Stuart
CL Detroit
CL Raleigh
CL Richmond
CA Frobisher
CA Hawkins
BB Mississippi
BB New Mexico
BB Idaho
BB Tennessee
BB Pennsylvania

Japanese ground losses:
390 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 52
Port hits 4
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 5

as Miller does always...

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Naval bombardment of Pago Pago, at 98,110

Allied Ships
DD Aylwin
DD Monaghan
DD Dewey
DD Farragut
CL Concord
CL Marblehead
BB California
BB Arizona
BB Oklahoma
BB Nevada
BB West Virginia
BB Colorado
BB Maryland

Japanese ground losses:
385 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 73
Port hits 6
Port fuel hits 3
Port supply hits 4

and another one...

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TF 1040 encounters mine field at Noumea (68,113)

Allied Ships
SC SC-706, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

wow, sub laid mine kills a subchaser...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 17
F4F-4 Wildcat x 51
Hurricane IIb x 15
P-36A Mohawk x 96


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 4 damaged
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIb: 3 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 81

Aircraft Attacking:
34 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,79

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 201

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 15

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 19 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 5 destroyed, 5 damaged

KB is sitting 6 hexes North of Derby to cover the cruisers. A good dozen Fortresses can´t scare us, the radar equipped Yugumos enable us to launch all fighters to intercept the incoming bombers. Morale wasn´t that bad but before being all shot down, most of them turned back...

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,79

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 201

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,79

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 175

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 damaged

this is in the afternoon already...

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,79

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 175

Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 3

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 3 damaged

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Day Air attack on TF at 49,93

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 2

Allied aircraft
Seafire x 70
F4F-3 Wildcat x 21
F4F-4 Wildcat x 70

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed

I had to sacrifice a chutai of Helen as I wanted to see what the enemy Cap looks like. It was amazing to see that it´s not that big this time. Guess there are four Brit CVs but not that many US fleet carriers it seems. We have set two chutai of bombers on naval attack with 140+ fighters each for escort at Lae and Siador. Hopefully both strikes launch and go in against the hex with the carriers as I want to destroy the enemy Cap tomorrow. If both strikes launch with the full escort (and in the same phase of the day) then I expect most of the Cap being either shot down or damaged. Should make the enemy helpless the day after when I will send in the torpedo bombers.

It was planned to also bring 120 Tojos to PM (level 3 af) with one chutai of bombers but the enemy floatplanes reconned it today (only a couple though) and at least three enemy bombardment TFs took position four hexes SW of it, so I expect PM to be nuked tomorrow. Guess PM won´t be usable as a base to fly attacks out of it. Interesting will be how far and where to the enemy TFs will retreat from PM. If they can only move four hexes then they will be in range of 45 Betties set to nav attack 5 hexes out of Gili Gili.

As it is now, as usual I expect nothing to work as planned. Either my bases get nuked, the weather will be bad or my strikes will miss the target... or they will attack a TF outside the hex of the enemy carriers.

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Day Air attack on TF at 49,93

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 6

Allied aircraft
Seafire x 70
F4F-3 Wildcat x 21
F4F-4 Wildcat x 70

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 6 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
Seafire: 6 damaged
F4F-4 Wildcat: 4 damaged





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ASW attack near Pago Pago at 98,110

Japanese Ships
SS I-175

Allied Ships
DD Hatfield
DD Lawrence
DD King
DD Crane
DD Whipple
DD Litchfield

this one was lucky, all DCs missed...

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 247914 troops, 2480 guns, 41 vehicles, Assault Value = 4586

Defending force 134683 troops, 1053 guns, 358 vehicles, Assault Value = 3058

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 7

Japanese max assault: 4202 - adjusted assault: 1187

Allied max defense: 3020 - adjusted defense: 7953

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 7)


Japanese ground losses:
8961 casualties reported
Guns lost 248
Vehicles lost 14

Allied ground losses:
1886 casualties reported
Guns lost 65
Vehicles lost 5

what can I say about this Allied adjusted av? It´s the first of April today and it really looks like an April joke. Don´t know if you know what an April joke is though...

that way we will never achieve something. This was the third attack and the third time nearly 150.000 troops had to defend themselve against our attack. So how much supply have they burnt already? Nothing? That they build the forts from level 7 to level 8 in just two weeks doesn´t help me either. Depressing at the moment. If they don´t run out of supply, I will lose... At the moment I don´t care about the Allied offensive against New Guinea as this is an area I can trade for time easily so this won´t divert me from my Australian offensive. But if I wreck two dozen divs and can still not take a base that should have nearly no supply then say good bye...


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15771 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1868

Defending force 263870 troops, 1316 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6170



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22687 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2822

Defending force 181170 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5185



Allied ground losses:
44 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52190 troops, 607 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1670

Defending force 54696 troops, 748 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1364



Allied ground losses:
121 casualties reported
Guns lost 5


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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 11929 troops, 68 guns, 546 vehicles, Assault Value = 1852

Defending force 37228 troops, 209 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 746



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 28450 troops, 429 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 206

Defending force 2105 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 13

Allied max assault: 348 - adjusted assault: 246

Japanese max defense: 5 - adjusted defense: 1

Allied assault odds: 246 to 1 (fort level 7)

Allied forces CAPTURE Pago Pago base !!!


Japanese aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
283 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
79 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

finally... after my troops were killed by enemy artillery attacks and ongoing naval nukes there´s nothing left to defend the place...

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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14308 troops, 198 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1351

Defending force 75063 troops, 859 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 1670


Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Guns lost 3




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RE: it goes on... - 4/4/2009 1:03:52 PM   
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RE: it goes on... - 4/4/2009 5:04:47 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Zond

Last update 3 days ago! What kind of sick joke is this?



It´s called real life and girl friend. I had serious trouble with her three days ago due to me having spent nearly every hour of free time in the last months either playing this game or doing the AAR. Not to talk about the thousands of hours I´ve done the same since the release of the game. Unfortunately I can´t deny it when she accuses me of being computer game addicted. I guess the pace of this game will slow done, hopefully I won´t have to stop it completely. But if it comes hard on hard, I won´t send my gf away and keep up playing, that would be totally insane I guess. In every case I hope to have the game going for at least one month game time more as it is now really heating up and I get what the Japanese in real life never got: the decisive battle it seems.

Stay tuned, doing the AAR for the next three days today, got the turns done allready.

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RE: it goes on... - 4/4/2009 5:30:52 PM   
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TF 27 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85)

Japanese Ships
DD Asagumo, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
CA Tone, Mine hits 1
DD Kasumi, Mine hits 1, on fire



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TF 47 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85)

Japanese Ships
DD Fubuki, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



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TF 51 encounters mine field at Broome (21,85)

Japanese Ships
DD Oshio, Mine hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CA Ashigara, Mine hits 1, on fire



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TF 91 encounters mine field at Wyndham (30,86)

Japanese Ships
DD Hamakaze, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
DD Hakaze, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage



today we lose 6!! DDs to mines. All confirmed sunk. Either immediately due to mines or finished off by LBA. What does that smiley mean? Ah.. stupid...

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TF 1048 encounters mine field at Tongatapu Island (94,114)

Allied Ships
DMS Elliot
DMS Wasmuth
DMS Lamberton

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After the mine stupidity then followed the shock of the day! The enemy is NOT going to invade Thursday Island! Miller is sending his carriers towards Northern Australia!!!!!

Now this means major trouble. We have immediately started to retransfer all my aircraft back into the Timor area to fly massive attacks on the enemy carrier TFs. I guess this is a resupply mission for Wyndham, can´t think about anything else. We have spotted a dozen TFs already, they are divided in two hexes. Pretty sure this is due to the carrier based stacking limit of 450 ac. This means there is a mega armada coming North with some 900 ac, a dozen BBs at least, cruisers, dozens of DD, a spotted TK TF (probably AOs) but we haven´t spotted AKs so far. Most of the ships are identified as CAs but I guess those should be the AKs...

This will be our decisive battle it seems. We will have the chance to sink a hell a lot of Allied combat ships but we will also lose hundreds of ac, probably some BBs and CVs of course also. There´s no doubt that if Miller wants to press this resupply mission through to Wyndham he can do it as the AKs surely will be the last ships that will be attacked. The only question will be at what cost in combat ships for him - and for us...

As soon as the supply convoys made it to Wyndham, our try to take out all of Northern Australia will have failed. No chance to achieve something against the 3000 Allied av at Wyndham if they get 100.000 supplies. We will see, at the moment I´m quite excited...

Sub attack at 49,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-1, hits 2

Allied Ships
CV Lexington
DD Downes
DD Cassin
DD Tucker
DD Flusser

Luck was on Lexingtons side, torps missed...

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ASW attack at 49,91

Japanese Ships
SS I-1, hits 9, on fire, heavy damage

Allied Ships
DD Wilson
DD Sterett
DD Stack
DD Lang
DD Ellet
DD Benham
DD Morris
DD Walke
DD O'Brien
DD Russell
DD Mustin
CL Boise
CL Nashville
CLAA Atlanta
CV Yorktown
CA Minneapolis
CA New Orleans
BB South Dakota

as you can see, the enemy is using one CV TFs. This means we surely won´t see a lot of CVs being knocked out but if a good number of my bombers would make it through Cap then the carrier will be toast for sure, probably the escorting modern BB also. I usually prefer to have a couple of my own carriers damaged than one sunk but Miller obviously thinks different about that. What also would be great if his carriers would get separated. What would be a major disaster would be all his carriers reacting into the same hex, we would then have a mega stacked hex with 900 carrier based ac and 400+ fighters on Cap. But that is something we can not influence so if it happens, it will be bad luck for me and luck for Miller.

No matter what will happen, it´s the best thing that can happen to us at this stage of the war. All our daitais are experts and the enemy is still flying Wildcats instead of Hellcats. If we can´t do major damage now, we can´t do it even less in half a year and if we knock out a couple of carriers now, then this will delay the enemy for months. Well, a couple would probably not enough, it would be more like 4 or 5.

Ah yes, the crappy Allied ASW immedieately sunk my sub...


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Night Time Surface Combat, near Derby at 24,85

Japanese Ships
CA Suzuya
CA Kumano
CA Aoba
DD Yugiri
DD Kisaragi
DD Yayoi
DD Kikuzuki
DD Mikazuki
DD Yuzuki

Allied Ships
LCT LCT-61, Shell hits 2, and is sunk

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Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85 - Coastal Guns Fire Back!


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed

2 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Japanese Ships
CA Furutaka
CA Takao
CA Chikuma
CA Tone


Allied ground losses:
403 casualties reported
Guns lost 10
Vehicles lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 2



nuke! nuke! nuke!

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Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 2 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Mikuma
CA Nachi
CA Myoko


Allied ground losses:
266 casualties reported
Guns lost 5
Vehicles lost 3

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 20
Port hits 12
Port supply hits 5



nuke! nuke! nuke!

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Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Catalina I: 1 destroyed
Kittyhawk I: 1 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
CA Chokai
CA Maya


Allied ground losses:
144 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 2

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 22
Port hits 6
Port supply hits 4



nuke! nuke! nuke!

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Naval bombardment of Broome, at 21,85


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 2 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed
Boomerang II: 1 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 2 destroyed
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed
Hurricane IIc: 1 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed
Beaufort I: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CL Abukuma
CL Isuzu
CL Nagara
CA Ashigara, on fire
CA Atago


Allied ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 29
Port hits 2
Port supply hits 10



nuke! nuke! nuke!

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Naval bombardment of Wyndham, at 30,86


Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
Boomerang II: 1 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 1 destroyed

Japanese Ships
BB Fuso
BB Mutsu
BB Nagato


Allied ground losses:
1319 casualties reported
Guns lost 7
Vehicles lost 1

Runway hits 7
Port hits 3
Port fuel hits 5
Port supply hits 2



nuke! nuke! nuke!

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Naval bombardment of Derby, at 24,85

Japanese Ships
CA Aoba
CA Kumano
CA Suzuya


Allied ground losses:
68 casualties reported



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Sub attack at 25,83

Japanese Ships
CA Haguro
DD Shirakumo
DD Ikazuchi
DD Hatsushima
DD Nenohi
DD Hatsuharu

Allied Ships
SS Peto

torps missed, we´re lucky too today... no surprise the enemy sub has to fear nothing...

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Sub attack near Thursday Island at 49,90

Japanese Ships
SS I-153, hits 4, on fire

Allied Ships
DD Downes
DD Cassin
DD Tucker
DD Flusser
DD Reid
DD Preston

and another heavily damaged IJN sub... trying to make Rabaul after one hit and three near misses...

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Sub attack at 34,84

Japanese Ships
BB Nagato
DD Akikaze
DD Murasame
DD Kuroshio

Allied Ships
SS Haddo

also Haddo missed, this is three hexes West of Darwin. I would take those torp hits on a BB and a CA if our sub wouldn´t have missed Lexington... our escorts are useles... there were six of them, only three show up...

that was this turns naval action. For nearly no result we have lost 6 DDs to mines today, 2 CAs damaged from mine hits and enemy subs fired torps on a CA and a BB... what a great day...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 33

No Japanese losses

Runway hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
30 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 49
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 78

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Thursday Island , at 49,90


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 2
TBF Avenger x 27
OS2U-3 Kingfisher x 2


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x TBF Avenger bombing at 20000 feet
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Day Air attack on Broome , at 21,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 134
G3M Nell x 36
G4M1 Betty x 81
Ki-46-III Dinah x 5

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2
Boomerang II x 2
Spitfire Vb x 9
Kittyhawk I x 23
Hurricane IIc x 1

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 7 destroyed, 15 damaged
G3M Nell: 13 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 2 destroyed, 18 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed
Boomerang II: 2 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 28 destroyed
Hurricane IIc: 3 destroyed
Liberator VI: 1 destroyed
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed
PBY Catalina: 2 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 5 destroyed
Catalina I: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 114

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet

after a dozen CAs doing a bombardment with pathetic results and another 114 runway hits, the airfield is still operational. Nearly impossible for the Japanese to knock out a level 8 airfield. I need 4Es too... My high exp Zeros still rule the air, this will change immediately when we will meet Corsairs and Thunderbolts...

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Day Air attack on TF at 23,84


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 2
SBD Dauntless x 17
Boomerang II x 3
Spitfire Vb x 8
Kittyhawk I x 27


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Asagumo, Bomb hits 5, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

one of the DDs that hit a mine...

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Day Air attack on TF at 22,84


Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 16
Hurricane IIc x 3


Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
DD Fubuki, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

and another one that hit a mine...

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Day Air attack on TF at 31,85


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 13
Boomerang II x 5
Kittyhawk I x 16
Beaufort I x 7
P-40E Warhawk x 26


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
DD Hakaze, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

and another one... see! 6 DDs sunk... all due to mine hits... s t u p i d

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Day Air attack on TF at 47,90

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
A6M3a Zero x 17
G3M Nell x 3
Ki-43-IIa Oscar x 89

Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 86
FM-2 Wildcat x 77

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M2 Zero: 3 destroyed, 6 damaged
A6M3a Zero: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged
G3M Nell: 3 damaged
Ki-43-IIa Oscar: 37 destroyed, 15 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-4 Wildcat: 36 destroyed, 14 damaged
FM-2 Wildcat: 21 destroyed, 35 damaged

Allied Ships
BB North Carolina

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x G3M Nell launching torpedoes at 200 feet

like I´ve mentioned after last turn, many things could go wrong today and they did go wrong. Needless to say what I think about losing two dozen DDs to mines in Northern Australia alreday, of course also the weather sabotated us this turn. The other base was clouded the whole day, this one launched a strike in the afternoon. Looks like against the hex with US fleet carriers and CVEs. 57 acs knocked down, another 59 damaged. Means the CVs in this hex won´t have more than 100 fighters on Cap tomorrow, but then they will be out of strike range already. But it makes me confident that my land based fighters can knock down the Cap and then my carriers will strike. The three Nells missed North Carolina...




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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15759 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1868

Defending force 262795 troops, 1315 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6154



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22698 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2820

Defending force 180781 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5171



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52240 troops, 608 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1670

Defending force 54771 troops, 746 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1352



Allied ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

two more Allied divisions are spotted moving towards this hex... then there will be six! Allied divs 4 hexes South of Darwin... There will be something like 20 Allied divs in Northern Australia and Darwin... quite a force...

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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8250 troops, 278 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 3903

Defending force 132042 troops, 980 guns, 354 vehicles, Assault Value = 2991



Allied ground losses:
415 casualties reported
Guns lost 5


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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12011 troops, 68 guns, 548 vehicles, Assault Value = 1857

Defending force 37644 troops, 216 guns, 109 vehicles, Assault Value = 752



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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 28647 troops, 436 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 203

Defending force 1633 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 8


Japanese ground losses:
174 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14238 troops, 193 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1350

Defending force 75114 troops, 860 guns, 28 vehicles, Assault Value = 1670


Japanese ground losses:
65 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1





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RE: it goes on... - 4/5/2009 6:00:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Xxzard

hah, looks like you do have a chance to have some good fun after all!



It will be more than just fun, it will be a too high blood pressure and a pulse of over 160... And there will surely be some very hard to watch actions...

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TF 127 encounters mine field at Derby (24,85)

Japanese Ships
AK Hiyori Maru, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

moving in AKs to unload supplies, if they aren´t destroyed immediately then I expect to land enough supplies for my tank units to take Derby. And if we take Derby, Broome will probably only be a cakewalk...

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TF 1006 encounters mine field at Tongatapu Island (94,114)

Allied Ships
MSW Motive

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TF 1018 encounters mine field at Efate (73,109)

Allied Ships
MSW Oriole

my minefields are soooo effective...

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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 34

No Japanese losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
31 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 27
A6M3a Zero x 49
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 47

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 64

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet

not much training daitais left, nearly everything was flown into position for the upcoming clashes in Northern Australia...

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Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 2
B5N Kate x 153

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
MLE John Adams, Bomb hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Barwon, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
AD Mormacdove, Bomb hits 4, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
458 casualties reported
Guns lost 1
Vehicles lost 4

Port hits 8
Port supply hits 5

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x B5N Kate bombing at 26000 feet

now what about that... I wanted to take out the airfield but clicked on port attack instead... this can ruin your day... means Derby´s airfield stays operational... damn it, what a stupid fault of mine...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 18
F4F-4 Wildcat x 53
Hurricane IIb x 16
P-36A Mohawk x 108


Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 3 damaged
F4F-4 Wildcat: 1 damaged
P-36A Mohawk: 13 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 90

Aircraft Attacking:
43 x P-36A Mohawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 34


Allied aircraft losses
Kittyhawk I: 5 damaged

Runway hits 7

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet

training run from 4 hexes, doesn´t mean this would increase the enemy´s op losses...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 45

Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 6
Spitfire Vb x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Holland Maru

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

KB is two hexes North of Derby and Cap is leaking to defend my AKs unloading the precious supply for my tanks. I feared attacks on KB so I didn´t dare to set some of my fighters on LRCAP the supply convoys...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 51

Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 6
Boomerang II x 4
Spitfire Vb x 3
Kittyhawk I x 8

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
SBD Dauntless: 1 destroyed, 2 damaged
Boomerang II: 2 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 6 destroyed

Japanese Ships
AK Shinsoku Maru, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

one hit on a single AK doesn´t stop me from bringing in supply... wouldn´t I have been dumb and would I have knocked out the airfield my AKs at Derby would have been more or less safe tomorrow...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15757 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1870

Defending force 261769 troops, 1306 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6124



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22675 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2820

Defending force 180853 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5163



Allied ground losses:
25 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52329 troops, 611 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 1667

Defending force 83094 troops, 986 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2054



Allied ground losses:
205 casualties reported
Guns lost 11


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8253 troops, 277 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4014

Defending force 132542 troops, 999 guns, 356 vehicles, Assault Value = 3000



Allied ground losses:
216 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12027 troops, 68 guns, 550 vehicles, Assault Value = 1863

Defending force 37527 troops, 224 guns, 108 vehicles, Assault Value = 759



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Ground combat at Pago Pago

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 28911 troops, 445 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 212

Defending force 1412 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 11


Japanese ground losses:
236 casualties reported


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14041 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2043

Defending force 75203 troops, 863 guns, 27 vehicles, Assault Value = 1667


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53rd Naval Guard Unit Wiped Out at Pago Pago by attrition!!!

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Ikaiei SNLF Wiped Out at Pago Pago by attrition!!!

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Yokosuka 4th SNLF Wiped Out at Pago Pago by attrition!!!

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84th Naval Guard Unit Wiped Out at Pago Pago by attrition!!!

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114th IJN Base Force Wiped Out at Pago Pago by attrition!!!

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134th IJN Base Force Wiped Out at Pago Pago by attrition!!!


the defenders of Pago Pago finally surrendered. They lost the island due to Allied artillery bombardments... how great...

but now, here´s the prove of how really bad the programming of this game was. Seems like database programming of the original developers wasn´t their favourite subject in school. I was able to evacuate fragments of all my units on Pago Pago (not just one or two support sqads) but imagine what happened! A L L turned into ghost units! I don´t have access to them anymore... thank you Mr. Developer, what a great job...








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Day Air attack on Pamakasan , at 24,66

Japanese aircraft
Ki-45 KAIa Nick x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-45 KAIa Nick bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 24
Ki-43-Ic Oscar x 31
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 42

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-44-IIb Tojo bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Derby , at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 48
B5N Kate x 151

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 3
F4F-4 Wildcat x 10
Boomerang II x 12
Spitfire Vb x 5
Kittyhawk I x 22
P-40E Warhawk x 25

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 15 destroyed, 18 damaged
B5N Kate: 2 destroyed, 4 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
F4F-4 Wildcat: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
Boomerang II: 6 destroyed, 1 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 11 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 11 destroyed, 4 damaged
Swordfish: 9 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 3 destroyed
TBF Avenger: 2 destroyed
Beaufort I: 2 destroyed
C-47 Dakota: 1 destroyed
Dakota I: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
118 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 9
Runway hits 123

Aircraft Attacking:
22 x B5N Kate bombing at 26000 feet

as I have been too dumb to click on the right order, I had to stay another day in this very dangerous area. Needless to say that it´s no surprise attack anymore and Miller moved in more fighters. Both my Zeros and Kates do an extremely good job but we also lose pilots, precious pilots. My IJN pilot pool is empty and we trade 80-90 exp pilots with 35-40 exp pilots so every single pilot lost is nearly a tragedy for us. The airfield was damaged already but another 123 hits are still not enough to close it, spotted fighters on Cap in the afternoon. Not good...

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
Kittyhawk I x 29
P-40E Warhawk x 31


Allied aircraft losses
P-40E Warhawk: 2 damaged

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Kittyhawk I bombing at 2000 feet


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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
PB2Y Coronado x 5
PV-1 Ventura x 75
B-25C Mitchell x 16

Japanese aircraft losses
H8K Emily: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
74 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 115

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x PV-1 Ventura bombing at 6000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 24,83

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 171

Allied aircraft
F4F-3 Wildcat x 4
F4F-4 Wildcat x 14
SBD Dauntless x 30
Boomerang II x 17
Spitfire Vb x 7
Kittyhawk I x 31
Beaufort I x 8
P-40E Warhawk x 41

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 22 destroyed, 37 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
F4F-3 Wildcat: 4 destroyed
F4F-4 Wildcat: 13 destroyed
SBD Dauntless: 9 destroyed, 12 damaged
Boomerang II: 15 destroyed
Spitfire Vb: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged
Kittyhawk I: 28 destroyed
Beaufort I: 4 destroyed
P-40E Warhawk: 35 destroyed

Japanese Ships
CVL Zuiho
CV Shokaku, Bomb hits 2
BB Kongo
CV Soryu
DD Susuzuki
CL Agano, Bomb hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet
3 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

this just had to happen. I´m providing my opponent with chances to wear KB down with LBA and that´s just not the way to go. KB´s fighters perform excellently, they can´t do any better in Nikmod but this turn was really not amusing. Too many pilots lost, Agana with nearly 50 sys and high fires after one 1000lb bomb hit but Shokaku was lucky, one penetrating deck hit and a bouncing belt hit. The CV survives with 14 sys and 8 fires. Floatation damage on both ships is light.

But there has also been a very good and unexpected psychological effect it seems, as Miller stated that KB is just to strong and if he will decide to engage he will really suffer. So at least he has more than just a little respect of my elite carrier TF. Losing 38 KB Zeros today is a huge loss though, even if the total aircraft losses seem to be a nice Japanese victory. The most important thing is that we saved our AKs at Derby from being destroyed. Another day when they can unload precious supply. Situation at Derby is like Rommel´s in Northern Africa, desperately waiting for supply to keep his tanks running...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 4


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AK Hokuzyu Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

another AK hit at Derby but still over a dozen undamaged left to unload...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Derby at 24,85

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 21

Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 8
P-40E Warhawk x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 3 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 1 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 2 destroyed, 2 damaged

Japanese Ships
AK Takegawa Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Toyokuni Maru, Torpedo hits 1, on fire

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet
4 x Beaufort I launching torpedoes at 200 feet

two more hits... not good...




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Ground combat at Derby

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 56669 troops, 159 guns, 3135 vehicles, Assault Value = 1872

Defending force 40997 troops, 304 guns, 111 vehicles, Assault Value = 894

Japanese max assault: 3240 - adjusted assault: 1892

Allied max defense: 822 - adjusted defense: 1413

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 7)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 6


Japanese ground losses:
1164 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Vehicles lost 69

Allied ground losses:
2513 casualties reported
Guns lost 29
Vehicles lost 7

my tanks are fully supplied now, we will keep shock attacking daily now. Either we take the base or I will have to withdraw because of not having enough supply. It seems to me that Miller is once again wrongly interpreting the current situation. He doesn´t seem to realize how important it is to destroy my AKs at Derby. While it may be nice to hit one of KB´s carriers and destroy 3 dozen KB Zeros, the important thing to do at the moment would be to destroy the AKs bringing supply to my tanks. thank you Sir!

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15803 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1870

Defending force 264020 troops, 1336 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 6199



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22642 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2822

Defending force 180931 troops, 14 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5161



Allied ground losses:
26 casualties reported

wonder if the Chinese will really starve to death within the next years...

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Ground combat at 36,88

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 52376 troops, 612 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 1666

Defending force 82942 troops, 973 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2050



Allied ground losses:
106 casualties reported
Guns lost 5


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8307 troops, 278 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4119

Defending force 130481 troops, 955 guns, 356 vehicles, Assault Value = 2897



Allied ground losses:
370 casualties reported
Guns lost 2
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at 36,88

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14047 troops, 186 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2042

Defending force 75216 troops, 867 guns, 27 vehicles, Assault Value = 1666


Japanese ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Guns lost 3





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