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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 11:39:36 AM   
bigbaba


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Status: offline 		any chance, that the mighty KB sails to canton and doing what japanese mines can not do? sinking allied shipping.

you have already sunk a good part of the allied transport fleet. with so many troops at canton, miller must have a huge part of his remaining transport capacity there. any chance that the KB can reach the area before the allied troops take canton? with so many allied Cv sunk or damaged, i dont think that your carriers would face any serious resistance and sinking another 40-50 allied Ak/AP would buy you even more time, "chris san".

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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 11:55:10 AM   
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TF 1028 encounters mine field at Canton Island (98,99)

TF 1028 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99


Allied Ships
MSW Kelowna
MSW Gympie
MSW Glenelg
MSW Geelong
DD Vendetta
DD Vampire
AK Empire Pibroch, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AK Edward Livingston, Mine hits 1, on fire

Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1028

Allied ground losses:
40 casualties reported

The Allied again didn´t manage it to completely unload in one turn but this doesn´t matter anymore. With the CD units and most of my inf units being knocked out due to the attack yesterday there isn´t anything left to harm the invasion... Well, 1200 mines are left but hey...

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TF 1041 encounters mine field at Canton Island (98,99) - Coastal Guns Fire Back!

TF 1041 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99


10 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
MSW Junee
MSW Ipswitch, Shell hits 4, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Horsham, Shell hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Freemantle
DD Edsall
AK Empire Ballad, Mine hits 1
AK Dashing Wave, Mine hits 1
APD Ward
DD Barker
AK Kota Radja, Mine hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
APD Schley


Allied ground losses:
2 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1041
46 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Empire Nile, Shell hits 3, on fire
DD Barker


Allied ground losses:
295 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

looks like the defenders discovered a still operational CD gun and put some shells into two MSWs...

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TF 1054 encounters mine field at Canton Island (98,99)

TF 1054 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99


Allied Ships
MSW Bittern
MSW Champion
MSW Oracle
MSW Herald
APD Dickerson
DD Evertsen
AK Manulani, Mine hits 1
DD Van Ghent

Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1054
29 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK Hamakua, Shell hits 2
DD Van Ghent
AK Chatanooga City
AK Santa Rita
AK Santa Elisa
DD Evertsen


Allied ground losses:
103 casualties reported

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TF 1060 encounters mine field at Canton Island (98,99)

TF 1060 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99


Allied Ships
MSW Agra
MSW Swallow
MSW Starling
MSW Launceton
MSW Latrobe
AK Needwood, Mine hits 1

Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1060
66 Coastal gun shots fired in defense.
Allied Ships
AK West Isleta
APD Crosby
CL Raleigh
AK Iowan, Shell hits 2
AK Coloradan, Shell hits 1
APD McKean, Shell hits 1, on fire
MSW Agra, Shell hits 1
LST LST-354, Shell hits 2, on fire
LST LST-343


Allied ground losses:
590 casualties reported

if I look on the landings yesterday then in total the Allied units suffered quite some disablements and due to the fact that they didn´t unload in one turn we would have had a nice chance to inflict some more casualties if our adjusted av wouldn´t have been that bad and if the Allied attack wouldn´t have been that devastating to our troops sitting behind forts like this on an atoll... I know, level 9 forts are total phantasy but it´s the same as having 110.000 troops in total from both sides on this small spot... a 0:1 yesterday and another shock attack today would have made my day...




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Naval bombardment of Canton Island, at 98,99

Allied Ships
CA Northampton
CA Chester
CA Chicago
CA San Francisco
CA Quincy
CA Vincennes

Japanese ground losses:
85 casualties reported

Runway hits 13
Port fuel hits 2
Port supply hits 1

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Naval bombardment of Canton Island, at 98,99

Allied Ships
CA Houston
CA Wichita
CA New Orleans
CA Astoria
CA Minneapolis

Japanese ground losses:
159 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 17
Port hits 1
Port fuel hits 3
Port supply hits 2

looks like most of the Allied BBs and CAs are around the invasion area...

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Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1041
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TF 1041 encounters mine field at Canton Island (98,99)

TF 1041 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99



Allied ground losses:
85 casualties reported

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TF 1054 encounters mine field at Canton Island (98,99)

TF 1054 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99


Allied Ships
MSW Bittern
MSW Champion
MSW Oracle
MSW Herald
APD Dickerson
AK Ernest Meyer, Mine hits 1, on fire

Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1054

Allied ground losses:
48 casualties reported

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Coastal Guns at Canton Island, 98,99, firing at TF 1060
TF 1060 troops unloading over beach at Canton Island, 98,99


Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Allied ground losses:
43 casualties reported

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
J1N1-S Irving x 27
D3A Val x 54
A6M3a Zero x 59
B5N Kate x 81
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 26
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 315

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
47 casualties reported

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 168
Port hits 1
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
Brewster 339D x 34
Beaufighter VIF x 19
Beaufighter VIC x 12
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 26

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Imperial Guards Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 13
IL-4c x 3


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged
IL-4c: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x IL-4c bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Imperial Guards Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 14
B-25J Mitchell x 20
B-26B Marauder x 3


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 5 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on 6th Base Force, at 98,99


Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 80
PV-1 Ventura x 16
PB4Y Liberator x 18


Allied aircraft losses
Liberator VI: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on 42nd Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
B-17E Fortress x 24
B-24D Liberator x 6
IL-4c x 3


Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 4 damaged
IL-4c: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
110 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x IL-4c bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on 42nd Division, at 46,103


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 15
B-25J Mitchell x 62
B-26B Marauder x 27


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed
B-25J Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
B-26B Marauder: 6 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
180 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on 64th Division, at 46,100


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
Beaufort I x 41
PV-1 Ventura x 92


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
205 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet
12 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 66
G4M1 Betty x 54

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 2 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Dashing Wave, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
CL Detroit, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Banner, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Charles P. Steinmetz, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
AK Empire Glade, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Summer, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Wallingford, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Nile, Torpedo hits 3, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Homer
AK Vincent, Torpedo hits 1
AK Empire Hazlitt, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

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

today my bombers from Baker island decided to attack the invasion TFs and as mentiond yesterday, it seems there´s no carrier support around... This is our main strike of the day and we achieve some easy kills for nearly no loss... another Omaha class CL is heavily hit today, three torps could be enough to sink the light cruiser...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 9
G4M1 Betty x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
CL Java
AK Corrales

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

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Day Air attack on Gasmata , at 59,90


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 39
P-47C Thunderbolt x 22


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
13 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Barracuda bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 29
PB2Y Coronado x 1


No Allied losses

Runway hits 12

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 9
B-25C Mitchell x 25
B-25J Mitchell x 35
B-26B Marauder x 20


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 48

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 50
G4M1 Betty x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 11 damaged

Allied Ships
DD Vampire
AK Empire Eagle, Torpedo hits 1, on fire
CL Concord

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

this is in the afternoon already, we launch several dispersed strikes and achieve nearl nothing...

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Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 4

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Modjekerto

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 9
G4M1 Betty x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged

Allied Ships
AK West Camargo
AK Onomea

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x G4M1 Betty launching torpedoes at 200 feet
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Day Air attack on TF, near Canton Island at 98,99

Japanese aircraft
G4M1 Betty x 6

Japanese aircraft losses
G4M1 Betty: 4 damaged

Allied Ships
APD McKean, on fire
LST LST-343, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

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

and that´s it for today... if you don´t have carriers around that launch massive strikes then hurting an invasion with land based bombers only is near impossible if there isn´t one fat target like a couple of CVs or BBs that get attacked by massive strikes.

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59008 troops, 607 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1225

Defending force 17704 troops, 188 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 391



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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15866 troops, 182 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2316

Defending force 295770 troops, 1499 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 6742



Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22689 troops, 268 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2447

Defending force 165608 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4813



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22410 troops, 254 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 480

Defending force 5430 troops, 23 guns, 102 vehicles, Assault Value = 79



Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7622 troops, 236 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4434

Defending force 132325 troops, 768 guns, 352 vehicles, Assault Value = 2444



Allied ground losses:
340 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

over 1000 troops are flown out daily now, av went down by 45 points in one day... and we will attack soon again...

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Ground combat at Canton Island

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 8164 troops, 32 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 253

Defending force 80276 troops, 726 guns, 131 vehicles, Assault Value = 1585



Allied ground losses:
20 casualties reported

the enemy´s av has gone down by 400 points from yesterday´s attack but how should we hold...

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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100381 troops, 820 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2849

Defending force 89702 troops, 856 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1816


Japanese ground losses:
210 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 57053 troops, 565 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1137

Defending force 100935 troops, 1187 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 1994


Japanese ground losses:
122 casualties reported
Guns lost 8

Allied ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Allied Shock attack

Attacking force 78216 troops, 726 guns, 131 vehicles, Assault Value = 1582

Defending force 17304 troops, 42 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 253

Allied max assault: 1714 - adjusted assault: 1418

Japanese max defense: 184 - adjusted defense: 76

Allied assault odds: 18 to 1 (fort level 7)

Allied forces CAPTURE Canton Island base !!!


Japanese ground losses:
2872 casualties reported
Guns lost 24

Allied ground losses:
1492 casualties reported
Guns lost 75
Vehicles lost 9


what can I say... if you think about the fact that I had nearly 500 av behind level 9 forts, massive supply and probably 7 or 8 dozen CD guns than it was just like a cakewalk for the Allied... I have seen 500 av beating up bigger invasions than this one before so the die rolls must have been pretty much one sided. Everything was done after the first shock attack... we lose an unimportant atoll 5000 miles away from the real important areas... I´m not happy with the damage we´ve inflicted though...



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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 12:00:35 PM   
castor troy


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ORIGINAL: bigbaba

any chance, that the mighty KB sails to canton and doing what japanese mines can not do? sinking allied shipping.

you have already sunk a good part of the allied transport fleet. with so many troops at canton, miller must have a huge part of his remaining transport capacity there. any chance that the KB can reach the area before the allied troops take canton? with so many allied Cv sunk or damaged, i dont think that your carriers would face any serious resistance and sinking another 40-50 allied Ak/AP would buy you even more time, "chris san".




KB was/is in the area around Truk as this is an area of more importance. Bringing it down to Canton would have taken too long, even if I would have decided to send it out three or four days ago. And as you know, fuel is in very short supply so a full speed run could mean I would use up more fuel than I can store in a month.

Canton was lost on the first day of the Allied attack as it was devastating. All the CD guns, forts, preparation and supply helped just nothing. When looking at what we´ve spotted in the combat report and the replay, then I guess there is not much in terms of APs around Canton, guess the PM invasion really took a toll on the Allied APs. From what it looks like, in the Canton Island invasion, there were mostly AKs, backed up with LSTs. And AKs should still be hundreds around, while APs are only some 5 or 6 dozens left. Rough guess, could be more, doubt it could be fewer.



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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 12:32:56 PM   
bigbaba


Posts: 1238
Joined: 11/3/2006
From: Koblenz, Germany
Status: offline 		thats something i find very stuppid in this game..this allied invasion fleets with "warp engine". now, the japanese have the best long range recon planes of the war but most of the time, they spot a allied landing fleet when its just 1-2 hexes away from the destination. the same happend to me in my game vs. garry...his invasion forces popped up right 1 hex away from baker island although nearly 40 emilys were flying naval search in the area.

you have little to no time to react as the japanese player.

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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 4:10:41 PM   
castor troy


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quote:

ORIGINAL: bigbaba

thats something i find very stuppid in this game..this allied invasion fleets with "warp engine". now, the japanese have the best long range recon planes of the war but most of the time, they spot a allied landing fleet when its just 1-2 hexes away from the destination. the same happend to me in my game vs. garry...his invasion forces popped up right 1 hex away from baker island although nearly 40 emilys were flying naval search in the area.

you have little to no time to react as the japanese player.




that´s how it is, but IMO it´s one of the things that isn´t reall off. I even think we spot more than in real life. I had 4 chutais (36 ac) of Emilies on Baker Island set to 18 hexes nav search. Well, if you think about the area they have to cover when a hex is 60 miles big and you sent them out in a circle with 360° then that´s quite a lot of ocean... I have spotted the enemy one day before the invasion has gone in, but not the whole fleet. That´s the only thing that seems a bit strange to me. We spotted two TFs of a couple of ships each, while there were probably a dozen with big surface combat TFs and amphibious TFs of probably 100 ships each.

I had no Alfs or Jakes on Canton as they would have just been bombed by the Allied 4Es. If you have a daitai of Alfs or Jakes on an island you usually sight such big armadas coming in as soon as they are in range, means at 6 or 7 hexes.

And there´s no difference between Allied or Japanese nav search. At least none I have experienced or heard of.

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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 4:42:40 PM   
bigbaba


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From: Koblenz, Germany
Status: offline 		from what i heard about AE, you can define the sector of naval search operation. it means, you dont need to do a 360 degree search from lets say tawara. you can concentrate all search planes into E-NE-SE. maybe that increases the chances to spot enemy TFs earlier.

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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 4:58:46 PM   
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ASW attack at 34,62

Japanese Ships
PC Shonan Maru #17
PC Shonan Maru #7
PC Shonan Maru #6
PC Shonan Maru #1
PC Kyo Maru #12
PC Fumi Maru #3

Allied Ships
SS KXIV, hits 2

we tried to hunt down the British sub but again only achieved 2 near misses... not acting as a target seems to be a success already...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 8
J1N1-S Irving x 27
D3A Val x 54
A6M3a Zero x 59
B5N Kate x 81
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 25
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 326

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
59 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 237
Port hits 1
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
PB2Y Coronado x 5
Boomerang II x 60
P-400 Airacobra x 70
P-39D Airacobra x 72
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 77

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Boomerang II bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 31
Beaufighter VIF x 19
Beaufighter VIC x 11
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 11


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 6th Base Force, at 98,99


Allied aircraft
Liberator VI x 80
PV-1 Ventura x 23
PB4Y Liberator x 17


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
135 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Liberator VI bombing at 10000 feet

10 hex ground attack... doesn´t matter at all, guess Miller forgot about them to stand them down...


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Day Air attack on 64th Division, at 45,101


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 12
Beaufort I x 32
PV-1 Ventura x 101


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
168 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 51,95

Japanese aircraft
G3M Nell x 27
G4M1 Betty x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
G3M Nell: 3 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 damaged

Allied Ships
MSW Sheldrake
MSW Requisite, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Strive, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Token, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
MSW Pursuit, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage

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

the six MSW and the bigger TF that was going to PM have been sighted yesterday heading back to Aussie land again, so I´ve moved in 54 torp bombers to Gili Gili, hoping to get a shot at the bigger TF with AKs in (hopefully uncapped). Well, we didn´t attack the bigger TF and launched one strike on the MSW, killing four of them... the bombers were sent back out of range of the 4Es at Cooktown...

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Day Air attack on Gasmata , at 59,90

Japanese aircraft
Ki-61 Ic x 110

Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 39
P-47C Thunderbolt x 94

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 Ic: 22 destroyed, 42 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 20 destroyed
P-47C Thunderbolt: 64 destroyed

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Barracuda bombing at 10000 feet

wow... after seeing the Barracudas from PM being set on nav/airfield attack daily, coming in with a more or less "weak" (in numbers) Thunderbolt escort I decided that it is time to intervene.

This had two reasons:

a) I wanted to know if the Tony really performs better than the Tojo, so I´ve thought setting 250 Tonies from Rabaul to LRCAP Gasmata would be a good idea to test them against an escort of 25 or so Thunderbolts. Well, needless to say that I was shocked to see an escort of 94!!! Thunderbolts. One of the idiotic "features" of the game. No matter how many fighters you set on escort, if there is no Cap at the target, the game decides how many really fly and that can be FAR less. As soon as there is Cap over the target, usuall ALL fighters set to escort actually fly. So this meant in this case that (probably) 4 squadrons of Thunderbolts were set to escort and 94 actually flew (out of 96). We were coming in at 20.000ft, the enemy fighters at 13.000ft. Do you think we would have bounced them? No... We only engaged them but in no time the Tony really proved to be a far better dogfighter than the totally obsolete Tojo (in Nikmod). One Thunderbolt after another was shot down in no time, the better maneuver rating of the Tony (compared to the Tojo) enabled us to fire from behind at the Thuds and with the higher gun value of 10, many of the bursts actually resulted in kills. If the game wouldn´t have gone crazy at some point, ignoring physics completely, then we would have achieved an insane kill rate I guess. BUT, at some point we just got into 7 or 8 phases when the enemy fighters were bouncing us. How that is possible when my fighters come in 7.000 ft higher than the enemy escorts is beyond me but that´s how the game works. 20 or so of the kills were achieved during the Allied bounce phases.

b) if my new fighters prove to be competitive then this will keep the enemy honest as he then can´t just attack everything he wants. I won´t end up in 5 hexes range of enemy bases with my airforce as this would just draw me into an attrition war against Corsairs, Spits, Warhawks, etc. but everything that is 6 or more hexes away from an Allied base can be defended if we wish to as we surely can go into an attrition war against the Thunderbolt and the Lightning as long as the enemy only gets 30 or 35 of each every month. This could change when the enemy will get 75 P38-J each month.

The Tonies even managed to fight their way through to the bombers and took 20 of them down. I guess this also hurts because those higher exp British pilots will be replaced by "green" pilots in the mid 50s. At least I guess they had quite a nice exp due to their excellent performanc when they attacked my shipping. One of our Tony sentais was hit hard, losing 8 high exp pilots and will be flown out for training, the sentai can immedietely be replaced with a new one that has finished training. In total we´ve lost 13 pilots which means that really a lot survived today, either going down over Gasmata or crashing back at Rabaul. This attack really is a morale boost for me as it shows me that if we continue to try to hurt the enemy, with max efforts we can still do that. Setting 7 high exp Tony sentais (some 250 fighters) on LRCAP is definetely a max effort. The enemy nearly lost a two month replacement rate of Thunderbolts and that´s surely not nice, also in this case, the pilots will probably replaced with new ones that are less experienced. Really a nice engagment, I don´t want to think about how it could have looked like if the enemy wouldn´t have got the bounce (over our base, 360 miles away from friendly territory and when flying 7.000ft below us), or if we would have won the jackpot of bouncing the enemy. All in all, an absolutely succesful day.




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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
SBD Dauntless x 28
PB2Y Coronado x 1


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 12
B-25C Mitchell x 34
B-25J Mitchell x 53
B-26B Marauder x 25


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59120 troops, 610 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1232

Defending force 17765 troops, 192 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 392



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 230490 troops, 2580 guns, 1327 vehicles, Assault Value = 7107

Defending force 138789 troops, 1643 guns, 204 vehicles, Assault Value = 2651



Allied ground losses:
240 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

will order the first deliberate attack soon and I guess I will be shocked about the losses we will take. With 2600+ av behind surely level 9 forts and with unlimited supply I´m not sure that we will ever be able to take the base as our losses will be over 10.000 every time we attack and if (BIG IF) we are able to take down a fort, then the super duper Allied we build forts in no time engineers will bring it back to level 9 before we can take it down to level 7. Our only plus here are our tanks, I hope they can hurt the enemy.

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15838 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2317

Defending force 297022 troops, 1512 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 6769



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22602 troops, 268 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2448

Defending force 165316 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4801



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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22424 troops, 255 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 481

Defending force 5460 troops, 22 guns, 104 vehicles, Assault Value = 82



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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7696 troops, 237 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4520

Defending force 131350 troops, 762 guns, 348 vehicles, Assault Value = 2410



Allied ground losses:
318 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

you can imagine how hard Irkutsk will be when you think about how long we are trying to fight down the Western Allied at Wyndham...

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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100409 troops, 822 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2852

Defending force 89745 troops, 854 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1813


Japanese ground losses:
464 casualties reported
Guns lost 17

Allied ground losses:
24 casualties reported
Guns lost 10


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 57297 troops, 574 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1143

Defending force 101035 troops, 1187 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 1999


Japanese ground losses:
130 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Allied ground losses:
1 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 78222 troops, 628 guns, 120 vehicles, Assault Value = 1391

Defending force 13359 troops, 16 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 101

Allied max assault: 773 - adjusted assault: 867

Japanese max defense: 60 - adjusted defense: 16

Allied assault odds: 54 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
2129 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Allied ground losses:
117 casualties reported
Guns lost 9
Vehicles lost 1

more than half of our remaining units were wiped out... this is the third day of the invasion. We not just lost the base, we are wiped out within one week at max. And now the idiotic thing of the day: we moved out fragments of all units, ALL of them either vanished or turned into ghosts... AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have the strange feeling that as soon as you have your first ghost unit somewhere it is not possible for you to rebuild ANY of your fragments anymore. And this just sucks. Why? Because when I look at the Russian divisions that had fragments flown out from Borzya, at least 5 of them are rebuilding at Irkutsk now. And their av is going up, as I can see during the replay of my bombardments... thanks a lot... So I can´t rebuild my units... what does that mean? This means that I will run out of base forces as soon as the enemy arrives in the area Saipan or further into the SRA. In this case I have not just lost a big base force, but also two smaller ones and a full CD unit. Well done... Running out of base forces means running out of bases where I can park aircraft. I get something like three dozen small base forces from now on until the end of the war, means something like 1000 air support, enough to stack 250 ac into four bases. That´s great. None of the base forces I will get will be one of the bigger ones with lots of AA and CD guns and 140 air support.

Sorry, but this game is so borked it just sucks. At the moment I have surely something like two dozen ghost units on the map. Just a prove of very poor data base programming... once again...

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52nd Naval Guard Unit Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!!

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6th Base Force Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!!

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6th Coastal Gun Regiment Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!!

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Kure 5th SNLF Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!!

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Yokosuka 7th SNLF Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!!

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Sasebo 7th SNLF Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!!



all vanished or turned into ghosts on Kwajalein!!!!!!!!! STUPID data base programming...





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ORIGINAL: bigbaba

from what i heard about AE, you can define the sector of naval search operation. it means, you dont need to do a 360 degree search from lets say tawara. you can concentrate all search planes into E-NE-SE. maybe that increases the chances to spot enemy TFs earlier.



it surely will be an improvement...

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RE: it goes on... - 6/9/2009 9:16:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: terje439

How many Tony's do you produce per month?

Terje


ramped up the production to something like 630. I´m producing something like 1000 fighters of three different types at the moment. Tony, A6M3a and OscarII.

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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 12:31:51 PM   
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Naval bombardment of Townsville, at 46,103

Allied Ships
CL Glasgow
CL Mauritius
CL Hobart
CL Perth
CL Achilles
CL Leander
CA Canberra
CA Shropshire
BB Ramilles
BB Royal Sovereign

Japanese ground losses:
46 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

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TF 71 encounters mine field at Lunga (67,97)

Japanese Ships
MSW Tokuho Maru #5
MSW Kongo Maru #2
MSW Hinode Maru #20

sub laid mines...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 42
D3A Val x 54
A6M3a Zero x 51
B5N Kate x 82
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 27
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 326

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
46 casualties reported

Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 191
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 Tarawa , at 85,91


Allied aircraft
B-24D Liberator x 138


Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 12 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
71 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 21
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 65

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

after the fall of Canton Island, the next expected targets of an Allied offensive in the region South of Kwajalein are of course Baker Island, Apamama, Tarawa and Makin. As Tarawa has the biggest airfield, I would expect this to be the next Allied operation. Not as easy as Canton Island as Tarawa is in range of several of my airfields and I can field hundreds of Tonies in this area to take on the CV based Hellcats. Could be a tough fight if I spot the enemy early enough as I need two or three days to bring the Navy into position... I doubt that Miller would try to grab one of the atolls in the Tarawa area without massive CV support. Massive means at least one (or several) TFs to field 450 cv based ac per hex.

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 33
Beaufighter VIF x 19
Liberator VI x 9
Beaufighter VIC x 11
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 60,6


Allied aircraft
Yak-1 x 48
Yak-9D x 85


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
48 x Yak-1 bombing at 2000 feet

a TK rgt is going around Irkutsk... Miller again does nothing to counter this...

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Day Air attack on 64th Division, at 45,101


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 36


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
3 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 37
B-25C Mitchell x 9
B-25J Mitchell x 53
B-26B Marauder x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 82

Aircraft Attacking:
8 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59135 troops, 612 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1232

Defending force 17849 troops, 194 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 396



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 14251 troops, 452 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 7114

Defending force 139214 troops, 1666 guns, 205 vehicles, Assault Value = 2664



Allied ground losses:
149 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 232477 troops, 2413 guns, 19 vehicles, Assault Value = 4586

Defending force 130578 troops, 760 guns, 347 vehicles, Assault Value = 2377



Allied ground losses:
368 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15869 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323

Defending force 297984 troops, 1520 guns, 22 vehicles, Assault Value = 6789



Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22605 troops, 268 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2448

Defending force 165170 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4795



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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22449 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 482

Defending force 5489 troops, 22 guns, 105 vehicles, Assault Value = 83



Allied ground losses:
35 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 96628 troops, 1535 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 2663

Defending force 369123 troops, 3117 guns, 3234 vehicles, Assault Value = 7114


Japanese ground losses:
585 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 150440 troops, 1442 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6789

Defending force 114484 troops, 1237 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323


Japanese ground losses:
125 casualties reported
Guns lost 7


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100326 troops, 814 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2852

Defending force 89225 troops, 845 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1794


Japanese ground losses:
228 casualties reported
Guns lost 9

Allied ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 57459 troops, 581 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1151

Defending force 101089 troops, 1179 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 2008


Japanese ground losses:
102 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Canton Island

Allied Deliberate attack

Attacking force 60780 troops, 507 guns, 121 vehicles, Assault Value = 1398

Defending force 3444 troops, 1 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 34

Allied max assault: 76 - adjusted assault: 72

Japanese max defense: 21 - adjusted defense: 2

Allied assault odds: 36 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
627 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

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Sasebo 5th SNLF Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!! ghost

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125th IJN Base Force Wiped Out at Canton Island by attrition!!! ghost


it took the Allied not even a week to completely wipe out everything that was on Canton Island. Level 9 forts, 500av, 25.000 supplies, two attacks and the base was lost, three more days and all 30.000 defenders wiped out. This all wouldn´t be that severe if the damned bugged database wouldn´t turn all my fragments either into ghosts or vanishing LCUs. Seems to hit only me though as the half dozen divisions that Miller moved out from Borzya are rebuilding like wild. Insane how fast they grow in strange again...

After I have lost the next half dozen atolls I will run out of base forces as I have no chance to rebuild a single unit, even if I get loads of troops out. As soon as the parent dies, the f*cking database kills all my units. Don´t have to tell you how severe it is to completely lose a big base force or the big CD units.

IT SUCKS!!!!


As Terje asked for the Tony production, I took a screenshot of my major aircraft production. As you can see, our fighter production focuses nearly completely on the Tony (for the IJAAF) with only some Oscar IIs to have them in the pool if we need long range escorts. The A6M3 will switch over to the A6M5 in September and I plan to upgrade my CV based fighters asap, no Zeke will go into land based daitais as long as the CV bases daitais haven´t upgraded. I´m not sure if I will ever upgrade my IJNAF land based fighters to the Zeke as we would lose the range of the A6M3 (11 hexes compared to 6 of the Zeke) and the Zeke doesn´t look that better than the Zero anyway. It get´s one point more armament and one point of armor, bit faster but less maneuverable. As long as I can afford it, the IJAAF will be mainly tasked to defend my bases while the long ranged IJNAF Zeroes will provide escorts for the IJNAF bombers. When it turns out to be for no gain to still use the Zeroes or if we need more point defense fighters then hopefully we will be in early 44 already, which would mean that we can upgrade the IJNAF fighters to Jacks (range 6) and Georges (range 4). By the end of this year we will also have nearly all our Betties upgraded to the Frances which should result in fewer losses as the Frances is far faster than the Betty, it gets an armor point and has slightly higher durability.

The next big step of aircraft production (and probably the most important aircraft of the war for the Japanese) will be the Frank, but this fighter is still at least 10 months out (if we are lucky with R&D, otherwise longer). Nearly all our IJAAF fighters were upgraded to the Tony already and in a month we will produce considerable less aircraft. Guess I will switch 200 over to Frank R&D as soon as we have 250-300 in the pool. We aren´t producing a single Tojo anymore but have 1000+ in the pool which we could use for downgrading shot up Tony sentais if the Tony pool would get low.

When looking at the production numbers of real life and what we have produced so far than we are still far from what was built historically, of course we don´t have to produce any training aircraft and aren´t producing any obsolete aircraft.




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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
D3A Val x 27
B5N Kate x 74
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 27

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 13
Port hits 4
Port supply hits 1

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G3M Nell bombing at 10000 feet
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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 110
B-25J Mitchell x 115


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 21 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 12 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
269 casualties reported
Guns lost 12

Airbase hits 25
Airbase supply hits 12
Runway hits 236

Aircraft Attacking:
10 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

five AA rgts at the base but my LCUs are hit harder than the enemy bombers... not one bomber is lost... not even ONE... Nikmod flak eh? Yeah, Allied Nikmod flak is insane...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F6F Hellcat x 34
SBD Dauntless x 17
TBF Avenger x 98
PB2Y Coronado x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 55

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 60,6


Allied aircraft
Yak-1 x 53
Yak-9D x 89


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
9 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
53 x Yak-1 bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 36
B-25C Mitchell x 29
B-25J Mitchell x 54
B-26B Marauder x 28


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 82

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Wellington III bombing at 10000 feet

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 340535 troops, 3126 guns, 3233 vehicles, Assault Value = 7125

Defending force 139170 troops, 1668 guns, 205 vehicles, Assault Value = 2662

Japanese max assault: 6911 - adjusted assault: 2724

Allied max defense: 2819 - adjusted defense: 5560

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 9)


Japanese ground losses:
6190 casualties reported
Guns lost 247
Vehicles lost 130

Allied ground losses:
4897 casualties reported
Guns lost 127
Vehicles lost 1

500+ combat engineers are not able to take a single fort down... that way, the Allied will hold forever... why am I not surprised...

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59222 troops, 619 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1235

Defending force 17857 troops, 192 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 395



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15871 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2319

Defending force 298190 troops, 1514 guns, 21 vehicles, Assault Value = 6801



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22622 troops, 268 guns, 6 vehicles, Assault Value = 2452

Defending force 164911 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4786



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22469 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 482

Defending force 5439 troops, 22 guns, 104 vehicles, Assault Value = 80



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7738 troops, 240 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4675

Defending force 129511 troops, 752 guns, 341 vehicles, Assault Value = 2344



Allied ground losses:
80 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

with over 30 assault points goind down daily you can imagine how many troops Miller is flying out with his out of range transports...

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 94431 troops, 1404 guns, 132 vehicles, Assault Value = 2564

Defending force 347278 troops, 2564 guns, 3029 vehicles, Assault Value = 6114



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Ground combat at Chungking

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 139740 troops, 1365 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6801

Defending force 114265 troops, 1229 guns, 17 vehicles, Assault Value = 2319


Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100400 troops, 816 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2852

Defending force 89086 troops, 836 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1793


Japanese ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 57697 troops, 585 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1156

Defending force 101225 troops, 1183 guns, 3 vehicles, Assault Value = 2011


Japanese ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
2 casualties reported
Guns lost 1



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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 1:19:26 PM   
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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 43
D3A Val x 27
B5N Kate x 74
G3M Nell x 6
G4M1 Betty x 26

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported

Runway hits 19
Port hits 3
Port supply hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G3M Nell bombing at 10000 feet

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 82
B-25J Mitchell x 98


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 13 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 9 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
274 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase hits 22
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 165

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

a bomber shot down? Wow, a hundred AA guns managed to take down a low flying bomber... nice loss rate though. 0.56% against a heavily defended target... could be worse, yesterday it was 0.0%...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
FM-2 Wildcat x 43
F6F Hellcat x 32
SBD Dauntless x 17
TBF Avenger x 101
PB2Y Coronado x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 117

Aircraft Attacking:
21 x P-40E Warhawk bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 34
Beaufighter VIF x 18
Liberator VI x 12
Beaufighter VIC x 10
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 39

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Khomsomalsk , at 71,25

Japanese aircraft
Ki-61 Ic x 30

Allied aircraft
P-40N Warhawk x 32
I-16 Type 24 x 17
MiG-3 x 33

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 Ic: 7 destroyed, 16 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
P-40N Warhawk: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged
I-16 Type 24: 6 damaged
MiG-3: 1 destroyed, 4 damaged

now that was funny... prove of the mighty bounce. The first incoming JAPANESE chutai/daitai/sentai is nearly always bounced (not true for the Allied squadrons of course) no matter what alt you set it. So if you are lucky or plan it accordingly, you try to have a chutai as your first incoming formation as this means only 12 of your aircraft are bounced on and on. In this case we only had ONE sentai and it got bounced and bounced and bounced and so on... being bounced endlessly means you get shot up while achieving nothing. The incoming Tony sentai was my second best fighter squadron on the map with an exp level of 87! It was set to 30.000 ft while knowing that altitude doesn´t matter anyway in WITP. Only the magic Allied radar is what really matters. And I´m not even sure if the Russian have radar at this date, perhaps it´s just the hardcoded way of the Allied have to get the bounce thing...

8 Tonies of this sentai are shot down, losing 7 pilots for one kill... lol, mighty bounce... every single defending fighter squadron bounced us...

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Day Air attack on Khomsomalsk , at 71,25

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 27
Ki-61 Ic x 24

Allied aircraft
I-16 Type 24 x 12

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-61 Ic: 1 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
I-16 Type 24: 4 destroyed, 1 damaged

follow on strike, only the I-16 were left, the other squadrons turned back due to low morale...

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Day Air attack on Khomsomalsk , at 71,25

Japanese aircraft
Ki-61 Ic x 40
Ki-49 Helen x 163
Ki-46-III Dinah x 1

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 2 destroyed, 16 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
MiG-3: 12 destroyed
I-16 Type 24: 1 destroyed
P-40N Warhawk: 1 destroyed
Pe-2: 1 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 1 destroyed


Allied ground losses:
27 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 14
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 45

Aircraft Attacking:
14 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

then 163 high exp Helens drop their load from medium alt, at normal range on a target that has been reconned for months... they achieve whopping 45 hits on the airfield... destroying some fighters in nice but the strike was flown to take out the bombers...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Wellington III x 26
B-25C Mitchell x 33
B-25J Mitchell x 46
B-26B Marauder x 27


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 103

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




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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59363 troops, 626 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1241

Defending force 17841 troops, 191 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 397



Allied ground losses:
12 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 285084 troops, 2452 guns, 23 vehicles, Assault Value = 4971

Defending force 128578 troops, 737 guns, 336 vehicles, Assault Value = 2304

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 8

Japanese max assault: 4372 - adjusted assault: 2682

Allied max defense: 2169 - adjusted defense: 2487

Japanese assault odds: 1 to 1 (fort level 8)

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 8


Japanese ground losses:
6250 casualties reported
Guns lost 163
Vehicles lost 9

Allied ground losses:
1601 casualties reported
Guns lost 36
Vehicles lost 7

thank god we were able to take down a fort level. Our adjusted av still looks horrible but at least the enemy´s adjusted av isn´t trippled anymore. Still a high av and a lot of damage done for Allied troops without supply... the penalties for having no supply are just too low, the designers obviouls thought that fighting without supply was possible which obviously wasn´t. Something everyone should know if he ever read a book other than Battlestar Galactica...

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12103 troops, 329 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 6172

Defending force 132838 troops, 1535 guns, 202 vehicles, Assault Value = 2576



Allied ground losses:
412 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15866 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2323

Defending force 288253 troops, 1433 guns, 20 vehicles, Assault Value = 6468



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22623 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2453

Defending force 165110 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4795



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22443 troops, 255 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 481

Defending force 5429 troops, 23 guns, 103 vehicles, Assault Value = 80



Allied ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 3


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 94644 troops, 1412 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 2572

Defending force 348324 troops, 2598 guns, 3042 vehicles, Assault Value = 6172


Japanese ground losses:
174 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100404 troops, 816 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2856

Defending force 89021 troops, 834 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1790


Japanese ground losses:
194 casualties reported
Guns lost 10

Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 57901 troops, 588 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1162

Defending force 101257 troops, 1182 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 2018


Japanese ground losses:
77 casualties reported
Guns lost 3





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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 1:37:13 PM   
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TF 2 encounters mine field at Lunga (67,97)

Japanese Ships
MSW W.21

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 45
PV-1 Ventura x 117


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 2 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 10 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
603 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 145

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

this is really getting ridicoulos, my AA units get reduced at will while not achieving anything... there are six AA rgts now...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 74
B-25J Mitchell x 87


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 3 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
525 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Airbase hits 13
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 240

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

more of the same BS, our AA rgts suffered over 1000 casualties alone this turn for taking down 2 bombers today. 2? Wow, 2 out of 323. Op losses? Non existend. Loss rate 0.62% against 6 AA rgts...

wonder what the Allied bomber pilots were drinking when they reported heavy AA fire from Japanese merchants that were under attack in the Birmarck sea. Heavy AA fire from Japanese armed merchants? LOL

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
FM-2 Wildcat x 21
SBD Dauntless x 17
TBF Avenger x 88
PB2Y Coronado x 3
P-40E Warhawk x 24


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 71

Aircraft Attacking:
15 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 19
Beaufighter VIF x 13
Beaufighter VIC x 9
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Nanomea Atoll , at 87,101

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 30
G4M1 Betty x 45

Allied aircraft
no flights

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x G4M1 Betty bombing at 6000 feet

LOL again... I´ve ordered something like 150 Betties to attack the staging base of the enemy 4Es and we see 45 going in achieving nothing, not even from 6000ft. 45 Betties is the equivalent of two B-24 when it comes down to hits on an airfield. 4 B-24 are destroyed on the ground for two Betties lost to ops. Nanomea atoll is a level 4 airfield and with 150+ B-24 coming from there I thought we would only encounter "meager" Cap but was surprised to see no Cap at all. And I was even more surprised to see NO FLAK at all. Lol, what kind of base set up is this for a frontline base that was built up to max over a month ago? I expected to lose something like two dozen Betties to flak as I wanted to do max damage from low alt and seriously, with Allied Nikmod flak it doesn´t matter anyway if you go in at 6.000ft or 16.00ft, it´s always uber so better to go in at 6.000ft to at least try to so some damage - which we didn´t anyway... absolutely useless strike...

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59412 troops, 631 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1243

Defending force 17880 troops, 190 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 400



Allied ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12343 troops, 335 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5879

Defending force 132669 troops, 1559 guns, 203 vehicles, Assault Value = 2590



Allied ground losses:
473 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

The enemy´s av goes up by something like 20 av every turn...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15858 troops, 178 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2324

Defending force 185465 troops, 740 guns, 10 vehicles, Assault Value = 3981

the enemy is moving OUT!!! Several Chinese units are reported moving WEST... what´s going on?

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22640 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2454

Defending force 165064 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4789



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22461 troops, 255 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 482

Defending force 5389 troops, 25 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 77



Allied ground losses:
54 casualties reported
Guns lost 3
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7670 troops, 236 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4360

Defending force 124816 troops, 658 guns, 321 vehicles, Assault Value = 2154



Allied ground losses:
275 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 1


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Ground combat at 34,96

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12920 troops, 187 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 725

Defending force 5722 troops, 52 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 140



Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 94976 troops, 1437 guns, 133 vehicles, Assault Value = 2584

Defending force 321555 troops, 2506 guns, 3078 vehicles, Assault Value = 5879


Japanese ground losses:
159 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100722 troops, 818 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2858

Defending force 88824 troops, 822 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1785


Japanese ground losses:
280 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

Allied ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Guns lost 6


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 58109 troops, 601 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1166

Defending force 100599 troops, 1163 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 2027


Japanese ground losses:
34 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Allied ground losses:
1 casualties reported
Guns lost 1



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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 2:03:43 PM   
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TF 1042 encounters mine field at Woodlark Island (59,94)

Allied Ships
SS S-27, Mine hits 1, on fire

another Allied sub that hits a Type 93 mine, another time the sub stays fully operational... am I the only one that thinks that a sub should be in real trouble after hitting a mine. In WITP you have Allied subs hitting your mines in your base hexes and if you´re unlucky, the same sub puts three torps into one of your CVs then... sub hitting a mine and being able to submerge = stupid?

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Naval bombardment of Townsville, at 46,103

Allied Ships
CL Glasgow
CL Mauritius
CL Hobart
CL Perth
CL Achilles
CL Leander
CA Canberra
CA Shropshire
BB Ramilles
BB Royal Sovereign

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

Miller has to notice that those bombardments do nothing... but I guess they are also not costing him anything. When the TF hasn´t to move, it won´t accumulate sys damage at all...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
D3A Val x 81
A6M3a Zero x 51
B5N Kate x 82
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 22
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 257

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
63 casualties reported

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 197
Port hits 5
Port fuel hits 1
Port supply hits 2

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

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Day Air attack on Tarawa , at 85,91

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 99

Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 9
PB4Y Liberator x 5
B-24D Liberator x 35

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 6 destroyed, 63 damaged
Ki-49 Helen: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 3 destroyed, 3 damaged
PB4Y Liberator: 5 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 8 destroyed, 19 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
12 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Runway hits 22

Aircraft Attacking:
1 x B-24D Liberator bombing at 12000 feet


oh boy, looks like we´ve been lucky here... I was stupid enough to move my Zeroes to Tarawa and set them on 90% Cap, which resulted in 55% in the air. Lucky because most of the enemy strike failed to locate the target (got two messages of B-24 failing to locate the target). 49 bombers at 12.000ft with reduced bomb load (coming from a level 4 airfield) are still enough to kill nearly the same number of fighters on the ground than bombers lost in the air. A full strike would have killed something like 80 aircraft on the ground for 25 bombers lost. I should be smart enough to know that it doesn´t make sense to put up Cap when I don´t have to... stupid me...


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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 159


Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 2 destroyed, 27 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
86 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
48 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet

two lucky shots...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 41
PV-1 Ventura x 107


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 1 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
638 casualties reported
Guns lost 6

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 140

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 64
F6F Hellcat x 38
SBD Dauntless x 29
TBF Avenger x 95
PB2Y Coronado x 5


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 67

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Brewster 339D x 33
Beaufighter VIF x 17
Beaufighter VIC x 10
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
P-40N Warhawk x 72
P-47C Thunderbolt x 27


Allied aircraft losses
P-40N Warhawk: 3 damaged
P-47C Thunderbolt: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
76 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 25

Aircraft Attacking:
20 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet

lots of enemy training raids...

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Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 58,5


Allied aircraft
Yak-1 x 48
Yak-9D x 70
IL-2 Shturmovik x 53


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
107 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 5

Aircraft Attacking:
48 x Yak-1 bombing at 2000 feet

and a full strike on my flanking TK rgt near Irkutsk...

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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 23
Spitfire Vb x 9
P-47C Thunderbolt x 10


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 3 damaged
P-47C Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
8 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 8

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Barracuda bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 58,91


Allied aircraft
P-47C Thunderbolt x 2


No Allied losses

Japanese Ships
AG AG-2097

Aircraft Attacking:
2 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 30,83

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 35
G4M1 Betty x 39

Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 3
P-38G Lightning x 20
F4U-1 Corsair x 7

Japanese aircraft losses
A6M3a Zero: 10 destroyed, 9 damaged
G4M1 Betty: 1 destroyed, 8 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
Spitfire Vb: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
P-38G Lightning: 1 destroyed, 14 damaged
F4U-1 Corsair: 5 damaged

Allied Ships
AK Empire Seal
AK Empire Beaver, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK Empire Confidence, Torpedo hits 1
AO Cimarron, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK San Simeon, Torpedo hits 2, on fire
AK San Lucas, Torpedo hits 1, heavy damage
AK Empire Razorbill, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK San Bernadino, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK San Anselmo, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
280 casualties reported
Guns lost 3

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

Miller has moved out troops from Wyndham and three hexes off the base they are attacked by my bombers coming from North of Timor. Our 80+ Zero escorts prove to be just targets but the bombers all get through. We still suffer a 1:6 kill rate with high exp fighter pilots and that´s not good at all for our future planning. Looks like the Zero is absolutely outdated already, no matter if flown by veterans or not. Guess 4 of the AKs will sink, recon still reports something like a dozen AKs at Wyndham, wonder if they will move out tomorrow also. I should have limited my bomber range as it would be better to first spot enemy TFs moving in or out of Wyndham and then decide what to do. With Derby, Broome and Darwin fully built up with enough aviation support, we would have enough time to react. Anyway, two Zero daitai in need of two months training but also some damage done. Have sortied our carriers in this region and have flown bombers to Broome to attack tomorrow when the TFs are further away from Wyndham so we expect less LRCAP (if any). Half of the kills went to the Corsairs, the others were achieved by the Lightnings...

The enemy is moving West, we also have some surface combat TFs at Broome. Pretty much obsolete and old DDs and some PGs. Moved them in when I thought I would have to deal with incoming barge convoys from Perth.






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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59446 troops, 637 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1245

Defending force 17886 troops, 191 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 398



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12606 troops, 344 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5560

Defending force 132517 troops, 1576 guns, 203 vehicles, Assault Value = 2598



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


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 240959 troops, 2361 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 4429

Defending force 112733 troops, 469 guns, 318 vehicles, Assault Value = 1783



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

expect the base to fall within the next two or three weeks...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15829 troops, 179 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2319

Defending force 147484 troops, 481 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2995



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22623 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2454

Defending force 164695 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4790



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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22469 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 482

Defending force 5310 troops, 22 guns, 98 vehicles, Assault Value = 77



Allied ground losses:
66 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2


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Ground combat at 34,96

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 30648 troops, 442 guns, 4 vehicles, Assault Value = 724

Defending force 5711 troops, 52 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 139

Japanese max assault: 1226 - adjusted assault: 165

Allied max defense: 133 - adjusted defense: 53

Japanese assault odds: 3 to 1


Japanese ground losses:
584 casualties reported
Guns lost 15
Vehicles lost 1

Allied ground losses:
221 casualties reported
Guns lost 14


Defeated Allied Units Retreating!


Miller tried to move a regiment of an Australian division North coming from Alice Springs but I´ve place two divisions on the road to block any Allied attempt to blocade the railline from Darwin to my troops in the Townsville area and to keep the supply flowing from Darwin to Chartertowers. Looks like we´ve been lucky to even defeat a single rgt with two full divisions as our adjusted av once again is ridicoulos for a reason I don´t know. Yes, they were fully supplied...

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 95206 troops, 1451 guns, 132 vehicles, Assault Value = 2595

Defending force 302712 troops, 2381 guns, 3101 vehicles, Assault Value = 5560


Japanese ground losses:
228 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100639 troops, 811 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2859

Defending force 88706 troops, 818 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1781


Japanese ground losses:
237 casualties reported
Guns lost 7

Allied ground losses:
11 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 58278 troops, 605 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1174

Defending force 100517 troops, 1165 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 2026


Japanese ground losses:
63 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Allied ground losses:
2 casualties reported
Guns lost 1





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ORIGINAL: rominet

Are you making complain about the wonderful performances of japanese fighters?



nah, I´m not complaining about the performance of Japanese fighters, I actually think that they are too good when the pilots of both sides are equal and there are no other factors involved.

What is wrong in WITP as it is, is the uber radar and bounce effects. This probably goes for both sides as soon as the Japanese have total radar coverage also (sometime in late 44 ). The bounce is woth something like 25 exp points which means a squadron (no matter which side) with 70 exp that gets the bounce owns a squadron with 95 exp. Just too powerful. But not even that is a problem as the bounce phase usually has to end at some point (if equally or nearly equally performing aircraft are involved). Not so in WIPT. If there´s enough radar, there´s also the never ending bounce. Usually an Allied bounce as the Japanese won´t get radar until it is far too late. But from my limited experience of mid 44 onwards, also Japanese radar is too powerful as it produces the same sh*tty results as Allied radar. In both cases you get results as if you would have modern AWACs in the air...

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TF 1029 encounters mine field at Brisbane (46,114)

Allied Ships
MSW Sheldrake
MSW Skylark

sub laid mines...

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Day Air attack on Niigata , at 67,40


Allied aircraft
B-25J Mitchell x 16
B-24D Liberator x 10


Allied aircraft losses
B-25J Mitchell: 6 damaged
B-24D Liberator: 3 damaged

Oil hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 6000 feet

Looks like the Allied want to annoy me... Miller moved his Chinese and US bombers to Uglahamensk and ordered a strike against an oil site on Japan. The AA rgt at Niigata achieved nothing. 4 oil hits means 24! oil points destroyed. 24 out of 100. 26 Allied bombers take out 24% of this oil site for no loss. The more those Allied strikes annoy me, the more my airforce will be strenghtened in Manchuko and I will start a full air campaign against every single airfield there again...

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Day Air attack on Malir , at 22,4


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 16
Spitfire Vb x 16
Vengeance I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 72
Hurricane IIc x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Vengeance I: 1 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 1 damaged

Airbase hits 8
Airbase supply hits 7
Runway hits 26

Aircraft Attacking:
16 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet

training strike out of Karachi, one special base force defending the place... 4 dozen flak guns means nothing... 2 lousy aircraft damaged, seriously, things like that are just a joke...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 54
A6M3a Zero x 50
B5N Kate x 8
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 255

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 8
Runway hits 110

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

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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 12
P-47C Thunderbolt x 25


Allied aircraft losses
P-47C Thunderbolt: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet

same here, half a dozen base forces, each equipped with 8 big calibre AA guns and a dozen small calibre AA guns... yet no damage to low flying attackers... stupid

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 43
PV-1 Ventura x 73


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 4 damaged
PV-1 Ventura: 5 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
87 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 2
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

had to move out most of my AA units as the enemy bombers completely wreck them. Losing 6 AA rgts completely for 5 bombers shot down isn´t worth it I guess...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 77
F6F Hellcat x 39
SBD Dauntless x 29
TBF Avenger x 106
PBY Catalina x 5


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 64

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 18
Beaufighter VIC x 11
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 1st Reserve Tank Regiment, at 58,5


Allied aircraft
Yak-1 x 48
Yak-9D x 70
IL-2 Shturmovik x 53


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 2

Aircraft Attacking:
48 x Yak-1 bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on 4th AF Construction Battalion, at 44,102


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 153


No Allied losses

Japanese ground losses:
127 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
51 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 21
Spitfire Vb x 9

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

Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 4

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Barracuda bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on Khomsomalsk , at 71,25

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 24
Ki-61 Ic x 25

Allied aircraft
I-16 Type 24 x 6
MiG-3 x 16

No Japanese losses

Allied aircraft losses
I-16 Type 24: 4 destroyed
MiG-3: 2 destroyed, 3 damaged

another sweep against Khomsomalsk. Our first chutai got bounced but soon the rest of our fighters joined the party and took down the attackers...

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59583 troops, 645 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1249

Defending force 17925 troops, 191 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 399



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 12799 troops, 360 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5614

Defending force 132302 troops, 1593 guns, 200 vehicles, Assault Value = 2605



Allied ground losses:
269 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15820 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 2317

Defending force 146305 troops, 485 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2999

more Chinese units are marching out...

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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22660 troops, 267 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2455

Defending force 164585 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4800



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22469 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 482

Defending force 5261 troops, 24 guns, 96 vehicles, Assault Value = 77



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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7776 troops, 241 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4745

Defending force 111482 troops, 452 guns, 313 vehicles, Assault Value = 1746



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

nearly 400 assault points have been brought out on the AKs, that´s good for me... The 1 USMC and 2 USMC div vanished from the combat replay so I´m pretty sure they are both at Alice Springs now (or at least most of those units). Brought out with transports out of range... boy oh boy... but Wyndham will fall and it will be a BIG success. Makes the operation that started months ago a full success with reclaiming Timor, destroying or heavily damaging the Allied Navy near Darwin and taking out the whole Australian North coast.

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 95350 troops, 1464 guns, 130 vehicles, Assault Value = 2601

Defending force 303591 troops, 2412 guns, 3116 vehicles, Assault Value = 5614


Japanese ground losses:
331 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100640 troops, 812 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 2860

Defending force 88722 troops, 819 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1781


Japanese ground losses:
150 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 58326 troops, 609 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1178

Defending force 100500 troops, 1173 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 2023


Japanese ground losses:
53 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 2



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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 2:34:08 PM   
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Night Time Surface Combat at 23,84

Japanese Ships
PG Takunan Maru #3
PG Takunan Maru #10
PG Tamo Maru #6
PG Tamo Maru #7, Shell hits 2, on fire

Allied Ships
AK Empire Puma, Shell hits 7, on fire


Allied ground losses:
63 casualties reported

Miller has divided his fleeing AKs from Wyndham into single ship TFs. There aren´t that many of them so I don´t have a problem with that. I would have if two dozen single ship TFs would move towards Perth now as the game engine can´t handle that at all. The PGs are obviously not suited to take on armed merchants. 7x4.7 inch hits on a big AK doesn´t do any serious damage but the PG is hit hard by two 4 inch shells in return...

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Night Time Surface Combat at 23,83

Japanese Ships
DD Kuri
DD Tsuga
DD Hasu

Allied Ships
AK Empire Tarpon, Shell hits 11, Torpedo hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
107 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

three obsolete DDs that never upgrade (they don´t even have DCs) were also sent to Broome to deal with the barges. The barges turned back to Perth, now the DDs can fight the Allied AKs fleeing from Wyndham. 11 shell hits and a torp (the DDs used up all their torps) should finish the AK...

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Night Time Surface Combat at 23,83

Japanese Ships
DD Kuri
DD Tsuga
DD Hasu

Allied Ships
AK Empire Seal, Shell hits 8, on fire


Allied ground losses:
120 casualties reported

looks like we positioned our surface combat TF quite well as one after another AK is engaged. But the 4.7 inch guns are useles...

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Night Time Surface Combat at 23,83

Japanese Ships
DD Kuri
DD Tsuga, Shell hits 2
DD Hasu, Shell hits 1, on fire

Allied Ships
AK Empire Oryx, Shell hits 14, on fire


Allied ground losses:
63 casualties reported

in this case, the enemy AK was shooting back and this is not FOW. Both DDs were hit and damaged... not even 14 4.7 inch hits can heavily damage a big AK. Is this right? Should a merchant sustain so many hits from such a calibre?

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Night Time Surface Combat at 23,83

Japanese Ships
DD Kuri
DD Tsuga
DD Hasu, on fire

Allied Ships
AK Empire Voice, Shell hits 10, on fire


Allied ground losses:
92 casualties reported

out of the 5 AKs that were attacked only one seems to be in danger of sinking (the one that was torpedoed). All the other ones were shot up with 4.7 DP guns but don´t show any real damage...

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
D3A Val x 54
A6M3a Zero x 50
B5N Kate x 8
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 257
Ki-61 Ic x 35

No Japanese losses

Airbase hits 12
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 169

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 17
P-47C Thunderbolt x 26


Allied aircraft losses
P-47C Thunderbolt: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 10

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Gili Gili , at 56,94

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 74
B-17E Fortress x 75
IL-4c x 10

Japanese aircraft losses
L3Y Tina: 7 destroyed
E7K2 Alf: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
PV-1 Ventura: 1 destroyed, 11 damaged
B-17E Fortress: 1 destroyed, 5 damaged
IL-4c: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
82 casualties reported

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 43

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x IL-4c bombing at 15000 feet

guess Miller finally figured out that I´m flying troops from Gili Gili to Charter Towers. Too late though, finished moving nearly a dozen AA rgts to Charter Towers. But they have no effect anyway...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
Beaufort I x 39


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 1 damaged

Runway hits 11

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 77
F6F Hellcat x 40
SBD Dauntless x 32
TBF Avenger x 103
PBY Catalina x 5


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 80

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

USN VR and USMC squadrons doing their training runs now...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 18
Beaufighter VIC x 7
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
7 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 22,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 30
Ki-49 Helen x 47

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Puma, Bomb hits 11, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
269 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

now the single AKs are target of my IJAAF bombers from Broome. Being already damaged, they have no chance and multiple bomb hits sink them one after another, taking the troops with them... better to fight and die at Wyndham than to die on a sinking AK...

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Day Air attack on TF at 23,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 21

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Seal, Bomb hits 12, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
198 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 23,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-49 Helen x 3

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Voice, Bomb hits 1, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
7 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet
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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 22
Spitfire Vb x 17


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 2 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
15 casualties reported

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 6

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Barracuda bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on TF at 24,82

Japanese aircraft
A6M3a Zero x 10
B5N Kate x 27

No Japanese losses

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


Allied ground losses:
36 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet

the only AK that is attacked by my carriers that sprinted into the region...

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,82

Japanese aircraft
B5N Kate x 27

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Tarpon, on fire, heavy damage

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x B5N Kate launching torpedoes at 200 feet

AK was already sunk...

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Day Air attack on TF at 23,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 24
Ki-49 Helen x 19

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Oryx, Bomb hits 12, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
248 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

another one...

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Day Time Surface Combat at 23,84

Japanese Ships
PG Takunan Maru #3
PG Takunan Maru #10
PG Tamo Maru #6

Allied Ships
AK Empire Seal, Shell hits 3, and is sunk


Allied ground losses:
940 casualties reported

guess the AK would also have sunk without taking another 3 4.7 shells...

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 268759 troops, 2415 guns, 3137 vehicles, Assault Value = 6415

Defending force 132836 troops, 1622 guns, 205 vehicles, Assault Value = 2621

Japanese max assault: 5333 - adjusted assault: 1816

Allied max defense: 2746 - adjusted defense: 4655

Japanese assault odds: 0 to 1 (fort level 9)


Japanese ground losses:
12743 casualties reported
Guns lost 162
Vehicles lost 127

Allied ground losses:
4317 casualties reported
Guns lost 121
Vehicles lost 8

I really get pissed off at some point... how many of those damned engineer rgts should I use here? 200? Hundreds of combat engineers have not been able to at least take one fort down in two attacks. And my troops get shredded. When looking at the replay then I´m sure I´m only inflicting damage on the HQ units that probably are in the lead of the enemy troop stack. The inf units don´t seem to take any damage. Needless to say that my divisions get shredded. Three of them this turn...


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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 59587 troops, 650 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 1251

Defending force 17971 troops, 188 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 403



Allied ground losses:
29 casualties reported
Guns lost 2


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Deliberate attack

Attacking force 269494 troops, 2390 guns, 16 vehicles, Assault Value = 4821

Defending force 110285 troops, 435 guns, 309 vehicles, Assault Value = 1716

Japanese engineers reduce fortifications to 7

Japanese max assault: 4127 - adjusted assault: 2174

Allied max defense: 1506 - adjusted defense: 1778

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

Japanese Assault reduces fortifications to 7


Japanese ground losses:
7668 casualties reported
Guns lost 74
Vehicles lost 4

Allied ground losses:
2189 casualties reported
Guns lost 40
Vehicles lost 4

seems like taking down forts only works if the enemy is completely out of supply or you outnumber him 10:1... Wyndham will fall... it will fall soon...

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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15819 troops, 180 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1990

Defending force 146583 troops, 486 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 3009



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22619 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2451

Defending force 164590 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4795



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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22398 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 479

Defending force 5345 troops, 26 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 80



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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 93399 troops, 1362 guns, 124 vehicles, Assault Value = 2521

Defending force 324558 troops, 2283 guns, 2947 vehicles, Assault Value = 5675



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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100632 troops, 812 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2861

Defending force 88787 troops, 821 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1784


Japanese ground losses:
505 casualties reported
Guns lost 11

Allied ground losses:
22 casualties reported
Guns lost 3


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 58422 troops, 614 guns, 11 vehicles, Assault Value = 1181

Defending force 100789 troops, 1175 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 2035


Japanese ground losses:
92 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
4 casualties reported
Guns lost 1



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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 2:41:56 PM   
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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 3:17:33 PM   
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Can you throw some LRCAP over Wyndham to butcher any transports evaccing troops from there?



Wyndham is 7 hexes from Darwin and 6 hexes from Derby so putting up LRCAP wouldn´t have any effect other than suffering half a dozen high exp Navy pilots lost to ops the first turn. And I´m not even sure I would engage enemy transports because the game shouldn´t even send them there as Wyndham is out of range for the C-46 from Alice Springs. Perhaps it would be the same as trying to fight ghost LCUs. Kind of ghost transports that magically have their range increased by 5...

love this bugged masterpiece of programming...

this isn´t as much an issue as the broken database though...

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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 3:47:06 PM   
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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 12
P-47C Thunderbolt x 25


Allied aircraft losses
P-47C Thunderbolt: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet

same here, half a dozen base forces, each equipped with 8 big calibre AA guns and a dozen small calibre AA guns... yet no damage to low flying attackers... stupid



Are you making complains about the wonderful performance of japanese flak??

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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 4:34:13 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: castor troy


quote:

ORIGINAL: AcePylut

Can you throw some LRCAP over Wyndham to butcher any transports evaccing troops from there?



Wyndham is 7 hexes from Darwin and 6 hexes from Derby so putting up LRCAP wouldn´t have any effect other than suffering half a dozen high exp Navy pilots lost to ops the first turn. And I´m not even sure I would engage enemy transports because the game shouldn´t even send them there as Wyndham is out of range for the C-46 from Alice Springs. Perhaps it would be the same as trying to fight ghost LCUs. Kind of ghost transports that magically have their range increased by 5...

love this bugged masterpiece of programming...

this isn´t as much an issue as the broken database though...


What about using low exp pilots? Any unrestricted low exp squadrons that could make it there?

I just found that when I LRCAP a place where transports are flying, those transports get shot to bits right away, and withina turn or two, they won't fly into the base anymore becasue of low morale and high fatigue.

Plus, do it for a turn or two, and you force your opponent to adjust and think of something different ... sort of "oh crap, I can't do that anymore", and even if you do it for a turn or two, it might have the effect of stopping it for a lengthy amount of time because the opponent might be afraid.

Jus a suggestion... might be worth a few airframes to see what effect it has. I try thinking of it in the long term too, so you lose a few airframes/pilots... but perhaps this implants a thought that carries throughout the rest of the war... "I can't evac/supply troops in forward bases with my cargo planes unless I control the air over the destination"... so the opponent either does not fly cargo into bases that he doesn't control the air... or... he LRCAP/Sweeps those bases with his planes first, to make sure he can send in the donkeys er C47's. I dunno, trying to think long term... you might lose a little here, but he might lose a lot later wtih sweeps/LRCAPs over bases that you aren't contending with your aircraft... and plus, aircraft used in sweeps/lrcaps over bases that you don't have any fighters over means those aircraft aren't used at those places where your fighters are at.

Dunno tho what it's worth though, something you have to decide upon... that's why I love this game!



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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 5:29:36 PM   
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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 12
P-47C Thunderbolt x 25


Allied aircraft losses
P-47C Thunderbolt: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
19 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 3

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet

same here, half a dozen base forces, each equipped with 8 big calibre AA guns and a dozen small calibre AA guns... yet no damage to low flying attackers... stupid



Are you making complains about the wonderful performance of japanese flak??




yup, I do

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RE: it goes on... - 6/12/2009 5:30:54 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: AcePylut


quote:

ORIGINAL: castor troy


quote:

ORIGINAL: AcePylut

Can you throw some LRCAP over Wyndham to butcher any transports evaccing troops from there?



Wyndham is 7 hexes from Darwin and 6 hexes from Derby so putting up LRCAP wouldn´t have any effect other than suffering half a dozen high exp Navy pilots lost to ops the first turn. And I´m not even sure I would engage enemy transports because the game shouldn´t even send them there as Wyndham is out of range for the C-46 from Alice Springs. Perhaps it would be the same as trying to fight ghost LCUs. Kind of ghost transports that magically have their range increased by 5...

love this bugged masterpiece of programming...

this isn´t as much an issue as the broken database though...


What about using low exp pilots? Any unrestricted low exp squadrons that could make it there?

I just found that when I LRCAP a place where transports are flying, those transports get shot to bits right away, and withina turn or two, they won't fly into the base anymore becasue of low morale and high fatigue.

Plus, do it for a turn or two, and you force your opponent to adjust and think of something different ... sort of "oh crap, I can't do that anymore", and even if you do it for a turn or two, it might have the effect of stopping it for a lengthy amount of time because the opponent might be afraid.

Jus a suggestion... might be worth a few airframes to see what effect it has. I try thinking of it in the long term too, so you lose a few airframes/pilots... but perhaps this implants a thought that carries throughout the rest of the war... "I can't evac/supply troops in forward bases with my cargo planes unless I control the air over the destination"... so the opponent either does not fly cargo into bases that he doesn't control the air... or... he LRCAP/Sweeps those bases with his planes first, to make sure he can send in the donkeys er C47's. I dunno, trying to think long term... you might lose a little here, but he might lose a lot later wtih sweeps/LRCAPs over bases that you aren't contending with your aircraft... and plus, aircraft used in sweeps/lrcaps over bases that you don't have any fighters over means those aircraft aren't used at those places where your fighters are at.

Dunno tho what it's worth though, something you have to decide upon... that's why I love this game!





I don´t have any low experienced Zero squadrons where it wouldn´t be horrible to lose the pilots. But I will give it a try with one daitai next turn. The problem is that in Nikmod you don´t knock down the transports, you nearly get NO kills.

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RE: it goes on... - 6/13/2009 9:53:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		I´ve tried to LRCAP Wyndham the last two turns (already a week in front of the AAR) but without even encountering the enemy transports. I still noticed the reduction of troops and av that is 100% not due starvation or my bombardments. The 2USMC div is already moved out and the movement of the 1USMC div is in progress and can be clearly seen in the combat replay when the LCU bombardment screen shows a nearly non existing 1USMC div anymore.

Great! Means that there are not only transports used that don´t have the range, they also can´t be intercepted. I´m sick of complaining about the deficiencies of the game, I once complained about losing three divs in one day due to the LCU vanish bug and wanted a redo of a totally unimportant turn and my opponenet just told me this can be seen as deserting units. Lol, I first thought it would be a joke... it wasn´t... the PBEM ended a turn later...

we had a rather long discussion about the "using transports that can´t reach the target feature" and Miller agreed at some point not to use more than two squadrons. Well, I can´t check it nor do I think someone should use even a single aircraft that gives you an advantage due to a bug but when I look at the quickly decreasing number of Allied troops at Wyndham then I wonder what those "two" squadrons can lift out in one day. Guess when Wyndham falls he will have been able to move out at least three divisions with this trick.

Wyndham will fall, it will be a big victory for the Japanese and if the ground war goes on like it has the whole game then I will knock out those "flown out" divisions in a couple of months somewhere else.

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RE: it goes on... - 6/13/2009 9:58:22 AM   
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RE: it goes on... - 6/13/2009 10:02:02 AM   
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TF 24 encounters mine field at Goodenough island (56,93)

Japanese Ships
AG AG-2096, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AG AG-2530, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage
AG AG-5142, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

sub laid mines at Goodengough. Always interesting again that a couple of sub laid mines always are 500 times more effective than a mine field laid by MLs. Probably something to make it more fun to use subs in the minelaying mission otherwise I can´t see why a minefield with 10.000 mines most often doesn´t achieve what a sub laid minefield with 2 dozen mines achieve.

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Day Air attack on Manila , at 43,52

Japanese aircraft
A6M2 Zero x 47
D3A Val x 81
A6M3a Zero x 51
B5N Kate x 82
G3M Nell x 9
G4M1 Betty x 23
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 257
Ki-61 Ic x 35

No Japanese losses


Allied ground losses:
130 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 7
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 250
Port hits 2

Aircraft Attacking:
32 x Ki-61 Ic bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Woodlark Island , at 59,94

Japanese aircraft
no flights

Allied aircraft
PV-1 Ventura x 57
B-17E Fortress x 59
B-24D Liberator x 33
IL-4c x 14

Japanese aircraft losses
E13A1 Jake: 1 destroyed

Allied aircraft losses
B-17E Fortress: 4 damaged
IL-4c: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
453 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Airbase hits 4
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 34

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x IL-4c bombing at 12000 feet

those attacks from Cooktwon can only be seen as annoyance as Miller doesn´t keep up an ongoing air offensive against my bases around PM. So in fact, those attacks achieve nothing else than killing some ac on the ground, but they also don´t result in Allied bomber losses...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 176


Allied aircraft losses
P-39D Airacobra: 23 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
23 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Runway hits 28

Aircraft Attacking:
55 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
Beaufort I x 36
P-40N Warhawk x 6
A-36A Apache x 8


Allied aircraft losses
Beaufort I: 4 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
26 casualties reported

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 22

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 53
F6F Hellcat x 44
SBD Dauntless x 20
TBF Avenger x 101
PBY Catalina x 4


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Runway hits 71

Aircraft Attacking:
9 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 18
Beaufighter VIC x 7
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 19

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
P-40N Warhawk x 77
P-47C Thunderbolt x 29


Allied aircraft losses
P-40N Warhawk: 7 damaged
P-47C Thunderbolt: 9 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
87 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 24

Aircraft Attacking:
26 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on TF at 24,84

Japanese aircraft
Ki-44-IIb Tojo x 10
Ki-49 Helen x 20

No Japanese losses

Allied Ships
AK Empire Voice, Bomb hits 15, on fire, heavy damage


Allied ground losses:
195 casualties reported

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 3000 feet

there was still one AK afloat in the area around Broome...

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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 26
F4U-1 Corsair x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Barracuda: 1 destroyed, 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
37 casualties reported

Airbase hits 5
Runway hits 9

Aircraft Attacking:
5 x Barracuda bombing at 15000 feet
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Day Air attack on Woodlark Island , at 59,94


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 53
B-25J Mitchell x 47
PB4Y Liberator x 6


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 2 damaged
B-25J Mitchell: 4 damaged
PB4Y Liberator: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
440 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 5
Airbase supply hits 3
Runway hits 50

Aircraft Attacking:
11 x B-25J Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

this one came out of Port Moresby... wonder when Miller will do his first attack out of Port Moresby against Rabaul. He can only use long range escorts and they will face lots of Tonies on Cap... Without knocking out Rabaul he won´t be able to really achieve a lot in this area other than holding Port Moresby...

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 38147 troops, 443 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 1254

Defending force 18014 troops, 187 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 408



Allied ground losses:
10 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7963 troops, 215 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5713

Defending force 126655 troops, 1499 guns, 192 vehicles, Assault Value = 2537



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


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15827 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1660

Defending force 146840 troops, 488 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 3009



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22636 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2453

Defending force 164410 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4795



Allied ground losses:
13 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22435 troops, 256 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 962

Defending force 5345 troops, 26 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 81



Allied ground losses:
9 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7507 troops, 225 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4421

Defending force 106569 troops, 376 guns, 300 vehicles, Assault Value = 1587



Allied ground losses:
256 casualties reported
Vehicles lost 3


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 93767 troops, 1384 guns, 125 vehicles, Assault Value = 2531

Defending force 313423 troops, 2283 guns, 2862 vehicles, Assault Value = 5713


Japanese ground losses:
104 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100618 troops, 810 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2859

Defending force 86895 troops, 751 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1776


Japanese ground losses:
214 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
14 casualties reported
Guns lost 1


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 58500 troops, 617 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1184

Defending force 100774 troops, 1180 guns, 9 vehicles, Assault Value = 2034


Japanese ground losses:
75 casualties reported
Guns lost 4

Allied ground losses:
2 casualties reported
Guns lost 1



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ORIGINAL: terje439

What about Chungking? Will you go for it if Miller keeps moving out troops?

Terje



no chance it´s an URBAN hex. Even if out of supply, level 9 forts, 100% preparation and urban hex means his av would be multiplied by something like 4 or 5, means it would be far over 10.000. It´s like I´ve said, the developers of this game thought an Army could fight without having supply. Insane, but that´s how it is...

just look what the Allied at Wyndham were able to do for months without supply...

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TF 1008 encounters mine field at Nanomea Atoll (87,101)

Allied Ships
PG Warrego
PG Swan
PG Yarra, Mine hits 1, on fire, heavy damage

48 sub laid mines that were laid today and voila, we sink a PG... lol, using the four IJN minelayer subs that are together able to lay 200 mines in one mission have far more effect than all the IJN´s MLs together that could lay 6000 mines in one day...

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Day Air attack on Malir , at 22,4


Allied aircraft
Corsair IV x 16
Barracuda x 16
Spitfire Vb x 16
Vengeance I x 16
P-40E Warhawk x 72
Hurricane IIc x 16


Allied aircraft losses
Corsair IV: 1 destroyed, 1 damaged
Barracuda: 1 damaged
Spitfire Vb: 4 destroyed, 2 damaged
Vengeance I: 8 damaged
P-40E Warhawk: 1 destroyed, 7 damaged
Hurricane IIc: 2 destroyed, 10 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
21 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 9
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 32

Aircraft Attacking:
12 x Hurricane IIc bombing at 2000 feet

Miller wanted to do another training run out of Karachi but I´ve moved in three AA regiments to support the special base force and this time, the flak actually achieved something... guess this will end the training runs again...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
P-39D Airacobra x 105


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 1
Runway hits 33

Aircraft Attacking:
45 x P-39D Airacobra bombing at 2000 feet

moved everything out of Charter Towers though but am thinking of an "ambush" and moving in the flak again... just for a day or so...

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Day Air attack on Charter Towers , at 45,103


Allied aircraft
Spitfire Vb x 9
Beaufort I x 20
P-40N Warhawk x 8
A-36A Apache x 9


No Allied losses

Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufort I bombing at 15000 feet

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
F4F-4 Wildcat x 53
F6F Hellcat x 51
SBD Dauntless x 59
TBF Avenger x 98
PBY Catalina x 5


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 3
Airbase supply hits 5
Runway hits 112

Aircraft Attacking:
6 x SBD Dauntless bombing at 2000 feet

several USN carrier based squadrons have been identified flying training runs against Luganville... means the enemy carriers are in the area, guess they are sitting disbanded at Noumea at the moment...

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Day Air attack on Luganville , at 72,107


Allied aircraft
Beaufighter VIF x 18
Beaufighter VIC x 5
Beaufighter Mk 21 x 12


No Allied losses

Airbase hits 1
Runway hits 16

Aircraft Attacking:
3 x Beaufighter VIC bombing at 2000 feet

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Day Air attack on Wallis Island , at 93,107


Allied aircraft
P-40N Warhawk x 64
P-47C Thunderbolt x 24


Allied aircraft losses
P-40N Warhawk: 6 damaged
P-47C Thunderbolt: 3 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
42 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

Airbase hits 1
Airbase supply hits 2
Runway hits 20

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x P-47C Thunderbolt bombing at 2000 feet
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Day Air attack on Uglahamensk , at 66,33

Japanese aircraft
Ki-61 Ic x 50
Ki-49 Helen x 187

Allied aircraft
no flights

Japanese aircraft losses
Ki-49 Helen: 12 damaged

Allied aircraft losses
B-25J Mitchell: 7 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 2 destroyed

Airbase hits 20
Airbase supply hits 11
Runway hits 86

Aircraft Attacking:
24 x Ki-49 Helen bombing at 11000 feet

Miller didn´t move out his bombers after his annoyance raid against one of my oilsites on Japan and my bombers finally attacked the airfield that has only light flak defense and no fighters at all...

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Day Air attack on Buna , at 55,90


Allied aircraft
Barracuda x 25
B-25J Mitchell x 36
F4U-1 Corsair x 32


Allied aircraft losses
B-25J Mitchell: 1 destroyed, 9 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
60 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 6
Airbase supply hits 4
Runway hits 15

Aircraft Attacking:
4 x Barracuda bombing at 15000 feet


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Day Air attack on Woodlark Island , at 59,94


Allied aircraft
B-25C Mitchell x 31


Allied aircraft losses
B-25C Mitchell: 1 damaged

Japanese ground losses:
173 casualties reported
Guns lost 1

Airbase hits 2
Runway hits 23

Aircraft Attacking:
13 x B-25C Mitchell bombing at 10000 feet

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Sub attack near Nanomea Atoll at 87,101

Japanese Ships
SS I-123

Allied Ships
AK William Kent, Torpedo hits 2, on fire, heavy damage
AK William M. Stewart
AK William C. Claiborne
AK Robert C. Grier
AK Nathaniel Bowditch
PG Warrego
PG Swan

this is my minelaying sub that staid at the base the whole day (instead of moving in and out at night as it should but that has been broken for a long time already)... absolutely succesful minelaying mission I can say as the Type 88 mine sunk the PG and the two torps immedietely sent the big AK to the bottom of the anchorage... no troops aboard, guess a supply convoy...

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Ground combat at 67,32

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 38106 troops, 444 guns, 5 vehicles, Assault Value = 1257

Defending force 18000 troops, 187 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 409



Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7466 troops, 210 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 5442

Defending force 126884 troops, 1534 guns, 195 vehicles, Assault Value = 2551



Allied ground losses:
107 casualties reported
Guns lost 4


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Ground combat at Chungking

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 15826 troops, 181 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 1658

Defending force 146994 troops, 483 guns, 8 vehicles, Assault Value = 3011



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Ground combat at Kweiyang

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 22639 troops, 266 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2452

Defending force 163959 troops, 0 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4794



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Ground combat at Uglahamensk

Japanese Shock attack

Attacking force 44904 troops, 512 guns, 14 vehicles, Assault Value = 962

Defending force 5341 troops, 26 guns, 100 vehicles, Assault Value = 80

Japanese max assault: 2064 - adjusted assault: 5160

Allied max defense: 67 - adjusted defense: 141

Japanese assault odds: 36 to 1 (fort level 4)

Japanese forces CAPTURE Uglahamensk base !!!



Allied aircraft
no flights


Allied aircraft losses
B-25J Mitchell: 10 destroyed
B-24D Liberator: 7 destroyed

Japanese ground losses:
341 casualties reported
Guns lost 11
Vehicles lost 5

Allied ground losses:
32 casualties reported
Guns lost 2

I guess Miller didn´t expect me to attack this base as I haven´t done so all the months since the start of my attack on Russia. It was intended to use Uglahamensk as a training target when the bases in the Philipines can´t be used for this anymore but after the bomber strike on Japan out of this airfield I decided it´s better to take out this base and it wouldn´t be a problem to do so anyway. Miller loses his B-24 squadron and also the Chinese bomber squadrons that were moved to Russia. Nice one... have to look for another training target for the years of 1945 and 1946 until the Allied will finally surrender...




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Ground combat at Wyndham

Japanese Bombardment attack

Attacking force 7561 troops, 228 guns, 0 vehicles, Assault Value = 4508

Defending force 109087 troops, 423 guns, 295 vehicles, Assault Value = 1654



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

Miller was able to bring back a couple of his AKs he sent out with troops, so the Allied troop number went up a bit...

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Ground combat at Irkutsk

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 94193 troops, 1410 guns, 129 vehicles, Assault Value = 2550

Defending force 292743 troops, 2155 guns, 2815 vehicles, Assault Value = 5442


Japanese ground losses:
496 casualties reported


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Ground combat at Karachi

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 100672 troops, 817 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 2863

Defending force 86856 troops, 758 guns, 15 vehicles, Assault Value = 1776


Japanese ground losses:
171 casualties reported
Guns lost 7


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Ground combat at Townsville

Allied Bombardment attack

Attacking force 58723 troops, 622 guns, 12 vehicles, Assault Value = 1188

Defending force 100836 troops, 1180 guns, 7 vehicles, Assault Value = 2037


Japanese ground losses:
84 casualties reported
Guns lost 5

Allied ground losses:
6 casualties reported
Guns lost 1





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