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Battle For London 41 AAR Tankers Version - 11/25/2008 2:47:46 AM   
Cav Trooper


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From: Clinton, South Carolina
Status: offline 		Okay, here is another AAR for BOB 41 7 Day Scenario. Rules for Hard Sarge and I are the same. Neither of us can read each others posts until the game is over. Last Game, as we all know had an problem, which we believe has been cleared up that interupted the game. Hope everything works out, and all here enjoy another hard fought battle. Hard Sarge is a very compentent foe, and once again I hope that I can provide him with challenges. Hope all enjoy...

Prelude:

To all Group Commanders RAF:

Previously Generaloberst HS, conducted a series of probing attacks against us over a number of days, which we believed at the time was a prelude to a more concentrated showing. Fortunately, Intel tells us he was recalled to Berlin for a meeting with the "little fat man" aka Goering. We believe it was over the dismal showing of and the heavy losses to his Italian Friends inflicted by us. I would like to believe it was due to our pilots suberb fighting that day. The break did come at a very good time for us. Errors were made on our part, for which I take full responsibility. We believe that we have worked out the problems with our response, and if he dares to try again, we may be able to provide a stiffer defense.

Gentleman, Intel once again believes that Generaloberst HS will try again in the near future, as he has returned to the front after a stay in Berlin and other unknown locations. I have the utmost faith in your abilites, your sector commands and support personnel to rise to the challenge when, not if, it presents itself again. Be prepared, and stay ever vigilant.

Respectfully,

Air Marshal Tanker.




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RE: Battle For London 41 AAR Tankers Version - 11/25/2008 3:42:27 PM   
greg_slith


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Status: offline 		yeah!!!!! More AAR's!!! Beware the Sarge in the sun!!

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RE: Battle For London 41 AAR Tankers Version - 11/29/2008 2:50:34 AM   
Cav Trooper


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Status: offline 		Well HS put his bombers out in force today, attacking all over the southern part of England, in another series of waves of attacks. Caught me partially by surprise in some aspects. His attacks were not initially against Industrial targets, rather he struck at a number of Airfields, and a number of Radar sites. He seems to have established a standard operating procedure to place a wall of fighters around each of his bomber formations, with the bombers inside the "^" fighter formation. So, I decided that I'm going to send up only small number of Spitfires against these formations as early as I can, with hopes of forcing them to break off earlier due to fuel. Then as they are being hit, I'll try to force my Hurricanes' onto his bombers in larger numbers. IF and I say a big IF, he sends a formation near or right down the boundry line or close to it of 10 Group and 11 Group, I plan on dumping everything I have on both sides from these groups onto that formation, with hope of causing significant losses to both fighters but above all his bombers. His radar attacks have hurt me to the point that he dropped enough down that my reaction time will be severly hit. However, it will remain to be seen if he will exploit this or not. If he doesn't then over the turns after that, the advantage will be lost, as he will have to revist them again. I will note, that in one case, that an Italian attack caught some of my fighters at Kennely I believe, as they were attempting to land, and trashed 15 Spits and a couple of Hurricanes.

Score wise, I lost 81 fighters to his 117, but I've got half my force at the end of the turn in a damaged state. So, I hope the mechanics can get some more back in service for me over night.

Problem here is I'm outnumbered, alot of territory to cover, so I need to pick key raids to hit, vs. trying to hit all of them. But, It's not until they Cross the coast that I know that he's going deep or moderately so, instead of just coastal attacks. And a game of Attrition does not work. I need cause him more losses than I take, or atleast cause alot of A/C damage to offset the numbers. So, this turn, I"m once again going to try to strip fighters, and then go for the bombers. Last game, I tried a turn of going only for bombers, and ended up getting the worse end of the deal. Plan 2 is to put patrols up of 4 aircraft spaced out to cover the radar gap a bit, and then use 12 group lauching early to hit the bombers. I believe that's the only thing I can do at this point, until a trend is spotted, but with HS, I don't think he'll do that...



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RE: Battle For London 41 AAR Tankers Version - 12/2/2008 2:37:58 PM   
Cav Trooper


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Status: offline 		Second Turn, not much happened here other than once again, a number of waves appeared. I was able to do some damage to his formations, and my intial plan to heavily attack the raids spliting the 11 Group and 10 Group line did not come off as planned. To much was happening in the East, so I hit them as best as I can. This turn however, saw to events that did not bode well for the RAF..

First one was, his escorts caught my Aircraft as they were climbing for altitude. So his attacks came in first and diluted my efforts at his aircraft. Consequently, I was not able to break up his formations as well as planned. Later afternoon attacks went in better, however, I had alot of tired pilots. Damaged A/C for my side went up considerably. I have a number of good squadrons north and am considering moveing them south, however, nothing has shown up in the North from Norway, but still don't want to break down that defense just in case.

Second thing that happened, was the Italian's caught two of my Spit and Hurri squadrons as they were attempting to land. They knocked down 15 spits and only a couple of Hurri's before the Italians turned for home. That in of it's self was dissappointing on my part, My reserves are running a little less than what I hoped for. But, RAF will survive this..

Now, for the next day I believe I"m going to put up the Nightfighters as Day Fighters on Patrol in the RADAR gap, and only a Couple of SE A/C there, until I see what is going on. Plus I need to really rest 10 group and 11 group, I've only about 630 planes ready right now, and there are alot of A/C in those squadrons that need repair. So, this may be only a limited response turn. 12 group might run the long range patrols this time, and only in spot locations. I'm praying for a day of bad weather over England, and the Channel. Preferably over the whole area. But that might not happen this game. As for using my Night fighters, It is a stop gap attempt to alliviate the pressure on in the south. I might pay heavily for it, or I might not. At the rate of attrition on my part, I might not make it to the end of the week with an Air Force intact. Only fear right now, is that if I do plan on resting my guys, he doesn't fighter sweep me heavily and / or bomb the Airfields into oblivion...Well, the next turn will be interesting to say the least. Air Marshal Tanker is short on Planes, sleep, ideas and reserves, but he is not short on believing that Oberstgeneral HS can beat him or that he won't make a mistake...Air Marshal Tanker believes that his moment has yet to come.....

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"Professional soldiers are predictable; the world is full of dangerous amateurs."

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RE: Battle For London 41 AAR Tankers Version - 12/10/2008 3:10:20 AM   
Cav Trooper


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From: Clinton, South Carolina
Status: offline 		<role playing on>

Air Minister sir, I have the results of todays combat here with me and it is promising, however, I need to caution against reading to much into this. As you know sir, We tasked the nightfighter gents to pitch in today, and patrol the radar gap. They performed rather well, I believe that they did suffer some losses, but we believe when the LW sawthem committed to battle, we hope they will believe that we are short of fighters and fighter squadrons. The NF boys did produce a number of kills, however, once again the brunt fell upon 10 and 11 group. We are slowly getting fighters moved around sir, and hopefully over the next two days we can put up on grand day of big numbers of fighters against a portion of his raids. I will tell you sir, the good news is that today, we lost the fewest fighters so far, lost the fewest pilots KIA and WIA, but did cause our respectable foe, HS, 62 Aircraft and hopefully 2 or 3 times that in damaged A/C.

Minister, the bad news is that he has hit us hard. Currently due to damage we can not replace any lost Hurricanes, as we have little if any production due to damage. We do have a number on hand in reserve, but we can not afford to lose to many until the factories have been moved and production has started anew. Now, Spitfire production is slightly above the required production levels, however sir, it could fall below. Engine production appears to be undamaged for now, however, it could be targetted next. Intel can not tell us what to expect. Sir, presently if our numbers are correct, we have lost less A/C than they have, although not by many. They are still stronger than us presently, I strongly wish that we could get a couple of days or even one day of weather to give our boys a wee little break, but not sure if we're going to be that lucky..That is all sir..

<role playing off>

Well, Ron, you almost had me on the down hill side this time around. You did not exploit the Radar gap in the middle as much as I figured you would, so luckily I did not lose to many of my NF covering the gap by day. However, you did come back through the eastern gap, and I relayed my birds into the fight in bits and pieces. My decision to scramble the 12 Group when the raids you sent were over the channel did pay off in some respects, but only because you went a little more north of London than previously. Your raid to the western approach almost sneaked by me, but I planned in an effort to preserve some A/C and get strength back up did allow me to put almost 60 fighters up against your JU-88 raid there. But for both of us, more aptly for you, I was not able to mass my strikes against any one Air Column you sent across...I believe that it will just be a matter of time before I am able to put Leigh Mallory's theory of a big wing into play...I will salute you for opening up the score on me;

So, folks, my gamble payed off in some respects. However, if you noticed above, I have not Hurricane production presently, and my spits are still ahead of the curve, but one or two days of strikes on them could start causing some major issues for me. For the most part, I've noticed two trends he has, and I believe that I can exploit them here soon, if I can get a breather of one day or even half a day. First, he always strikes early in the morning, and covers his raids as I have previously mentioned. Secondly, he does not really disguise the raids tactically as well. The exact targets are not known, but he generally moves in a straight line. Only change though is that this time I saw one raid of 100 show up as 100 bombers, but when struck, it was 60/40 bombers to fighters in one raid. Caused some headache here, but still was not expecting this much in this manner.. I am tempted next turn to do one thing and one thing only. Instead of contesting everything across the board, I am very tempted to surge everything against one bomber formation, ignore the fighters, and see if I can't put a hit on one formation in one stream. It could cost me points for unopposed streams, but might pay dividends one time. Then again, If I don't do it next turn, I may attempt it sometime here in the near future. This scenario is difficult to defend against, as there is no one method of defending it, nor can you really pace yourself as in a longer scenario. But HS is giving me a good run for my money so to speak, and I can only hope that I"m giving him fits also...

So, let's see what happens next....

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